Do I need paid LinkedIn subscription to use your service? What advantages can I get with a paid LinkedIn subscription?

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• Do I need a paid LinkedIn subscription to use your service?
• Does Sales Navigator help me automate things on LinkedIn?
• What advantages can I get with a paid LinkedIn subscription?

Do I need paid LinkedIn subscription to use your service?

Not at all, Linked Helper works with free LinkedIn accounts as well, but you should know that the Basic (free) LinkedIn subscription has a limited amount of:

1. Search requests per 30 days.
   LinkedIn Commercial Use Limit. Some of our users do not overuse collecting from the search page, so for them, a free LinkedIn account is enough:When you reach “commercial use limit” you have two options:
   • Buy a LinkedIn paid subscription: LinkedIn Free Accounts and Premium Subscriptions. Please, note that Career and Premium Essentials plans still include the commercial use limit. LinkedIn: Commercial Use Limit
   • Wait until next month.
     
     Not all features or functions require the search page. For example, Linked Helper can collect contacts from:
     • My Connections page.
     • Group members pages.
     • Alumni pages.
     • Sent invites canceller function doesn’t use the search page at all.
2. Personalized connection requests.
   Recently, they started limiting the number of personalized text invitations per month for a significant part of their users:
   
   If your LinkedIn account was affected, the only solution to continue sending personalized invitations is to buy a LinkedIn Premium subscription. 
   

   Here are several workarounds available from the Linked Helper side:

   • You can send invitations without a text message to be able to use all 150 - 250 weekly invites LinkedIn provides you with. For that, you need to delete the invitation note completely. In some cases, this change may lead to an increased acceptance rate since an invite without a note looks intriguing, and people see that you're not trying to sell something.
   • You can clone your inviting campaign and delete the invitation note there. Then, using the Action working hours plug-in, schedule personalized inviting action in the original campaign active on Monday, for example, and the inviting action without a note in the cloned campaign to be active from Tuesday to Sunday.
   • You can send free InMails to open link profiles:
     • How to send free InMails to Open profiles.
   • You can send messages to your 2nd and 3rd-degree connections via groups or events (the number of such messages might be limited by LinkedIn as well):
     • How to message LinkedIn group members ('Message sequence via group' template)
     • How to filter profiles via Sales Navigator and send them free messages as group members?
     • How to send a message to event attendees even if they are your 2nd or 3rd-degree connections

Does Sales Navigator help me automate things on LinkedIn?

Neither Sales Navigator nor any other paid LinkedIn subscription automates your daily routine activities as Linked Helper does.

With a paid LinkedIn subscription, it won't be possible to automatically send invitations to targeted leads, and follow-ups to those who accepted your invitation, like their posts or articles, endorse skills, etc., everything has to be done manually.

With Linked Helper, you don't need to spend your time on such routine work as the tool will be doing this like a real human being.

What advantages can I get with a paid LinkedIn subscription?

LinkedIn has several types of paid subscriptions, each of them is dedicated to a certain use case, for example, Premium Career is for job seekers, Sales Navigator for sales agents, Recruiter Lite for talent acquisition managers, and Premium Business for professionals who want to get more out of LinkedIn. Click to learn more: LinkedIn Free Accounts and Premium Subscriptions.

LinkedIn Career and Premium Essentials won't give you any advantages as it was already mentioned, they do not lift the LinkedIn Commercial Use Limit. What you get is only a couple of free InMails (3 and 5 for Career and Premium Essentials respectively) and some features like the ability to see who viewed your profile or extended access to salary insights, which is not much of a help for developing your LinkedIn profile or finding new leads to expand in the market.

Linked Helper works with paid LinkedIn subscriptions as well as with the Basic (free) one, hence you need to decide what LinkedIn subscription fits your business goal and whether provided features are worth paying for as the prices are not cheap.

Let me help you using some examples.

1. Sales Navigator