Benchmarks
Most "average reply rate" numbers on the internet are one vendor's best cohort. These posts show the distribution instead: acceptance rates, first-reply rates, response times and meeting conversion, segmented by list quality and company size, with the sample size stated up front so you can judge how much weight to give it.
Use these to set a target you can defend in a pipeline review, and to spot the vanity metric your dashboard is optimising for.
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Speed to lead decides more LinkedIn meetings than copy does. How response time decays conversion, how to measure it honestly, and how to get under 15 minutes.
Working reply rate benchmarks for LinkedIn outbound in 2026, broken down by list quality, seniority and sequence step, plus how to build a baseline of your own.
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