{"id":15582,"date":"2023-07-17T05:39:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T12:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/?p=15582"},"modified":"2025-03-21T01:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:09:42","slug":"linkedin-prospecting-tips-and-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/linkedin-prospecting-tips-and-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"LI Prospecting Tip: How to Turn an Anomaly into your Strategic Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LI industry search can give 25%+ missing or wrong leads if 2 searches are not done. LI assigns 2 industries to every person (Lead &amp; Acct) &#8211; users are not aware. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on to learn more about one of those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/leadgrabberpro\/linkedin-prospecting.html\">LinkedIn prospecting<\/a> tips and tricks that you too can take advantage of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\" style=\"border-right: 5px solid #455A64;\"><p style=\"font-style: normal; text-align: center;\"><strong>Fastest Way to Generate Potential Sales Leads on LinkedIn!<\/p><p style=\"font-style: normal; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/leadgrabberpro\/trial.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Try for Free<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"find-prospects-that-competitors-miss-out\"><\/span><strong>Find Prospects that Competitors Miss Out<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Savvy marketers leverage this anomaly as a strategic advantage to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/build-b2b-prospecting-lists\/\">find prospects<\/a><\/strong> competitors miss out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example<\/strong><br><strong>Q:<\/strong> How would you tag Bob VP technology if he is working for a healthcare company. Tag as tech industry or health care industry?<br><strong>A:<\/strong> Both would be right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out, Bob might show up in neither and only show up under sales industry!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"how-li-industry-search-works\"><\/span><strong>How Li Industry Search Works<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What LI does, prompts you to assign industry when you create a profile and it calls your first job as lead industry until you change. Most execs, don\u2019t change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people set the IND when they create a profile out of college based on the first job and forget about changing this. So if Bob\u2019s first job was a sales intern, he would assign his lead industry to sales. And that\u2019s how it shows years later if not managed by him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless Bob actively manages to change his personal industry, even if he becomes VP of technology, he can only be found In sales industry based on his first job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is how we get around finding Bob in healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucky for Bob (and us), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> changes Bob\u2019s Acct industry based on company he is working. Even though personal industry is not changed and is messed up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"solution-%e2%80%93-how-to-fix\"><\/span><strong>Solution<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>How to Fix<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Search for Bob\u2019s company first under Accounts tab and he will show up in healthcare industry as VP of Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then use leads tab to search within account results using level or technology. Use industry in leads sparingly knowing it could be wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This entire search process based on industry in LinkedIn is tricky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One clearly needs to avoid industry when building cold lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or be smart about how to search via Leads tab and Accounts tab<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"egrabber-solutions-offer-competitive-advantage\"><\/span><strong>eGrabber Solutions offer Competitive Advantage<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>eGrabber helps customers treat this anomaly in industry as a source of strength. We have built iterative features in eGrabber solutions to take advantage of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LeadGrabber has built-in features to build lists by Account Industry and then get a tight list with Lead Industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No product in the industry does what LeadGrabber does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ZoomInfo can\u2019t get such lists either, they don\u2019t have info that LinkedIn has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These lists are more accurate and close 5x faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/leadgrabberpro\/trial.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download LeadGrabber Pro<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LI industry search can give 25%+ missing or wrong leads if 2 searches are not done. LI assigns 2 industries to every person (Lead &amp; Acct) &#8211; users are not aware. Read on to learn more about one of those LinkedIn prospecting tips and tricks that you too can take advantage of. Fastest Way to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/linkedin-prospecting-tips-and-tricks\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LI Prospecting Tip: How to Turn an Anomaly into your Strategic Advantage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":16016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sales-prospecting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/linkedin-prospecting-how-to-turn-an-anomaly-into-your-strategic-advantage.webp?fit=1038%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15582"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18742,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15582\/revisions\/18742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egrabber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}