With Send DMs in Taplio’s Networking section, you can reach your audience with personalized direct message campaigns, whether you want to contact existing connections, engage people who interacted with your posts, or reach a specific LinkedIn account. With Send bulk connection requests, you can grow your network at scale.
Sending limits at a glance (per LinkedIn account, to keep your account safe):
DMs: up to 100 per day. A batch of 100 DMs usually goes out within 1–2 days.
Connection requests: up to 20 per working day, for all your campaigns together. 100 requests take about a week, 400 about a month.
Everything is queued and sent gradually, never all at once. You can follow the queue in Settings > LinkedIn Actions.
Send DMs
Step 1: Access Send DMs
From your Taplio dashboard, head over to Networking in the left-hand menu.
Under Start conversations. Grow your network, click Get started next to Send personalized DMs in bulk.
This opens the Send DMs flow, where you’ll go through four steps:
Add recipients
Write message
Review & confirm
Send DMs
Step 2: Add Recipients
Choose who you want to reach. You can combine multiple sources into a single campaign:
From a contact list
Import recipients from your Taplio lists.Specific account
Add recipients from a LinkedIn username or profile URL.Post engagement
Target people who liked or commented on a post.
Once recipients are added, click Add Recipients to continue.
Note: You can send up to 100 DMs per day. For bigger lists, we recommend splitting them into several campaigns sent on different days.
💡 Tip: It’s best to segment your audience so each campaign feels relevant and personal.
Step 3: Write Your Message
In the Message content box, type your message. Taplio supports variables so you can personalize at scale. Type [ in the message field to insert dynamic fields such as:
[firstname]
[company]
[title]
[city]
and others depending on available data
✨ Example:
👉 “Hi [firstname], I noticed you’re doing great work at [company]. Would love to connect!”
Personalized messages tend to perform much better than generic outreach, so we recommend keeping messages concise and relevant.
Click Continue with recipients once ready.
Step 4: Review & Confirm
Before sending, review:
Number of DMs to be sent
Message preview with variables populated
Delivery pacing (messages are sent gradually, not all at once)
DMs to people you're not connected with
LinkedIn only lets you DM your 1st-degree connections. For recipients who aren't connected with you yet, Taplio sends a connection request first, then the DM once they accept.
These connection requests count toward your 20 per working day, and join the same queue as your other connection requests.
If the invitation isn't accepted within about a week, the DM is cancelled. Once the person accepts, you can DM them directly from Taplio.
Best practice for larger outreach: send bulk connection requests first, then send your DM campaign to the people who accepted.
Optional: Skip recipients with unfilled variables
If a variable such as [firstname] cannot be resolved, those recipients can be skipped so nobody gets a broken message.
Optional: Skip non-connected recipients
If enabled, only your 1st-degree connections receive the campaign, and no connection requests are sent.
Step 5: Send or Schedule
When everything looks good, click Send Messages to launch the campaign.
You can also choose Schedule Messages if you prefer to send them later.
Taplio will then begin sending messages gradually to help keep outreach activity natural.
Send bulk connection requests
With Send bulk connection requests in Taplio’s Networking section, you can send connection requests at scale to grow your LinkedIn network using your existing contacts, specific accounts, or people who engaged with your posts.
Access Send Bulk Connection Requests
From your Taplio dashboard, head to Networking and click Get started next to Send bulk connection requests. This opens a 3-step flow:
Add recipients
Review & confirm
Send connection requests
Step 1: Add Recipients
Choose who you want to reach. You can combine multiple sources into one campaign:
From a contact list
Import recipients from your Taplio lists.Specific account
Add recipients from a LinkedIn username or profile URL.Post engagement
Target people who liked or commented on a post.
Once recipients are added, click Add Recipients to continue.
Step 2: Review & Confirm
Before sending, review the number of connection requests that will be sent.
Step 3: Send Connection Requests
When everything looks good, click Send Requests to launch the campaign. Taplio sends invitations gradually rather than all at once.
How fast do connection requests go out?
Taplio sends up to 20 connection requests per working day per LinkedIn account. This is the pace that keeps your LinkedIn account safe.
All campaigns share one queue: bulk connection requests, the automatic requests sent before DMs to non-connections, and Auto Connect. 100 requests take about a week, 400 about a month.
Requests can be queued up to about 4 weeks ahead. Once your queue is full, new requests (and the DMs that depend on them) can't be added, so plan big campaigns in smaller batches.
A running campaign can't be paused. If you need scheduled requests stopped, message us in the chat.
Requests to people already connected or with a pending request are skipped automatically.
Once a request is accepted, you can follow up with a direct message from Taplio.
Need More Automation?
If you’d like to automate engagement directly from your posts, you can also explore these Post Boost features:
📩 Auto-DM post engagers automatically sends direct messages to people who like or comment on your posts.
🤝 Turn your likes into connections automatically sends connection requests based on post engagement (these count toward the same 20 per working day).
↩️ Auto-reply to post comments automatically responds to comments on your posts, including optional keyword-based replies.
Quick Tips
✍️ Keep your DMs short, clear, and personalized. Messages that feel conversational tend to perform better.
🔑 Use variables like [firstname] or [company] where relevant, but make sure your message still reads naturally.
📅 Plan ahead: 100 DMs a day, 20 connection requests per working day. Big lists take days or weeks, not hours.
🚫 Avoid spammy or overly promotional language. The goal is to start genuine conversations, not mass outreach.
🎉 That’s it! You’re now ready to start sending personalized DMs with Taplio Networking.