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title: How To Sell On Linked In...& Date Better
description: Dating and selling have a lot in common. There are do's and don'ts you need to follow to increase your chances of succeeding at both. Here's how you do it.
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 Jun 13, 2025

# How To Sell On Linked In...& Date Better

![Picture of Wes Schaeffer](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Wes%20Schaeffer%2c%20The%20Sales%20Whisperer%20black%20white.png?width=50&name=Wes%20Schaeffer%2c%20The%20Sales%20Whisperer%20black%20white.png) [Wes Schaeffer](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/author/wes-schaeffer)

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Well here we are.

You—or your robot or your VA or your screen-scraping software—sent me a connection request and I accepted.

Then you—or your robot or your VA or your screen-scraping software—pitched me.

Maybe it was to attend a free webinar (pre-recorded, I'm sure.)

Maybe it was to schedule a free, no-pressure "second opinion call."

Maybe it was to download your free report or watch your on-demand presentation.

Regardless, this happens to me so often I decided to make this blog post and share this graphic that I had previously only shared with paying clients in my [sales training program](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/30-day-sales-growth).

Though I've been married since Sept 30, 1995—and have the scars and 7 kids to prove it—I still remember my dating days, which were remarkably similar to my selling days.

It looks like the image below.

[![Dating\_Sales\_Pipeline yes](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Dating_Sales_Pipeline%20yes-4-Jun-05-2026-11-44-56-8666-PM.jpg?width=734&height=392&name=Dating_Sales_Pipeline%20yes-4-Jun-05-2026-11-44-56-8666-PM.jpg)](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/ipa)

While it's usually okay to skip one or even two steps, doing so greatly reduces your chances at finding your soul mate and reaching decision-makers at your ideal companies.

Creating strong human relationships takes time.

Creating strong business relationships with humans take time. (Yes, I'm a human, and so are the 147 other people you've tried to connect with on LinkedIn in the last 14 hours.)

So strive to A) have a process for selling, and B) have the discipline to follow it.

Your spray-and-pray, pitch-and-ditch LinkedIn "prospecting" may be working for you to a degree right now, but I guarantee you it's due primarily to just the law of averages and is diminishing in effectiveness daily.

I know I ignore and/or delete and/or remove the connection with 99.9% of people like you who pitch me right away on LinkedIn.

Is this how you want to grow your business?

I guess we'll see how you respond to this post.

Now go sell something.

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