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Francesca_Community Manager
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January 28, 2026
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🏆 [Winner Announced] February Competition: Where and how is AI making the biggest difference for you in Sales Navigator?

  • January 28, 2026
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On 17 February, our speakers during the LinkedIn Live The Human Side of Selling in the AI Era will share insights from their work on how to use AI and sales intelligence tools like Sales Navigator to become better sellers.

Our monthly challenge for February is connected to this event: we’d love to hear from you! 

 

📣 This month’s challenge is: Across your sales workflow with Sales Navigator, where and how is AI making the biggest difference for you right now? 📣

🎁 From finding the right accounts to researching, prioritising, and messaging - we want to hear from your experience! Drop your thoughts in the comments and detail your process to enter a raffle to win exclusive SWAG! 🎁

 

🔍 Learn more about the rules and logistics of our Competition here:

📣 What is a Community Monthly Win Competition? 

Early each month, we invite all Community members to enter the monthly competition by completing a task or ask in a certain timeframe, usually about three-four weeks. At the end of each competition there will be a random draw that determines our winner! It’s worth joining each month to increase your chances to win. Remember that the goal of these Monthly Competitions is to help members discover Community discussions, resources, and features that will improve your virtual selling strategy and activities.

 

📋 What are the rules around this Monthly Win Competition?

  • Participants must be in the Club Navigator Community and over 18 years old. 
  • The entry period runs from now, January 28th, until February 28th at 11:59pm PST. For each entry to count, you must submit it within this timeframe.
  • After the entry period, the Community team will do a random draw with the names of qualified participants.
  • The winner will be announced during the week starting March 2nd
    • If there is only one qualified participant, that participant is automatically named the winner without the need for a draw.
  • For further details on the Monthly Competition, please read the official Community Contest rules here.
  • Disclaimer: Your comment can be re-shared without additional permission in any upcoming Community post, article, or resource.

 

👉 I look forward to hearing from you in the comments! 

20 replies

MadisonG
Certified Learner
Certified Learner
January 28, 2026

Researching accounts and getting that inside scoop on how they would benefit from our products!

david19
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 29, 2026

Hello, with the license we have, LinkedIn Sales Navigator’s AI provides us with the key arguments we should use to sell our services across all the offerings we have communicated in Sales Navigator. It is truly useful for avoiding cold and generic outreach messages.

David Galve-Optimum Ventas
Sinchu Raju
Community Champion
Community Champion
January 29, 2026

Lead IQ, Account IQ, and Sales Assistant in Sales Navigator are transforming my manufacturing sales – saving research time and landing real equipment deals!

Real workflow for B2B manufacturing (targeting auto/machinery plants in India/Gulf):

  1. Saved search: "Plant Managers/Ops Heads, Manufacturing/Automotive industry, 200-1000 employees, headcount growth, recent posts on expansion/supply chain".​

  2. Sales Assistant auto-ranks: Highlights leads with active signals like hiring for new lines or posts on production bottlenecks.

  3. Lead IQ instant profile scoops: "Posted about factory upgrades" or "New role 1mo ago" – easy hooks.​

  4. Account IQ company deep dive: "Hiring operators, recent plant news/funding" – spots expansion buyers.​

  5. Tailored InMail: "Noticed your capacity push – our tooling cut downtime 25% for similar ops." Track in lists.

Closed 2 deals last month on machinery contracts from Chennai. Efficiency win!

RSVP'd for Feb 4 webinar! So excited ​@Francesca_Community Manager ...

Sinchu Raju
bradpearse
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 30, 2026

@Francesca_Community Manager 

Account IQ: This has allowed me to leverage deeper insights to core business strategies and challenges that aligned with my products and services.  From there, it had provided me key prospecting signals and insight that provide me outreach messaging anchors that spark deeper context in the outreach. 

Lead IQ:  This function has allowed me to go to a deeper dive on specific areas of the lead’s background that helps me provide context and key relationship anchors to develop a more personalized engagement. 

Francesca_Community Manager
Community Champion
Community Champion
January 30, 2026

Agree with both of you, ​@MadisonG and ​@david19 - that “inside scoop” allows you to reach out with a relevant and customized message that will make you stand out in their inbox 👏

Francesca Dini, Club Navigator Community Manager
Francesca_Community Manager
Community Champion
Community Champion
January 30, 2026

LOVE this breakdown, ​@Sinchu Raju! It’s a fantastic real-world example of how AI features in Sales Navigator help you close deals by suggesting active leads first, and allowing you to spot real buying signals after, which allows for a tailored and well timed outreach. Congrats on closing those deals 💪 Thank you for sharing, Sinchu!

Francesca Dini, Club Navigator Community Manager
Francesca_Community Manager
Community Champion
Community Champion
January 30, 2026

@bradpearse this combination (intelligence on business context + information on the personal background of your lead) makes your engagement not only relevant, but human. Great to hear your thoughts, Brad!

Francesca Dini, Club Navigator Community Manager
Ndacorsi0218
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 2, 2026

Great question ​@Francesca_Community Manager ! For me, AI is making the biggest difference with LeadIQ, especially when it comes to research, prioritization, and messaging.

It removes a ton of friction from the workflow by quickly surfacing accurate contact data, role clarity, and intent signals, which helps me focus on the right people inside the right accounts.

Instead of spending time jumping between tools, I can move faster from insight to outreach, personalize messaging with better context, and prioritize prospects that are actually worth engaging now.

Bottom line: less manual work, better targeting, and more relevant conversations.

Nancy DaCorsi
Francesca_Community Manager
Community Champion
Community Champion
February 3, 2026

@Ndacorsi0218  “Less manual work, better targeting, and more relevant conversations” means that Sales Navigator has a strong impact by saving you time and effort in your day-to-day activities. And this is definitely something that makes a big difference!

Francesca Dini, Club Navigator Community Manager
Francesca_Community Manager
Community Champion
Community Champion
February 3, 2026

I look forward to joining Unlock the Power of AI in Sales Navigator tomorrow, ​@tcreighton! We already started a great discussion here about Sales Navigator’s AI features 🚀

Francesca Dini, Club Navigator Community Manager