Do you still add a note to LinkedIn connection requests?
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been going back and forth on this. I send about 20 linkedin dms a day and I've tried both ways: a short note mentioning something they posted, and a blank request with a message once they accept. blank feels lazier but I'm honestly not convinced it does worse, people seem to judge on the profile more than the note.
what do others do? and has anyone actually tracked it properly, or is everyone going on gut feel like me?
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I still add a note, but only one line, and only when I can point at something real they wrote or built. A generic note does worse than no note, because it reads like a template and tells them a pitch is coming. If I have nothing specific, I send it blank and let the profile do the work. Measuring it is easy: tag each request by approach in a sheet for a month and compare acceptance and reply rates. Gut feel lies here.
@trace_gordon fair point on generic notes, that's probably why my blank ones weren't losing. half my notes were just "saw your post about X" which isn't really specific. I'll do the sheet thing for the next month instead of guessing. did you see the note shift acceptance much, or was it more the replies after?