How to limit inviting by 50 profiles per day?
Let’s assume your goal is to send no more than 50 invitations via LinkedIn no matter how many campaigns you use for this in Linked Helper.
At the same time, you want to limit invitations only, without stopping any other actions.
If, on a given day, you plan to run one campaign which involves inviting, you need to tune ‘Process per iteration’ and ‘Timeout between iteration’ settings on the ‘Invite 2nd and 3rd level contacts’ Action in the Workflow of that Campaign.
Linked Helper performs in batches. On the screenshot below, Inviting action is configured in a way to invite 10 profiles followed by a 5-hour timeout. In other words, it will take 25 hours to invite 50 profiles.
Given that the next iteration is to start at 08:00 am, here’s the workflow:
Same effect can be achieved with a different breakdown: invite 16 profiles followed by an 8-hour timeout. This will get us 48 sent invitations in 24 hours (1440 mins):
Or simply invite 25 profiles followed by a 12-hour timeout:
The idea is to spread your desired limit over 24 hours evenly.
In case you want to run several campaigns on a given day, you would need to split your 50 profiles among 2 campaigns first, and then apply the above logic on the Action level.
Campaign #1 (20 invitations in 24 hours)
· Process per iteration — 10
· Timeout between iterations — 12 hours (720 mins)
Campaign #2 (30 invitations in 24 hours)
· Process per iteration — 10
· Timeout between iterations — 8 hours (480 mins)
Above we’ve outlined the general principle of breaking your workload into equal parts and using timeouts to spread it onto the 24-hour day.
A few things to consider:
First, ‘Maximum Daily Actions’ limit always overrides any lower level limits. For the above described case, it must be at least 50 for this scheme to work.
Go to Settings => Limits => Max actions per 24 hours
Second, don’t forget to leave your computer on and Campaigns runner active to avoid unnecessary interruptions of Linked Helper. Do not turn your computer off. This is important because ‘Process per iteration’ counter does not expire at the end of the day. An iteration counts as ‘complete’ when your have sent 25 invitations (successfull or failed). In theory (and in practice, too) you may face the situation when it takes 3 days to complete one small iteration of 25 profiles because your constantly switch off your computer.
