"LinkedIn is evolving away from human communication." 

That was a comment on a recent LinkedIn post about bots.

In a way, it's true. When people use automation on LinkedIn, it's never effective. But I've built so many great relationships on LinkedIn. And I'm doing real business on LinkedIn every s...

Recently, I received a pretty sophisticated outreach that was probably bot-driven using a LinkedIn automation tool. #nobots

It started with a connection request saying he just wanted to network. That’s fine, so I connected. 

Then he sent me a video that clearly wasn’t personalized to me. On the vi...

Are you trying to book meetings with leads on LinkedIn? What do you do when a prospect isn't responding?

A member of our prospecting mastery course (we'll call him "Joe") has trying to reach the CIO of a major retail chain ($130B in revenue) (we'll call the prospect "Andy"). 

Joe sent Andy a conn...

"If everyone is hitting up decision-makers on LinkedIn, how can I cut through the noise and make a genuine connection?"

Many people dismiss LinkedIn as a sales tool because they don't think they can cut through the noise. But I've found it pretty easy to stand out just by being human and working to...

"The 90-Day Prospecting Accelerator seems like a lot of work, and I’m already busy. How much time would I need to devote?"

This is an important question.

Every professional is spinning multiple plates. The more responsibility, the more plates. 

When we get overwhelmed, prospecting is almost alway...

When I started PropelGrowth in 2007, I was able to leverage a network and reputation I had built in financial services over the past 10 years with my two prior startups. I also published thought leadership content in industry publications every few months. My network and that content brought in enou...