Renting LinkedIn Profiles: Is It A Good Idea?

With LinkedIn’s recent changes to their daily activity limits and spam filters LinkedIn profiles can now get flagged and restricted easier than before. As a result, people have looked for other options to avoid using their own LinkedIn profiles when running outbound campaigns. A really popular alternative to using your own LinkedIn account would be to rent a LinkedIn profile. In this article, we will cover why renting a LinkedIn profile is a great idea in case you’re looking to ridiculously scale your outbound campaigns. 

What Is LinkedIn Profile Renting?

Renting a LinkedIn profile is a really straightforward concept. It consists of using the LinkedIn profile of an existing user, with his explicit consent, for your own outreach campaigns. In other words, it works similar to hiring a sales team but just for a fraction of the cost, considering you only need their LinkedIn profiles. 

Profile renting violates LinkedIn's terms, which is important to mention as it can lead to account's restrictions. Profile matching, on the other hand, is an ethical way of renting profiles that consists of hiring freelancers and having them run outreach campaigns on your behalf. Akountify connects you directly with these vetted freelancers.

Types Of LinkedIn Profiles To Rent

You have two types of LinkedIn profiles you can rent. Fake profiles and real profiles. There’s really not much debate here as to which ones are better over the long term (real ones are, duh), but let’s break down the differences in any case.

Fake LinkedIn Profiles

These are often created from scratch on a fresh proxy using false names and pictures. So, right off the bat you have three red flags: creating a profile on a proxy, having a fake name, and using a fake picture. Since fake profiles have fake names, they can’t pass LinkedIn’s ID verification which means they will, in 99.9% of the cases, end up getting permanently banned. You can always replace and restart your campaign with a brand new fake profile, but it will be the same thing over and over again. You can rent fake LinkedIn profiles on websites like MirrorProfiles or GetAIA.

Real LinkedIn Profiles

These are often created organically by real humans with real IDs on organic IPs and login locations. Since real accounts have real names, pictures, and government-issued documents, they can easily complete LinkedIn’s ID verification and work great over the long term, just like hiring an employee. Using real LinkedIn profiles is the only solution to the LinkedIn scalability problem. At Akountify, you can get connected with vetted outreach agents with real accounts they will use to help you generate leads.

Pros Of Renting A LinkedIn Profile

There are many obvious and other not that obvious benefits of renting a LinkedIn profile instead of using your own. For the sake of simplicity, we will break them down into our top 3 reasons. 

1. Improve brand visibility

2. Reach more decision makers every day

3. Land more qualified booked appointments

   
   

Where To Rent LinkedIn Profiles

Always look for real LinkedIn profiles

Finding a LinkedIn profile to rent could be as easy as asking your friend for one. However, new LinkedIn profiles require an extensive period of warm-up time before they can be unleashed in an outreach campaign. If you’re willing to wait it out, then we definitely suggest starting with your own network of friends and family to source LinkedIn profiles. Ask them to help you run campaigns for you, even pay them as you would a freelancer.

When those are no longer viable, you can find vetted outreach agents on websites like Akountify. Our profiles belong to real humans with real IDs, so it’s just like hiring an employee all for nickels and dimes. 

Why Not Buy A LinkedIn Profile Instead?

Unfortunately, you can’t buy real LinkedIn profiles. A real person or identity is not something you can just sell, it is not ethical or legal. Renting a LinkedIn profile works just like an employer and contractor relationship, which is perfectly fine and, more importantly, legal. Also, buying LinkedIn profiles will often have you dealing with really sketchy and untrustworthy providers who will resell and recover the accounts previously sold to you. All in all, just not worth doing. 

In A Nutshell…

Getting matched with an outreach agent is the best way to safely scale your LinkedIn outbound campaigns. When choosing which type, opting for real LinkedIn profiles will always be better than renting fake ones. Renting LinkedIn profiles doesn’t mean you have a green light to abuse the limits or spam. Following LinkedIn’s best practices as far as daily activity limits and spam is always the way to go.