Generate LinkedIn Connection Requests and Follow-ups

This prompt crafts LinkedIn connection requests designed to get accepted and open a real conversation. It takes structured inputs about the target (name/title, company, and reason for connecting), your own context (role, mutual elements like shared connections or groups, and your goal), and a personalization hook - something specific about the target - then generates a standard connection request within LinkedIn's 300-character limit, guidance on a no-note approach, a follow-up message to send after the request is accepted, and three alternative angles.

Five connection-request types are modeled: Mutual Connection (referencing a shared connection and the target's posts on a topic), Content Engagement (referencing a specific recent post and what resonated about it), Industry Peer (positioning as a peer in the same industry or role impressed by the company), Genuine Interest (referencing something found while researching a topic), and Event-Based (referencing a shared conference or speaking engagement). The after-acceptance follow-up message thanks the person for connecting, references something specific about their work, asks a genuine question about their experience, and explicitly avoids pitching. A character-limit formula for the 300-character request is personal hook, then connection reason, then sign-off - demonstrated with a worked example referencing a specific post topic and a shared professional challenge.

Explicit anti-patterns to avoid: a generic "I'd like to add you to my network" message, an immediate sales pitch, no personalization at all, falsely claiming a mutual connection that doesn't exist, and an obviously copy-pasted message.

Use it when writing a personalized LinkedIn connection request and its follow-up message to a specific person - choosing an angle, fitting the 300-character limit, and avoiding generic or pitchy language. It is not a cold-email or InMail-sequence prompt - it is scoped specifically to the LinkedIn connection-request flow and its immediate follow-up.

Given a target person and company, your own role and any mutual elements, your goal, and a personalization hook, it produces a 300-character connection request, no-note guidance, a post-acceptance follow-up message, and three alternative angles - the worked example itself lands at exactly 298 characters, referencing a specific RevOps-alignment post and a shared sales-and-marketing challenge to show how tightly the hook and reason must fit the budget.

Sales, business-development, and networking professionals reaching out to a specific named person on LinkedIn rather than running a bulk, unpersonalized outreach campaign.