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How to extract data from LinkedIn and Sales Navigator?

As the largest professional social network in the world, LinkedIn, stores all the valuable contacts for sales, recruiters and b2b marketing professionals to run a successful business. However, those data won't be able to reach its full potential if you can't collect and used with other tools like Salesforce or Pipedrive.

Before extracting data, Linkr needs to know what profiles you wanna extract. This process is call Collecting. A collecting process collects a list of LinkedIn profile links.

  • Method 1: Collecting companies from LinkedIn Jobs
  • Method 2: Collecting companies from Sales Navigator
  • Method 3: Collecting leads from a list of LinkedIn companies
  • Method 4: Collecting leads from Sales Navigator
  • Method 5: Collecting leads from LinkedIn groups

I'm gonna show how quick and easy it is to start collecting LinkedIn data using Linkr - the #1 LinkedIn automation software.

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Method 1: Collecting companies from LinkedIn Jobs

From LinkedIn jobs portal, you can find huge amount of information about a company including its employees, products, business and financial plans. By searching specific keywords in LinkedIn jobs, you could find a list of LinkedIn companies that matches your targeting niche. For example, IT outsourcing companies could discover huge amount of clients via LinkedIn jobs, recruiters can find talents from other companies employees list, job seekers could find hiring managers from the list of jobs.

Step by Step: Auto collect LinkedIn companies in Jobs

  • Find Collect LinkedIn companies in Jobs task, click Create button
  • Click Open a new search page. Set your search criteria in LinkedIn Jobs and click Search. (Do not close the page)
  • Go back to Linkr window and click Refresh, then select the search page you just created. Click “Next”.
  • Give a name to the new dataset that you'll gonna collect. Set the running Speed and click Create Task.
  • Click Start to start the task. You could continue creating more tasks of other kinds and run at the same time.

One of Linkr's powerful feature is multi-tasking. Once the Collect LinkedIn companies in Jobs was started and initialized. You could further create a Collect company emloyees task to start collecting employees from the dataset at the same time.

It's highly recommended that you run multiple tasks instead of just one in order for Linkr to simulate human browsing behaviors.

Method 2: Collecting companies from Sales Navigator

Another method for collecting company list from LinkedIn is to use Sales Navigator. It's a LinkedIn premium account. If your business is a global scale business, you definitely need it. Sales Navigator's "Search for accounts" offers a lot of search filters that can help you find the precise audiences. Sales Navigator's company profile also includes more insights about a company.

Step by Step: Auto collect LinkedIn companies from Sales Navigator

  • Find Collect LinkedIn companies in Jobs task, click Create button
  • Click Open a new search page. Set your search criteria in Sales Navigator's "Search for accounts" and click Search. (Do not close the page)
  • Return to Linkr window and click Refresh, then select the search page you just created. Click “Next”.
  • Give a name to the new dataset that you'll gonna collect. Set the running Speed and click Create Task.
  • Click Start to start the task. You could continue creating more tasks of other kinds and run at the same time.

Once you have a dataset storing all collected LinkedIn companies. You can continue creating a "Collect company employees" task. Both tasks can be run at the same time.

It's highly recommended that you run multiple tasks instead of just one, in order for Linkr to simulate human browsing behaviors.

Method 3: Collecting leads from a list of LinkedIn companies

After collecting a list of companies, you could now collect your target leads from company employees. You could filter employees by keyword to pinpoint the employees you want to connect with.

You can run this type of task simultaneously with any company collecting task. Whenever there's a new company profile being collected, this task will pick up the new company profile and start collecting its employees.

Step by Step: Auto collect company employees on LinkedIn

  • Find Collect Company employees task, click Create button
  • Give a name to this new dataset.
  • Choose the company dataset to collect with.
  • Enter a keyword. This keyword is going to be used for filtering employees.
  • Set the running Speed and click Create Task.
  • Click Start to start the task. You could continue creating more tasks of other kinds and run at the same time.

While leads data are being collected, you can also initiate a Auto connect new leads task from the current dataset. Both tasks can be run at the same time.

Remember we highly recommend you to run multiple tasks at the same time. Linkr will simulate human browsing behaviors by switching between different tasks.

Method 4: Collecting leads from Sales Navigator

As mentioned earlier, Sales Navigator is a premium LinkedIn account. But it gives you much more visibility for LinkedIn members that are not reachable in standard LinkedIn accounts. Sales Navigator's "Search for leads" feature can find lot more target leads. It's search filter is even powerful to help you target the audiences you are looking for.

Step by Step: Auto collect leads from Sales Navigator

  • Find Collect Sales Navigator Leads task, click Create button
  • Click Open a new search page. Set your search criteria in Sales Navigator's "Search for leads" and click Search. (Do not close the page)
  • Return to Linkr window and click Refresh, then select the search page you just created. Click “Next”.
  • Give a name to the new dataset that you'll gonna collect. Set the running Speed and click Create Task.
  • Click Start to start the task. You could continue creating more tasks of other kinds and run at the same time.

While leads data are being collected, you can also initiate a Auto connect new leads task from the current dataset. Both tasks can be run at the same time.

Remember we highly recommend you to run multiple tasks at the same time. Linkr will simulate human browsing behaviors by switching between different tasks.

Method 5: Collecting leads from LinkedIn groups

LinkedIn Groups provide a place for professionals in the same industry or with similar interests to share their insights and experiences, ask for guidance, and build valuable connections. After joining a LinkedIn group, you can view all members of that group, so does connecting group members.

However, LinkedIn does not offer you full search capabilities in groups. Whatever keyword you search, LinkedIn only shows you dozens of members maximum. Linkr help you unlock that feature, giving you the ability to collect all members matching your search keywords.

Step by Step: Auto collect leads from a LinkedIn group

  • Find Collect Sales Navigator Leads task, click Create button
  • Click Open a new search page. Set your search criteria in Sales Navigator's "Search for leads" and click Search. (Do not close the page)
  • Return to Linkr window and click Refresh, then select the search page you just created. Click “Next”.
  • Give a name to the new dataset that you'll gonna collect. Set the running Speed and click Create Task.
  • Click Start to start the task. You could continue creating more tasks of other kinds and run at the same time.

While leads data are being collected, you can also initiate a Auto connect new leads task from the current dataset. Linkr can run multiple tasks at the same time. And it's recommended that you run multiple tasks instead of just one in order for Linkr to simulate human browsing behaviors.