LinkedIn Chrome Extensions to boost your work (2023 Update)

When you say “LinkedIn extension” most salespeople think of scraper tools and lead generation. 

Yes, an email tool for LinkedIn will help your prospecting efforts (that’s what we do, after all). But that’s not all that Chrome extensions can do to support your LinkedIn efforts. These 5 LinkedIn extensions will help you power up your social selling and cold email game so you can get the most out of your LinkedIn account. 

Get smarter on LinkedIn to improve your sales efforts

LinkedIn started as a social media tool, but it has evolved into much more over the years. Now, it’s a brand builder, a networking tool, a messaging app, and a powerful prospecting platform. Today, there are 810 million LinkedIn members, providing a huge database of leads that are especially useful for B2B sellers – who say that 80% of their leads come from LinkedIn.

Even though it’s packed with valuable information about your ideal customers, it can be hard to know where to get started. Many of LinkedIn’s best features are completely manual and not designed for outbound prospecting at scale. 

You can get around these limitations, and supercharge your prospecting efforts, by using a LinkedIn Chrome extension. These tools make it easy to find emails, automate processes, and generate leads. Here are our top 5 Chrome extensions to help you get the most out of your LinkedIn Sales Navigator license. 

8 LinkedIn extensions that will uplevel your social selling

1. Wiza
2. Lempod
3. Shield
4. Lavender
5. Crystal
6. AuthoredUp
7. Octopus
8. LinkedRadar

1. Wiza for email prospecting

Wiza turns your LinkedIn Sales Navigator search results into a list of verified email addresses. To do this, Wiza scrapes LinkedIn then verifies that the email address is valid and whether it might bounce. By scrubbing out bad leads, we deliver emails with 99.5% deliverability. 

Wiza helps sales teams prospect at scale by exporting your lead lists from Sales Navigator into a CSV file. You can extract up to 2,500 leads at once and upload the spreadsheet into platforms like Hubspot, Salesforce, Outreach, Salesloft, and others. 

The chrome extension only takes 3 steps to sign up, install, and start using. Pricing is straightforward and you never pay for bad lead quality. 

Wiza is highly reviewed on G2:

“Wiza has saved my organization an enormous amount of time.

From beginning to end, it’s an excellent product. I love how well it embeds with the SalesNavigator search page, email scraping when I’m exporting is just fantastic and saves me so much time. Stephen and the rest of the team are super responsive and will work with you to find a solution.” 

Easily scrape email and phone number contact information

Wiza makes it easier than ever to acquire reliable contact data from LinkedIn profiles. You can quickly retrieve emails and phone numbers for any business you’re interested in with just a few clicks.

Real-time SMTP email verification

With live verification, you don’t have to worry about pulling unusable, dormant email addresses. Wiza will verify if the email address is live and active so you can preserve your domain credibility and focus your time and efforts on prospecting with good info.

Export leads directly to your CRM

You can export your leads directly to Salesforce, Hubspot, Pipedrive, and more. Or you can export all of your lead information to a CSV.

2. Lempod for LinkedIn post outreach 

Lempod helps you reach a much larger audience for your LinkedIn content, increasing your views by 10x. It works by acting as a marketplace of LinkedIn Engagement Pods in which other LInkedIn content creators automatically engage with your content – giving you hundreds of likes and comments. The LinkedIn algorithm picks up on this engagement and boosts your post to an even larger audience. 

If you’ve tried to promote your business through content marketing on LinkedIn, you’ll be familiar with how daunting it is to get even a few hundred views. Lempod makes sure people engage with your post, leading to your post showing up in more LinkedIn feeds.

This LinkedIn Chrome extension is highly rated because it’s easy to install and start using right away to promote your LinkedIn content. Check out this review from Vivart Kapoor: 

“Great tool! I am now looking forward to some great engagement and meeting some like minded experts and digital enthusiasts.”

3. Shield for Analytics 

Shield brings analytics to your LinkedIn prospecting. It’s a marketing tool that helps businesses and users drive meaningful LinkedIn engagement and growth through a data driven approach. Shield works by gathering the statistics that are already attached to your profile but are hidden from view on LinkedIn. It then creates easy to use dashboards to help you decide your next post based on real data.

It’s ideal for social selling and thought leadership because it helps you track how well your content is performing. You can even compare your posts to see which types of content work best for your audience. 

Shield offers a 10 day free trial. After that, you’ll need to sign up for an account which starts at $8/month. 

Kate E rated Shield Analytics as five stars, saying: 

“I love that you can see all the metrics that LinkedIn doesn’t show you. You can see exactly how well your personal account is reaching the right people. And honestly, I don’t know of any competitors. SHIELD is providing a service that I haven’t seen matched by anyone else. 

I honestly think that personal branding and employee advocacy are crucial to every B2B company’s success so every B2B company should include SHIELD in their tech stack. More than anything, though, it’s just lovely to see my progress and be able to provide some success metrics for the work I’m doing on LinkedIn.”

4. Lavender for email insights 

Lavender is an email assistant that uses AI to analyze and help you improve your sales emails. It does this by comparing your email against a database of millions of successful sales emails. While you’re writing, Lavender pops up to alert you to the next best action that will increase your chances of receiving a reply. 

Lavender integrates with LinkedIn to show you helpful lead data that you can use to build rapport with your prospects. It also integrates with tools like Outreach and Salesloft to support larger sales teams. Lavender comes in three tiers including Free, Pro, and Teams. 

Check out reviews like Sterling Frandsen’s: 

“I am loving Lavender! It has helped me refine the way I am writing my emails. Before, it was big paragraphs and lots of big words. Now it’s much simpler and easy to read! I also really like how they are always looking at what other features can be added to make my emails better! I would highly recommend using Lavender! It will take some getting used to for sure, but well worth it in the end!”

5. Crystal for personality guidance

You may have heard about DISC-based personality assessments. DISC is a behavioral framework that companies can use to improve communication between different personality types. Crystal takes this approach to the next level and helps you understand who your prospects are and what they need to hear from you. 

When applied to sales, Crystal can actually predict your prospect’s personality, which gives you a better understanding of how to motivate buyers and move deals forward. It also provides customized playbooks based on different personality types and can even recommend what words to use to make a good first impression. 

Beth Heyn K took to G2 to rate Crystal as 5 stars, saying: 

“This is like the 5 Love Languages for Business Communication!

Crystal Knows is like the 5 Love Languages for Business Communication! It gives you insight into how to communicate with your business contacts in the way THEY want to be communicated with – not in your style, but in the style that will make them want to act.

I love the interaction with LinkedIn – I cannot think how this could be any easier to use. I can tailor every message to what I want the contact to do, set a meeting, accept my proposal, etc. in a way that speaks to their specific communication style.”

6. AuthoredUp for content creation

AuthoredUp is an innovative Chrome extension that allows LinkedIn users to optimize their posts and make them more engaging. With features such as tracking engagement in real-time, stylizing posts with bold, italic, and other font styles, adding emojis, and picking from a library of 120+ hand-made hooks with examples, the extension makes it easy for users to create the perfect post. 

The drafts feature also helps users save their ideas as drafts to be used later. AuthoredUp can also collect all of your published posts so you can see all of your content at once.

User Luisa Balaniuc shares:

“This is an asset for everyone who seeks high quality content creation. Not only does it enable you to compose better looking posts – but it’s super user friendly and easy to understand. No tutorials needed. I will never post without AuthoredUp again!”

7. Octopus for automation

Octopus is an all-in-one automation software for LinkedIn lead generation, social selling, and LinkedIn auto connect tool. With this powerhouse of a tool, users can send automated connection requests to 2nd and 3rd-level connections on LinkedIn. Additionally, they can send personalized mass messages to 1st level contacts in bulk, visit profiles of potential customers, automatically endorse skills of contacts as well as create custom campaigns and build their own marketing funnel. 

With features like Linkedin auto connect, mass message, profile visitor, auto endorse, and create campaigns all within the same extension, Octopus provides an invaluable solution for sales professionals, marketers, and recruiters. 

Testimonials from satisfied customers include the following from user Kali Gray:

“Fantastic tool for LinkedIn! Makes messaging and new connections so much faster and easier, plus it’s simple to use. Still getting my head around setting up the funnels but the videos are very helpful. Highly recommend.”

8. LinkedRadar for using ChatGPT on LinkedIn

If you’re tired of low engagement on LinkedIn, it’s time to try incorporating ChatGPT with LinkedRadar. This innovative Chrome extension uses advanced AI-generated replies to optimize your posts for maximum engagement. 

With LinkedRadar, you can achieve 10x growth in your engagement and transform your LinkedIn strategy. Access to OpenAI Chat GPT is just a click away anywhere on LinkedIn, unlocking the power of content and revolutionizing your approach to engagement. 

Here’s a great review from user Jam:

“This extension is a game-changer for anyone who wants to enhance their LinkedIn experience by using an intelligent chatbot. I love how easy it is to use the chatbot. Once installed, the chatbot is integrated seamlessly into the LinkedIn interface, making it easy to access and use. The chatbot is also very responsive and provides quick, helpful answers to any questions or queries I have.”

Don’t do LinkedIn the hard way

If you’re still finding prospect data on LinkedIn through manual and time consuming searches, you’re doing too much work. 

While some of these LinkedIn Chrome extensions help with things we know we need – like email prospecting – others add entirely new ways to see LinkedIn data, reach a larger audience, and even personalize how you speak to different prospects.

Create prospect lists from Linkedin.

Convert any Linkedin search to an email list ready for outreach.