Connect to LinkedIn Sales Navigator in Power BI Desktop
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In Power BI Desktop, you can connect to LinkedIn Sales Navigator to help find and build relationships just like any other data source in Power BI Desktop, and create ready-made reports about your progress. This article tells you how to install LinkedIn Sales Navigator and how to use it once it's connected to your data.
To connect to LinkedIn data using the LinkedIn Sales Navigator, you need to have a LinkedIn Sales Navigator Enterprise plan, and either be an Admin or Reporting User on the Sales Navigator Contract.
To make using the LinkedIn Sales Navigator as easy as possible, you can use the template app that automatically creates a ready-made report from your LinkedIn Sales Navigator data.
When you download the app, you can select whether to connect to your data, or explore the app with sample data. You can always go back and connect to your own LinkedIn Sales Navigator data after you explore the sample data.
You can get the LinkedIn Sales Navigator template app from the following link:
The template app provides four tabs to help analyze and share your information:
Usage
Search
InMail
SSI
The Usage tab shows your overall LinkedIn Sales Navigator data.
The Search tab lets you drill deeper into your search results.
The InMail tab provides insights into your InMail usage, including number of InMails sent, acceptance rates, and other useful information.
The SSI tab provides more details into your social selling index (SSI).
To go from the sample data to your own data, select edit app in the top-right corner (the pencil icon) and then select Connect your data from the screen that appears.
From there you can connect your own data, selecting how many days of data to load. You can load up to 365 days of data. You need to sign in using the same email address you use to sign in to LinkedIn Sales Navigator through the website.
The template app then refreshes the data in the app with your data. You can also set up a scheduled refresh, so the data in your app is as current as your refresh frequency specifies.
Once the data updates, you can see the app populated with your own data.
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