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LinkedIn 'Find People' Search Limited to 80/300 Results - How to Find More Contacts

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Hi everyone, when searching for Company founders, owners etc. via LinkedIn 'Find People' Search, I'm only getting about 80/300 people - is that normal? If so, is there a way to find more people?

  • Avatar of Will D.
    Will D.
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    In this example, it's only found 3 people out of 50 companies.

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    Will D.
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    2 of which are of the same company

  • Avatar of Amit S.
    Amit S.
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    Try after removing the Seniority tags.

  • Avatar of Will D.
    Will D.
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    I'm now getting 8 results, which out of 50, is still not very many compared to what I've seen

  • Avatar of Amit S.
    Amit S.
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    Have you added any limits on the number of results by mistake?

  • Avatar of Will D.
    Will D.
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    no

  • Avatar of Amit S.
    Amit S.
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    I would add more keywords for titles, and also remove the hyphen from co-founder. If these are studios or agencies, try adding owner, director, partner, etc. (whatever's relevant). If you manually check for 5 companies, you will get a sense of the titles being used.

  • Avatar of Will D.
    Will D.
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    12 results from 50 companies - only changed country to uk

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    Will D.
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    whats the typical number out of 50? I tried with no filters, and I counted less people with 'owner' status appear, so im assuming leaving no filters, still doesn't bring up all results

  • Avatar of Amit S.
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    I would say at least 1.5x.

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    Also depends on how mature the company is and the size of the company (employees).

  • Avatar of Will D.
    Will D.
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    so there shld be 1.5x results with no filters, or with owner or similar filter?

  • Avatar of Amit S.
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    There should be 1.5 founders (some single-owner, some multiple-owner). So that's my guess.

  • Avatar of Clay T.
    Clay T.
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    Hey!! Just got to this, checking it out. There are some tradeoffs for the searches, like private profiles not being found but will test it out too

  • Avatar of Clay T.
    Clay T.
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    Will D., Could you share the link to your table?

  • Avatar of Will D.
    Will D.
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    Thanks - here's one I currently have, that barely gets any results https://app.clay.com/workspaces/227204/tables/t_eTCyhNafKPTu/views/gv_WPdgw0JZ5WMs

  • Avatar of Will D.
    Will D.
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    The others also get very minimal results, but I've been testing this the most

  • Avatar of Clay T.
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    But yes, Amit's insights are also very spot on, some people may not even have LinkedIn profiles or these titles at all because they don't use it that much (depending if it's mostly SMBs or just on the smaller side)

  • Avatar of Clay T.
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    Just ran a test without adding titles and got 186 results but yes, they vary quite a bit as expected

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  • Avatar of Will D.
    Will D.
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    good to know, I also managed to get 186 without filters

  • Avatar of Clay T.
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    How our data providers determine if they can pull the profile (publicly visible) or not is without being logged into LinkedIn because they don't have access to an active session or cookies to comply with LinkedIn's potential restrictions.I'll check if that profile is visible in incognito mode

  • Avatar of Clay T.
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    Yep, looks like it's not publicly visible in this case

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  • Avatar of Will D.
    Will D.
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    Ok, thanks for confirming. Appreciate the assistance Arturo 🙂

  • Avatar of Clay T.
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    The advantage of this is that you don't have to worry about being blocked by LinkedIn. Then you can make decisions about how to approach your workflows... Some people still prefer scraping linkedin directly, with tools like Phantombuster or our extension (which will be updated very soon), to then further enrich in Clay.