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LinkedIn engagement isn’t just brand awareness. It’s warm intent hiding in plain sight. Every like or comment on a post is a potential lead. The trick is: how do you actually capture that engagement, qualify it quickly, and start conversations while interest is still hot?

This guide will show you the exact steps.

Step 1. Find the right LinkedIn post

You can pull leads from:

• Your own posts → warmest audience, already know you.

• Thought leaders’ posts → full of ICPs hanging out in your niche.

• Competitors’ posts → rich intent signals from people engaging in your category.

Pro tip: pick posts that are recent (last few days) and relevant to your product. Fresh engagement = higher reply rates.

Step 2. Capture the engagers

Traditionally, this means copy-pasting names or using automation scripts. But with Sendegg, you can:

1. Go to LinkedIn and just go through your feed or someone's posts.

2. The chrome extension will give you a button Save Post Audience at the top of each post.

3. Click Save Post Audience.

4. Instantly pull all the people who liked or commented.

5. Save them straight into your lead list.

See the workflow in action:

Capture LinkedIn Post Engagements using Sendegg - Watch Video

Step 3. Enrich the profiles

Once you have the raw names, you need context:

• Company

• Role / seniority

• Location

• Email (if you’re moving to email outreach)

With Sendegg, enrichment happens automatically, no spreadsheets, no jumping between tools.

Step 4. Qualify with AI

This is where most people get stuck. You might have 200 people on the list, but only 20 are a true fit.

With Sendegg’s AI Narrow Down, you can write your criteria in plain English and instantly score leads for fit.

“Find founding Account Executives at tech startups that are not building a competitor product (no sales tools, GTM platforms, or RevOps software).”

Sendegg will automatically:

• Identify which engagers match “founding AE” roles.

• Check company type (tech startup vs agency vs enterprise).

• Exclude competitors in the sales/RevOps/GTM tooling space.

• Give you a shortlist of ICP-fit leads to prioritize.

Instead of scrolling through 200 profiles manually, you get a focused list of the 20 that actually matter.

Step 5. Start outreach

Now that you’ve got a qualified list, it’s time to make contact.

• If you’re on LinkedIn → connect + send a personalized message.

• If you’re using email → launch a Gmail-native sequence directly in Sendegg.

Step 6. Keep track & follow up (the bonus most tools miss)

Capturing and qualifying is great, but if you lose track of who you’ve reached out to, the effort goes to waste.

This is where Sendegg’s built-in CRM comes in:

• See who you’ve already messaged.

• Track which leads accepted your LinkedIn connection requests.

• Keep notes and pipeline stages in one place.

• Get reminders to follow up so no warm lead slips through the cracks.

Instead of juggling spreadsheets or duct-taping another CRM, Sendegg quietly keeps you organized while you focus on conversations.

Watch the full workflow

Want to see the entire play from capture to qualification to outreach in one smooth run?

Capture LinkedIn Post Engagements using Sendegg - Watch Video

From likes to leads

Turning LinkedIn post engagement into pipeline doesn’t need to be messy. With the right workflow, you can go from:

• Likes and comments → a qualified lead list

• Lead list → real conversations

• Conversations → closed deals

And the fastest way to run this play is with Sendegg.

👉 Try Sendegg free today

When a LinkedIn post gets traction, most people see it as brand awareness: likes and comments that spread your reach.

But sellers and founders know better: LinkedIn engagement is warm intent hiding in plain sight. Every like or comment is someone raising their hand and signaling interest in your topic, product, or space.

There are two ways to tap into this goldmine:

• Compare the tools that can help you capture, enrich, and qualify post engagement (what this post covers).

• Follow a step-by-step guide to actually run the workflow yourself (we’ve written that here: How to pull leads from LinkedIn post engagement and qualify them fast).

This article focuses on the landscape of tools: what’s out there, what each one does well, and why Sendegg is the fastest all-in-one option.

Why LinkedIn post engagement is a lead generation goldmine

There are three main sources of engagement you can mine:

• Your own posts → The lowest-hanging fruit. These engagers already know you and your product. They’re primed for direct follow-up.

• Thought leaders’ posts → When a sales leader, investor, or influencer in your space posts, their comments section becomes a goldmine of ICPs. Perfect for tapping into an audience that already cares about your niche.

• Competitors’ posts → Maybe the richest vein of all. If your competitor launches a feature or shares a case study, the people who like and comment are literally showing intent in your category. That’s the perfect moment to reach out with your differentiator.

No matter where the engagement comes from, the playbook is the same: turn warm signals into qualified pipeline, fast.

5 steps to turn LinkedIn post engagement into qualified leads

Think of it like mining:

1. Capture → scoop up everyone engaging on the post.

2. Enrich → add context (company, role, email, location).

3. Qualify → filter to your ICP (separate the nuggets from the dirt).

4. Outreach → reach out while the intent is still hot.

5. Keep track & follow up → don’t let precious leads slip through. A built-in CRM ensures you always know where every lead stands and can follow up at the right time.

Best tools to capture and qualify LinkedIn post engagement

Phantombuster
Great for exporting raw lists of likes/comments. But that’s where it stops — no enrichment, qualification, outreach, or CRM.

Clay
Excellent for enrichment and AI-powered filtering once you have a list. Doesn’t capture post engagement directly, and you’ll still need another tool for outreach and tracking.

Apollo
Strong database with enrichment and manual filtering. Like Clay, it won’t pull LinkedIn post engagers, and it lacks built-in outreach or CRM.

Folk
Lightweight CRM with enrichment and some filtering. Useful for organizing leads, but it won’t capture post engagement and requires other tools for outreach.

Sendegg
The only all-in-one. Capture engagers from any post (yours, thought leaders, or competitors), enrich automatically, qualify with AI columns, launch outreach from Gmail or LinkedIn, and keep track with a built-in CRM.

👉 Most tools give you parts of the workflow. Sendegg is the only one that does the entire loop: capture, enrich, qualify, outreach, and CRM, in one place.

Types of tools for LinkedIn lead generation

Manual exports and enrichment tools

• Copy/paste names into a spreadsheet, then upload into Clay or Folk to enrich.

• Gets the job done but painfully slow.

LinkedIn automation tools for engagement

• Examples: Phantombuster, Dripify, Octopus.

• Great for pulling raw lists of engagers.

• But you’ll need separate enrichment + outreach steps.

Data platforms with enrichment and filtering

• Clay: strong enrichment + AI filters.

• Apollo: huge contact database.

• Folk: lightweight CRM + enrichment.

• Solid options, but none natively capture engagement from posts.

AI-native all-in-one tool: Sendegg

• Pull post engagers from any LinkedIn post — your own, a thought leader’s, or even a competitor’s.

• Auto-enrich with company and role info.

• AI columns instantly qualify by ICP, seniority, or company type.

• Built-in Gmail sequences for outreach.

• Everything in one clean workflow.

FAQs

Can you export LinkedIn post engagement?
Yes. Tools like Phantombuster can export raw data, Clay can enrich, and Sendegg combines everything in one step.

How do you qualify leads fast?
AI-powered filters. Sendegg’s AI columns auto-tag prospects by role, company type, and ICP fit so you don’t spend hours in a spreadsheet.

What’s the best all-in-one tool?
Sendegg. It’s the only platform that lets you capture engagement from any post, enrich it, qualify with AI, and launch outreach directly.

From LinkedIn engagement to sales pipeline

LinkedIn engagement isn’t just brand awareness — it’s a goldmine of warm leads hiding in plain sight.

Whether it’s your own content, a thought leader’s post, or even a competitor’s launch announcement, the playbook is the same: capture, enrich, qualify, reach out, and keep track so no lead slips through the cracks.

Most workflows today require duct-taping 3–4 tools together. But if you want the fastest way to turn engagement into pipeline, Sendegg does it all in one place — capture, enrich, qualify, outreach, and CRM.

👉 Try Sendegg free today

And if you want to actually run this workflow yourself, check out our step-by-step guide:
How to pull leads from LinkedIn post engagement and qualify them fast.

If you are doing founder-led sales, everything begins on LinkedIn. You search for prospects, send connection requests, track conversations, and try to turn those interactions into deals.

The challenge is that most tools were not built for this flow. They either help you manage contacts after you already have them, or they are designed for high volume email outreach. None of them are truly optimized for this simple motion:

👉 Find leads on LinkedIn. Qualify them against your ICP. Start outreach in minutes.

That is the gap we are filling with Sendegg.

Clay: enrichment, not sales

Clay is excellent for building and enriching lead lists. You can add funding data, job titles, and even generate personalized email lines with AI.

But Clay is not a CRM, and it does not help you work your LinkedIn pipeline. If you are a founder running LinkedIn outreach yourself, Clay feels like preparation work instead of speed.

Folk: CRM for managing contacts, not prospecting

Folk positions itself as a lightweight CRM. With the folkX Chrome extension you can save LinkedIn or Sales Navigator contacts into the CRM, enrich them, and organize pipelines with reminders.

This is useful once you already have leads. But Folk does not help you actually find new leads. It does not track live LinkedIn activity. It is strong as a contact manager with AI assistance, but it is not built as a prospecting engine.

Apollo: outbound machine, but email first

Apollo is known for its massive lead database and sequencing capabilities. The Chrome extension overlays on LinkedIn so you can capture profiles and send them into email campaigns.

This works well if your strategy is volume outbound. But Apollo treats LinkedIn as a place to collect emails, not as a primary channel. For founder-led sales, that leaves a large gap.

Sendegg: built for LinkedIn-first prospecting

Sendegg is designed specifically for founders who prospect on LinkedIn. Instead of duct-taping different tools, you get one smooth flow.

• Find leads instantly. Pull people directly from LinkedIn search or from post engagement such as likes and comments.

• Qualify and score. Use AI-powered scoring to filter by ICP with signals from role, company, and recent activity.

• Track LinkedIn activity. Every connection, DM, and touchpoint is logged so nothing slips. Folk does not track this.

• Start outreach in minutes. Send warm contextual DMs or shift to Gmail outreach without losing the thread.

This is not a CRM that bolts on to LinkedIn. Sendegg is a prospecting tool that is purpose-built for LinkedIn from day one.

TL;DR

Clay is enrichment and personalization, not a CRM.
Folk is a contact manager and CRM, but not for prospecting or LinkedIn activity tracking.
Apollo is an outbound engine, but it is email first and volume focused.
Sendegg is the LinkedIn-first CRM and prospecting tool. You can find, qualify, and start outreach in minutes.