Import LinkedIn suggestions on a schedule
LinkedIn keeps suggesting people you may know, based on your network. Swimlane can collect these suggestions into a list automatically.
Steps
- Open Lists and click New Import.
- Open the Recurring Imports tab and choose Auto Suggested Contacts.
- Click Start Recurring Import.
Swimlane creates a list called "Suggested Contacts". The first run starts as soon as your virtual office hours allow.
How it behaves
- Each run reads the suggestions LinkedIn shows you on its invitations page, one page at a time, and adds those people to the list.
- Runs happen every 12 to 24 hours. The interval is drawn at random each time: a fixed rhythm is a typical sign of automation, and LinkedIn renews its suggestions slowly anyway, so checking more often would bring little.
- Runs only take place during your virtual office hours. When an interval ends outside them, the run waits for the next opening.
- People already in the list or in your contacts are not duplicated. An existing contact is simply added to this list.
- The connection degree is saved on the contact when LinkedIn shows it.
- New contacts count towards Daily imports. When the allowance is used up, the list shows Paused (limit) and the run tries again an hour later.
What it does not do
- There is no review screen and no filter: everyone LinkedIn suggests goes into the list, relevant or not.
- It doesn't send connection requests or messages. People are only added to your contacts.
- It can't be run once on demand: this source only exists as a recurring import.
Make the most of it
- Treat the list as raw material. When you use it as the source of a campaign, switch on ICP match in the Audience step and choose High match or better, so only good fits are enrolled (see How ICP fit works).
- Select promising contacts and use Enrich with LinkedIn. It adds the job title and About section that ICP matching reads, and confirms the connection degree, without which a Connection Request step skips the contact.
- Every week or so, open the list and archive the people you'll never contact. Archived contacts never enter a campaign.
- To pause or stop the import, see Pause, resume or delete a recurring import.
