How to get LinkedIn alerts in Slack when an ideal client engages
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On LinkedIn
In Slack, only ideal clients
Grace Mensah
Visited Anna's profile
Lotte Vermeer
Commented on Kim's post about cold email
Ruben Smit
Liked Acme's post about pricing
Sent by ZiplinedLinkedIn only notifies you about your own account, in the app or by email, with everyone mixed together. Ziplined posts only the people who fit your ideal client in a Slack channel, from your team's posts, your profile viewers and your competitors' posts.
Short answer: LinkedIn has no Slack connection and Zapier has no LinkedIn trigger for likes on your posts. Forward LinkedIn's notification emails to a Slack channel and filter by hand, or let Ziplined post only the people who fit your ideal client to the channel, hourly, daily or weekly.
Can LinkedIn send notifications to Slack?
LinkedIn cannot send notifications to Slack. LinkedIn notifies you in the app, by push or by email, and only about your own account.
| LinkedIn notifications | |
|---|---|
| Where | In the app, push or email, per type |
| Whose activity | Your own account |
| Your colleagues' and competitors' posts | Not included |
| Filter on your ideal client | None |
| Slack | No connection |
LinkedIn facts: LinkedIn Help on notification settings, checked 12 November 2026.
How to send LinkedIn notifications to Slack without a tool
Without a tool there are three ways to get LinkedIn activity into Slack, and each starts from what LinkedIn shows one account. You decide by hand who fits.
1. Turn on LinkedIn notifications and post the names yourself
Open Settings & Privacy, then Notifications.
Click your profile picture first.
Pick a notification type.
Choose in-app, push or email for each one.
Check the Notifications tab every day.
Reactions, comments, birthdays and job posts arrive in one list.
Post the people who fit in Slack yourself.
Copy the name, open the profile, decide.
Notifications
AllTom Verbeek commented on your post
Student ยท 1h
Congratulate Ruben Smit on 3 years at Brightwave Studio
3h
Grace Mensah and 23 others reacted to your post
5h
New jobs for Account Executive
8h
Your post has 1,204 impressions
1d
Your account only. Fit and noise in one list.
Limit: your own account only, everyone mixed, and nothing reaches Slack unless you paste it.
2. Forward LinkedIn's notification emails to a Slack channel
In Slack, get the channel's email address.
Open the channel's details and choose Send emails to this channel. This is on paid Slack plans.
Turn on email for the LinkedIn notifications you want.
In LinkedIn's Notifications settings, per type.
Make a forwarding rule in your email.
Forward LinkedIn's notification emails to the channel's address.
Every rep does the same for their own account.
Each one forwards their own emails.
Slack facts: Slack Help on sending emails to Slack, checked 12 November 2026.
Limit: every email lands, fit or not, and nobody is checked against your ideal client. Anyone with the address can post to the channel.
3. Check a competitor's LinkedIn posts by hand
Open the competitor's latest post.
One post at a time, every day.
Click the reactions count and read the comments.
LinkedIn has no export of the people.
Paste the people who fit into your channel.
Name, job title and what they did.
Time: a few minutes per post. Limit: LinkedIn does not tell you who engages with a competitor's post, so you go and look. More on this in LinkedIn competitor analysis.
Can you connect LinkedIn to Slack with Zapier?
Zapier cannot send LinkedIn likes, comments or profile views to Slack. Zapier's LinkedIn app lists two actions, a company update and a share update, and no trigger.
Zapier facts: Zapier's LinkedIn integrations page, checked 12 November 2026.
Ziplined can start a Zap instead. On Team, from $99 a month, Ziplined sends each new person who fits to a link that Zapier's Webhooks trigger gives you.
What is Ziplined and how does it send LinkedIn alerts to Slack?
Ziplined is a LinkedIn Lead Radar. It finds people who engage with your team, your competitors and your market, keeps the ones who fit your ideal client, and sends them to your tools while you sleep.
Add what to watch.
Your team's profiles, competitors and industry experts. The Chrome extension adds your profile viewers; it is optional, and it never likes, comments, connects or sends.
Write your ideal client in one sentence.
Ziplined marks the people who fit as Leads. It suggests the sentence from your website.
Send a saved list to a Slack channel.
A saved list keeps your filters. Each new Lead arrives with what they did, such as "Visited Anna's profile".
Slack and the email digest are on every plan, from Solo at $49 a month with 3,000 credits. One credit is one thing Ziplined collects, such as a post or a like on it; Slack messages cost none.
Setup is one link you copy from Slack and paste in Ziplined, step by step on Ziplined and Slack.
What a saved list can alert on: your own profile viewers or your team's, people who engage with your team's posts, people who engage with a competitor's posts, company page engagers, people who engage with an industry expert's posts, new followers and new connections.
How to get LinkedIn alerts only for your ideal clients
Ziplined sends only the people who fit your ideal client sentence to Slack. Students, recruiters and your own colleagues rarely get through; to be sure, exclude job titles such as recruiter.
A saved list narrows it further, on job title, company, seniority, country, warmth (how much they engaged lately) or the words in a comment.
Who engaged this week
Grace Mensah
Head of Sales, Northwind
Lead
Tom Verbeek
Student
Excluded: student
Sanne de Wit
Recruiter, TalentHub
Excluded: recruiter
Sem de Jong
Account Executive, your company
Your team, never a Lead
A saved list can narrow it further
- Job title
- Company
- Seniority
- Country
- Warmth
- Comment text
How to send different LinkedIn alerts to different Slack channels
In Ziplined, each saved list goes to its own Slack channel, so one list per question gives one channel per question.
For example "Profile viewers who fit" to #leads, "Engaged with a competitor" to #competitor-audience, and "Engaged with Anna's posts" to Anna's own channel.
How often do LinkedIn alerts arrive in Slack?
Ziplined sends LinkedIn alerts hourly, daily or weekly, chosen per list. Slack is hourly by default, email daily, and weekly goes out on Monday.
When you add a profile, Ziplined reads its last 7 days right away, so the first names are in Ziplined within minutes. Slack then gets only the people who are new in the list after you turn the alert on.
After that Ziplined checks every night from 02:05 UTC, and the optional extension adds profile viewers, new followers and new connections up to twice a day. A new like reaches Slack after the next nightly check, not the minute it happens.
Hourly matters for what arrives during the day: the extension's reads and the past week of a profile you just added. Nightly data reaches you the morning after.
Ziplined
Ruben Smit is new in Engaged with a competitor
Ruben Smit
Liked Acme's post about pricing
Founder, Brightwave Studio
- Hourly
- Daily
- Weekly
No new Leads, no message. Prefer email? The digest goes to up to 10 addresses, with the same reason per person.
An alert when a person or company you track publishes a new post is coming soon: see LinkedIn post alerts.
Which way to get LinkedIn alerts in Slack fits you?
For your own posts, once in a while, LinkedIn's notifications are enough. For a team, competitors or only ideal clients, the manual ways cost time every day.
| Whose activity | Only ideal clients | In a team channel | Time each week | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LinkedIn notifications | Your own account | No | No | Checking the tab |
| Forwarded emails | Each rep's own account | No | Yes, on a paid Slack plan | Filtering the channel |
| Competitor posts by hand | Posts you open | You decide | You paste names | A few minutes per post |
| Ziplined | Your team, competitors, experts, profile viewers | Yes | Yes, one channel per saved list | None after setup |
What to do with LinkedIn alerts in Slack
A LinkedIn alert in Slack works best when someone acts on it the same day, and writes to the person on LinkedIn. Four plays to start with:
One channel per rep
Each rep gets the people who engaged with their own posts and profile.
A #competitor-audience channel
The people who fit and engage with your competitors, in one place.
A weekly digest for the sales meeting
A weekly alert lands on Monday, before you plan the week.
React in Slack, write on LinkedIn
Discuss who takes it in the thread, then open the profile and write.
The LinkedIn Lead Radar
- Watch your market for buying signals
- Analyze your own audience
- Takes no action on LinkedIn
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- ChatGPT
- Grok Bot
- Cursor
- Slack
- HeyReach
- Google Sheets
- Clay
FAQ
How do I turn LinkedIn notifications on?
Click your profile picture, then Settings & Privacy, then Notifications. Pick a type and choose in-app, push or email. Push only works when in-app is on (LinkedIn Help, checked 12 November 2026).
Can I get notified when a prospect likes my LinkedIn post?
Yes. Ziplined checks your posts and your team's posts every night, and posts each new Lead who liked or commented to your Slack channel, with the reason, such as "Liked Anna's post about cold email".
Can I get a Slack alert when someone views my LinkedIn profile?
Yes, with the optional Ziplined Chrome extension. It reads your profile viewers up to twice a day, and a saved list of the viewers who fit sends them to Slack. On a free LinkedIn account it sees the same 3 viewers you do; with Premium, the full list.
Can I get a Slack alert when someone posts on LinkedIn?
Not yet. An alert when a person or company you track publishes a new post is coming soon. Today Ziplined alerts on people: who engages with those posts, views your profile, follows or connects.
Are Ziplined alerts real time?
No. The first names are in Ziplined within minutes of adding a profile, but Slack gets only people who are new after you turn the alert on. Posts and their likes and comments are then checked every night, the extension reads profile viewers up to twice a day, and Slack or email sends what came in hourly, daily or weekly.
Can I get alerts about my competitors' posts?
Yes. Add the competitor's profile or company page to watch, save a list of the people who engage with it, and send it to a channel such as #competitor-audience. Only people who fit your ideal client get through.
Will I get an alert every time the same person likes a post?
Not by default: Slack gets the people who are new in the saved list. Pick "New people and activity" when you set up the alert to also hear when someone in the list likes or comments again.
Can I get the alerts by email instead?
Yes. The email digest goes to up to 10 addresses, hourly, daily or weekly, and daily by default.
Does Ziplined like, comment or message for me?
No. Ziplined takes no action on LinkedIn, and the optional extension only reads your profile viewers, new followers and new connections. The alert tells you who to look at, and you write to them yourself.
What does it cost?
Ziplined Solo is $49 a month with 3,000 credits, and Team is from $99 a month. One credit is one thing Ziplined collects: a post, a like or comment on it, a profile view or a new follower. Everyone collected costs a credit, including people who do not fit; 3,000 credits is for example 30 posts with 99 reactions each a month. Slack messages cost no credits. 7 days free with 3,000 credits; a card is needed at checkout, and the first charge comes when the 7 days end.
