7-day LinkedIn warm-up

Run this before any new or dormant LinkedIn account sends its first campaign. It produces a seven-day activity schedule and a go/no-go decision for opening full outreach.

The play

1. Confirm the account's starting state: brand new, dormant, or returning from a warning. A returning account restarts this plan from day 1, never mid-way.
2. Days 1-2: 3-5 likes and 1 comment per day, up to 5 connection requests per day. Nothing else. The account is being watched hardest here.
3. Days 3-4: 3-5 likes and 1-2 comments per day, up to 10 connection requests per day.
4. Days 5-7: start light conversations with accepted connections, up to 15-20 connection requests per day.
5. After day 7, settle into the steady state: 20 connection requests per day reached gradually, 5-10 likes and 2-3 comments daily, small profile updates weekly. Open full outreach.
6. Send links only after a prospect has replied, never in a first message.
7. If the account receives any warning or verification prompt at any point: pause all activity for 48-72 hours, then resume one level below where the warning happened.

What good looks like

• The operators who keep accounts alive treat a warning as a hard stop, not noise. The mediocre version shrugs it off, keeps sending, and turns a warning into a restriction.
• Consistency beats speed. Seven steady days outperform three aggressive ones: identical daily behavior is what makes the account look human, and rushed ramps are the number-one cause of verification prompts.
• Engagement is not filler. The likes and comments in the early days are what makes the connection requests that follow look like a person, not a script. Skipping them to "save time" defeats the plan.
• Done well, the account reaches 20 connection requests per day with zero verification prompts, and the first replies are already arriving from the day 5-7 conversations.

Rules

• MUST pause 48-72 hours after any warning or verification prompt, then resume one level down.
• MUST keep daily activity consistent; never compress two days of the ramp into one.
• NEVER send identical messages across prospects; vary every message.
• NEVER include a link before the prospect has replied.
• NEVER skip the engagement activity (likes, comments) and run connection requests alone.