LinkedIn has 9 different kinds of accounts:
Let's see which one suits you better
A free LinkedIn account is perfect in the beginning. That's when you are building your network, defining your goals and reading posts. This is perfect if you don't have business, and your are not a salesman, and your aren't neither a recruiter nor having problems to get a job.
You will start discovering the other kind of accounts when you discover the limitarions of the free account.
When you have a free plan, if you try to search a something, LinkedIn will limit you to 1,000 results. That's because it will only let you see 100 pages with 10 profiles per page:
If you are using LinkedIn to recruit or to generate leads you may have received this message. Well, that's more likely to receive if you use automation softwares like waalaxy or expandi.
When this happens, LinkedIn will not allow you to send invitations until the next week. However, if you continue doing this, then you will receive the most annoying message; the commercial limit:
If you receive the commercial limit (this can happen if linkedin detects that you are intensively generating leads or recruiting), they won't allow to use the search engine until the next month.
If you don't have Paid Account, then, you will not have access to Inmails.
That's reason why you won't be able to send messages to 2nd and 3rd connections:
Normally, LinkedIn only shows you 5 users that have viewed your profile. You can't see the rest unless you have a premium plan such as Sales Navigator,
If your main goal with LinkedIn is to sell, then probably you need Sales Navigator account. However, if you are a recruiter, a job seeker or a business man, you may want to use other type of accounts.
Let's study the differences:
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Start for freeLinkedIn Premium Career is the perfect fit for job seekets. It has been designed to help you get a job much faster. Indeed, a LinkedIn survey's result aims that with this plan, job seekets get hired 2X faster in avearge.
Advantages of using LinkedIn Premium Career:
LinkedIn Premium Business is a good fit for Business Owners. With this, you can generate leads, find good partners, and also reach out to potential investors.
With this plan, you also will increase your profile conversion, as it includes a Custom Button to drive traffic to a specific landing or Calendly page.
Advantages of using LinkedIn Premium Business:
This tool has been specifically designed by LinkedIn for salespeople. It allows you get access to the best LinkedIn search engine, in order to find a good data base and reach out to your prospects.
It's also a good tool to import your leads to automation tools like Waalaxy, and to reduce the likelihood of being banned by LinkedIn.
Advantages of using Sales Navigator Core:
Sales Navigator Advanced allows collaboration between the members of the sales team.
It costs $149.99/month per seat. And includes 3 new features:
LinkedIn Smartlinks allows creating PDFs, sales presentations, Reels and Webinars adding the files or links. This features tracks the links and tells which and when the leads are reading the files you have sent. With this, you will optimize your prospecting campaigns.
Team Link is a feature that helps you detect warm introduction to the prospects that you search on Sales Navigator.
If you have a good B2B database, then this will be helpful. CSV Upload, allows you get databases from other sources like Apollo or Crunchbase, and import it directly into Sales Navigator.
Instead on searching by using the Excel editor, now, you will be able to apply the Sales Navigator search engine to your database.
This plan is for huge companies that use CRMs like Hubspot and Salesforce. It offers advanced features as well as CRMs integrations.
LinkedIn Rectuiter Lite is used by HR professional, small recruiting agencies and Business Owners hiring at small scale.
The features this plan offers are:
Recruiter Lite also offfers small ATS system to manage your recruitmente process:
The are two types of LinkedIn Recruiter plans; Recruiter Professional Services and Recruiter Corporate.
This plan offers:
This plan offers:
Note: ATS means Applicant Tracking System and it's used to track the candidates in your pipeline with information from multiple platforms.
LinkedIn Learning is the platform where LinkedIn offers +21,000 courses prepared by high-quality professionals. This platform is one of the most underrated feature LinkedIn has ever offered.
For only, 20 bugs/month, you can do unlimited courses, learn new skills, get certificates and boost your LinkedIn profile. If you are a business owner it may be useful to learn acquiere new knowledge, and if you are a job seeker then it's even better to shine and post your certificates.
For each course you finish, you will receive a certificate like this one:
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You will get:
With WaLead you can manage your leads, create tasks and activities, as well as collaborate with your team members:
Our Scheduling module helps you schedule LinkedIn posts and comments. And also attribute your generated leads to your LinekdIn posts:
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