George K.

Ok, it probably is just turning off the recipient that you are selling something, even if it is a good offer and something they would consider otherwise. I'd try to do more authentic engagement with them after they connect, share content/insights over time to all of your connections. Then, you can add low-friction CTA's to your posts linking to your website or other offer. You have to build trust before DM'ing will work on a larger scale.

How soon are you sending the dm after the connection is accepted?

My gut reaction is your open rate is not actually 45%. It is probably the email "spam" filter checking for anything malicious in there and triggering the "open". Response rate should be higher if open rate is that good. Personally, I would move to plain text only emails (this will turn off the open rate tracking feature) and focus on the response rate.

Are you able to find the data on LinkedIn if you manually look? If you can, you should be able to do this directly in Clay with their standard enrichments. If not, you probably need to integrate another data source. Clay is still helpful to use as the source of truth to run other enrichments off of in this scenario.

It is because the website on their linkedin company page points to a Microsoft Teams link.

My goal for 2026 is to make the work I do more visible by upping my content game, so I'm interested in chatting to see where things go. Feel free to send me a DM.

Yeah, that is fine. Then the overall response rate between the warm up and the cold emails will be realistic

With that option, you will still send warmup emails when the campaign is active, but they won't be as many as before. This will make sure you aren't sending too many emails from one account

That looks good to me. The only thing I would change is once the email is warmed up and used in a campaign, check the "Enable Auto-adjust warmup/sending ratio" option.

Sure. I can take a look as soon as I have a few minutes