How to message LinkedIn group members – Linked Helper

With the help of Linked Helper 2, you can send messages to LinkedIn group members even if your are not connected. This article will explain who to set up such a campaign which can be useful for recruiters targeting potential candidates from groups on certain technical topics.

Create a new campaign.
Collect group members.
Review profiles and action settings.
Run the campaign

1. Create a new campaign.

In the Campaigns menu click the "+" button to create a new campaign:

In the pop-up window give your campaign a name (1), choose the needed template - Empty campaign (2), click Create campaign (3):

Go to the Workflow of your campaign and click on the "+ Add action" to add the needed action, find the Message to group members action and click Add:

2. Collect group members for your message broadcast.

You can collect profiles from the list of all group members, or from Sales Navigator search with group filter applied.

Collect profiles from the list of all group members

Click on the Add button at the top of the Workflow or in the left menu select the Choose source option to collect contacts. In the pop-up window choose the My group page:

Select the group you want to collect contacts from:

Go to the Show All section to view all group members in the group:

Start the collecting process by clicking Start collecting button in the left menu:

Linked Helper will start to scan the group members list and collect contacts to the Queue for the message broadcast.

Unfortunately, LinkedIn does not allow you to filter group members by industry, location, etc., but there is a workaround if you have a Sales Navigator subscription.

Collect profiles from the Sales Navigator search

Click on the Add button at the top of the Workflow or in the left menu select the Choose source option to collect contacts. In the pop-up window choose the My group page:

Go to the Collect from LinkedIn and select Search page in the Sales Navigator tab:

Filter profiles in SN search by the needed filters including group filter:

Start the collecting process by clicking in the left menu and choosing the From current page option:

Once profiles are collected, assign a group ID to them for messaging:
- install Override platform plug-in;
- take the ID from the group URL;
- go to the Queue of the 1st Action and and select all profiles;
- click button;
- paste the LinkedIn Group ID into Collect scope id field;
- click Save:

Upload from a CSV file

Let's imagine you have 11 LinkedIn accounts, one of them has a Sales Navigator subscription, the other 10 accounts don't have it, all 11 are the participants of the Finance Club group.

You want to collect all CXOs in certain location from a large group and send them a message via group from several LinkedIn accounts without Sales Navigator subscription, then here is what you can do:

Navigate to Sales Navigator and make a search, filtering profiles by position, location, industry, etc. Do not forget to filter them by Group. Collect them, do not forget about limitations:
- What kind of limits should I use?
- I have more than 1000 contacts. How to collect all of them thru search?
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Split the profiles across different LinkedIn accounts if needed: create several copies of the CSV, and delete the unwanted rows but leave the columns as they are, do not modify the headers.
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Upload CSV files into different LinkedIn accounts who are members of the Finance Club group. If the CSV files were fetched from Linked Helper 2, you can use the method shown in the first article, otherwise you need to upload them as shown in the second article:
- How to upload profiles' data from Linked Helper CSV file
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Now change the profiles' group ID as it is shown in the last step of the instruction above.

3. Review profiles and action settings.

You can check the collected contacts in the Queue list. There you can exclude some contacts if you for some reason do not want to send a message them - How to exclude contacts from a campaign in LH 2?

Add your message in the Message tab.

Use {firstname}, {lastname}, etc variables. They will be replaced by the real recipient's first name & last name, etc. And click Save and Close button to save your message.

Preview the message for each contact in the Queue by clicking the button:

You can also choose the typing method for your message. Linked Helper 2 offers three options for that. Random method - Linked Helper 2 will choose the input method itself; Insert - your message will be pasted into the text field; Type - your message will be typed as you'd type it manually yourself using the keyboard.