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    4.1/5 · 114 reviews on Trustpilot

    Find and connect with your ideal customers on LinkedIn.

    DirectLink automates your outreach, from choosing your audience to following up. Every reply sits neatly in one place; you lead the conversation.

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    DirectLink is currently available in the Netherlands · request access for your country and talk to our team

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    Choose the profiles that fit your campaign.

    Calm pace · your own account
    ActivityExample
    • Connection request sent: managing director at an installation company
    • Request accepted: buyer at a wholesaler
    ~10 min
    To go live, no installation
    2023
    DirectSocials active since
    4.1/5
    On Trustpilot · 114 reviews

    1. Connect your LinkedIn account

      Connect your account in a few minutes, without installing anything. We never see your password.

    2. Define your audience

      Through LinkedIn search, people who comment on posts, companies and their employees, your own connections or your own list. Not sure yet? Start broad and sharpen up once you see who responds.

    3. Switch on your first campaign yourself

      With the wizard: first who you want to reach, then the actions and intervals, then a final check. You can change everything afterwards at any time.

    From audience to conversation

    How DirectLink turns new connections into conversations

    No complicated sales dashboard. One fixed route from the people you choose to conversations you lead yourself.

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    1. 01 · Audience

      Choose who you want to reach

      Select by job title, industry, region, company or your own list.

      Managing director · installation · Greater London
    2. 02 · Connection

      DirectLink sends the requests

      From your own LinkedIn account, spread over the day and at your pace.

      Connection request ready to go
    3. 03 · Follow-up

      Your message follows after acceptance

      Your own text is sent. A reply stops the campaign straight away.

      Request accepted
    4. 04 · Conversation

      You take over the conversation

      Replies sit with the right contact in one clear inbox.

      New reply received
    Setting up a campaign

    Build your audience and your actions yourself

    Choose your goal, your audience and the sequence of actions. DirectLink then runs from your own LinkedIn account, and you can keep adjusting everything.

    1 What do you want to achieve?
    2 Who do you want to reach?
    Job title
    Region
    Type of company
    3 Which actions do you include?

    Pace and working hours are set per account. You can pause at any time.

    NotificationsExample

    Find new people · managing director at an installation company · The way you would do it yourself

    Example notifications, not a promise of results: pace and outcome vary per account. You always lead the conversation yourself.

    Fits your working day

    From LinkedIn reply to your own way of working

    DirectLink handles the first contact and keeps replies together. After that, you decide how to follow up the conversation.

    New connection

    A matching profile accepts your request.

    Reply in DirectLink

    You see the answer with the right contact.

    Your own next step

    Schedule a call or update the lead wherever you like.

    Examples of apps that business owners use in their own workflow. These are not announced integrations or partners of DirectLink.

    Comparison

    Prospecting by hand or with DirectLink

    The difference is not in what you say, but in whether it actually happens every day.

    By handWith DirectLink
    Searching and sendingSearching and sending requests yourself every daySet your audience once, the campaign keeps running
    Following upFollowing up only when you rememberFollow-up messages at fixed intervals
    RepliesReplies get lost among your other messagesAll replies in one list
    OverviewNo overview of what a campaign deliversRequests, connections and conversations per campaign
    Busy weeksStops as soon as things get busyKeeps running at a calm daily pace

    What a campaign delivers varies per account, offer and audience. You lead the conversations yourself.

    Availability

    Get access to DirectLink

    DirectLink is currently available in the Netherlands. Want to use it in your country? Request access and talk to our team about the options.

    Currently available in the Netherlands

    Get to know DirectLink first.

    Tell our team about your audience and goals, and find out whether DirectLink fits the way you work.

    • Build audiences

      Choose by job title, industry, location, company size and interests.

    • Automatic interaction

      Connection requests and follow-up messages are sent at a human pace.

    • Replies in one list

      All replies, conversations and exclusions neatly together.

    Live in about 10 minutes

    1. Create your account and connect LinkedIn
    2. Set your audience and messages
    3. Start your campaign; the rest keeps running

    No installation needed.

    How does access work?

    Outside the Netherlands, DirectLink is not yet open for direct sign-up. This is how you get started:

    1. Request access with your details
    2. Our team discusses your audience and country with you
    3. You hear when and how DirectLink becomes available for you
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    What DirectLink includes

    • Unlimited campaigns on your own search terms
    • Connection requests and follow-up messages
    • Five ways to build an audience
    • Write, schedule and publish posts
    • Conversations, leads and exclusions
    • Insights per day and per job group

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    How we work

    Safe and responsible

    A calm daily pace, spread over working hours, from your own account. A campaign stops as soon as someone replies, and anyone you exclude is never approached.

    This is how we work and the effort we make. We are not a partner of LinkedIn and cannot make any commitments on behalf of that platform about what is allowed or about what happens to an account.

    Calm pace

    A limited number of requests per day, spread over working hours.

    Your own account

    Everything goes out from your profile, with your own text.

    Stops on reply

    If someone replies, the campaign stops for that person.

    Exclusions

    People, companies or job titles that are never approached.

    4.1/5114 reviews on Trustpilot

    This rating applies to DirectSocials as a whole, not specifically to DirectLink.

    Who it is for

    Who DirectLink is meant for

    You look for customers in a business marketYour ideal customer can be found on LinkedInOne good conversation is worth a lot to youYou are willing to lead the conversations yourself

    Less of a fit for you if

    You only want cold leads, not real conversationsYou do not care about a relevant LinkedIn networkYou expect results without setting anything up yourself
    Our team

    The software does the work. We help you get started.

    DirectLink is built by a team in the Netherlands. We look over your shoulder when you set up your campaign and stay available for as long as you are a customer.

    • Sebastian, Founder & CEO at DirectSocials

      Sebastian

      Founder & CEO

    • Matthew, Co-founder · operations at DirectSocials

      Matthew

      Co-founder · operations

    • Esmee, Head of support at DirectSocials

      Esmee

      Head of support

    • Layla, Marketing & communications at DirectSocials

      Layla

      Marketing & communications

    • Julian, Head of commerce at DirectSocials

      Julian

      Head of commerce

    • Personal onboarding

      We set up your audience, messages and pace together with you.

    • Team in the Netherlands

      Your questions go straight to our team in Loenen, the Netherlands.

    • No middle layer

      You talk to the team that builds the software.

    Knowledge base

    Read about growing on LinkedIn

    Practical articles about audiences, outreach and content on LinkedIn.

    View all LinkedIn articles

    Frequently asked questions

    No. You connect your account by logging in to LinkedIn itself. We never see your password and do not store it. Connecting takes a few minutes, you do not need to install anything, and you can revoke access at any time. You remain the owner of your account and your conversations.

    You set that yourself. In practice, campaigns run at around sixteen invitations a day, Monday to Sunday between 9 am and 5 pm. Deliberately calm: a steady flow over the weeks works better than a peak on a single day. If several campaigns are running, you divide that daily pace between them yourself.

    We work as carefully as possible: a calm daily pace within working hours, from your own account, and a campaign that stops as soon as someone replies. That is how we work and the effort we make. We are not a partner of LinkedIn and cannot make any commitments on behalf of that platform about what is allowed or about what happens to an account.

    No, you write them yourself, which is why they read as if you sent them. A personal note with the connection request is also a choice, not an automatic step: a campaign can run with just a request and no message.

    The campaign stops for that person and you take over. The reply arrives in your DirectLink inbox and the person is saved separately as a lead, so you know who to call back and what has already been said.

    Yes. In your exclusions you add people, companies or job titles that must never be approached: existing customers, competitors, or an entire company in one go. People you are already connected with are skipped anyway.

    DirectLink is currently available in the Netherlands. For other countries you can request access; our team will discuss the options and timing with you.

    Pricing outside the Netherlands has not been set yet. Request access or talk to our team, and we will tell you what applies to your country before you start.

    In the Netherlands, DirectLink can be cancelled monthly. The terms for your country will be clear before you start.

    Ready to start conversations on LinkedIn?

    Request access and talk to our team about DirectLink for your market.

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