USE CASE:
Getting audience size right for professional services on LinkedIn
Here is how audience size for professional services on LinkedIn actually gets done, what it costs each way, and where each way stops working. Mamba Labs writes Apify actors for work like this, and Domain to LinkedIn URL Resolver is the one that reads professional services on LinkedIn.
Where this starts
On LinkedIn, professional services looks like the easy case and is not. Start from this for professional services on LinkedIn: LinkedIn is the only network where the follower count and the buying committee overlap, and audience size follows. Worth knowing about professional services on LinkedIn, since audience size inherits it: employee counts on a company page include alumni and contractors and run high. Domain to LinkedIn URL Resolver carries 3 ready made setups for audience size on professional services on LinkedIn.
Why anyone bothers
A follower count for professional services on LinkedIn is the easiest number to get and the easiest to misread.
Traditional Search Tools
- Sales Navigator, for professional services on LinkedIn. The best filters available on this data, and it charges per seat for them.
- The platform APIs. Official, accurate and gated. Most now require an app review to read a public follower count, which is weeks of work for one number.
- Social listening suites. Brandwatch, Sprout and the rest do this among many other things. Priced for a brand team, not for a qualification step in a sales list.
- SimilarWeb or a traffic estimator. A different proxy for the same question. Better for whether anyone visits, worse for whether anyone follows.
- Open the profiles. Find the accounts, read the numbers, write them down. Two minutes per brand per network, and completely accurate on the day you do it.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
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- Domain to LinkedIn URL Resolver2 preconfigured tasks on this page's job.
- LinkedIn Company Page Mapper1 preconfigured task on this page's job.
Preconfigured tasks
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