B2B manufacturer: LinkedIn prospecting workflow
Personalised LinkedIn outreach, with a person in control
How Tenaxity built a LinkedIn prospecting workflow for a B2B manufacturer: from defining target accounts to AI-drafted messages, human review, reply handoff and weekly reporting. Want something similar on your own account? See our done-for-you LinkedIn outreach.
The client and the problem
The client is a B2B manufacturer. We have kept the name and details private, so this case study describes the workflow rather than the company.
The client
A manufacturer that sells to other businesses, where a deal usually starts with reaching the right person inside the right company.
Industrial buyers are rarely won by volume. A short, relevant message to the right engineer, operations lead or buyer is worth more than hundreds of generic ones.
The problem
Writing a relevant LinkedIn message takes research: what the company makes, what the person is responsible for and why the product might matter to them. Done by hand, that research limits how many conversations a sales team can start, and replies can get lost between inboxes and the CRM.
How the LinkedIn workflow runs, step by step
The kind of workflow we built: automation does the research and drafting, while people approve what is sent and handle every conversation.
Define
Target accounts and buyer roles are agreed with sales: industries, company types and job titles.
Source
Prospects who match those criteria are gathered into a working list.
Enrich
Each prospect record gains company details and context about their role.
Draft
An LLM drafts a connection note and follow-up messages from the prospect's company and role.
Review
A person reads, edits or rejects each draft before anything is sent.
Send
Approved messages go out within sending limits that respect LinkedIn's rules.
Hand off
Replies are detected and passed to the right salesperson with the prospect's context.
Log and report
Activity is logged to the CRM, and a weekly report shows what was sent, accepted and answered.
Controls built into the workflow
Outreach carries the sender's name, so the controls matter as much as the drafting. The same thinking runs through our LinkedIn outreach service: your account, your approval, a careful pace.
Guardrails
- Human approval on every message before it is sent
- Sending volumes kept within LinkedIn's limits and terms
- People, not automation, handle replies and conversations
- Prospects who ask not to be contacted are marked in the CRM
- Every draft, approval and send is logged
Why personalisation needs a reviewer
AI can write a note that mentions the right company and role, but it can still get a detail wrong or strike the wrong tone for a technical buyer. A quick human check keeps messages accurate and protects the sender's reputation. It also gives sales a feel for who is being contacted and why.
What the workflow is designed to change
Here is what the workflow changes day to day, followed by our estimate of the time it saves.
Research done up front
Salespeople start from an enriched prospect and a relevant draft rather than a blank message box.
Consistent, relevant messages
Every connection note and follow-up reflects the prospect's company and role, checked by a person before it goes out.
Replies reach the right person
Responses are handed to sales with context, and every touch is recorded in the CRM.
Estimated time saved
These are our estimates of the manual work involved, not measured results. They assume 100 new prospects a week, which keeps outreach well within LinkedIn's limits.
By hand: about 18 minutes per prospect
About 6 minutes researching the company and the person, 4 minutes writing a personal connection note, 6 minutes on two follow-ups and 2 minutes logging it all in the CRM.
Automated: about 2 minutes per prospect
Research, drafts and CRM logging happen automatically. A salesperson spends about 2 minutes reviewing, editing and approving each message set.
About 27 hours a week back
100 prospects at 18 minutes is 30 hours a week by hand. At 2 minutes each it is about 3.3 hours. That frees roughly 27 hours a week, or about 115 hours a month, for actual sales conversations.
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