---
title: "LinkedIn user monitor"
url: "https://pitchghost.com/docs/platforms/linkedin-user-monitor"
description: "Watch the posts of specific LinkedIn people and keep the ones that match your goal, with six ways to get your people in."
---

A LinkedIn user monitor Ghost watches the posts of people you choose and keeps the ones that match your goal. Use it for prospects, customers and partners you already know, such as the finance leads in your pipeline, so you hear when one mentions a payroll problem.

It has no search queries, no filters and no Automatically option. You pick the people and the goal picks the posts.

## Get your people in

| You have | Use |
| --- | --- |
| LinkedIn profile URLs | Paste a list |
| A Sales Navigator list | Sales Nav to Profile URLs, then paste |
| A CSV of names and companies | LinkedIn Profile Finder, then paste |
| A list in your CRM | Smart Sync |
| Your own LinkedIn connections | Connections |
| A description of the kind of person | Smart Search |

A Ghost uses one source at a time. While Smart Search, Smart Sync or Connections is on, the list is locked and PitchGhost keeps it up to date.

### Paste a list

Paste profiles into Users to monitor, one per line or separated by commas, up to 5,000 people. You can also drop in a CSV file with a single column of profiles.

An entry is a profile URL such as `https://www.linkedin.com/in/dana-whitfield/`, with or without `https://`, or the slug alone, `dana-whitfield`. The editor flags duplicates and entries it can’t read.

### Sales Navigator lists

Sales Navigator URLs don’t work in the list. Convert them with the [Sales Nav to Profile URLs](/docs/tools/sales-nav-to-profile-urls) tool, then add the results to your Ghost.

### A CSV of names

If you have names and companies but no profile URLs, run the file through the [LinkedIn Profile Finder](/docs/tools/linkedin-profile-finder) tool. It finds each person’s profile URL and can add the people to a Ghost.

### A CRM list with Smart Sync

Smart Sync monitors the people in a list from your CRM. When the list changes in your CRM, your Ghost follows.

1.  Connect your CRM under Settings then Integrations.
2.  Click Smart Sync above the list, pick your CRM and click Next.
3.  Pick the list to monitor. Your CRM may call it a campaign, a group or a tag.
4.  Choose what your Ghost does in the CRM when it makes a Find, then save.

What the Ghost can write back depends on the CRM, and its integration page explains the options. To stop, click Unlink.

### Your connections

Connections monitors the 1st-degree connections of a personal LinkedIn account linked in PitchGhost. [Link the account](/docs/integrations/linkedin), click Connections above the list, choose the account and save. To stop, click Unlink.

Note

The first sync starts a LinkedIn data export that takes from a few minutes to a few hours. LinkedIn may email you up to twice about a “Data archive”. That is PitchGhost getting your connections, and you can ignore it.

### A people search with Smart Search

Smart Search monitors everyone who matches a LinkedIn people search, so you describe the kind of person instead of listing them. It tracks the first 5,000 people who match.

1.  Click Smart Search above the list.
2.  Fill in at least one field under Search criteria. Narrow it under Refinements if you need to.
3.  Click Estimate to see roughly how many people match. It can take a couple of minutes.
4.  Click Save Smart Search.

For job titles, use the root of the title, such as `Payroll` or `Finance`, and let the goal judge seniority. To stop, click Remove Smart Search.

## Add someone from a Find

On any LinkedIn Find from a person, Quick monitor this user adds them to a user monitor Ghost.

## Act on a Find

Finds are LinkedIn posts, and you act on them the same way as Finds from a [LinkedIn post finder](/docs/platforms/linkedin-post-finder#act-on-a-find).