Fix sheet: Outbound account is too young
This sheet appended when your report flagged the `young-account` weakness.
The age gap that decides everything
LinkedIn's risk model weights account age heavily. An account under 6 months old gets throttled at thresholds that would not even register on a 4-year-old account: 15 connection requests in a day is a yellow flag on a fresh account and completely fine on an aged one.
Doing real outbound from a fresh account is fighting the algorithm. You will be restricted earlier, harder, and more often, regardless of how good your sequence is.
The 3 things to do in the next 60 days
- Slow-warm the new account for 60 days. Days 1-30: 3-5 connection requests per day, only to people you actually know or in your existing graph. Days 31-60: scale to 10/day, mix in some colder targets. After 60 days the account can run real volume.
- Run outbound from a borrowed older account in the meantime. If your founder/CEO has a 3+ year account, run outbound from theirs with their explicit permission, while your account warms. Aged accounts are the asset; youth is the constraint.
- Never push volume on the young account to compensate for the slow start. This is the trap — teams try to "catch up" in week 3 and trigger the first restriction on day 22. Patience here saves the account.
What "fixed" looks like
The account ages into the 6-12 month band and starts behaving like a healthy outbound account: 20/day at 30% acceptance with zero restrictions. Year-2 the account is bulletproof for normal volume.
How BIGM solves it
BIGM operates 4+ year aged accounts. Until your own account ages, you can route outbound through ours — same effect on pipeline, none of the wait. Once your account hits 1+ years, we can mix it into the pool too.