Here’s the challenge. You’re spending time on LinkedIn outreach – you’ve found your ideal targets, created some really relevant messaging, you’re connecting and actioning your outreach to them. And then this happens:
You’re doing a routine tidy-up and suddenly realise you’ve missed a whole stack of replies sitting in your Sales Navigator inbox.
Even working in the LinkedIn tools space – and knowing Sales Navigator inside out – I still got caught out. The split between two separate inboxes and a clunky message management system meant valuable replies slipped through the cracks.
And I’m not the only one. It happens more often than most people realise.
The problem is bigger than just unread messages. It means missed leads, lost opportunities, slower follow-up times, and unnecessary barriers to growth.
For any business relying on LinkedIn outreach, that’s a serious issue. So let’s find out how to never miss any more Sales Navigator messages.
How to fix it
There’s a LinkedIn automation tool called Dux-Soup. With a Turbo plan, at £44/month, you can connect your LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, and Recruiter inboxes to Slack or Microsoft Teams and get your messages sent straight to your business tools.
Here’s how it looks in Slack:
Anyone in your Slack or Microsoft Teams channel receives real-time notifications whenever new messages come in. Team members can also reply directly from Slack or Microsoft Teams, so no one needs to switch platforms or miss an opportunity.
Watch the Slack tutorial
Watch the Teams Tutorial
Improved response times
Because response times play such a critical role in lead conversion, this integration helps you turn more leads into meetings—and more meetings into sales. Instant notifications give you a major advantage over relying on LinkedIn’s native inbox alerts, which can often be delayed (in my case, sometimes not arriving until the next day).
Scale your outreach
Dux-Soup not only improves your Sales Navigator response management process, it can also take over your LinkedIn outreach.
With clever campaigns that allow you to create sequenced combining post likes, connection invitations and direct messages, it has a whole lot more to offer.
If you want to talk, get in touch with me at beth.baxter@theblurb.co.uk
