LinkedIn profile rental glossary

A–Z: Account age · Account restriction · Account sale · Blocklist · Connection degree · Daily limits · Dormant account · Genuine connections · Identity verification · Initial term · InMail · Liability cap · LinkedIn Premium · LinkedIn User Agreement · Managed session access · Message template · Message template approval · Monthly activity log · Notice period · Outreach campaign · Outreach sequence · Pause · Payout · Permanent closure · Profile completeness · Ramp-up · Rate factors · Rate quote · Rental agreement · Sales Navigator · Social Selling Index (SSI) · Target list · UTR (Unique Transaction Reference) · Verification code · Warm-up

Your account and what a client is paying for

What makes a profile placeable, and what does and does not move the rate.

Account age

Account age is how long a LinkedIn account has existed and been used in an ordinary way. It is most of what a client is actually paying for, because a long, genuine history is what makes the profile credible to the people it messages. There is no single published threshold; ExtraProfile's own guideline is an account at least two years old with genuine activity behind it, and a specialist makes the final call.

In depth: How old does a LinkedIn account have to be before anyone will rent it?

Connection degree

Connection degree describes how close someone is to you on LinkedIn. First-degree connections are people you are directly connected to, second-degree connections are their connections, and third-degree connections are one step further out. ExtraProfile campaigns target people outside your existing network, so your first-degree connections are not contacted. Anyone operating the account can still see your first-degree list, which is why the agreement should say what may be done with it.

In depth: What a renter can see and do with your LinkedIn connections

Genuine connections

Genuine connections are people you actually know or have worked alongside, added one at a time, as opposed to connections bought, swapped or collected by accepting every request. A smaller network concentrated in one industry is worth more to a client than a large, scattered one. Connection count is the factor people over-weight most: who your connections are matters more than how many there are.

In depth: How to grow a LinkedIn network that has real value

Dormant account

A dormant account is one that has gone largely unused for a long stretch, often after a career change or retirement. Its age can still count in its favour, but a long-silent account that suddenly becomes active carries a higher risk of a security check or restriction. Say honestly how long it has been unused; a specialist will tell you whether it can be considered at all.

In depth: Does a dormant LinkedIn account still qualify for rental? · Career switchers: your old network still has value

Profile completeness

Profile completeness is whether the parts a recipient checks before replying are filled in and current: photo, headline and work history. It is one of the factors that set a rate, and gaps a recipient would notice lower it. It is also the thing most worth an hour of your own time before you apply.

In depth: LinkedIn profile optimization checklist that raises your rate

Social Selling Index (SSI)

The Social Selling Index, or SSI, is a score LinkedIn calculates for members as a measure of their sales activity on the platform. LinkedIn describes it as reflecting four areas: establishing a professional brand, finding the right people, engaging with insights and building relationships. LinkedIn does not publish the formula behind the score, so treat any exact explanation of how it is worked out as a guess. SSI is not one of the factors ExtraProfile lists as setting a rate.

In depth: What sets how much you earn, factor by factor

Rate factors

Rate factors are what move the monthly amount a specialist quotes for your account: industry, seniority, account age and history, region, profile completeness and commitment length. Connection count also counts, but it weighs least. Because two profiles with the same connection count can be worth very different amounts, ExtraProfile does not publish a headline figure.

In depth: How much is your LinkedIn profile actually worth? · Does your job title and seniority change what a rented LinkedIn profile pays?

LinkedIn's rules and tools

The LinkedIn products and rules that come up in a rental. These are our explanations, not LinkedIn wording.

LinkedIn User Agreement

The LinkedIn User Agreement is the contract every member accepts in order to use LinkedIn, and it is the rule that matters most here. Its Don'ts in section 8.2 bar members from renting, leasing or otherwise monetising access to the service, and from using another member's account, including by sharing log-in credentials or copying cookies. Profile rental is inconsistent with both, and LinkedIn may restrict, suspend or permanently close an account it believes is shared, without warning.

In depth: What we do with your account, and what can go wrong · Section 4 of our Terms

LinkedIn Premium

LinkedIn Premium is LinkedIn's paid subscription for individual members. As LinkedIn describes it, it adds features such as seeing who viewed your profile, extra search results and a monthly InMail allowance that varies by plan. Buying it yourself will not, on its own, get you a better rental offer, and any tooling a campaign needs is normally the client's cost.

In depth: Does LinkedIn Premium or Sales Navigator get you a higher rental rate?

Sales Navigator

Sales Navigator is LinkedIn's paid sales tool. It offers advanced lead and account search filters, saved lead lists, alerts on those leads and its own InMail allowance. For a campaign its main value is a tighter target list; it does not raise LinkedIn's limits on how many connection requests an account can send.

In depth: Does LinkedIn Premium or Sales Navigator get you a higher rental rate?

InMail

InMail is LinkedIn's paid message type for writing to someone you are not connected to. Premium and Sales Navigator plans include a monthly InMail allowance that varies by plan. Whatever is attached to an account is reachable from it, so whether InMail is used during a rental, and for what, belongs in writing.

In depth: Does LinkedIn Premium or Sales Navigator get you a higher rental rate?

Daily limits

Daily limits are the caps LinkedIn places on how many connection requests and messages an account can send. LinkedIn does not publish one fixed daily number that applies to every account, so any specific figure you see quoted online is someone's estimate rather than LinkedIn's rule. ExtraProfile keeps campaign volume conservative and increases it gradually instead of working up to a number.

In depth: Is renting your LinkedIn account safe? What the risk really is

How a campaign runs

What happens on your account once an arrangement starts, and the controls you keep.

Outreach campaign

An outreach campaign is a run of business messages sent from your account for one client, to one approved target list, using approved templates. A specialist sends connection requests and replies inside direct messages, and meetings are booked into the client's calendar, never yours. Nothing is posted publicly and your profile is not edited.

In depth: What your profile actually gets used for · What does a month of LinkedIn profile rental actually look like?

Target list

A target list is the set of people a campaign will contact from your account, usually defined by role, industry, company and region. You approve it before a campaign starts, and anyone on your blocklist is removed from it before anyone is contacted. It is drawn from people outside your existing network.

In depth: Who approves the messages sent from your LinkedIn during a rental?

Outreach sequence

An outreach sequence is the planned order of messages a recipient may receive: typically a connection request, then a first message once they accept, then a reply if they respond. Each step uses an approved template. A well-run sequence states its commercial purpose early and stops when someone says no.

In depth: A worked example of a connection request and first message

Message template

A message template is the approved wording a campaign uses, with placeholders such as a first name filled in for each recipient. Templates must not misrepresent who the sender is or what is being offered. The templates used each month are reproduced in full in your monthly activity log.

In depth: What a message template actually looks like

Message template approval

Message template approval is your sign-off on the exact wording before anything is sent under your name. You can change the wording, ask for a different angle or refuse the campaign outright. It is the main control you have over a rental, because every message carries your name.

In depth: Who approves the messages sent from your LinkedIn during a rental?

Blocklist

A blocklist is a list of companies, people and whole industries that must never be contacted from your account, such as your employer, its competitors or its customers. You set it at onboarding, it is written into your agreement and enforced for the whole engagement, and you can add to it at any time. It controls who is contacted, not who sees your activity.

In depth: What a blocklist does in a LinkedIn profile rental, and who belongs on yours

Warm-up

Warm-up is a term outreach providers use for a period of ordinary activity on a little-used account before any outreach starts. It does not change what the LinkedIn User Agreement says, and it does not remove the risk of restriction.

In depth: Does a dormant LinkedIn account still qualify for rental?

Ramp-up

Ramp-up is the gradual increase in campaign volume after launch, rather than starting at full rate. ExtraProfile's standard ramp runs over roughly the first three weeks, and an account that has been restricted before should go slower than that. It lowers the risk of restriction; it does not remove it.

In depth: Section 6 of our Terms: how we mitigate risk · Can you rent out a LinkedIn account that was restricted before?

Managed session access

Managed session access is the arrangement in which you sign in to your own account yourself and the team works inside that session, so your password is never sent in an email or a chat. Two-step verification stays on a phone you hold, and you can end the session at any time from LinkedIn's Where you're signed in screen. It limits how exposed your credentials are; it does not make the arrangement compliant with LinkedIn's rules.

In depth: Password sharing vs managed session access in LinkedIn profile rental

Verification code

A verification code is the one-time code LinkedIn sends when a sign-in needs confirming. During a rental you may be asked for one, and you are asked to reply within 48 hours. ExtraProfile only ever asks for a LinkedIn code, never one for your email, your bank or any other service.

In depth: How access is handled, and what you should never share

Monthly activity log

The monthly activity log is the record ExtraProfile sends you of everything done from your account in a calendar month. It lists each campaign and the client's sector, every connection request and whether it was accepted, every message thread and whether it got a reply, who was contacted and when, the templates used, blocklist exclusions applied and meetings booked. If anything in it is not what you approved, tell us and we stop that campaign.

In depth: What the log contains, field by field · Signs your LinkedIn account is being misused during a rental

When something goes wrong

What LinkedIn can do to an account, and what does and does not follow.

Account restriction

An account restriction is LinkedIn limiting or locking an account it believes has broken its rules, including one it believes is shared. A temporary restriction is the common outcome: features stop working or the account locks until the owner completes identity verification. If it happens during a campaign, ExtraProfile stops the same day, tells you, pays the month in progress in full, with daily payments continuing until the end of that month, and sends you that month's activity log.

In depth: What happens if your LinkedIn account gets restricted while it is rented out

Identity verification

Identity verification is LinkedIn's process for confirming that the person behind an account is its genuine owner, for example through a phone check or an identity document. It is what usually lifts a temporary restriction, and it is completed by the account owner. ExtraProfile helps you through it, but nothing obliges LinkedIn to reinstate an account.

In depth: Can you rent out a LinkedIn account that was restricted before?

Permanent closure

Permanent closure is LinkedIn shutting an account for good. It is less common than a temporary restriction, but it does happen, and it takes your accumulated network with it. ExtraProfile does not compensate you for the account or the connections in it, and daily payments stop at the end of the month in progress.

In depth: Is renting your LinkedIn account safe? What the risk really is · Section 5 of our Terms

The agreement and getting paid

The contract, how you leave, and how money reaches you.

Rental agreement

The rental agreement, which ExtraProfile calls the engagement agreement, is the separate written contract you sign if your application is accepted. It sets the monthly fee, the term, the notice either side must give, what may and may not be sent from your account, your blocklist and how access works. The website Terms are not this contract; the agreement governs the actual arrangement.

In depth: What a fair LinkedIn profile rental agreement should contain

Initial term

The initial term is the minimum length of an engagement: three months from the day your campaign launches. You can still ask for an immediate pause at any time during it. After it ends, either side can leave on 30 days' written notice.

In depth: Section 9 of our Terms: term, suspension and termination

Notice period

In a rental agreement, the notice period is how far ahead either side must say it is ending the arrangement; at ExtraProfile it is 30 days' written notice after the initial term, with no penalty. The phrase also means the weeks you serve after resigning from a job. That second kind is a bad time to start a rental, because your old and new employers are both looking at your profile.

In depth: How to stop renting your LinkedIn profile and get full control back · Can you rent out your LinkedIn profile while serving a notice period?

Pause

A pause stops campaign activity on your account without ending the agreement. You can ask for one at any time, for any reason, with no explanation needed. Your daily payments continue while a campaign is paused, whether you asked, ExtraProfile paused it or LinkedIn forced it.

In depth: How to stop renting your LinkedIn profile and get full control back

Rate quote

A rate quote is the single monthly figure, in USD (INR for owners in India), that a specialist sends after reviewing your profile against current client demand. It is one specific amount rather than a range, and it normally arrives within three business days. Nothing on the website is an offer of a specific amount; the rate is confirmed in your agreement.

In depth: What actually happens during a LinkedIn profile rental review?

Payout

A payout is a payment ExtraProfile makes to you for hosting campaigns. Your rate is one fixed monthly figure, and it is paid out daily: every day for each day your campaign is live, starting on the day it goes live. Owners in India are paid in INR by UPI or bank transfer; everyone else is paid in USD by PayPal, Wise, bank transfer or stablecoin (USDT/USDC). You never pay ExtraProfile anything, and nothing is withheld for tax, so declaring the income is your responsibility.

In depth: How professionals get paid: payout methods compared · Is money from renting your LinkedIn profile taxable?

UTR (Unique Transaction Reference)

UTR stands for Unique Transaction Reference: the reference number assigned to a bank transfer in India, also shown as the transaction reference in UPI apps. If a payout reaches an Indian bank account, the UTR is what your bank needs to trace that specific payment. Keep it with each payout record, and quote it if you ever need to query a payment.

In depth: The four documents to keep for every profile rental payout · Getting paid by an overseas company from India

Liability cap

A liability cap is the most one side can be made to pay the other if something goes wrong. In ExtraProfile's Terms it is the total fees paid to you in the three months before a claim. On a monthly fee that is small next to the value of an established network, so weigh the two before you apply.

In depth: Section 11 of our Terms: limitation of liability

Account sale

An account sale means handing a LinkedIn account to someone else permanently, which is different from renting it. A LinkedIn account is access granted to you personally under the User Agreement, so selling one is inconsistent with LinkedIn's terms and gives a stranger your name and network for good. Renting is inconsistent with those terms too; the difference is that in a rental you keep the recovery email and password and can end access yourself.

In depth: Renting out your LinkedIn profile vs selling it: what is the actual difference?