Why export your LinkedIn contacts?

LinkedIn can be a great source of professional opportunities: finding new jobs, acquiring new skills, expanding your network and adding contacts, or prospecting are just some of the possibilities offered by LinkedIn. 💼

If you’re active on LinkedIn, your address book is certainly very important. In fact, LinkedIn has set a limit on the number of contacts you can have: 30,000, which is a pretty high number. If you want to sort or qualify these contacts properly, you may need to export the list for processing in Excel. 👌

LinkedIn lets you export your existing contacts in .CSV (for Comma Separated Values, a specific file type you can convert with Excel), with their public information: surname, first name, job title, e-mail address, etc. 🤓

You can also export LinkedIn contacts to Excel to import the file to other platforms: to Gmail, Hotmail or Microsoft Outlook contacts, for example, or to marketing software, such as your CRM. You can then transfer the contacts to mailing lists. 📧

Exporting data outside LinkedIn will allow you to retrieve your network members’ contact information in an Excel file.