Learn how to set up Distill and launch your first outreach campaign. This guide covers connecting LinkedIn and email, preparing your audience, creating a campaign, reviewing messages and timing, managing replies, and troubleshooting people who are not moving through outreach.
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Your Project may already include a prepared first draft.
Distill may prepare the source audience, sender context, screening settings, timing, and campaign message sequence before handoff. If Auto Blocks was used, the initial message and follow-ups will appear in the Template editor as editable draft blocks, together with an explanation of the messaging approach.
Before sends begin, confirm the source list and sender, review every message and follow-up, check timing and screening, preview a real candidate, and click Publish when the sequence is ready.
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Watch a quick tour of a Distill Project
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Before you begin, watch this overview to see how targeting, campaigns, messaging, follow-ups, timing, and reply management fit together. Then use the step-by-step guide below to prepare and launch your own campaign.
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| Required | Why it matters | Ready when |
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| Distill account and Chrome extension | Gives you access and connects your LinkedIn identity and network | You can sign in and the extension is connected |
| Connected email and campaign email setup | Supports campaign email and incoming replies when email is part of the campaign | Your email is connected and Distill has confirmed that campaign email is ready before email outreach begins |
| Company, sender, and scheduling details | Gives Distill the correct identity and booking information | The sender and scheduling link or email are confirmed |
| Prepared audience | Provides the People list used by the campaign | A reviewed People list is connected to the Project |
| Campaign messaging and timing | Controls what sends, when it sends, and what follows | The initial message, follow-ups, sender, and send window have been previewed |
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Some setup work happens in the background. You can continue preparing your audience and messaging while the LinkedIn sync runs or any additional campaign email setup is completed closer to launch.
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New to Distill? - Sign up at distill.com/auth/signup. Use your Google account, or enter your email address and follow the secure sign-in link.
Already have an account? - Sign in at distill.com/auth/signin with the same method you used before.
Install the Distill Chrome extension during onboarding and connect your LinkedIn account. The extension lets Distill verify your identity, map your LinkedIn connections, and use that relationship context during outreach.
You do not need to wait on the page while your initial connection sync runs. Distill continues working in the background, and it might take a few minutes.
Open your Project and complete the information Distill needs to send outreach and book meetings correctly.