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Industries / Consulting
Consulting and professional services

LinkedIn lead generation for consultancies that live on referrals.

Referrals are the best leads a consultancy gets and the least predictable. The firms that grow past them put the expertise on LinkedIn where buyers can see it, then open one-to-one conversations with the accounts they actually want.

The problem

Where consultancy growth stalls.

Expertise nobody can see

Ten years of work sits in a slide deck. The partner's profile reads like a CV. A buyer who lands on it has no reason to reply.

Referrals cannot be scheduled

A great quarter from two introductions, then nothing for four months. The firm cannot hire against a pipeline it cannot forecast.

The founder has no time to prospect

The person best placed to open conversations is billing every hour. Outreach happens in the gaps and dies when delivery gets busy.

Targeting

Who we reach and what we say.

  • CEOs, COOs and functional heads, depending on the practice
  • A named list of 50 to 200 accounts you want to be known inside
  • Trigger events: new leadership, a restructure, a regulatory deadline
  • Second and third contacts at the same account for multi-threaded deals
The message

What the first message does.

This is account-based work. The profile and a steady stream of posts establish the point of view first. The outreach that follows refers to that point of view, so the first message reads like the start of a conversation between peers, not a pitch.

Case study

Pipeline beyond referrals.

A 10 to 50 person consulting firm with deep expertise, almost no LinkedIn presence and a referral pipeline nobody could forecast. We rewrote the partners' profiles, ran account-based outreach to the firm's target list and kept the warm replies moving with nurture sequences.

Read the case study

BeforeAfter Lynkread
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Connection rate
38%
Connection rate
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Meetings a month
12
Meetings a month
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Pipeline in 90 days
$240K
Pipeline in 90 days

Representative of this client's results; individual outcomes vary by industry, targeting, offer and market conditions.

How we run it

Three moves, in this order.

01

Positioning and profiles

The niche, the point of view and the proof, written into the partners' profiles and a posting cadence we help you keep.

02

Account-based outreach

A named list, two or three contacts per account, sequences that reference the thinking on the profile.

03

Nurture until the timing is right

Consulting deals wait on budget and timing. Warm replies stay in a value-first follow-up cadence until the window opens.

Common questions

What consulting and advisory firms ask us first.

Will outreach feel salesy for an advisory brand?
It should not, and the message rules are built around that. The first message carries a point of view about the prospect's situation. No pitch, no deck, no "quick call?" on touch one.
Do I have to post content?
It helps a lot, because the outreach refers to it. We draft the posts with you or ghostwrite from your notes. Two a week is enough.
Is a 10-person firm too small?
No. The consulting case study above was a 10 to 50 person firm. The model needs one partner willing to be the face of it.
How is it priced?
Per qualified discovery call inside the agreed account list, or as a monthly managed engagement. Account-based work usually runs monthly because the list is finite.

Be found by the accounts you want, then talk to them.

Book a call and bring the list of firms you would most like to work with. We will tell you how we would approach the first twenty.