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LinkedIn Premium Business

Score8.7 out of 10

71 Reviews and Ratings

What is LinkedIn Premium Business?

LinkedIn Premium Career is a subscription tool for businesses own their company profile on LinkedIn. Offered directly from LinkedIn, this tool included insights about company pages like competitor data, industry news, and analytics, a look into who has visited the company's profile, and the same LinkedIn Learning courses available in LinkedIn Premium Career. LinkedIn Business Premium includes AI power that assists in writing and provides advice and takeaways.

Categories & Use Cases

LinkedIn Premium can be a good solution if you know how to use it

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used it to find more industry connections, share industry news, and to create new prospects and leads. Since people change positions and companies, they usually update their LinkedIn account, so we hope to get more accurate contacts for our campaigns.

Pros

  • Good at finding people and contacts within certain company profiles
  • Nice to see the profile with updated job history to validate the contact
  • Easy to find other contacts within the same organization

Cons

  • limited search capabilities, credits, and restrictions and connections
  • difficult to filter some contacts by desired categories depending on payment tier. Can be expensive.
  • it takes time to build brand credibility and get access to certain types of connections
  • Not easy to search for contacts and download a list for prospecting. Limited to connections list.

Return on Investment

  • found good connections and contacts for companies in our industry
  • not the best system for navigating around, still more for career finding than business prospecting compared to the competition
  • the ROI is there for a short term, but not a long-term solution for us due to the cost and some limitations compared to the competition offering like a Hoovers, Zoominfo, etc.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

D&B Hoovers, ZoomInfo Marketing and GetProspect

Other Software Used

D&B Hoovers, ZoomInfo Marketing, GetProspect

LinkedIn Premium Business, sales to the max

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use LinkedIn Premium Business in my organization as the main account for marketing on social media. All posts we send out go through my personal account with a copy to my colleagues account and our company page.

Pros

  • Better search results through more filteroptions
  • More clickable pages
  • More inmail and contact possibillities

Cons

  • More open video presentations from products
  • Integration of more crm systems like Brevo, Nimble crm and tools like Retool
  • A better way to show your own posts, articles and content and see reports, vistitors and likes on one page
  • As for the above, more detailed reports
  • More guided ways to be a better poster, content creator

Return on Investment

  • Easier to find new customers
  • See earlier if customers and contacts change jobs
  • Find out more about other companies
  • Find out about possible new contacts

Usability

Alternatives Considered

LinkedIn Sales Navigator, LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com)

Other Software Used

Brevo, Retool, Jira Software

A must-have for Sales Professionals

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use LinkedIn sales navigator on a daily basis to increase my network. It is an extremely useful tool to find quality leads, as you can enter specific search parameters to hone in on decision-makers. I love the fact that you can search using specific keywords, therefore increasing the probability that the connection will be the person you need to speak to.

Pros

  • quality connections
  • ease of search
  • narrows possible connections based on the parameters that you choose

Cons

  • increase the number of connections allowed per week
  • allow more in-mails per month
  • increase number of requests that may be sent

Most Important Features

  • suggested connections based on past searches
  • price is reasonable

Return on Investment

  • increased sales by connecting me to the right people
  • increase in amount of real connections that are decision makers
  • suggests connections based on past searches

Alternatives Considered

HubSpot CRM

Other Software Used

Facebook Live, Meta for Business (formerly Facebook for Business), HubSpot CRM

LinkedIn Premium is Worth It!

Pros

  • Easy to search with the filters
  • Professional forum
  • Good content

Cons

  • Could use more in mails
  • Pricing is a little high
  • Give you the opportunity to follow up with people you sent in mails to if they did not respond the first time

Most Important Features

  • Access to talent
  • Ability and ease to connect with people
  • Messaging capability

Return on Investment

  • I have made many hires from my LinkedIn connections
  • I have received a lot of referrals
  • ROI is great for hiring qualified professionals

Alternatives Considered

XING Events, ZipRecruiter, Monster.com, Indeed.com and CareerBuilder.com

Other Software Used

ZipRecruiter, XING Events, Monster.com

LinkedIn Premium ROI

Pros

  • Great search capabilities
  • Trainings to sharpen skills
  • Business insight

Cons

  • Incorporate a local lead service for different industries
  • Have more clarity on those who viewed your profile

Most Important Features

  • Connections
  • Active Content Feed
  • Links to websites

Return on Investment

  • New Customers
  • New Projects
  • Tremendous Advertising Machine

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Microsoft Dynamics 365 (formerly Microsoft Dynamics CRM), Microsoft Teams