LinkedIn Automation Tools

2. Contents • Introduction • What is LinkedIn? • Features of LinkedIn • Why LinkedIn automation? • List of automation tools to automated LinkedIn messages • What makes Socinator different from others • LinkedIn automation best practice to follow • Conclusion • Reference

3. Introduction In the present world scenario there are more than a million users are active on social media. To earn an achievement in marketing every businessman is utilizing social media marketing platform. In which LinkedIn has grown as one of the most visited social media platforms. As an average, more than 500 million users use this platform on a daily basis, which makes it more popular. Almost half ( or more ) of the world's population are using social sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. on a daily basis.

4. What is LinkedIn? LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented services that manage via websites and mobile application. On LinkedIn, anyone who has an account can connect with people by adding them as "connection", similar to how we make a friend request on Facebook. LinkedIn is so much similar to Facebook in terms of its layout and features. In general, if you know how to use Facebook, you can easily use LinkedIn also.

5. Features of LinkedIn Here are some of the basic features of LinkedIn: • Home: After logged in to LinkedIn, the home feed is your news feed. It will display the recent posts from your connections with other professionals and company pages you're following. • Profile: Rather than your name, photo, location, occupation LinkedIn provides you the ability to customize various sections like a short summary, work experience, CV, etc. • MyNetwork: Here you will find out a list of all the professionals you're currently connected with on LinkedIn.

6. Messages: When you want to start a conversation with another professional, you can do so by sending them a private message through LinkedIn. You can also add attachments, include photos and more. • Notifications: Like other social networks, LinkedIn has a notification feature that lets you know when you've been endorsed by someone, invited to join something or welcomed to check out a post you might be interested in. • Searchbar: LinkedIn has a great search feature that provides you to filter your results down according to various distinct customizable domains. Click "Advanced" beside the search bar to find specific professionals, companies, jobs and more.

7. Jobs: All kinds of jobs listings are posted on LinkedIn every day by organizations, and LinkedIn will recommend precise jobs to you based on your current information, including your location and optional job preferences that you can fill out to get better-tailored job listings. • Interests: In addition to your connections with professionals, you can follow certain interests on LinkedIn as well. These include company pages, groups according to location or interest. • Pending Invitations: When other professionals invite you to connect with them on LinkedIn, you'll receive an invitation that you'll have to approve.

8. Why LinkedIn Automation? • Since LinkedIn and other social media platforms become more connected as the preferred channels for the young generation to unite and network, traditional sales and call become less effective. • LinkedIn is the best social media platform to help sales teams connect with prospects, other professionals, and to expand the business. • To automate the method of social business, there are many LinkedIn automation tools to automate profile visits, messaging, connection requests, and many more. And by LinkedIn automation, we don’t mean automating every possible engagement. No! There are some things that should be automated and other things that shouldn’t be automated.

9. List of automation tools to automated LinkedIn messages • LeadFuze • Dux-Soup • Socinator • Discover.ly • LinkedHelper

10. LeadFuze • Functionality: • Lead generation software with nurturing capabilities. • Search for leads by job function or title, industry, location and more • It also helps to automatically send personalized emails and follow-ups • Create drip sequences that go out to leads from your email account • Follow-ups stop going out when they respond • Set everything on autopilot, then when someone opens or clicks, you can (optionally) spend more time personalizing their emails

11. Dux-Soup Functionality: • It is a Chrome extension that interacts with LinkedIn in several ways • Auto-visit profiles • Auto-invite with a personalized message • Auto-message 1st-degree connections • Auto-endorse connections • Auto-follow any profile • Visit any list of profiles • Visit based on previously downloaded CSV

12. Socinator Functionality: • View all the reports and statistics time to time for the activities performed with your accounts • With this software automate accepting all connection and sharing requests at once. • Auto Endorse Connections feature will let you automatically endorse all your connection’s skills • This software will auto-visit profiles of LinkedIn users based on Google or LinkedIn searches. • Broadcast Messages • You can customize all your messages and posts with Spintax.

13. Discover.ly Functionality: • Discover.ly is another Chrome extension that interacts with LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. • Each time you visit someone’s LinkedIn profile, it tells you if you have any mutual Facebook friends. It also reveals the person’s recent tweets to help you build their profile • Once you are on a person’s LinkedIn profile with relevance to you, with the extension activated, a green icon will appear to indicate extended information on that person including Twitter data and Facebook mutual friends. • Lookup contacts in Gmail, LinkedIn & Twitter.

14. LinkedHelper Functionality: • Get thousands of targeted contacts by sending personalized invitations to 2nd & 3rd contacts • Auto-mailing system, Sequential Messaging to 1st connections or LinkedIn Group Members • Automatic Profiles Visiting & Export to CSV file (Google Sheets / MS Excel) • Build a targeted mailing list • Boost your profile and get hundreds of endorsements from other users in no time • Invite 1st connections to join a LinkedIn Group

15. What makes Socinator different from others • The main and the most important feature of Socinator is it only take $1 for 5 days which is very reasonable price as compare with others. • The pricing plans is divided into 5 different and simple pricing model to meet every ones needs. • It is used to grow connection, remove connection and fixed issue with outside software. • In Socinator there is an added feature to scrape company logo and established date.

16. LinkedIn automation best practice to follow • Manage automation tools like any other tool in a workshop, such as a buzz saw, i.e., use it carefully! • Recall your goals, where are you trying to stand, what will motivate them to respond to a connection request? • Always accept the fair usage limits on LinkedIn unless you are willing to risk the penalties. • Be as targeted as you can. It pays dividends. • Personalize your interactions for higher response rates. • Perform good housekeeping to keep on the right side of LinkedIn. • Have a plan for the extra time you are going to free up – where can you use that most productively in your business?

17. Conclusion Hope this presentation would be an excellent source to know tools to automated LinkedIn messages. Everything is shifting digital nowadays and so is the merchandising process. People also prefer to acquire awareness about products over the web before doing the acquisition. LinkedIn automation is also wonderful when done in a limit. Overuse of anything can be a sin and the same thing applies to the utilization of automation tools.

18. Reference For more detailed information, visit here https://socinator.com/linkedin-automation/why-your-brand-needs-to-be-on-linkedin/