At Linked Helper, we strive to provide our users with the best experience possible. We constantly tweak and improve our software, and with the most recent update, we are ready to announce another powerful LinkedIn automation solution — integration of Snov.io services into Linked Helper directly.
Some of you, email marketing specialists especially, may be already familiar with Snov.io services to a certain extent. In a nutshell, Snov.io is a powerful toolbox for all your email marketing needs. Be it lead generation, email verification, competitor research, blogger outreach, or customer re-engagement. Unfortunately, as of today, Snov.io was removed from the Chrome Web Store, but don’t worry, with our recent collaboration, you can get twice the competitive advantage. Try it for yourself now!
You know that using the ‘Visit & Extract profiles’ action in Linked Helper, allows you to scrape and extract information about your 1st network connections, including their phone number and email if they are provided on their page. However, and this is quite unfortunate, no automation tool on the market today allows you to get same data for your 2nd and 3rd-degree connections, unlike Linked Helper. What is the point of extracting information about your 1st connection network using software, if you can simply ask them directly? Additionally, you are more likely to strengthen your competitive advantage by increasing sales and conversions if you obtain such valuable data as emails of your 2nd and 3rd-degree connections. We are proud to announce that with our recent update you can do that in 3 simple steps and in less than 10 minutes! LET’S DO THIS THING!
- Create and adjust your extracting campaign.
This is pretty straight-forward and if you already used Linked Helper in the past, you know what to do.
First, go to the campaigns menu section on the left, and click ‘Create new…’.
Now, in the pop-up window, you have a number of basic campaign options, such as (1) campaign name, (2) campaign type — in our case choose ‘People’, (3) template — go for ‘Visit & Extract profiles’, and click (4) create.
Now you have a campaign with a workflow of one action, but in case you wish to make it more complex, you can always add some additional actions.
2. Gather profiles into your campaign.
Now that you have your campaign set up, you need to establish a group of people, from whom you will be extracting information. In the queue section, click ‘add’.
Now you will see a number of sources, from where you can start collecting contacts. Here you have the freedom to experiment and collect contacts from various sections of your LinkedIn account, be that your whole network, list of people who viewed your profile, or you can always add profile URLs manually.
Once profiles were gathered, you can review them if needed, and remove some of which you won’t need, or add some more from another source.
3. Enable the ‘Extract emails from Snov.io’ option.
Once your company is up and running, and you are satisfied with a list of contacts from whom you will be gathering data, you are set for the most interesting part.
Click on the ‘Advanced settings’ tab and choose ‘Yes’ in the ‘Extract emails from Snov.io for contacts out of my network’ section.
As you can already see, you need Snov.io API credentials to proceed. Don’t be scared, all you need here is a Snov.io account, which is completely free to create. Once created, or already logged in to your account, on the website, in the settings menu, navigate to the API section which can be found on the following link: Snov.io API. You should see the following page.
4. Run the campaign and download results.
To start the campaign press on one out of two ‘Start’ buttons.
Once the campaign is started, you see that campaign status has changed and in the LinkedIn menu on the left, Linked Helper shows you when the next step will be performed, as well as what that step is and what profile to be processed. The action that is currently being performed in the campaign will be highlighted with a green frame.
Upon extraction, below the ‘Action’ window, you will see a number of successful extractions, which represent the number of how many profiles were already scarped.
At this point, the hardest part is done. Now you will see how to get your precious emails into a CVS file. Click on the previously mentioned ‘Successful’ button.
Choose ‘Select all’ and then ‘Download’.
Here you have an option to either download it suitable for Google Sheets or MS Excel, simply choose your preferred option in the ‘Choose delimiter’ field and download.
Finally, you can find extracted emails in the ‘third_party_email’ column of your CVS file, or in case you lose it or accidentally delete them, they are stored inside the LinkedHelper CRM directly and can be downloaded again in the future.
We believe there is no need to explain how useful those findings can be, as you already know it for yourself. LinkedIn policies are getting harsher with each day, at it becomes harder to extend your network, not to mention how complicated it is to get the information you need. Please note, that Linked Helper is completely undetectable so you don’t need to worry about getting banned.
We hope you enjoyed this tutorial and stay tuned for more upcoming awesome features!
