How to manage multiple LinkedIn accounts – Linked Helper

A lot of our customers have several LinkedIn accounts for their business needs that are being managed via Linked Helper. Some Linked Helper users manage not only their own but colleagues' accounts as well. Others use Linked Helper to render LinkedIn accounts managing related services. The ability to run several LinkedIn accounts simultaneously is the best way for marketers or sellers to expand their outreach.

Linked Helper allows you to manage multiple LinkedIn accounts on one PC, provided that it's powerful enough or you can rent a remote server that suits your needs and meets the hardware requirements - How to install Linked Helper on a VPS / dedicated server. Here are the things to keep in mind:

Licensing
Precautions and best practices
Setting up multiple LinkedIn accounts

Licensing.

You can use one license to manage several LinkedIn accounts, but not simultaneously, or you can buy several licenses, one per instance (account), to be able to manage all LinkedIn accounts at the same time - Licensing: Standart and PRO licenses. Pricing and discounts.

1. When using the same license for each LinkedIn account you need to switch the license between accounts manually:

- accounts can't work simultaneously;
- you will have to reattach the license each time when you switch to another instance;
+ no need in additional licenses.

2. You can buy a license for each instance:

- expenses on additional licenses;
+ can work simultaneously;
+ you won`t have to reattach the license each time when you switch to another instance.

If you're an agency and want to manage your colleagues' licenses (a license does not contain any LinkedIn account data, it only provides you with the ability to run any LinkedIn account), you can create an organization and add your colleagues there. In Linked Helper, the "Organization" feature is used to make license management easier. Licenses are listed under your company name and any member of your team (organization) can grab the available free license or a license that was already assigned to his Linked Helper account from the common "pot". The owner of the organization can assign or detach licenses, and add / delete employees:

Precautions and best practices

There are a number of things to keep in mind regarding safety when managing multiple LinkedIn accounts. Please, look through the precautions and best practices you and LinkedIn account owner need to follow to make sure everything runs safely and smoothly:

1. How to stay safe when managing accounts via Linked Helper?
2. How to stay safe when working with LinkedIn manually?

Setting up multiple LinkedIn accounts

Hardware and software requirements for PC or remote server:

You can get all the information about the hardware and software requirements from this article - What Linked Helper hardware and software requirements are?

If your PC is not powerful enough to handle all the LinkedIn accounts, you can rent a remote server. HostZealot is a dedicated server provider that has a number of options to choose from where Linked Helper program is already installed.

On their webpage you can filter and find dedicated server that is capable of handing the number of LinkedIn accounts you're going to manage, i.e. you don't need to calculate how many RAM server should have or what's the minimum number of cores / threads should be in its CPU:

https://www.hostzealot.com/linkedhelper-dedicated-servers#swiper

Technically, you can install and manage Linked Helper on any other server - How to run Linked Helper in a cloud / remote server.

There is no need to be constantly connected to the server, you or your colleagues can remotely manage campaigns using Linked Helper remote access:

Add a new instance:

Open Linked Helper Launcher.
Navigate to the LinkedIn Accounts menu.
Click Add new button.
Fill in your email address and password (password field is not mandatory, but if no password is submitted, you will have to log in to the account manually).
Click Add button.

If you want to use one license to manage multiple LinkedIn accounts (not simultaneously) you can reattach your license as per the instruction below:

Navigate to the Licenses section in the Launcher menu.
Filter licenses if needed, hover mouse over the license record and click on Attach to LinkedIn account button.
Choose an instance from the list.
Click Assign button.

Set up proxy:

Linked Helper supports HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS / SOCKS5 IPv4 proxy. Check Proxy section of the How to stay safe when managing account via Linked Helper article for more info about choosing proxy.

However, these providers are not the only ones you can use and we cannot guarantee the stability of these third party companies, so you can find another one you personally prefer.

To add a proxy, please:

Open Linked Helper Launcher and navigate to Proxies menu.
Click Add new button.
Choose protocol. If not sure, choose auto.
Fill in the IP address and port.
Fill in proxy's login and password (these fields are mandatory only if your proxy is private and cannot be accessed without authorization).
Click Test and save button.

If everything is fine you will receive the message "Connection is ok. There are no problems with proxy or linked-helper proxy":

Assign proxy:

Navigate to the Proxies section in the Launcher menu and hover mouse over the proxy.
Click on Assign to LinkedIn accounts button.
Choose instance(s) from the list.
Click Assign button.