Free Messages to LinkedIn Group Members No More...

(starting Jan 13, 2014)

To clarify, my source is a phone call with a LI rep yesterday (which happened for a different reason - namely - my LIR account was charging to send InMails to group members back in November (which shouldn't have happened back then) - this is a long trace following up...it almost doesn't matter anymore but I would love the support to get better.

The rep said that:

1) InMails in LIR to group members are now becoming paid - starting Jan 13. He said that "frequent" users of those have been notified

2) He also said that free messaging on groups is going away for all. He was pretty clear on that. I would love this not to happen, of course! I am a fan and a frequent of group messaging for sourcing candidates (of course, making sure it's very targeted and personalized).

-Irina

Comment by Keith D. Halperin on January 16, 2014 at 1:01pm: Thanks,again, Cathy. Just to be clear from what I understand from you:

Even if you have LIR, there is no more free messaging (inside or outside a group) except to your 1st-Level contacts?

-kh

Comment by Cathy Mannis on January 16, 2014 at 2:59pm: Keith: That is correct.

Comment by Keith D. Halperin on January 16, 2014 at 5:52pm: Thanks, Cathy. So, unless you piggyback your unused InMails from month to month (Wonder when LI will institute "use 'em or lose 'em"?) you're basically limited to sending people outside Level 1 contacts 50 messages/mont, or payingfor extra InMails....

Comment by Irina Shamaeva on January 17, 2014 at 4:04pm: OK, interesting... I finally heard from that LinkedIn support manager and he writes: "After our call I went to get some additional clarification, and realized I interpreted the change incorrectly. "
He also states that he "recently learned that several people...did not receive my sent emails … so my apologies" .