Frequently asked questions

Not from LinkedIn itself — LinkedIn does not pay people for having a profile. With account rental, what a client is paying for is account history, a network built over time and a job title that gets messages read, so most student and fresher profiles are too new to place. Apply anyway if you want a straight answer on yours: it is free and we will tell you honestly either way.

In practice, yes. Our published guidelines are an account at least two years old, 500+ genuine connections and a B2B-relevant background. They are guidelines rather than a scoring checklist — a specialist makes the call on your actual profile, so apply if you are close and we will tell you where you stand.

It is not risk-free, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling. LinkedIn's User Agreement says you must not let another person use your account, so LinkedIn can restrict, suspend or close an account it believes is being shared, and that risk stays with you. What we control we commit to in writing: you approve every target list and template, we never post or edit your profile, and you can stop. Read sections 4 and 5 of our Terms, and our safety page, before applying.

We do not publish a figure, and it is worth being wary of anyone who does, because the rate genuinely varies by profile. What moves it: your industry, your seniority, how old and how active the account is, your region relative to the markets clients sell into, how complete the profile is, and how long you commit. Connection count counts for less than most people expect. After a specialist reviews your profile we quote one fixed monthly amount in USD (INR for owners in India) for your account.

Owners in India are paid in INR by UPI or bank transfer; everyone else is paid in USD by PayPal, Wise, direct bank transfer or stablecoin (USDT/USDC). You pick the method on the application form and confirm it at onboarding. Your rate is one fixed monthly figure, paid out daily for each day your campaign is live, with no deductions and nothing charged to you at any stage.

Yes. Ask us to pause and campaigns stop, with no explanation needed and no effect on your daily payments. To end the arrangement entirely, give thirty days' written notice any time after the initial three-month term. There is no penalty and no lock-in.

Treat it as visible: outreach goes out under your name, and your employer could come across it like anyone else. You can put your employer, your competitors and entire industries on a blocklist at onboarding, and it is enforced for the whole engagement. If your employment contract restricts commercial use of your professional identity, check it before you apply rather than after — that check is yours to make, not ours.

It is inconsistent with them, and we say so plainly rather than burying it. LinkedIn's User Agreement requires that account holders do not permit anyone else to use their account. Nothing on this site should be read as a claim that the arrangement complies. Section 4 of our Terms sets out that conflict and section 5 lists the specific risks you take on.

The month in progress is paid in full — a restriction is a pause, and daily payments continue until the end of that month, whoever caused it. We stop the same day we see it and tell you, we send you the activity log for that month, and we walk you through LinkedIn's identity-verification process, which is what usually lifts a temporary restriction. What you do not get, stated plainly: nothing for the account itself or the connections in it, nothing owed after that month, and no compensation for work, clients or opportunities lost because the profile is gone. Our total liability in any claim is capped at the fees we paid you in the three months before it. Section 5 of our Terms sets this out in full.

You grant access through our managed session system rather than sending a password by email, and you change your password when the engagement ends. Full details of how access works are covered in your engagement agreement before you sign anything.

Yes. Post, comment, message and apply for jobs exactly as before. We schedule campaign activity around your own usage so the two never collide.

No. We only send connection requests and reply within direct messages. We never post publicly, comment, react, or change your headline, photo, bio or work history.

Yes, and we encourage it. During onboarding you give us a blocklist — competitors, your own employer, and any industry you'd rather not be associated with. It's written into your agreement, enforced for the whole engagement, and you can add to it at any time.

No. We work from target lists of people outside your existing network. Your current connections, colleagues and any recruiters who approach you are strictly off-limits.

Not unless you want them to. Normally a client just sees a summary — your industry, seniority, region, roughly how big your network is, and when you're free. No name, no contact details, no profile link.

Sometimes a client wants to see the actual profile before going ahead. We'll only show them if you've said it's fine first, and then only through a private link that covers that one client and runs out on its own. Your email, phone number and what we pay you are never part of it, and you can tell us to switch it off any time.

Yes. You approve the target list and message templates before a campaign starts, and you receive a full monthly log of everything sent from your profile.

It covers the calendar month. For that month it lists which campaign each message belonged to and the client's sector, every connection request sent and which of them were accepted, every direct-message thread opened and which of them got a reply, who was contacted — name, job title and company — and the date each was contacted, the message templates used so you can read the exact wording that went out under your name, any blocklist exclusions applied so you can check your list was enforced, and meetings booked into the client's calendar. The field-by-field list is on our safety and risk page. If anything in the log is not what you approved, tell us and we stop that campaign.

We quote one specific monthly figure in USD (INR for owners in India) after a specialist reviews your profile — not a range and not "up to". It depends on your industry, seniority, account history, region and how long you commit. We deliberately don't publish a headline number, because a single figure across every profile would be inaccurate.

Daily. You are paid every day for each day your campaign is live, starting on the day it goes live — in INR by UPI or bank transfer if you are based in India, otherwise in USD via PayPal, Wise, direct bank transfer or stablecoin (USDT/USDC).

Your daily payments continue while it's paused, whether we paused it, you asked us to, or LinkedIn forced it. If we stop for reasons on our side — a client ends a contract, or we want to adjust an approach — that's our cost, not a deduction from you.

Never. No application fee, no setup fee, no deductions. Money only moves toward you. If anyone claiming to represent ExtraProfile asks you for a payment, it isn't us — please report it.

Almost certainly yes — it's income. We don't withhold tax and we're not qualified to advise on your circumstances. Declare it according to your local rules and speak to an accountant if the amount is significant.

Three business days. A specialist reviews every application against current client demand — there's no automated scoring.

Typically an account at least two years old with 500+ genuine connections and a B2B-relevant background — tech, SaaS, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, consulting or recruitment. These are guidelines rather than hard rules, so apply anyway if you're close.

Your region is one of the things a specialist weighs, because it is matched against the markets clients sell into — that is why the application form asks for it. We do not publish a list of eligible countries, and we would rather say so than print one we cannot stand behind. Your country also affects how you are paid: owners in India are paid in INR by UPI or bank transfer, and everyone else in USD by PayPal, Wise, bank transfer or stablecoin, which are not all available in every country — payout methods compared. If you want a straight answer for your own country before going further, ask in the notes box when you apply — applying is free and commits you to nothing.

Three months. Campaigns need runway before they produce results, and below that neither side gets value from the setup effort.

A 20-minute onboarding call, then occasional messages when we need a verification code or a quick decision. We ask that you're reachable within 48 hours.

Thirty days' written notice any time after the initial term, with no penalty. We log out, you change your password and revoke the session, and that's the end of it.

Campaign logs are retained for 12 months for dispute resolution, then deleted. Application details are deleted on request at any time — see our privacy policy.

Our Terms & Conditions set out the full arrangement, including platform compliance, the risks you accept, payment terms and how engagements end. We recommend reading them before applying — particularly sections 4 and 5.

If your employment contract restricts commercial use of your professional identity, yes. That's your responsibility to verify, and it's worth doing before you apply rather than after.