Importing Contacts from LinkedIn
There is no live LinkedIn connection sync (LinkedIn's API does not allow reading your connections). Instead, import from LinkedIn's data-export CSVs — CRMown handles both your full connections and just the people who messaged you.
Steps
- On LinkedIn: Settings → Data Privacy → Get a copy of your data. Choose Connections (all connections) and/or Messages (people who messaged you), then download the CSV.
- In CRMown: Contacts → Import CSV → upload the file.
- For a Connections.csv, the importer auto-maps First/Last Name, Email, Company, Position → Job Title, and URL → LinkedIn URL.
- For a messages.csv, CRMown auto-detects it and extracts ONLY the people who messaged you — it dedupes senders, drops your own messages, and brings them in with their name + LinkedIn profile URL (a banner confirms how many were extracted).
Good to know
- LinkedIn only includes a connection's email if that person allowed it, so many imported rows have no email — add emails as you engage. Email is the join key for purchase tracking; clicks work via the Copy tracked link button.
- Inbound LinkedIn messages can also auto-create a contact in the unified inbox, but only for a connected Company Page with Community Management API access — LinkedIn does not deliver personal-profile DMs to third-party apps.
Example: You export your LinkedIn messages.csv and import it; CRMown adds just the people who have DM'd you — deduped, your own replies excluded — each with their profile link, ready to work in the pipeline.