For marketing agency owners
You write campaigns that fill other people’s calendars. Your agency still grows by whoever a client happens to mention you to.
Your team writes copy that converts, runs ads that pay back, and knows the difference between a good hook and a clever one. Clients stay, because the work is good. New clients arrive when an existing one mentions you at a dinner.
You know that is not a strategy. You would never let a client run their growth on referrals and luck. But every hour you have goes to client deliverables and the team, and the agency’s own marketing is the last job on a very long list.
Worse, you are the hardest possible audience for outreach tools. You can tell a template from the first line. Everything the automation tools produce looks exactly like what you tell your own clients never to send, and you would rather send nothing than send that under your name.
So hand over the hour
Hellofew writes to your prospects the way you would, if you had the time. You paste your agency’s services page; agents find the marketing leaders and founders who fit your work, read their profiles and recent posts, and write one note per person. You edit the ones you want to sharpen, approve the rest, and it sends from your account.
What actually goes wrong
Referrals are lumpy, and the lumps decide your hiring
Two referrals in a month and you hire. A quiet quarter and you are wondering which contractor to let go. The agency’s growth is at the mercy of other people’s conversations.
What happens instead
Up to 25 matched people a day, researched and written to, every weekday. It will not replace referrals, but it stops them being the only source.
You have high standards for copy, which is why you send nothing
Every draft you try in an outreach tool is something you would redline in a client’s campaign. So you close the tool and tell yourself you will write them properly at the weekend.
What happens instead
The note is written from the recipient’s profile and posts, not merged from a template, and every draft is shown to you before it goes. Edit what you would redline; approve what you would have written. A draft too close to a recent one is discarded and rewritten automatically.
Your prospects are marketers, and marketers are the most-pitched people on LinkedIn
A Head of Marketing gets agency pitches daily, most promising leads or a “quick audit”. They have seen every trick, including the one where you pretend to have noticed something specific.
What happens instead
When a note references something they wrote, the quote is checked character for character against the post. If it cannot be found, it is stripped and flagged to you. Reposts are excluded, so it never compliments someone for words they only shared.
Your agency’s reputation is your LinkedIn
Your profile is where prospects check your thinking and your client list. An account restricted for over-sending is a loud public failure for someone who sells marketing judgement.
What happens instead
At most 20 invitations a day, reached over a three-week ramp from 5, only in your working hours, at irregular gaps. If acceptance falls, the cap halves on its own. Materially safer than the category and fully published — but LinkedIn’s terms prohibit automation, and nobody can promise it never objects.
What your morning looks like instead
One card per person. Who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself — so you can judge it in the three seconds you actually have. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out under your name that you have not read.
Who the agents would go looking for
Typical titles for this kind of buyer. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them.
- Head of Marketing
- VP of Marketing
- Marketing Director
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Founder & CEO
- Head of Demand Generation
Your first month
- 1
Paste your agency’s services page — free, no card — and read the ICP back. Edit the angles until they sound like your pitch on its best day; every note inherits them.
- 2
Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn. About a minute later there are up to 25 people in the queue, each with a note and the line it was written from.
- 3
Approve three and sending starts at 5 a day, rising over three weeks towards 20. Edit the first week’s drafts heavily if you like — it is the fastest way to learn what the drafter gets right.
- 4
Accepted connections get one message and at most one follow-up. The Monday digest counts replies and, on a quiet week, says why.
Who this is wrong for
If your agency sells to local businesses and consumers, LinkedIn is not where your buyers are. If you have account executives who each need their own sending account and a CRM, this is too small. And if you want to offer outbound as a service to your own clients across many accounts, this is not a white-label platform — it is one account for one person.
Questions
Can I run it on my clients’ accounts?
No. The account you connect must be yours, connected by you, one per workspace. It is built for your own agency’s outreach, not as a service you resell.
Can I control the tone?
Yes. Edit the positioning, angles and sample note in the ICP, and edit any draft before approving it. Nothing sends that you have not read.
What if a prospect asks to be left alone?
They are added to a global, permanent do-not-contact list and are never messaged again, by you or by any other customer.
The first step costs nothing: paste your page and read what it writes about your market. If it gets your buyers wrong, you have learned something for free. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn and it starts finding real people.