How to export contacts from Close, with their LinkedIn URLs

Close can give you a list of your contacts as a CSV or Excel file in a few minutes. Here’s how, including the LinkedIn profile links, which is the field most exports leave out.

Who to put in the list

The people who already know you: buyers and users at your customers, the champions of deals you won or lost, and former customers. When one of them moves to a new company, they are the warmest lead you’ll get there.

If your CRM marks your customers (a status, a lifecycle stage or a won deal), filter on it before you export, so the file holds only the people who bought from you.

Export from Close, step by step

Go to Leads (contacts are exported from the Leads page, not the Contacts tab). Filter if you like.
Click … (top right) → Export.
Set Type to Contacts, format CSV, and All fields. Start the export and download it.

Menu names can differ slightly between versions and languages of Close.

Where’s the LinkedIn link?

The link saved in the contact’s URLs. It’s found automatically, whatever the column is called.

The link must point at the person’s profile, like linkedin.com/in/name. Links from Sales Navigator (linkedin.com/sales/…), company pages and old /pub/ links don’t identify the profile: open it on LinkedIn and copy the address from there.

Check the file before you use it

One row per person, with the column names in the first row (title rows above them are fine).
A LinkedIn profile link for everyone you want to follow; name, company, job title and email help but aren’t required.
CSV, TSV or Excel (.xlsx or .xls), up to 10 MB and 20,000 rows.

See which of these contacts changed jobs

Upload the file to ChampionTracker. Every contact is checked straight away: anyone who already left the company in your Close export shows up as a job change, and every contact is checked again every week.

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Other CRMs

Before you export: estimate how many of your past buyers changed jobs. Comparing tools? All job-change tools compared, or ChampionTracker next to UserGems, KeepSync, LeadIQ, Champify and Apollo.io.