However, even with the limitations of the free membership, LinkedIn is still the best place for most professionals, B2B businesses and salespeople to a find and connect with their ideal clients, b post regular status updates and LinkedIn Publisher posts and c engage in numerous ways with their connections. The very premise of LinkedIn is that it is an active social platform for businesses. Its membership far exceeds half a billion members worldwide at the time of writing.
The power of the platform is that even with the free membership you can quickly and easily find and connect with professionals and business people all over the world.
These are the current plans in USD at the time of writing when paid monthly less when paid annually :. It compares the following membership plans: Free vs. Premium Career vs. Premium Business vs. Sales Navigator vs. Recruiter Lite to make it easy for you to choose the best plan for you. Along with the membership level comparison chart, we will also send you four cheat sheets that will help you make the most of any LinkedIn premium plan.
You can start with a free day trial. Here is a list of tools and features you can access with your LinkedIn Premium Business subscription to help you decide if Premium Business is right for you:.
This section lists all the people who have viewed your profile over the last 90 days you can see only the last five people with a free account. LinkedIn provides you with a couple of basic filters below the top graph, showing you which companies your viewers are from, the most common job title of the viewers and how they found your profile. It also provides a filter called Interesting views , which is a great filter to check out if you have a premium membership and get a lot of profile views.
See who has been viewing your LinkedIn profile here. This is only possible with a premium subscription. You are given a certain number of InMails every month based on your subscription level with an opportunity to purchase more. Learn more about InMails here. This means you will not lose access to search results partway through the month, which would negatively affect your lead generation searches.
LinkedIn offers a free day trial of Sales Navigator. With Sales Navigator Professional, you will get all the benefits of Premium Business plus many additional features. Next, I talk about the additional features, their benefits and how you can use them for lead generation.
Hopefully, this outline of premium options gives you some new insights on tools you might be missing. Creative Restaurant Marketing Ideas. Subscribe to my Blog on Business Trends Search for:. Back To Top. Basic search capabilities for people and jobs. Three saved searches that can be used to create weekly email alerts. Ability to provide and request recommendations from other members.
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The Bottom Line. For the money, the Premium Career account offers several additional features over the basic account, including free InMails, profile views, more intel on the job and job applicants, and featured applicant status. Some recruiters feel that having a premium status indicates that an applicant is more serious and professional about landing a job. LinkedIn Basic vs. Premium Basic vs.
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