How To Use LinkedIn Sales Navigator Saved Searches?

Looking to automate your lead generation with LinkedIn Sales Navigator?

Sales Navigator's saved searches let you store a set of search filters (ndustry, seniority, geography, and more) so you can re-run that exact search in one click and receive weekly alerts whenever new leads or accounts match your criteria.

If you're in sales, understanding how to use LinkedIn Sales Navigator puts your lead generation on autopilot.

In this article, I'll cover:

1. What Are LinkedIn Sales Navigator Saved Searches?
2. Where To Find Saved Searches on LinkedIn Sales Navigator?
3. How To Save Searches on LinkedIn Sales Navigator?
4. How To Export Saved Searches in Sales Navigator?
5. How To Use Saved Searches to Generate Leads?
6. How To Delete Saved Searches in Sales Navigator?

What Are LinkedIn Sales Navigator Saved Searches?

LinkedIn Sales Navigator Saved Searches let you store a set of search filters so you can re-run that exact search in one click and receive weekly alerts whenever new leads or accounts match your criteria.

This helps you stay current with your target market and reach out to new prospects as soon as they appear on LinkedIn.

You can save up to 50 lead and 50 account searches on Sales Navigator.

With saved searches, you'll receive weekly alerts when new people or accounts match your saved search criteria.

Where To Find Saved Searches On Sales Navigator?

To access your saved searches in Sales Navigator, click "Saved Searches" at the top right of your homepage, next to the search bar.

A sidebar opens on the right with all your saved searches.

You can also access them through the Lead or Account search pages.

The lists of your saved searches include their names, search criteria, and number of results.

This is where you can see how many new searches have been added to your lists since the last time you ran a search.

How To Save Searches On Sales Navigator?

To save a search in Sales Navigator, follow these steps:

• On the Sales Navigator homepage, click Lead filters or Account filters or enter specific leads or accounts in the search bar and press Enter.

• Refine your search by adding or removing filters, using Sales Navigator boolean search or other advanced searches on the screen. The search results will update in real-time.

• Once you have fine-tuned your search, toggle "Get notified of new lead or account results" in the top right corner of the search filters panel.

• You'll see a pop-up confirming that your search is saved, and you'll receive weekly email alerts with new results.

• Click on "Saved searches" next to the search bar to access your search.

• A sidebar will appear. Click on the pen icon to edit the name of your newly saved search.

Now you have a well-organized lead and account search list.

Every time a new lead matches your search categories, you will receive a notification that it has been added to your list.

Use LinkedIn's AI-Assisted Search to Build Saved Searches from Plain Language

Sales Navigator now ships an AI-assisted search experience that generates filter sets from a natural-language prompt.

Describe your ICP in plain language and LinkedIn converts it into a multi-filter search you can save.

This eliminates the guesswork of picking the right filter combinations and makes saved searches accessible to reps who aren't power users.

Once the AI generates your filter set, review it, refine if needed, then save the search and turn on weekly alerts.

How To Export Saved Searches in Sales Navigator?

Sales Navigator has no native export.

You need a dedicated Chrome extension like Evaboot to pull your saved search results into a clean CSV file.

Here's how to export your leads with Evaboot.

1. Create an Evaboot account

Go to Evaboot and click "Try for free." Then, create an account.

Once you've created your account, click on "Get Chrome Extension" to download it from the Chrome Web Store.

2. Download the Chrome Extension

When on the Chrome Store page, click "Add to Chrome" to install the extension.

You'll be automatically redirected to Sales Navigator.

A popup will show you where the button is located.

3. Select your Sales Navigator lead list

Once the Chrome extension is installed, go to the list of leads you want to export. It can be:

Evaboot handles all the use cases.

You will see the "Export with Evaboot" button on the top of these LinkedIn Sales Navigator pages.

You can even export specific tabs in your lead lists, such as "Changed jobs in the past 90 days."

4. Name and launch your export

When you click "Export with Evaboot," you will be redirected to the Evaboot app.

Select if you want to find emails for these leads or not.

Give a name to your export and click on "Export leads".

The estimated end date will appear on the left right after the export is launched.

Evaboot exports all these leads in real time.

That makes your lead generation process GDPR-compliant, in opposition to using databases.

5. Download your cleaned list

Once the extraction is finished, you receive an email notification containing a link to download the CSV file containing your lead list.

Evaboot does much more than export your list.

It cleans all the names and company names of your LinkedIn contacts.

The data on LinkedIn is not clean.

Cleaning data from your sales navigator export can take hours if you do it manually.

The Evaboot cleaning algorithm takes care of all this work for you by automatically cleaning:

Nobody wants to spend hours cleaning Excel files.

Better let robots do this boring job.

Plus, you will often find false positives inside your LinkedIn Sales Navigator search results.

Even if you're using super precise LinkedIn search operators.

You will frequently find leads that don't match the search filters you chose in the Sales Navigator search engine.

That's why many people spend hours double-checking their search results manually.

This is a painful task, but it's no problem.

Evaboot is the smartest Sales Navigator scraper because our algorithm double-checks your leads to ensure they match the search filters you selected.

In this export, a column named "No Match Reasons" shows why your leads don't match your search filters.

In this example, the leads have the wrong title because the initial search was looking for Growth Marketers.

That being said, lead data is not static.

Job titles change, companies evolve, and outdated information leads to wasted outreach efforts.

To solve this, Evaboot offers LinkedIn profile URL Enrichment: a tool that lets you upload LinkedIn URLs stored in your CRM to enrich your LinkedIn contacts with Sales Navigator data.

How it works:

We recommend updating your lead lists every 3–6 months to maintain accuracy.

This ensures your database stays fresh, relevant, and effective so your sales efforts never go to waste.

For a visual step-by-step guide, check out the video tutorial:

How To Use Saved Searches To Generate Leads?

The fastest way to use Sales Navigator saved searches for lead generation is to combine them with Sales Navigator's built-in Icebreaker Filters signals like job changes, recent posts, or funding events.

So every Monday you receive a fresh batch of pre-qualified leads with a ready-made conversation starter.

Here's how to set that up for both lead and account searches.

1. Use saved lead searches to generate leads

Every week, Sales Navigator sends you new leads corresponding to your search results.

That means every Monday when you get to work you can add these new leads to your LinkedIn outreach campaigns.

Simple as that.

But there's a trick to it.

You can make this technique even more efficient if you use specific filters.

I call them the Icebreaker Filters.

Icebreaker Filters are a set of Sales Navigator filter options such as "Posted on LinkedIn," "Changed Jobs," or "Mentioned in the news" that surface a recent, verifiable event about a prospect, giving you a natural, timely reason to reach out.

The filters give you information on something that just happened to your prospect.

You can use this info to craft a message that will land at the perfect time for your prospect.

This will instantly make you stand out from the many bad LinkedIn prospecting messages your prospects receive daily.

Most importantly, you are saying something true about them, and that's the best way to begin a relationship.

You can create one saved search per icebreaker filter.

Every week, you will receive dozens of leads with ready-made icebreakers to contact them.

The icebreakers will be displayed on the lead lists for all the new leads in your search.

When you get these leads in your list, you can use Evaboot to export them into a CSV and get their emails.

Use Lead IQ to Prioritize Weekly Alerts

LinkedIn's new Lead IQ generates an AI summary of a prospect's role, recent activity, and relevance directly in Sales Navigator.

When your saved search delivers 50 new leads on Monday, use Lead IQ to auto-summarize each one highlighting recent activity and buying signals, so you can prioritize which alerted leads to contact first instead of scanning every profile manually.

This turns your saved-search alerts into a triage-ready feed.

Feed Weekly Icebreaker Leads into an AI Icebreaker Generator

AI icebreaker generators now ingest LinkedIn profile signals (recent posts, job changes) and output personalized opening lines.

Feed the weekly new leads from a saved Icebreaker Filters search (Changed Jobs, Posted on LinkedIn, Mentioned in the news) into an AI icebreaker generator to produce a first line for each lead at scale, instead of writing them manually.

This matches the weekly cadence of saved-search alerts and eliminates the manual copy work.

2. Use saved account searches to generate leads

The Icebreaker Filters also exist in the Account Search.

But it will require a bit more manual work.

The Icebreaker Filters for accounts are:

• Hiring on LinkedIn
• Funding Events in the past 12 months
• Senior leadership changes in last 3 months

Same thing here, you can create a saved search for every Account Icebreaker Filter.

Every week you get companies that just:

Examples of icebreakers you can send

You have the icebreakers, but now you must find the people to send them to.

For that, we are going to use the Account-Based-Search technique.

Account-Based Search is a Sales Navigator technique where you first build a target account list, then filter lead searches by that list to surface only the decision-makers inside those specific companies.

First, you must save the new leads in your saved search in an account list.

Then go back to the lead search and select the list you created in the "Account List" filter.

You will get all the people working in the specific companies on your list.

You can now add some filters to find the right decision-makers.

You can export them into your favorite outreach tool and send them messages with the icebreaker advanced filters we've seen.

Repeat this process every week and you should get more meetings.

Pair Account IQ with Saved Account Searches

LinkedIn's Account IQ now produces one-click AI account research on demand.

When a saved icebreaker account search (funding, hiring, leadership change) surfaces new companies each week, run Account IQ to auto-generate an account brief priorities, financials, leadership before outreach.

This turns a saved account search into ready-to-brief target companies, eliminating the manual account research step.

How To Share a Saved Search in Sales Navigator

Sales Navigator lets you share a saved lead search with teammates so they can access the same filter set and run it themselves.

To share a saved search, click "Saved Searches" next to the search bar, then click the three-dot menu next to the search you want to share and select "Share search."

Enter the email addresses of the teammates you want to share with, and they'll receive an invitation to view the saved search in their own Sales Navigator account.

This is useful when an account exec builds a target list and wants an SDR to work the same filter set, or when a sales manager wants the team to prospect from a consistent ICP.

How To Delete Saved Searches In Sales Navigator?

To delete a saved search in Sales Navigator, you need to:

• Click "Saved Searches" next to the search bar.
• Click on "View" next to the saved list name.

• To delete a saved search, click the trash icon next to its name.

After you click the toggle, the saved search won't appear on the list anymore.

Or, if you want to delete the list definitively:

• Click on the pen icon next to the "View" button.

• Then click "Delete".

• Confirm your action by approving that you want to delete the list.

And the list will no longer be in your saved searches list.

Conclusion

Saved searches are one of the most powerful features of LinkedIn Sales Navigator that can help you find and connect with more leads and accounts for your business.

By saving your search criteria and getting notified of new results, you can stay ahead of your competition and reach out to prospects at the right time.

You can also use external tools like Evaboot to export and integrate your saved searches with other platforms.

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