Troika

Enterprise Account Executive

Sales Navigator & Personal LinkedIn Privacy

New job and they want us to use SN and of course it will integrate with CRM/sales intel tools/calendar/etc. and records of activity will be synched with CRM.

Great.

I'm concerned this will give my employer access to my personal LinkedIn conversations, personal connections list, etc.

Googled this question, nothing helpful out there.

Anyone who has looked into this or knows if/how you can keep personal activity private from employer, while allowing SN /LinkedIn to synch with company CRM?

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braintank

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Usually it doesn't log by default.
And no legit company is gonna snoop.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Key word - LEGIT

Troika

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

OK this is what I was hoping for. I have nothing to hide, just don’t want my contacts list shared and past activity for confidentiality reasons for past clients.

NoSuperhero

Politicker

BDR LEAD

I worked for an offshore sales operation where some managers were pulling that sneaky bullshit, some of them are now in MUCH higher positions now at the same company. Let it be known that I moved on a loooong time ago.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

I don't have any of my things connected. If you have a choice don't do it.

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

to the point lol

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

ditto

Troika

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

Don’t have a choice, and I have no problem integrating/ keeping records of current activities related to employer.

Hoping there is a way to keep past activities out of CRM and don’t want my whole contacts list scraped into CRM. Not sure that’s what happens but something tells me that would be kinda valuable to the CRM company to scrape every sales rep’s contacts.

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

Really, I thought they could only track the number of inMails sent/leads saved and all those s****

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Yeah, they can't track your personal stuff. Only things that go through SN. Also, you have the ability to have it not auto-log into your CRM.

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

Oh yeah, I use it that non auto sync 😅

Troika

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

This is what I was hoping for. As long as I can choose which activities/accounts lists/leads lists/contacts to share with CRM, that’s fine.

I do personal stuff in SN though and I actually already have it for personal reasons (I was consulting). That’s my concern.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

You should be fine as long it's Sales Nav only. It's got its own inbox/messaging system.

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

1 - they shouldn't be snooping your private messages. Have you actually reached out to LI to ask them directly?
2 - I'm all about privacy, but have you said anything over LI which would raise an alarm?! All my conversations on LI are extremely professional and my LI profile is very scrubbed. I have nothing to hide there. I hide all the bodies on FB ;)

Troika

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

So far it only looks like we need to integrate SN with my employer’s CRM. Since SN is basically LI I have to assume if I accept the sync with SN I’m accepting the synch of both.

I have never done anything unprofessional on LI and have nothing to hide other than past activity/leads/contacts that could be considered sensitive to past clients. Trying to do my due diligence.

I have asked my boss, who asked SN and of course SN assures us it’s OK.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Use both, have no issues.
Related: I'm not a fan of the company pushing employees to post on LI. Honestly, that is a PERSONAL account. Doing research, using Navigator - all good, but becoming some kind of LI cheerleader: nope.

DataCorrupter

Politicker

Account Executive

Totally agree. Once everyone at a company starts doing this (posting the same company news), LinkedIn deprioritizes those posts anyway, just becomes another echo chamber of company people liking company posts by other company people.

Not really a value addition for anyone.

Troika

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

Agree with you about the reposting of company news. I use the Gary V model of 2-3 posts about other stuff/industry news/value adds and sprinkle in company stuff lightly.

Troika

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

Appreciate the comment. Employer is not pushing us to post on LI, they’re just paying for our subscriptions to SN… which is great and I consider a great tool that I plan to use AMAP.

Since I agree with you that LI is my personal account with personal data, I hesitate.

HVACexpert

Politicker

sales engineer

Devils advocate

Using standard LI is free, so even if content only reaches a few prospects, isn’t some light posting/sharing between employees have only upside regarding brand awareness ?

Troika

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

I agree and I’m not opposed at all to posting. They leave it optional and offer tech that writes for us which I’m loving.

Absolutely agree it’s in my best interest to increase brand awareness.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

I do it from time to time. I’m not a fan of “forced” posting. Personal is personal. If I feel like doing it, I will.

GDO

Politicker

BDM

If I’m not mistaken the personal stuff is not tracked. Only what you ronin the sperate SN part can be logged

Troika

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

Great this is what I was hoping for.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

You should be fine, are you worried about your employer seeing if you talk to recruiters?

pirate

Big Shot

🦜☠️ Account Executive

I think it's like your work phone if you have android and you can switch it on and off. Your employer will be able to see what apps you're downloading but not what goes on inside them... Unless it's criminal activity and they get courts permission. Anyway that's my impression

Beans

Big Shot

Enterprise Account Executive

It's a separate inbox, but I believe you can see permissions when you initially sync.

LambyCorn

Arsonist

A mfkn E

It SHOULDN'T - try reading the privacy and terms. Might be a lot of words there but, if they do it has to be in there. Better yet, copy paste terms to chatgpt and ask it; hey will they spy on me?

Jaytea

Catalyst

N/A

If u message someone thru sales nav (in mail) they know but if u message them thru LinkedIn itself it's not logged into the CRM that's all I know

NoSuperhero

Politicker

BDR LEAD

You should be fine

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