Overview
LinkedIn outbound consistently nets some of the best reply rates of any channel, both for Bitscale internally and for most teams running an ABM or outreach motion. This playbook covers two things:
- Setting up the Bitscale + Heyreach integration, so enriched and personalized data from your grids flows straight into Heyreach campaigns.
- A few workflow ideas you can use as a foundation (or inspiration) for what to actually push into those campaigns.
Setting Up the Integration
- In Bitscale, go to Integrations → Add Integration, and search for Heyreach.
- Open it. You’ll be asked for your API key.
- To get your API key, go to Heyreach’s own Integrations section, open API, and click Get API Key. Copy it from there.
- Back in Bitscale, paste the API key and click Verify.
How the Integration Works
The Bitscale, Heyreach integration lets you push data from a grid straight into a Heyreach campaign, enrolling contacts automatically. In a grid with the Heyreach panel set up, you can:- Select which campaign to enroll contacts into.
- Pass the three required fields: name, LinkedIn URL, and personalization.
- Pass any additional data points as custom fields. These become variables you can reference in your Heyreach message templates.
ABM personalization and map it to a column like the text of a LinkedIn post someone engaged with. When you run the grid on a list, those contacts get auto-enrolled into your Heyreach campaign with that variable populated.
Workflow Ideas: What to Feed Into Heyreach
The integration itself is simple. The leverage comes from what you push into it. A couple of sources have worked especially well for Bitscale’s own outbound:1) Conversational Intent
Find people talking about a keyword or topic relevant to your product, and reach out referencing that exact conversation. For example: find people commenting on or reacting to posts about “email outbound,” then open with something like “saw that you’re active in conversation surrounding email outbound…” before introducing your offer. See Finding People Engaging with Keywords to set this source up.2) Competitor Tracking
Bitscale has a few different ways to find competitor-adjacent intent, and they stack well together:- Competitor prospecting playbook — find influencers and competitor leaders talking about your domain, then find and reach out to the people commenting on and interacting with their posts. See Influencer and Competitor Tracking.
- Competitor’s Customers source — find the companies already using a competitor (or an adjacent tool), then find people at those companies to reach out to. See Finding Your Competitor’s Customers.
- Competitor’s followers — you can also pull a competitor’s LinkedIn followers as another intent-based list.
What Good Looks Like
Bitscale runs a lot of these campaigns on its own outbound, testing different angles rather than optimizing a single one. Across that testing, a consistently solid benchmark has been:- ~40% connection acceptance rate
- ~30% net reply rate
Best Practices
- Keep the required fields (name, LinkedIn URL, personalization) clean before enrolling contacts, missing data breaks campaigns.
- Use custom fields for anything beyond the defaults. Name them clearly since that’s the variable name you’ll reference in Heyreach.
- Combine intent sources (conversational intent + competitor tracking) rather than relying on one signal alone.
- Test multiple campaign angles instead of committing all volume to a single script.