Happy New Year!       

We're getting 2025 started in a big way. I'm thrilled to announce a major update to our Chrome Extension - specifically focused on our LinkedIn engagement functionality. 

What's included?

Performance Improvements: Previous versions would demand high levels of memory from Chrome for larger exports, creating bottlenecks within the browser and poor performance system-wide. If you experienced this, you'll be quite satisfied with this update.

LinkedIn Actions Not Being Executed as Expected (Randomly): We received several reports of LinkedIn Invites or Messages displaying as successful, but not always being reflected inside of a LinkedIn account. This has been addressed in this release and was largely tied to our safety settings being too aggressive.

Exporting Post Comments and Reactions Improved: We received several reports of performance issues related to exporting posts, including random pauses and halts to the request. We rebuilt this object and logic and after some more user feedback, we plan to expand the limits as this version is much more performant.

Granular Control of Daily Limits: You can now set and customize your daily limits by specific LinkedIn action. We'll also randomize it each day (+/-) to create a human-like usage that isn't static each day.

LinkedIn Message Reply Detection: For any LinkedIn message action that originates from a Sequences, we'll always check for a reply to any previous messages (or Invites) before sending the message. If we detect a reply, we can automatically end a Sequence for your prospect. LinkedIn replies will be added to the Unified Inbox in Q1 2025.

View Profile is now optional on export: This LinkedIn engagement action is no longer required when you export a profile. You can optionally select it, but it will not be performed automatically unless you select the option in the LinkedIn Engagement menu (in the export drawer)

Some big updates for Sidebar are now published in the Chrome store!

View and filter by Contact segments in Sidebar

From the Contact view we now include each unique segment for quick access to specific groups of contacts.

Send Introductions using Mutual Connections 

Boost response rates by referencing mutual connections with LinkedIn prospects for introductions. Available for Invite Notes, InMail, Direct Messages and Icebreakers. 

Output Example: It looks like we're both colleagues of Sally Jones and Paul Wright and 12 other B2B rockstars...

Additional LinkedIn Insights on Export

You now have access to profile 'Pronouns' and 'Company Headcount Growth' insights from your LinkedIn export. Company Headcount Growth is available for Premium users as the metric is part of Sales Navigator. These insights are available for outreach personalization (Invite Notes, InMail, Direct Messages and Icebreakers) and can be exported as well.

Address your prospect using the right pronouns within custom GPT-powered icebreakers.

Additional updates and fixes:

Additional updates, improvements and fixes:

1. Fixed: names with access characters were being incorrectly stripped. 
2. Improvement: auto-scrolling now extends to groups and events. The human like patterns have been optimized and Sales Navigator lead list results or search results now ensure the full list view is loaded for saving on each page.
3. Automation updates to further improve logging and error handling. 

User's will enjoy a major productivity boost for accessing and editing custom data field properties for individual contacts. We've dramatically simplified access from the Contact manager, simply click the edit icon (next to any contact) to display the View/Edit window. 

Previously the view and edit functions are buried in 3-4 clicks within the Timeline report.

Latest updates for Sidebar are now published in the Chrome store!

1. Hot fix for reported issue with LinkedIn Follow Actions intermittently failing.
2. Hot fix for failure to properly create new segment during export. During some exports the extension would incorrectly create a new segment ID for each prospect exported.
3. UI update replacing checkboxes with icon buttons for selecting LinkedIn Profiles.
4. Improvements to LinkedIn automation for Sequence tasks.
5. Sync LinkedIn profiles without email finder results to your Contact database to run non-email outreach (LinkedIn, SMS, Voicemail drops). We now generate a placeholder email address ($name....@do-not-mail.com).
6. Auto-scroll list results for LinkedIn and Sales Navigator to scan profiles automatically for export - without manually scrolling the view.
7. Improvements for different language detection within the LinkedIn UI to ensure automation executes properly.

Download today (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/leadfwdai-sales-accelerat/cgfpdaekohadjagbpmolmjdbgdchodjd) or run an update from your Chrome browser.

I’m thrilled to announce that our mobile phone number enrichment is now live on our LinkedIn Prospector. 

Access 140M+ mobile phone numbers around the globe with 1-click. These are mobile phone numbers and not landlines or generic corporate headquarters. 

Mobile numbers are easily translated into SMS outreach and Voicemail drops with Sequences in Leadfwd. 

Access to mobile phone number enrichment is still powered by Email Finder credits. 10 email finder credits = 1 mobile phone number. No result = No credits charged.