Do you pay for LinkedIn Premium?

@glipsman Interesting. This makes it different from Twitter, which claims that the blue tick gives you a better reach.

@jgani Right! I was expecting something similar on LI but apparently not.

@sarahthemarketer I know! Being able to compose a custom message makes a huge difference.

@abhishek_ux What do you use it for? How do you justify its cost?

@busmark_w_nika The free version only provides either 5 or 10 free custom message per month when you're connecting with someone new. They lowered this dramatically recently.

@jgani well, this is not something I use but it is true that when I wanted to reach out to certain people, my access to message them was blocked (not because of the limitation of the number of messages) but to message them overall. In that case, I would consider it.

@elenat Yeah this the one feature that might push a lot of people to upgrade

@julia_engelsmann Do you need to write a custom message when connecting? The free version is severely limited...

@marvin_maendle LinkedIn has made the free version more and more restrictive recently...

@feichen_ @rupal_saini This is very insightful Rupal. What is a safe connection rate threshold?

@jgani Yes, you're right. I actually made comment to someone the other day that it seems they no longer show you "Who's viewed your profile" when it used to be they only hid the Premium Members. :/

@natalia_toth The free version only gives you 5 or 10 free custom messages (when you're connecting with someone new) per month. This is very limiting!

@jgani yes, but in my experience, custom messages don't have a big impact on the acceptance rate. My invites without an intro message get accepted anyway