Engage with your leads on LinkedIn at scale by automatically following them.
The Follow Profile action lets you follow or unfollow a list of LinkedIn profiles, helping you track their activity, get noticed, and boost engagement.
By simply providing profile URLs, you can set up automated following workflows that enhance visibility and strengthen lead nurturing.
This action will help you:
- Auto-follow profiles to fill your feed with relevant content
- Get noticed by key people with follow notifications
- Boost engagement by running the workflow repeatedly
- Stay updated on lead activities and build stronger connections
How does this action work?
The automation makes it quick and easy to follow or unfollow profiles:
- Create a Free Captain Data Account – Sign up to start.
- Connect to LinkedIn – Sync your account securely via the Chrome extension.
- Input Profile URLs – Paste LinkedIn profile URLs into the platform or upload a CSV.
- Configure Your Workflow – Decide whether to follow or unfollow, and set parameters.
- Schedule or Launch – Run the workflow immediately or schedule it to repeat.
- You’re all set! – The action will handle follows automatically, keeping you engaged.
How to leverage this action’s output?
Get noticed by prospects
Following someone triggers a notification, drawing attention to your profile.
This often leads to profile visits, follow-backs, or even connection requests, creating new relationship opportunities.
Engage with their content
Once you follow leads, their updates appear in your feed.
Liking, commenting, or sharing their posts helps you stay on their radar and show support.
This soft-touch engagement warms up prospects for future conversations.
Enrich your lead data
Combine following with profile visits to extract key details such as job titles, companies, or contact info.
Enrich this data further with emails or phone numbers for direct outreach.
Expand your lead pool
Followers and commenters of the profiles you follow are often in your target audience.
Use Extract Post Likers or Extract Post Commenters to identify and capture these additional leads.
Why use Captain Data?
The Follow People Profiles action goes beyond simple automation by integrating seamlessly into full sales workflows:
- Ready-to-use workflows and quick setup
- Smart account rotation to bypass daily limits
- Shadow-ban prevention with safe usage limits
- Scheduling and repeat runs for consistent engagement
- Direct CRM integration and enrichment support
Go further
For maximum impact, combine this action with:
- Accept Received Invitations – Auto-accept invites triggered by your follows
- Message Profiles – Send personalized messages to nurtured leads
- Extract Post Likers – Capture profiles engaging with relevant posts
- Extract Post Commenters – Add active, discussion-driven users to your pipeline
By linking these actions together, you can build an intent-driven workflow: follow → engage → extract → message.
This ensures you’re always building visibility, nurturing relationships, and fueling lead generation.
