Use Vaam for LinkedIn

Vaam for LinkedIn is a Chrome extension for adding LinkedIn prospects, watching a person’s posts, and using Inbox. Keep the extension enabled and stay signed in to LinkedIn in the same browser.

See what Vaam knows about a profile

When you open a LinkedIn profile, the side panel first checks if the person is in Vaam. It checks your prospects and the prospects of your team. The side panel gets this data from Vaam only. It does not send a request to LinkedIn.

If the person is in Vaam, the side panel shows In Vaam above the other actions. For each prospect, it shows:

The owner: Your prospect, or the name of the teammate who owns the prospect.
Each sequence that the prospect is in, with the current step and the status. For example, Step 2 · Active.

If the side panel shows Couldn’t check this person in Vaam, select Retry.

Pause, resume, or remove your prospect from a sequence

You can change the sequences of your own prospects from the side panel:

Select Pause to stop the sequence for this prospect until you resume it.
Select Resume to continue a paused sequence.
Select Remove to stop the sequence for this prospect. The side panel asks you to confirm. Select Remove again, or select Keep to keep the prospect in the sequence. The prospect stays in Vaam, and the sequence shows Canceled.

A teammate’s prospect is read-only. The side panel shows Read-only. Only the owner can change this outreach. Ask the owner to make the change.

If the status changed after the side panel loaded it, for example in the Vaam web app, the side panel shows a message and loads the current status.

If the person is not in Vaam

If you and your team do not have the person as a prospect, the side panel shows only the actions to add or watch the person. See Add a prospect from a profile.

Vaam finds the prospect from the profile link. Vaam can save a prospect with a different LinkedIn link, for example a link with a LinkedIn ID instead of the person’s name. The side panel then shows the person as not in Vaam. If you add the person, Vaam can create a second prospect.

Find a prospect from any LinkedIn page

Use Search while you view the LinkedIn feed, messages, or a profile. Search finds your prospects and your current team’s prospects.

Open the Vaam for LinkedIn side panel.
Select Search.
Type at least 2 characters of a name, company, or email.
Check the title and company to tell people with the same name apart.
Select a person to see each sequence and its current state.

Search shows at most 10 matches. A newly added prospect can take a short time to appear.

You can select Pause, Resume, or Remove for your own prospects when the sequence state permits it. A teammate’s prospect is read-only. Remove asks for confirmation. See Pause, resume, or remove your prospect from a sequence.

Searching and selecting a person do not change outreach. Nothing changes until you click an action and, for Remove, confirm it.

If Search asks you to sign in, sign in to Vaam. Then select Search again. If Search shows an error, select Retry.

Add a prospect from a profile

Open the prospect’s LinkedIn profile.
Open the Vaam for LinkedIn side panel.
Select Add to sequence.
Choose a sequence.
Select Add prospect to sequence.

Vaam adds the profile URL and any available profile details. It uses those details to fill missing prospect information. Vaam still enriches information that is missing.

If LinkedIn data is unavailable, Vaam still adds the profile URL to the sequence. The normal enrichment process continues. If the side panel shows a connection or request error, fix that error before you try again.

Watch a person’s posts

Use this when the people who comment on or react to a person’s posts are the people you want to reach. Vaam watches the person’s new posts with a Track engagement agent and adds the people who engage to a sequence.

Open the person’s LinkedIn profile.
Open the Vaam for LinkedIn side panel.
Select Watch this person’s content.
Select Create a new Agent or Add to an existing Agent.

For a new agent, check the name, the sequence, the connection degree, the approval setting, and the audience. The agent uses your standard audience unless you select Customize for this Agent. By default, the agent adds people who comment. Select Edit next to Engagement to also add people who react. Vaam checks each new post every day for 7 days.

For an existing agent, choose the agent in the list, then select Add to Agent. The list shows only Track engagement agents that watch people’s or companies’ posts. A paused agent shows Paused. You can add the person to it, but the agent does not run until you resume it. An agent can watch up to 10 people and companies. A full agent shows Full, and you cannot choose it.

After you create or change the agent, select Edit in Vaam to see it.

Watch the author of a post

You can also start from a post. Vaam then watches all new posts by the post’s author, not only the post you have open.

Open the post on LinkedIn.
Open the Vaam for LinkedIn side panel.
Select Continue. Vaam checks the author’s profile on LinkedIn.
Select Create a new Agent or Add to an existing Agent, then continue as for a profile.

The side panel finds the author from the post’s link. Some post links do not name the author, for example links that start with linkedin.com/feed/update/. Open the author’s profile and watch their content from there.

Vaam can watch only people from a post. If a company wrote the post, or LinkedIn does not show the author’s profile, the side panel tells you to open the author’s profile.

Use Inbox

Inbox needs the Vaam for LinkedIn extension. Open Inbox in Vaam and keep it open while you read or send LinkedIn messages. The extension makes Inbox requests only while Inbox is open.

The unread count in the Vaam sidebar uses saved data. It can be empty before you first open Inbox. It can also stay out of date after you close Inbox.

If Inbox shows an error, reload Inbox, clear the Inbox cache, or close and reopen Inbox. If LinkedIn sends a response that Vaam cannot use, Vaam stops automatic Inbox refreshes until you take one of these actions.

Inbox on a phone

You cannot use Inbox on a phone or tablet, because the extension runs only in Google Chrome on a computer. Inbox shows Use a computer for LinkedIn Inbox. Open Vaam on your computer to read and answer your LinkedIn messages.

In a desktop browser other than Chrome, Inbox shows Open Vaam in Google Chrome.

Install the extension

The Chrome Web Store listing is not available yet. Install Vaam for LinkedIn only from the official Store link after Vaam publishes it. Check that the listing name is Vaam for LinkedIn before you install it.

You cannot install the extension on a phone or tablet. When you set up Vaam on one of these devices, Vaam skips the extension steps. You can install the extension later on a computer.

Troubleshooting

A removed prospect shows Active

Vaam can start a queued prospect at the same moment you remove it. The sequence then shows Active again. Select Remove again.