Two ways to do LinkedIn outreach, and what each one costs you
Almost every tool in this category automates the LinkedIn action. Dizenly does not. That single difference decides which risks you carry and which problems you solve, so it is worth understanding before comparing feature lists.
The two models
Neither is dishonest. They solve different problems and carry different risks, and most comparison articles skip straight past the distinction to a feature grid.
Automation tools
Expandi, HeyReach, Dripify, Waalaxy and most of the category
- How it works
- Software performs the LinkedIn action for you, usually from the cloud. The good ones manage the risk carefully - warm-up periods, limit ranges, dedicated IPs, spreading volume across several sender accounts.
- What you get
- Volume. Far more outreach than a person could do by hand.
- What it costs
- LinkedIn does not permit automated access for this, so the risk is real and it sits on your account rather than the vendor’s.
Selection tools
Dizenly
- How it works
- Software decides who is worth contacting and drafts what to say. A person performs the LinkedIn action from their own account, working a queue that is already sorted and already written.
- What you get
- A shorter list worth contacting, with a readable reason attached to every name, and no automation for LinkedIn to detect.
- What it costs
- Less volume. A person can only do so much in a day, and that is the trade.
Head to head
Each one names the cases where the other tool is the better buy, and records the date its claims were last checked against that vendor's own pages.
- Dizenly vs ExpandiBoth tools shorten the distance between a list and a conversation. They disagree about who presses the button, and almost every other difference follows from that one.Read the comparison
- Dizenly vs HeyReachHeyReach solves the volume problem by adding senders. Dizenly solves the selection problem so fewer sends are needed. Neither is a substitute for the other, and the right answer depends on which problem you have.Read the comparison
Questions about the category
What LinkedIn permits, what the trade actually is, and why we compare ourselves to tools we think carry more risk.
Not sure which model fits?
Tell us how many people run outreach and how big the list is. Half of the answer is arithmetic and we can do it on a call.
Is automation against LinkedIn’s terms?
Automated access and scraping are prohibited by LinkedIn’s User Agreement, and LinkedIn does enforce it - with warnings, temporary restrictions and permanent ones. That is not a claim about any particular vendor, and every team should read the current terms themselves rather than take any vendor’s word for it, including ours.
So are automation tools a bad idea?
They are a trade, and plenty of teams take it knowingly and do well. The mistake is taking it without knowing. If an account restriction would cost you a quarter of pipeline, the trade looks different than if you have twenty sender accounts and can lose one.
What does Dizenly do that a spreadsheet cannot?
Score every row against your ICP on nine weighted factors, sort the list by that score, write the reason down so the ranking can be argued with, and re-score everything automatically when your ICP or a prospect’s own data changes.
Can I use Dizenly alongside an automation tool?
Yes, and some teams do - Dizenly to decide who and what, another tool to execute. We will not pretend that is a strange thing to want, though the account risk of the second tool is unchanged by the first.
Why compare yourself to tools you say are riskier?
Because that is what people are actually choosing between, and a page that pretends the category does not exist is no use to anyone deciding. Each comparison names the cases where the other tool is the better buy.
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