# How to write a LinkedIn thank you for connecting message Last updated 15 November 2026 Writing a thank you for connecting on LinkedIn template is your first step to a conversation, and HeyLead handles this outreach for you. ## What a thank you for connecting message is A thank you for connecting message goes to someone who just accepted your connection request. They accepted. The first message after the accept decides whether the connection turns into a conversation. HeyLead is an AI agent for LinkedIn outreach: it finds the right people, writes to them in the voice of your own LinkedIn posts, follows up, and handles replies. It runs from Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client or a web dashboard. ## Why the shape of your message matters The shape of your message determines if you get a reply. You need thanks in a few words, not a paragraph. State the reason you wanted to connect, made specific. Include one question, or nothing to answer at all. Keep the length to two or three short lines. ## What to write and what to leave out You have reasons to write. Pick up the reason you connected, in their words. Share one useful thing tied to their work. Ask one question they can answer in a line. - Leave out a pitch in the first message. - Leave out a calendar link. - Leave out thanks for accepting followed by a block about your company. ## The brief to type into HeyLead You type a one-sentence brief in Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or the HeyLead dashboard. HeyLead drafts the campaign. You review it and press Launch. Nothing is sent before. HeyLead watches 40+ signal types, scored, matched to your ICP and expiring. A strong signal starts outreach and the opener says why now. Before an invitation, HeyLead warms up: a profile view, a follow, a comment on a recent post. It sends an invitation with a note, an opening message, up to 2 follow-ups on Free and 5 on Pro, InMail and email fallback. HeyLead has six campaign goals: sell a product or service, find a job, hire people, find partners or investors, find a vendor, research interviews. Hire people, find partners or investors and research interviews work with a custom brief. The campaign goal it belongs to is to sell a product or service. You reach the people who buy what you built. ``` create_campaign goal='sell' ``` ## Limits and features Free costs $0 for one connected account, which is a LinkedIn seat or an email mailbox. Cloud sending is included. You get up to 2 follow-ups per person, until your 2nd hot lead. A hot lead is a person whose reply HeyLead reads as interested. From then HeyLead keeps working the conversations already open and reaches new people on Pro. Pro costs $29 a month per connected account. The client's source is on GitHub under MIT. The hosted backend is not. - Replies are read, classified and answered from the campaign's facts. - A reply that could mean two things gets one short question back. - A question your facts can't answer is held for you. - "Not now" gets a check-in in 30 days. - Opening messages, follow-ups and answers to replies go out without review unless you switch review on. - Then they wait for your approval. - Invitations are not held. - In review mode, invitations go out without a note. - It runs from the cloud with your laptop closed. - HubSpot is the CRM it syncs with. - Google Calendar is the calendar it books into. - It reads your own LinkedIn posts to learn your voice and never posts unless you ask for a post. - It works in Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and claude.ai, any MCP client and a web dashboard. - It works in ChatGPT as a custom MCP app. - Custom apps depend on your ChatGPT plan and settings. - Tested on ChatGPT Pro. ## Questions people ask ### Does HeyLead send a pitch in the first message? No, you leave out a pitch in the first message. HeyLead sends an opening message based on your campaign facts. ### How many follow-ups does HeyLead send? HeyLead sends up to 2 follow-ups on Free and 5 on Pro. ### What happens if a lead says not now? "Not now" gets a check-in in 30 days. ### Do I need to keep my laptop open? No, it runs from the cloud with your laptop closed. HeyLead sends from your own LinkedIn account at a human pace: at most 20 invitations a day and 100 a week on a free LinkedIn account (more on Premium or Sales Navigator: a newly connected paid account starts at 20 a day and doubles each week up to its limit), Monday to Friday 08:00 to 22:00 in your time zone, minutes apart. It backs off when LinkedIn pushes back and resumes on its own. You can pause any campaign at any time. HeyLead is not affiliated with LinkedIn. It reaches LinkedIn through Unipile, which is also not affiliated. 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