Launch bad tip: LinkedIn Outreach and Upvote Requests
Sabri Hakuli
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Being active on Product Hunt has been incredibly beneficial, allowing me to connect with numerous individuals. However, I've identified a significant issue: launchers often discover you on LinkedIn and reach out with generic messages seeking support for upvotes.
Despite my efforts to maintain communication by expressing interest in their products through questions, responses are often minimal. Consequently, I've decided not to accept connection requests on LinkedIn from such launchers.
Please stop doing that!
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Endrit Maliqi@endrit_graphic
Insightful read, Sabri! It's crucial to strike a balance between networking and self-promotion. Genuine engagement is key, and it's much more rewarding to connect over shared interests and meaningful conversations. It's a reminder for all of us launching products: let’s focus on building real relationships rather than just transactional interactions. Thanks for sparking this conversation!
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Thanks @endrit_graphic ! Absolutely agree with your point of view. Building authentic connections and engaging in meaningful conversations adds tremendous value to the Product Hunt community. Let's prioritize relationships over simple transactions for a richer experience. Appreciate your thoughtful insights!
It can be easy to fall into that game of like for like, aka upvote for upvote but agree that genuine, meaningful connections and engagement are the best. Ultimately what you want is to walk away with valuable feedback and users who are interested in your product that they would actually use. I also receive a lot of requests to upvote, but if I don't feel like I can actually contribute meaningfully, it doesn't make sense for me to just blindly upvote.
thank you Sabri, I have been saved in my mind. I agree with your talk.
Thanks for sharing! Shared our product on a few dedicated communities on LinkedIn and already a bit tired of those messages to be honest. Also, why reach out with the product that has launched a month ago??
Launching soon!
I get a few of those, the first request in the image is a bit more personal/genuine connecting and depending on what you're up to it could lead to a good connection.
Reaching out to folks when already live (second one) does definitely come off more negatively and I frequently reject those requests as well.
I will say, I look at each of these as an opportunity. If I help them, since I have a product to launch soon, I would hope that they would also help me in return.
But I agree, generally if I was not launching and they came in hot, I would not accept the invite.
Launching soon!
I never really thought about that - Are you seeing any beneficial communication or does most of it seem to be tit for tat / quid pro quo / I scratch your back you scratch mine VS real connection?
I've been doing tons of outreach trying to build community and offer real genuine support - any suggestions for how people should go about this in a different way?