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What plug-ins are

In Linked Helper, most of the features are implemented in a form of plug-ins - small components that add a specific feature to the tool.

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Plug-ins can be easily installed and uninstalled at any time, which makes the program highly customizable tool for marketers, sellers, recruiters, etc. Once a plug-in is enabled, it becomes available for any LinkedIn account instance added to the Linked Helper account.

There are two main plug-in types - Action plug-ins and extension plug-ins. The former add a functionality that can be implemented in the Workflow, for example, Organizations extractor Action that extracts available information about companies in LinkedIn. They are enabled by default. The latter extends functionality of other existing feature or function, for example, Postpone action start plug-in enables feature that allows to postpone any Action to let other Actions run.

 

Plug-ins overview

For your convenience, we grouped all plug-ins in five groups.

 

Action plug-ins

Every campaign has its own workflow which is basically a sequence of Actions that you set up for your profiles to be processed in one after another.

To see a list of all available Actions, navigate to the Plug-in Store menu:

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All of them, except for Organizations extractor, are enabled by default and available from the campaign's Workflow tab when plus sign button is pressed:

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Currently, Linked Helper has 22 actions that can be combined in different ways in one workflow. Organizations extractor, Employees extractor, and Send organization to webhook are available in a separate campaign type only.

Since profiles are moved through the workflow from the top to the bottom, and some actions are not able to process 1st-degree connections and vice versa. Actions are grouped by different criteria, including the level of connection they can process:

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Here are three general rules you need to follow when creating a workflow:

  1. In order to set a delay between messaging Actions and detect replies during that time, for example, a week delay between follow-ups, you need to use Check for replies, and Delay between actions in other cases.
  2. Actions that work only with 2nd or 3rd-degree connections must not be added below actions that work with 1st connections only (unless you want to remove your 1st-degree connections), otherwise, you may end up having many profiles in the "Failed" list because you didn't set the workflow correctly.
  3. Actions that work only with 1st-degree connections must not be added below Actions that work with 2nd or 3rd-degree connections unless there are Invite 2nd and 3rd level contacts and Filter contacts out of my network (keep 1st level only) Actions between them. Otherwise, you may end up having many profiles in the "Failed" list because you didn't invite profiles and they have not become your 1st-degree connections at the moment of processing by Actions that work only with 1st-degree connections.

Below is the list of all available Actions:

  1. Invite 2nd and 3rd level contacts - with the help of this Action, you can send an invitation (either with a message or without it) to your 2nd and 3d level contacts to join your network.
  2. Message to 1st connections - this action sends messages to your 1st-degree connections. It can detect replies to the messages sent via the same campaign or skip those profiles whom you already sent any message.
  3. Visit and extract profiles - visits LinkedIn profiles in order to extract available information from their pages. It is possible to get emails and phone numbers of your 1st-degree connections. For getting emails of your 2nd and 3rd-degree connections check this article.
  4. Find Profile Emails allows you to find emails of your 2nd/3rd connections using LH Email finder or Snov.io integration.
  5. Follow / unfollow profiles - following someone on LinkedIn allows you to see the person's posts and articles on your homepage without being connected to them: Similarities and Differences Between Following and Connecting - LinkedIn. Another positive effect is that the person you started to follow will receive a notification about that.
  6. Like and comment posts and articles - Linked Helper can like the first X posts and / or articles from the profile's recent activity page.
  7. Boost post - mention persons in comments under the post or article using LinkedIn tags option.
  8. Message to group members - this action sends messages to a members of the same group . It can detect replies to the messages sent via the same campaign or skip those profiles whom you already sent any message.
  9. Message to event attendees - allows you to send messages to LinkedIn event attendees (check how to collect event attendees here) even if they are your 2nd or 3rd-degree connections.
  10. Send person to webhook - sends data from a Linked Helper campaign workflow to any 3rd party app that supports incoming webhook.
  11. Send person to Snov.io campaign - sends profiles into snov.io service which allows you to send follow-ups to your leads via emails.
  12. InMail to 2nd & 3rd contacts - sends LinkedIn InMails to 2nd or 3rd level profiles. InMail allows you to directly message another LinkedIn member that you're not connected to. If you have a Basic (free) account, you can only directly message LinkedIn members that you’re connected to. You must upgrade to a Premium account to use InMails.
  13. Scrape messaging history opens messaging threads of profiles in Queue and saves messaging history into Linked Helper.
  14. Filter contacts out of my network (keep 1st level only) - filters those profiles who accepted your invitations from those who did not, or simply get 1st-degree connections out of a LinkedIn profiles URLs list.
  15. Check for replies - monitors replies to the messages sent via the previous Action of the campaign. If no reply from the profile is found within the indicated time period, then the profile is moved to the next Action in the Workflow.
  16. Invite to follow organization - invites your 1st-degree connections to follow your Company page, provided that you are a LinkedIn Page admin. Note: every Page is granted monthly invitation credits which are shared across all Admins of the Page - Invitation Limits for Your LinkedIn Page
  17. Invite person to event - invites your 1st-degree connections via native LinkedIn functionality to attend a LinkedIn event.
  18. Invite to group - invites your 1st-degree connections to join a group you are a member or manager/admin of.
  19. Endorse my contacts - sends endorsements to any of your 1st-degree connection profiles. Another positive effect is that the person you started to follow will receive a notification about that and between 10% to 30% on your contact list will endorse you in return.
  20. Remove from 1st connections - deletes your 1st connections out of your network, so they become your 2nd or 3rd-degree profiles. It could be that you wish to keep only relevant connections from your current field of work, maybe the 30 000 1st-degree connections limit is reached (Network Size Limit)
  21. Delay between actions - checks when a profile was added to its Queue and moves it forward after a set amount of time. The timer works for each profile individually, so profiles will be released to the next queue, not in batches, but one by one.
  22. Organizations extractor - scrapes the information from schools, companies, showcase pages. This action also can help you to get emails of your 2nd or 3rd connections. You can find more info in this article. Unlike any other Action, it is not available in the workflow of a general Campaign. Organizations extractor can only be used in a separate campaign created from a list of templates.
  23. Employees extractor - convert companies into their employees by visiting hundreds of company pages one by one and collecting profiles from the ‘People’ tabs.
  24. Send person to external CRM - - sends data from a Linked Helper campaign workflow to a 3rd-party CRM Linked Helper has integration with.
  25. Send organization to webhook - this action allows sending data from a Linked Helper organization scraping campaign to any 3rd party app that supports incoming webhook. 

 

Action extension

  1. Postpone action start - postpone Action to let other Actions run.
  2. Action steps delays - change timeouts to process profiles slower and be on the safe side.
  3. Override platform - choose where to process profiles: regular LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, or Recruiter.
  4. Advanced settings for Check for replies - mark those who accepted your InMail or a message request sent via group/event as replied or send them a follow-up message.
  5. Advanced settings for Invite 2nd and 3rd level contacts - submit profile's email address in case LinkedIn asks for it in order to send your invitation.
  6. Auto accept incoming invites for Filter contacts out of my network (keep 1st level only) - automatically accept all invitations that were sent to you by profiles in the campaign.
  7. Automatic sent invites canceller for Filter contacts out of my network (keep 1st level only) - withdraw sent pending invites that have not been accepted for 30 days to avoid issues with LinkedIn.
  8. Advanced settings for Filter contacts out of my network (keep 1st level only) - applicable in rare cases described in the article.
  9. Action working hours plug-in - set custom working hours within the global schedule for every action.

 

Message action extension

  1. Conditional IF-THEN-ELSE operator for Message template editor - add conditional IF clauses to modify message content depending on the absence/presence of variable content or for different sets of variables.
  2. Custom template variables - extend message template editor with user-defined variables, for example {cs_my_tracking_url} or {cs_translated_firstname}.
  3. Attach personalized images -send not only personalized text messages, but personalized images as well.
  4. Filter by message content - prevent message sending in the event that a certain phrase or phrases that match a regular expression were found in one of the previous messages.
  5. Send replied to Webhook - send those who replied to any other external CRM.
  6. Ignore generic replies plug-in - allows you to send an automated messages to profiles even if they replied.

 

CRM

  1. Tagging system - automatically tag successfully processed profiles to filter and group them when needed.
  2. Inbox - keep all conversations from Linked Helper campaigns saved in one place. 
  3. Built-in CRM - manage contacts from all your campaigns in one place.

 

Campaigns

  1. Campaign Information - adds the “Information” tab with the campaign’s description and other metadata you can refer to in the future.
  2. Exclude list - stop Linked Helper from collecting or processing profiles excluded from a campaign or added to its Exclude list.
  3. Organizations extractor - scrapes the information from schools, companies, showcase pages. This action also can help you to get emails of your 2nd or 3rd connections. You can find more info in this article. Unlike any other Action, it is not available in the workflow of a general Campaign. Organizations extractor can only be used in a separate campaign created from a list of templates.
  4. Multi-campaigns runner - enables managing and running multiple campaigns active at the same time.

 

Other

You can find these in the Functions menu on the left side of the instance window.

  1. Sent invites canceller - automatically withdraws pending invites sent before specified data. 
  2. Accept incoming invitations -  allows you to automatically accept incoming invitations.
  3. List manager - allows you to manage groups of leads at the campaign and action levels by removing intersections, merging, or excluding lists in different campaigns.

 

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