Best social selling tools in 2026: buyer’s guide

Compare nine tools for prospect engagement, publishing, buyer research and CRM. See workflow controls, plan limits and costs to choose the right tools for your team.

Oleg Sobolev, Founder, Extrovert

Published Updated 25 min read

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  1. Best forDaily prospect relationships

    Starting price$49/account/month10-day trial, no card

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  2. Best forIn-feed comment drafting

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  3. Best forPublishing reports

    Starting price$25/month Starter

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  4. Best forContent and contact lists

    Starting price$39/account/month Starter7 days or AI limit; card required

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  5. Best forExpertise into posts

    Starting price$39/account/month Pro7-day trial

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  6. Best forDraft editing and reuse

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    Best forTeam publishing and replies

    Starting price$99/seat/month Essentials30-day trial, no card

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  8. Best forBuyer research and alerts

    Starting price$119.99/license/month Core1-month eligible trial; card required

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  9. Best forDeal and activity records

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Extrovert is our first pick among the best social selling tools for B2B sellers who want a daily routine with selected buyers. It brings their posts, comment drafts and recommended follow-ups into focused workflows. Sales Navigator covers buyer research; publishing tools help with your own posts; listening and CRM tools cover wider conversations and deal records. Start with the job that is slowing your team down, then compare the plan that includes it.

Key takeaways

  • Extrovert helps you stay in touch with the people you want to reach. Start with a prospect list, review relevant comments and use recent activity to guide a separate DM or follow-up.
  • Buyer search and buyer relationships need different tools. Sales Navigator helps you find people and follow account changes; a daily engagement routine turns that research into regular contact.
  • Publishing tools help you share your own expertise consistently. Compare writing, scheduling and analytics separately from tracking a prospect's posts and continuing a conversation.
  • Listening and CRM tools add wider context and a record of the relationship. Check the networks covered, what activity reaches the CRM and who will act on an alert.
  • Compare the price of the workflow you need, not only the cheapest plan. Seats, connected accounts, tracking allowances, discovery Credits and add-ons can all change the bill.

What social selling software actually is (and what it is not)

Social selling software helps you find relevant people, understand their interests and keep a professional relationship moving. For a B2B seller, that often means following a buyer's LinkedIn posts, contributing a useful comment and choosing a good reason to start or resume a conversation. The software reduces the work of checking profiles, finding posts and remembering the next step.

The category covers several jobs. Prospect-engagement tools organize activity around people you want to reach. Publishing tools help you write and schedule your own posts. Listening products find wider mentions of a company, topic or problem. Buyer-research tools help you identify contacts and accounts, while a CRM stores the relationship and deal history. A team may combine them, but it should be clear which job each purchase adds.

A social selling tool does not turn every reaction into a qualified lead. A post, comment or job change can supply context for a conversation; it does not prove that someone is ready to buy. Measure relevant replies, meetings and opportunities alongside activity counts. Keep the reason for each contact and its outcome in the team's records.

Social selling also differs from social commerce. Shoppable storefronts and in-app checkout help a consumer buy a product. This guide compares tools for B2B relationships, particularly on LinkedIn. For company-page publishing and employee distribution, see our LinkedIn marketing tools guide.

How we ranked these social selling tools

We put the daily buyer-relationship job first: choose relevant people, notice their activity, contribute and follow up. Extrovert leads because that selected-prospect routine connects its post feed with comments and separate recommended conversations. The other picks cover narrower engagement tasks or complementary publishing, listening, search and CRM work.

We compared four documented dimensions across the shortlist:

  • Workflow coverage: which of five jobs each tool covers: prospect engagement, publishing, listening, buyer research and CRM records. A publishing calendar or social inbox is different from a selected-prospect feed.
  • Capacity and billing unit: the number of tracked prospects, connected accounts, brands or paid seats included in the relevant plan. Separate recurring capacity from discovery usage and paid add-ons.
  • Action controls: whether the user writes, edits, approves, schedules or deliberately enables automatic activity. Check comments, connection requests and DMs separately rather than treat one switch as permission for every action.
  • Workflow cost and access: the entry price, plan gates, billing commitment and trial terms for the work described. A free account that excludes LinkedIn or an integration requiring two higher-tier subscriptions changes the decision.

The comparison table repeats these dimensions so you can narrow the list around your team's actual work. Ratings show the named platform and its review count; the workflow and plan conditions explain what you are buying.

The best social selling tools in 2026

These nine picks cover the main jobs in a B2B social selling routine. Extrovert starts with the people you want to reach and the next useful interaction. Publishing and listening products serve different parts of the same program. Compare their fit before adding another subscription.

1. Extrovert, best for a daily prospect-relationship routine

Extrovert product overview

Extrovert helps you keep up with buyers you have already chosen. Add those people to a campaign, then work through their relevant LinkedIn posts instead of checking each profile for something worth responding to.

Campaign priorities let you finish warming up people close to outreach or spread attention across your list. You see one post per person at a time, so a frequent poster does not fill the feed. Review the suggested comment against the post, edit it to add something useful, then approve or skip it. Manual approval is the default; you can enable automatic commenting for a selected campaign.

Prioritize a prospect’s post, review your comment, then open a separate recommended conversation and check the reason for following up.

Once the buyer accepts your LinkedIn connection and the campaign's warm-up and wait are complete, open its separate DMs → Recommended view. Suggestions draw on the person's profile, recent posts and conversation history, giving you context for a first message or follow-up. You review, edit and send the message yourself. That gives the daily routine a next step beyond leaving comments.

Extrovert reads the prospect's posts. hot take, thought leadership, motivation, promotion are skipped. One post, went to sf tech week, is a Restarter signal. Extrovert suggests the DM "Seen you went to SF Tech Week. How did it go?", and the prospect replies.

Price: $49 per connected LinkedIn account/month, billed monthly. Each account adds 250 prospects, one topic and 300 monthly Credits to the team pool; comment and DM drafts do not consume Credits. Review-only teammates are free. The trial lasts 10 days with no card required.

Rating: Product Hunt: 5/5 from 12 reviews.

Con: Tracking more than the included prospect allowance costs extra; another 250 prospects costs $20/month.

Best suited for

B2B sellers using LinkedIn for sales who have a defined buyer list and want a daily habit of relevant comments and timely messages. Small teams can share that routine while keeping each seller in control of what they say.

2. Engage AI, best for in-feed comment assistance

Engage AI product overview

Engage AI helps you draft a response while reading a LinkedIn post. Its Chrome copilot puts suggested wording inside the comment field, where you can change the tone, length or prompt before posting. That suits a seller who already knows which posts to open and wants help getting a useful first draft down.

Its prospect-monitoring integrations add another route. In HubSpot, you select contacts using a Nurturing field and their LinkedIn profile URL. New posts appear in the contact's timeline; you open LinkedIn and work on the comment there. Check the integration's included capacity rather than assume the extension supplies a complete follow-up routine.

The maintained Chrome listing advertises free core features and Pro at $30/month. The separate Engagement Community costs $50/month for an individual or $250/month for a group. That offer organizes reciprocal engagement on members' own posts, so it is a different purchase from the comment copilot.

The Pipedrive integration reports 3.5/5 from five ratings, with two written reviews. Chrome Web Store reports 4.1/5 from 329 ratings. Historical reviewers on G2 and Capterra describe repetitive drafts that need editing; some Chrome reviewers report reliability problems. Those comments make draft quality and extension behavior useful trial checks.

Pros: Comment drafting stays close to the post; CRM integrations can surface selected contacts' updates. Cons: Copilot, monitoring integrations and Community have different packaging, and the copilot does not supply a documented DM follow-up sequence.

Best suited for: Sellers who want help writing comments inside LinkedIn. Check the separate monitoring integration if your starting point is a CRM contact list.

3. Metricool, best for cross-channel publishing reports

Metricool product overview

Metricool helps you keep a publishing calendar and see how your own content performs across channels. You can connect a LinkedIn personal profile or company page, schedule posts and review post-level results. It suits a social selling program where regular publishing and reporting take too much time.

The billing unit is a brand: one profile per platform. A LinkedIn personal profile and a company page use two brands, even when they belong to the same business. Starter costs $25/month for five brands, or $20/month equivalent billed annually. The permanent free plan excludes LinkedIn and X, so it is not a free LinkedIn publishing option.

Team review changes the plan choice. Advanced starts at $67/month for fifteen brands, or $53/month billed annually, and adds collaborators, roles and approval workflows. Review settings can require one reviewer, everyone or approval unless someone rejects the post. Starter is single-access; white label belongs to Custom.

Metricool also handles LinkedIn comments and mentions in its Inbox, but not LinkedIn private messages. Its personal-profile analytics include follower history from connection or renewed permissions and roughly ninety days of post backfill. Paid history retention is different from importing your entire publishing past.

Trustpilot reports 4.1/5 from 688 reviews. Some reviewers describe posting failures and support delays; G2 reviewers mention LinkedIn tagging and report-customization limits. Include those tasks in your evaluation.

Pros: Publishing, personal-profile analytics and cross-channel reporting share one workspace. Cons: Team approvals need Advanced, and the LinkedIn Inbox does not handle private-message follow-up.

Best suited for: Sellers who publish across channels and need consistent reports. Check the brand count and approval tier before adding teammates.

4. Taplio, best for publishing with contact-list engagement

Taplio product overview

Taplio combines LinkedIn writing, scheduling and analytics with engagement around contact lists. A seller can prepare their own posts and then work through relevant people's posts without treating publishing and commenting as completely separate tasks. Its engagement tools make it broader than a scheduler, but the plan gates matter.

Starter costs $39/month per LinkedIn account and covers scheduling, drafts and analytics without AI writing or Engage. Growth costs $69/month and adds contact-post engagement, 250 monthly Expert-mode AI credits and 500 reply credits. Faster-mode writing remains available after the Expert allowance. Pro costs $199/month and adds the lead database and automated or bulk outreach; annual subscriptions have separate lower monthly equivalents.

For bulk DMs, you choose recipients, write the message, review the preview and confirm the campaign. Per-post Auto DM is different: a reaction or reply can trigger the configured message to eligible first-degree connections. Check those settings before enabling activity; an engagement event is a starting point for judgment about relevance.

The current trial help requires payment details. It says billing starts after seven days or when the trial AI allowance is exhausted, whichever comes first. An annual selection charges the full year, so review the selected plan and cancellation flow.

Trustpilot reports 3.6/5 from twenty reviews. Reviewers describe surprise charges and cancellation trouble; Taplio says it refunded some complaints.

Pros: Publishing and contact-list engagement sit together. Cons: AI and Engage require Growth; automated outreach requires Pro and careful trigger setup.

Best suited for: Sellers who publish regularly and also engage with contact lists. Compare Growth's working limits with the specific outreach features you need from Pro.

5. Supergrow, best for turning expertise into posts and engagement

Supergrow product overview

Supergrow helps founders and sellers turn what they know into regular LinkedIn posts. Its PostCast interview captures ideas, while Content DNA applies details about your audience, opinions, tone and vocabulary. You can also bring in voice notes, articles, PDFs or YouTube material, then edit and schedule the result.

It also supports genuine selected-list engagement. Engage collects posts from chosen people and company pages; you can import people through URLs, CSV files or post commenters. Filters let you focus on recent posts, and editable comment drafts use your Content DNA. Reactions, comments and reposts each require the employee's click, separate from scheduled publication of your own posts.

Pro costs $39/month for one account, or $31/month billed annually. It includes publishing, engagement, profile analytics and MCP. Teams costs $199/month for five accounts, or $189/month billed annually, with a free admin dashboard, approval workflows and team reporting. Enterprise has custom terms. A seven-day trial is available; the vendor says you choose a plan afterward or the account pauses without data loss.

G2 reports 4.4/5 from fourteen reviews. Some reviewers wanted deeper reporting across clients and more performance history; others described interface quirks. Those are useful checks if you are buying for several executives rather than one profile.

Pros: Idea capture, scheduling and chosen-list engagement work together. Cons: The team workflow needs Teams, and Engage actions still need a person's click; plan time for that daily work.

Best suited for: Content-led sellers and founders who want their posts and engagement in one place. Teams can evaluate it for executive publishing with a shared approval process.

6. AuthoredUp, best for hands-on drafting and post history

AuthoredUp product overview

AuthoredUp gives a seller more control over the LinkedIn post they are writing. Its editor supports formatting, snippets, readability checks and previews of the desktop and mobile feed. You can save drafts, tag them and return to earlier posts when the subject becomes relevant again.

The extension and web platform do different work. You can draft on either surface, but scheduling uses LinkedIn's native scheduler through the Chrome extension. The web platform cannot directly publish or schedule posts. It displays collected analytics; the extension gathers fresh LinkedIn data. That distinction matters if you expect a browser-independent scheduler for your team.

Individual costs $19.95/month for one connected profile, or $199.50/year. Business costs $14.95/profile/month with a three-profile minimum. Managers and ghostwriters without their own connected profile are free. The fourteen-day trial needs no card and stops without an automatic charge.

For collaboration, shared drafts use statuses such as Active, Ready and Submitted. Ready tells a teammate that the draft can move forward; check whether that status-based process fits your approval policy. Current pricing lists Coauthor AI in closed beta, rather than a generally available writing assistant.

Trustpilot reports 3.2/5 from one review. That reviewer described formatting problems when pasting into LinkedIn and questioned the annual price. Chrome Web Store separately reports 4.7/5 from seventy ratings.

Pros: Detailed editing, previews and reusable post history. Cons: Scheduling and fresh analytics depend on the extension, and team collaboration needs the Business minimum.

Best suited for: Sellers who write their own posts and care about presentation. Teams can use it for shared drafts when its status-based handoff fits their process.

7. Sprout Social, best for team publishing and owned-channel replies

Sprout Social product overview

Sprout Social gives teams a shared publishing calendar, reporting and tools for handling conversations around their social presence. In a social selling program, it serves the company and marketing operation alongside the individual seller's relationships. Its Smart Inbox supports comments on connected LinkedIn personal profiles and company Pages, plus private messages to connected Pages.

The entry price does not include that whole workflow. Essentials costs $99/seat/month on monthly billing, or $79/seat/month billed annually, for five social profiles. It covers publishing and reporting. Standard adds Smart Inbox and collaboration at $249 monthly or $199/month billed annually per seat. Professional adds publishing approval workflows, while higher tiers add further care and reporting tools.

Listening costs extra and requires Standard or above. On LinkedIn, its coverage is limited to connected Pages you own and associated activity, rather than arbitrary member-post feeds. Check the network coverage and separate quote before budgeting for a broader monitoring program.

For LinkedIn Page messages, a teammate writes a reply and chooses Send or Submit for Approval according to the workflow. Keep that owned-Page process separate from a rep's personal DM outreach. A thirty-day trial is available without a card.

TrustRadius reports 8.4/10 from 632 reviews and ratings. Reviewers on Capterra describe rising multi-seat costs and contract-support problems; a TrustRadius reviewer reports tagging and reporting glitches.

Pros: Shared publishing, reporting and owned-channel replies. Cons: Inbox and approvals have higher plan gates, and Listening adds a separate cost.

Best suited for: Teams coordinating company social activity alongside their sellers. Confirm the paid seats, approval tier and Listening coverage needed for that program.

8. LinkedIn Sales Navigator, best for buyer research and saved-lead alerts

LinkedIn Sales Navigator product overview

Sales Navigator helps you find the people and accounts worth engaging. Its fifty-plus search filters, saved leads and account alerts let a seller build a target list and return when something changes. It provides LinkedIn's own research and contacting tools rather than a publishing calendar.

Core starts at $119.99/license/month, or $1,079.88 per year. Advanced starts at $159.99/month, or $1,799.88 per year; Advanced Plus has custom pricing. All three plans include Account IQ, Lead IQ and Message Assist. Advanced and Advanced Plus add TeamLink for warm introduction paths, while CRM Sync requires Advanced Plus and a supported CRM subscription.

Capacity is concrete: you can save 10,000 leads, with 1,000 per list, and fifty saved lead searches plus fifty saved account searches for monitoring. Each license includes fifty monthly InMail credits, with up to 150 accumulated. Message Assist drafts an individual first-touch InMail for you to review, edit and send; it is not an automatic follow-up sequence.

An eligible Core or Advanced trial lasts one month, requires payment details and renews into a paid subscription. LinkedIn says to cancel at least one day before renewal to avoid the charge. Compare the commitment and required team features before selecting a plan.

TrustRadius reports 8.5/10 from 1,608 reviews and ratings. Reviewers ask for more InMail credits and easier list downloads, and describe contact-data and export limitations.

Pros: Detailed buyer search, saved-list alerts and individual InMail. Cons: TeamLink and CRM Sync have higher plan gates; the InMail allowance is finite.

Best suited for: B2B sellers building and researching a target-buyer list. Pair that research with a clear engagement and follow-up routine, such as networking on LinkedIn.

9. HubSpot Sales Hub, best for keeping relationships tied to deals

HubSpot Sales Hub product overview

HubSpot Sales Hub gives your team a record of contacts, activities and deals. A seller can keep the reason for an outreach attempt beside calls, emails and the next task, then track whether the relationship becomes an opportunity. That record makes social selling easier to manage across a team.

Free sales tools support up to two users. The catalog base for Starter is $20/month per Core Seat. Professional starts at $100/month per Sales Seat with an annual commitment, or $90/month billed annually, plus $1,500 required onboarding. Enterprise starts at $150/seat/month billed annually with $3,500 onboarding. Compare the paid Sales Seat rather than an extra Core or view-only seat when you need full seller features.

The LinkedIn integration has conditions on both sides: an assigned Sales Hub Professional or Enterprise seat and a separate Sales Navigator Advanced Plus subscription. The standard app shows LinkedIn context and supports manually composed InMail, but does not import contacts or automatically save the conversation. The separate CRM Sync app supports contact creation and supported activity writeback; check its configuration before assuming every social touch reaches the record.

Sequences can automate emails, while LinkedIn InMail and connection steps are manual reminders. A fourteen-day Sales Hub trial is available. G2 reports 4.4/5 from 14,372 reviews; reviewers describe rising tier costs, setup effort and reporting that depends on consistent activity records.

Pros: Contacts, deal progress and sales tasks share one system. Cons: The LinkedIn integration requires higher-tier subscriptions on both sides, plus onboarding costs for Sales Hub.

Best suited for: Teams that need ownership and deal reporting for their relationships. Define which social activities must be logged and who owns the next step.

Side-by-side comparison

Compare the job covered, included capacity, action controls and the plan that supplies it. Prices below are USD; annual commitments and add-ons are stated where they change the choice. Ratings remain labelled by their own source and scale rather than combined into one overall score.

ToolWork coveredCapacity and billing unitAction controlsRelevant cost or plan gate
ExtrovertSelected-prospect posts, comments and recommended conversationsPer connected account: 250 tracked prospects, 1 topic, 300 monthly pooled CreditsReview comments or enable campaign Auto; DMs recommended for review and sending$49/account/month; extra tracking and discovery Credits cost more
Engage AIIn-feed comment drafts and integration-based post monitoringFree core; monitoring limits depend on the integrationEdit the suggested comment before postingCopilot listing advertises $30/month Pro; Community is a separate purchase
MetricoolPublishing, analytics and LinkedIn comments/mentionsStarter: 5 brands; personal profile and company page use separate brandsSchedule posts; Advanced adds roles and review workflowsStarter $25/month; Advanced $67/month for 15 brands
TaplioPublishing and contact-list engagementPer LinkedIn account; Growth: 250 Expert-mode AI credits and 500 reply credits/monthReview drafts; Pro adds configured bulk and triggered outreachStarter $39/month; Growth $69; Pro $199
SupergrowIdea capture, publishing and selected-list engagementPro: 1 account; Teams: 5 accountsEngage actions require a click; Teams adds approvalsPro $39/month; Teams $199/month
AuthoredUpPost editing, previews, shared drafts and analyticsIndividual: 1 connected profile; Business minimum: 3Native LinkedIn scheduling through extension; shared draft statusesIndividual $19.95/month; Business $14.95/profile/month
Sprout SocialTeam publishing and owned-channel replies; optional ListeningEssentials/Standard: 5 social profiles; billed per paid seatInbox reply review; publishing approvals on Professional+Essentials $99/month; Standard $249/month; Listening extra on Standard+
LinkedIn Sales NavigatorBuyer research, saved-lead alerts and individual InMailPer license: 10,000 saved leads, 50 monthly InMail creditsReview/edit/send individual InMail; TeamLink on Advanced+Core $119.99/month; Advanced $159.99; CRM Sync on quoted Advanced Plus
HubSpot Sales HubContact records, deals, tasks and sales reportingFree: up to 2 users; paid Core/Sales Seats differEmail sequences; LinkedIn steps are manual tasksStarter base $20/Core Seat/month; LinkedIn app needs Professional/Enterprise plus Sales Navigator Advanced Plus

Tracking a prospect, retaining a CRM contact and connecting a publishing brand are different allowances. In Extrovert, comments and DMs do not consume discovery Credits. Lead Finder uses one Credit per processed record, including duplicates and records that cannot be added; activity-based Intent Signals use 25–250 Credits per prospect, depending on the signal. See Extrovert pricing for tracking add-ons and Credit packs.

Which social selling tool fits your use case

Choose the missing job first. A larger stack only helps when each tool has a clear owner and next action.

Your situationTool to evaluateWhat to check in your trialTeam buying condition
You know the buyers but struggle to stay in touchExtrovertRelevant posts, useful comment drafts and follow-up contextConnected accounts, tracked capacity and free reviewers
You want help drafting comments inside LinkedInEngage AIDraft quality and the exact monitoring integrationCopilot versus Community and CRM-app packaging
You publish across channels and report on resultsMetricoolLinkedIn analytics, tagging and reportsBrands plus Advanced approval roles
You publish often and engage with contact listsTaplioGrowth engagement versus Pro outreach controlsPer-account plan and trial billing trigger
You need to turn expertise into posts and daily engagementSupergrowIdea capture, Content DNA and selected-list EngageOne-account Pro versus five-account Teams
You write your own posts and need editing and reuseAuthoredUpExtension scheduling, previews and shared draftsThree-profile Business minimum
Marketing and sales share owned-channel conversationsSprout SocialInbox ownership, approval gates and Listening coveragePaid seats and separately priced add-ons
You need to identify and research relevant buyersLinkedIn Sales NavigatorSearch quality, saved alerts and individual InMailTeamLink and CRM Sync plan gates
You need a dependable record of activity and opportunitiesHubSpot Sales HubSocial activity logging and the next-task ownerSales Seat, onboarding and both integration licenses

What social selling results look like

These customer stories connect the tools to specific relationship work: engage before outreach, follow up with context and keep past contacts in view. The figures below are the customers' reported results and retain the role of other tools in their workflow.

Allbound OS: acceptance rose from 15% to 32%

Can Timağur used Extrovert engagement before outreach through GetSales. He reports connection acceptance rising from 15% to 32%, while his daily DM-reply work fell from 45 minutes to ten. Extrovert supported engagement and nurture; GetSales handled outreach. Read the Allbound OS case study.

Blynked: familiar prospects replied more often

In Bojan's client comparison, cold prospects had 24% connection acceptance and 4% replies. After two weeks of comments, the familiar group had 61% acceptance and 38% replies. Clay, Extrovert and Aimfox formed the wider workflow. Read the Blynked case study.

Unstuck: eight replies and two calls from twelve DMs

Sabahudin Murtić reported eight replies and two booked calls from twelve DMs in a December 2025 comment-to-message example. He used relevant comments, then an opener tied to the person's content and his own DM style. Read the Unstuck case study or browse more Extrovert customer stories.

How to choose your social selling stack

Start with the work your reps keep postponing. If they know their target buyers but rarely see their posts or follow up, try a prospect-focused routine. If they struggle to share their own expertise, test writing and scheduling. Add broader listening only when you have a defined monitoring question and someone responsible for responding.

Use a representative prospect list and record what happens next. Check whether the surfaced posts are relevant, how much editing a draft needs and whether the next message follows naturally from the relationship. For publishing, test the full draft-to-post process; for CRM work, test whether the interaction and its owner reach the right record. The downloadable manual-quality outreach slides walk through choosing a prospect list, setting priorities and connecting comments with follow-up.

Keep the budget in the same units. Connected accounts, brands and CRM seats are different purchases. Include the plan gate for LinkedIn, the billing commitment and any listening or discovery add-on. Our Extrovert versus Sales Navigator comparison explains where native buyer research fits beside engagement.

For a team, agree who reviews comments, who sends messages and who owns the next reply. Shared campaigns help only when someone acts on the work. See the agency program for managed accounts or the done-for-you service if your team wants help operating the routine.

Mention is now a legacy standalone product

Mention stopped standalone sales on July 1, 2026. Existing customers keep their plans, while new listening purchases route to Agorapulse Listening. Its Publish and Respond tools retired on January 30, 2026, so the old offer should not be treated as a new publishing or reply-management subscription.

For an existing Mention customer, review alert quotas, source coverage and the export or transition arrangements before renewing or moving. Legacy Company limits and old trial advertising do not establish the terms of the new Agorapulse Listening package.

Trigify's standalone platform has retired

Trigify announced on September 23, 2026 that its team was joining HubSpot. For customers on the standard notice period, access, integrations, API access and monitoring ended at 11:59 p.m. BST on October 22, 2026; contract-specific dates may differ. Trigify said its product and accounts would not migrate into HubSpot. Existing customers should check their export and dependent-workflow arrangements rather than add the standalone platform to a new stack.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best social selling tool for LinkedIn?

Extrovert is our first pick for a daily routine around selected prospects, relevant comments and context-based follow-up. Add buyer research, publishing or CRM software when your team needs those separate jobs.

What is the difference between social selling and social commerce?

Social selling builds professional relationships that can lead to a sales conversation. Social commerce covers buying through a social platform, including shoppable products and checkout.

How do I choose between engagement and publishing software?

Choose engagement software when the work centers on other people's posts and your next conversation with them. Choose publishing software when the bottleneck is turning your own expertise into regular posts and measuring their response.

How does Extrovert control account activity?

Extrovert keeps activity within your daily limits and follows your working hours. It spaces out actions, and anything over the limit waits for the next day. You choose what to review and what to automate.

What does an Extrovert subscription include?

One $49/month connected-account seat adds 250 tracked prospects, one topic and 300 monthly Credits to the team pool. Review-only teammates are free, while extra tracking capacity and discovery Credit packs cost more.

How are comments and DMs handled differently?

Extrovert lets you review comments or deliberately enable campaign comment automation. For buyers who have accepted your LinkedIn connection, DM settings schedule suggestions rather than automatic messages; you review and send them yourself or explicitly delegate that work to a connected MCP assistant.

Can I start social selling without a paid tool?

You can begin with a free LinkedIn account, a manual prospect list and relevant comments and messages. Buy software when a specific task becomes hard to maintain, then judge the trial by useful conversations and time spent rather than activity alone.

Try Extrovert with your target buyers

Start with the people you want to reach. Bring their posts into a focused daily feed. Review a comment that contributes to the conversation. Use recent activity to guide the next DM or follow-up. Try the routine for ten days with no credit card required.

Start your free Extrovert trial.

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