2. Find Valuable Accounts With Keywords

LinkedIn already suggests you accounts during the setup process in the beginning, yet you can find new again. To do so, just click on the search box and hover over the Search for Account option.

You can even filter your search results using keywords or other factors like industry, headcount growth, geography, department size, department type, and more. For saving a new account:

Click on Save Account in the search or you can click on Save as Account option in the account itself.

3. Use Advanced Filters to Identify Your Ideal Customers

LinkedIn says that your chances of cracking the first meeting with a client/target are up to 5 times higher when there’s a mutual personal connection between you two. I recommend using the TeamLink Connection filter for this purpose as it really helps in searching the prospects matching your criteria and additionally shares a connection with you.

The filter further taps the other members’ networks in your sales team as well as your first-degree connection. Awesome isn’t it!

4. Save Your Search

There’s a TeamLink Search option available on the window that lets you save the information regarding a prospect that is not your connection at present. Just enter all the details in the search parameters apply the TeamLink Filter AND click on the ‘Save Search” option. You’re done!

LinkedIn has kept the option to let it send you emails of your leads in the new Sales Navigator as well. I really suggest you use this oft-forgotten feature to receive automated emails on the daily or weekly basis by the service itself.

NOTE: There are many other filters available and you can check all of them to know what they do. It’s just that TeamLink filter did the best for me so it’s my personal favorite.

5. Using Salesforce in Your Sales Team.

Salesforce is a great tool to give your efforts a level up. Apart from Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce is another authorized CRM integration within Sales Navigator. Even if you are not Einstein of marketing, your sales team can use it into its active leads and potential sales leads. When both the CRMs are used along with the tool, your sales experts are able to better manage daily calls with the help of an instant view of your prospect’s present activities.

These activities include job changes, content sharing, affiliations, backgrounds, etc. all this information can be quite useful for your sales team in monitoring their strategies.

6. Import Your Leads to Sales Navigator

This part is comparatively easier as you just need to play with the Sales Solution section of the tool here. LinkedIn will show you the setup process when you open it for the first time. It’s really easy to get started with this friends,

Import the leads and targeted companies or accounts to this section.

Synchronize the information with Salesforce (remember I told you to use it above, this is why!).

Now choose the parameters like job functions and territories according to the purpose.

Now from this info that you input into Sales Solution, LinkedIn will provide you recommended accounts to review and save for later.

One thing I loved about Sales Navigator is that it serves as a great tool for both account-based marketing as well as individual efforts. Importing connections to LinkedIn has become so easy and hassle free with Sales Navigator compared to the early methods which required you to first export your contacts and then re-import them.

7. Finding Prospects Who Share Content Recently

On the Saved Leads page, you will see three tabs one of which is “Posted on LinkedIn in Past 30 Days.” Using the filter, you can shortlist the prospects who recently posted something on the platform. When doing so, I’d said you stay and spend some time checking out their posts to use it as insights for making personalized messages and engage with the content they posted.

8. Don’t Forget to Comment

You believe it or not but comments are of great importance when building engagement with your prospects and the best way is to SHOW them you care. Start increasing value and establishing the connection with your buyers by commenting and reacting on content they share or post.

The entire mystery of adding value in Sales Navigator is through comments. As soon as a lead shares or posts something new, it will be shown in the Sales Rep’s Homepage and an email in the rep. That’s the best chance to start a conversation with the buyer.

But not all reps are productive so here’s my trick –

Be strategic and don’t rely only on well written post for adding value. Spend time on thoughts and add some quotes or phrases that connect to them, their business, vision, etc or something which they will tend to reply with a follow-up query!

Bonus: By using the ‘@’ for tagging a prospect in your comment, you draw the full attention to your activity.

AND finally, InMail!

9. Send InMails to Common LinkedIn Group Members (For FREE!)

InMails play a great role in reaching out to your potential leads by sending them personalized messages. The tool gives you an opportunity to send up to 15 messages every month (free of cost…which I loved the most :D). With the free alternative on your side, you don’t need to rely on those paid InMails that share a common LinkedIn Group with you.

As said above, use the search filters, keywords, and advanced filters to find the suitable clients/companies/partners. You need to pay a little attention here in choosing only the second and third-degree connections. Once selected, now click on any of the shortlisted prospects to review their profile. If there’s any mutual group you two share, it will be highlighted at the top of their profile.

If any, go to the share group on the top-right of their profile page, there will be a link showing the group members total. Just click on it.

A Members page will open, you can search them by their name in the search box to highlight them in the results. From here, click on the MESSAGE icon to send them a direct message.

REMINDER: The tool offers only 15 free messages, which can be used collectively every month in all groups. Also, the messages not sent will not be carried forward to the next month, so USE them as required accordingly. The messages sent counts the ones sent directly from your group as well as your first-degree connections.