Premium business accounts offer advanced features to professionals who want to boost their networking efforts on LinkedIn. Three types of business accounts are available: Business, Business Plus, and Executive. The three come in a tiered pricing structure with increasing functionality to match the increasing cost.
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Business: For $24.95 per month (or $19.95 per month if you pay for a full year upfront), you can get a Business account. This account offers you all the features of the free Basic account and also enables you to do the following:
• Contact up to three people directly using InMail with a guaranteed response or your InMail count doesn’t go down.
• See 300 profiles when you conduct a search.
• Use premium search filters in searches.
• See expanded profiles of everyone on LinkedIn.
• View the full list of people who have viewed your LinkedIn profile.
• Save profiles and notes in up to five folders using Profile Organizer.
• Save up to five search alerts each week.
• Get introduced to 15 (outstanding) companies in addition to the 5 per month offered through the Basic account.
• Use the Reference Search tool.
• Allow anyone to send a message to you for free using OpenLink.
• Get priority customer service.
Business Plus: For $49.95 per month (or $39.95 per month if you pay for a full year upfront), you can get all of the features in the Basic and Business accounts as well as the following or with the following modifications:
• Contact up to 10 people directly with InMail with a guaranteed response or your InMail count doesn’t go down.
• See 500 profiles when you conduct a search.
• Save profiles and notes in up to 25 folders using Profile Organizer.
• Save up to seven search alerts per week.
• Get introduced to 25 (outstanding) companies in addition to the 5 per month offered through the Basic account.
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Executive: For $99.95 per month (or $74.95 per month if you pay for a full year upfront), you get all of the features offered in a Basic account, Business account, and Business Plus account in addition to the following and with the following modifications:
• Contact up to 25 people directly with InMail with a guaranteed response or your InMail count doesn’t go down.
• See 700 profiles when you conduct a search.
• Use premium search filters and talent filters when you conduct searches.
• Save profiles and notes in up to 50 folders using Profile Organizer.
• Save up to 10 search alerts per week.
• Get introduced to 35 (outstanding) companies in addition to the 5 per month offered through the Basic account.
• See the full names of your third-degree connections and group connections.
If you’re not a power user, it’s unlikely that you need a premium LinkedIn account, particularly an expensive option like the Executive account. Start small and work your way up, so you don’t waste money.