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         10 July 2025          Danny R.

DMs – don’t do this

Let me show you something that lots of people miss:

If he had taken 12 seconds to click through to my profile before sending this message (or the one before it, or the two after, none of which I replied to) he would have seen some big giveaways that answer that question for him, like this:

2 things.

  1. This smells of automation. Can’t be certain, but there are pre-baked responses in his messages that assume I’ll respond “yes” to the previous message. If I don’t reply (I didn’t) it carries on a conversation that isn’t happening. So clunky.
  2. I basically already said this – but if you’re going to DM someone in the hopes they might be a prospect… the bare minimum research you should be doing on them is looking at their profile.

We’ve all received some of this spray-and-pray stuff, especially if you’re on LinkedIn. I don’t want to throw too much crap at this guy, he is trying.

But this one’s an airball.

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