After considering the correctness of it for a long time, just this week, I started outbound marketing to my 1st contacts on LI. 100 so far, 2,500 to go. I decided to use the LI system directly vs. harvesting emails. I am a strong supporter of LI and want to "keep it in the family".

I run a professional services firm in Shanghai offering English resume editing, LinkedIn Profile enhancements, interview coaching, and corporate workshops on similar.

So far the response has been pretty low. About 3% thanked me for bringing to light fundamental flaws in their profiles or missing best practices.

I don't feel great doing it and need to tweak my messaging but truly feel I am offering invaluable insights. Still tough sledding.

I don't use github for marketing, only repo archiving.