How to invite people to follow your LinkedIn page automatically

Quick Takeaway

• You can only invite your 1st-degree connections to follow a LinkedIn Page, and only Page admins can send invites — so growth starts with expanding the admin’s network.
• LinkedIn uses a MONTHLY invitation credit pool (not the old “100 per week”). Credits are shared by all admins, reset on the 1st of each month, and are returned when an invite is accepted.
• Standard Pages historically had 250 credits/month, but LinkedIn began cutting this to as low as 50/month in a 2026 staggered rollout — so every credit now has to land on the right person.
• A Premium Company Page unlocks higher limits and lets you invite people who engaged with your content or follow similar Pages (engager invites don’t even spend credits). 
• Linked Helper automates the whole funnel: it grows the admin’s network, then auto-runs the “Invite to follow the organization” action so you never waste a credit or hit the limit by hand.

Maintaining a business page for your company is necessary not only to build the brand online but also to appear higher in searches. It pays off, too: 84% of B2B marketers say LinkedIn delivers the best value of any organic social platform (Source: Content Marketing Institute, B2B Content Marketing 2025). The catch is competition — around 69 million companies now run a LinkedIn Page, all fighting for the attention of the platform’s 1 billion-plus members (Source: Hootsuite, 2025). That’s exactly why proactively inviting your connections to follow your Page — and automating it — is one of the few growth levers you fully control. The fact is that having a developed page for the organization on LinkedIn, you can be found more often by potential customers when they search through Google. This is because social media pages are indexed better than websites, especially new ones.

Therefore, the development and creation of a company page is a necessary but not always simple task. Getting followers on a business page can be a little more difficult than on a personal profile. Because when you send a connection request, you are interested in that person, while there are fewer reasons to connect with a company. With Linked Helper automation, you can expand your network faster and beat the LinkedIn invite limit. More connections will start to follow the company page, and more leads will notice your page.

The fact is that by default only the admin of the company can send invitations and only to their connections. Therefore, the first step before sending out invitations to a corporate page should be warming up an audience – searching for leads, visiting their pages, giving some likes, establishing contact, and only after that sending invites to your business profile.

Doing all of this yourself through a social networking site could take you hundreds of hours. But a smart auto-tool can do all these tasks better and faster.

What else can Linked Helper do to increase your company’s awareness and network? Almost everything!

• Auto invites to events. These can be warm-up events for establishing close connections in the business community.
• Auto invites to groups. If you use group marketing, then the software will allow you to write to group members, parse member lists, and invite people to groups.
• Auto interaction with the community. Invitations may not be enough to connect with leads and partners. With Linked Helper, you can automate every step of the funnel – likes, auto-comments, visits, and auto-messages will boost your business or personal brand.

It is also convenient that all activities and lead lists will be stored in the CRM and you can sort all leads by tags according to the results of each campaign and download CSV files with all the data about them.

You can learn in detail how to create a company page and how to increase followers of a business page in our blog.

LinkedIn booster: invite followers to a company page automatically

Linked Helper is independent software that you can install for free on your computer. For 14 days you can test many of its features for free — no card required — and if you like the results you can choose the Standard or Pro plan.

Automatic software can be connected to any LinkedIn solution – the basic plan and the advanced Sales Navigator or Recruiter.

It works like a funnel. You can add auto-actions and lists of users according to your promotion plan.

For example, you can make a selection of 100 marketers, automatically visit and parse their profiles, send them a contact request, and invite those who accept it to follow your business page. With the Auto-collect action, the tool even re-scans your source pages every few days and keeps feeding fresh 1st-degree connections into the queue — so your invite pipeline never runs dry between credit resets.

Read the full manual on how to auto-invite to a business page.

Can you invite non-connections to a LinkedIn page?

On a standard Page, this is not possible — you can only invite your existing 1st-degree connections, and only Page admins can send invites. There is one exception: a Premium Company Page lets you auto-invite members who engaged with your content (reacted, commented, or shared in the last 30 days) or who follow similar Pages. Those engager invites are the closest thing to reaching “non-connections,” and they don’t even consume your credits. 

It’s also important to understand how the limit actually works, because LinkedIn changed it. The old “100 invitations per week” rule is gone. LinkedIn now uses a monthly invitation credit pool that is shared by all of a Page’s admins and resets on the 1st of each month. Every invite you send spends one credit; when an invited connection accepts and starts following the Page, that credit is returned to the shared balance — usually within about 72 hours. Declined or ignored invites don’t return the credit until the monthly reset.

Here’s the part that makes automation matter more than ever: standard Pages historically had 250 credits per month, but in a 2026 staggered rollout LinkedIn began cutting that allowance to as low as 50 per month (not every Page is reduced at the same time). With so few credits, you can’t afford to waste them — so you should never take clumsy risks when expanding the Page. Growth may be slower, but with careful automation you spend every credit on the right person and gain a steady following over time.

How does the “Invite to organization” action work?

Here is a short scheme for sending effective invites to business pages:

#1 Get more followers on your personal profile

Choose as an admin the person who has the widest network of contacts or upgrade your personal admin profiles. You can do this through auto-actions like visiting and sending invites to people.

If you want to upgrade your personal profile first, you can start with the Visit and Extract or Follow Profiles action. In this case, the software will help expand your network of contacts.

Linked Helper can now also pull profiles straight from your Followers and Following manager pages (up to 1,000 profiles). That’s a smart warm-up source: it surfaces 2nd- and 3rd-degree members who already follow you, so you can connect with them first and turn them into invite-eligible 1st-degree connections.

Read more about how to invite 2nd and 3rd degree connections automatically.

You can make personal profile growth the first campaign action before continuing on to invite people to your business profile.

#2 Start a People Campaign

Select the menu item People. In the template line, you can select Invite to follow the organization.

#3 Enter a list of people in the Queue line

For this action (and all auto-actions in the CRM) to work, you need to input into the software a list of users to work with. These can be people from LinkedIn pages (your connections, groups, search pages, events, etc.), lists from Sales Navigator or Recruiter, or imported contacts.

Go to the Workflow tab – Queue – Add – Select the source.

 Since invitations to a business page only work with people of the 1st degree of connection, you must select the “My network page” menu item here.

To keep this running hands-free, turn on the Auto-collect action. Instead of re-loading a list manually, Auto-collect re-scans your chosen LinkedIn pages every X days and automatically feeds fresh 1st-degree connections into the queue. With monthly credits now as low as 50, this is the cleanest way to make sure there’s always someone eligible to invite the moment your credits reset.

#4 Set Key Action Settings

In the General tab, paste the link or ID of the business page where you want to invite people. You will soon see an increase in the audience in your business community.

In the General tab, paste the link or ID of the business page where you want to invite people. You will soon see your business community’s audience start to grow.

Then just watch how the tool opens each contact’s page and presses the Invite button, behaving like a normal person while you relax. To keep it safe, enable Smart daily limits and Start time randomization: these features vary how many actions run and when they fire, so your invites and warm-up activity look human and stay well within LinkedIn’s tolerance — which matters more than ever now that credits are scarce.

All successfully processed profiles will be displayed in the green box, Successful.

As a result, you will notice a gradual increase in subscribers. Unfortunately, it cannot be done instantly, since there are LinkedIn limits. At the same time, you can expand your business profile audience outside the social media platform.

Try to invite people to like and to follow your LinkedIn page in these ways:

• Invite via email newsletter. If you have a database of customer emails, send a newsletter letting them know your organization is active on LinkedIn and encouraging them to follow. Offer a real motivator — exclusive content, research, or a discount. Email is also one of the few ways to reach people beyond your 1st-degree network, so pair it with Linked Helper’s network-expansion actions to turn new connections into invite-eligible followers. 
• Through private messages on LinkedIn. You can send bulk messages to users, and Linked Helper will substitute personalized data into variable fields (name, position, etc.) to boost your response rate. If you’re short on time, the built-in AI message generator (up to 30 messages a day) drafts the personalized warm-up and follow-up messages that turn a cold connection into someone who happily accepts your Page invite. 

Read how you can view messages without them knowing on LinkedIn automatically.

Auto-invite your connections to follow your Page

Doing this by hand burns time and risks wasting credits on the wrong people. Linked Helper runs the “Invite to follow the organization” action for you: queue your 1st-degree connections, then let Auto-collect keep the pipeline full so every monthly credit is spent the moment it resets. Start a 14-day free trial — no card required.

Grow your LinkedIn Page beyond invites (when credits run low

With invite credits now as low as 50 a month, invitations alone won’t fill your Page. The fix is to earn followers organically alongside your invite campaigns.

Linked Helper’s Boost post action helps here without touching your credit balance. It tags relevant people directly inside your Page content, triggering notifications and pulling them into the comments.

Every reaction, comment, and share does two things: it puts your Page in front of new audiences for free, and — if you run a Premium Company Page — it turns those engagers into people you can invite to follow without spending a single credit.

So the winning combination looks like this:

1. Spend your monthly invite credits on your best 1st-degree connections (automated with the “Invite to follow the organization” action).
2. Use Boost post to attract organic followers and generate engagers.
3. On a Premium Page, invite those engagers for free to stretch your reach far past the credit cap.

Try Linked Helper free for 14 days

With LinkedIn cutting Page invite credits to as low as 50 a month, you can’t afford to spend them clicking one by one. Let Linked Helper grow the admin’s network, queue eligible connections, and send invites with human-like timing — so you never waste a credit or hit the limit by accident.

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