I usually get lambasted on forums when I ask questions, but I need to know how and why and then I can move forward on an item.
I am somewhat new to Mautic, but not the notion of Digital Marketing. I took the time and effort to understand the Twitter Plugin and Facebook Plugin and what they offer the user. I do not see the use of the LinkedIn plugin. It might be that I do not understand the features of the plugin.
The integration was not much of a hassle, so I have it integrated and blue, but…
What does it do?
I can not do any social monitoring with it.
I can not use it to publish status updates.
I can not use it to publish articles.
I can not use it to sync contacts.
What does it allow me to do, I think an integration into LinkedIn is a powerful concept as it would be cool to be able to wish my contacts on LinkedIn a happy birthday etc. It would also be great to include LinkedIn in as part of a campaign, especially if I have the contacts in sync and I want a campaign to target specific contacts.
I however do not find documentation that explains to me how best I can squeeze all the benefit from Mautic and LinkedIn. Just point me in the direction of a source and I will read up on this. I will start asking the same questions about Google+, but I have not done enough homework as yet to say that I tried before I asked.
I did however spend significant time on LinkedIn, but can not place in my mind how best to capitalize via a suitable use case on the integration I had achieved with the assistance of the community documentation.
Kind Regards
Deon
I usually get lambasted on forums when I ask questions, but I need to know how and why and then I can move forward on an item.
I am somewhat new to Mautic, but not the notion of Digital Marketing. I took the time and effort to understand the Twitter Plugin and Facebook Plugin and what they offer the user. I do not see the use of the LinkedIn plugin. It might be that I do not understand the features of the plugin.
The integration was not much of a hassle, so I have it integrated and blue, but…
What does it do?
I can not do any social monitoring with it.
I can not use it to publish status updates.
I can not use it to publish articles.
I can not use it to sync contacts.
What does it allow me to do, I think an integration into LinkedIn is a powerful concept as it would be cool to be able to wish my contacts on LinkedIn a happy birthday etc. It would also be great to include LinkedIn in as part of a campaign, especially if I have the contacts in sync and I want a campaign to target specific contacts.
I however do not find documentation that explains to me how best I can squeeze all the benefit from Mautic and LinkedIn. Just point me in the direction of a source and I will read up on this. I will start asking the same questions about Google+, but I have not done enough homework as yet to say that I tried before I asked.
I did however spend significant time on LinkedIn, but can not place in my mind how best to capitalize via a suitable use case on the integration I had achieved with the assistance of the community documentation.
Kind Regards
Deon
While setting up:
Enabled features
Display share button on landing page social widget
Login Button
Display public profile and enable profile to contact field matching
The next tab shows a mapping of contact fields. I suspect that when a user logs in using LinkdIn then the user data of linkedin is added to a Mautic contact. It’s a guess
This lines up with my own guesses, although I don’t know for sure. I have not seen the LinkedIn plugin for Mautic in action.
It would be awesome to hear from someone who has used this plugin and is familiar with functionality…
EP
as of Mautic 5.0 released January 2024:
- “The LinkedIn plugin has been removed from Mautic Core as it did not work with the new LinkedIn API. There is no replacement at this time.”
All it does (did) gives you an option to prefill data on your forms. The linkedin plugin adds a linkedin login to the Mautic form.
Does that still work? How much effort to get the LinkedIn App approved or is this standard?
I guess rebuilding the APP is viable, it doesn’t seem specially difficult to send messages to LinkedIn.
But there are a lot of restrictions about quantities messages sent and I think this is to send messages as a user.
About catching forms, it’s also doable. Maybe someone would like to take the project ¿?
Looks like at the moment its gone anyway.
I think those use cases might be interesting:
- pre fill form with user data,
- receiving leads from linkedin,
I don’t think that automated sending of messages will be appreciated much those days?
Linkedin limits the data available. They don’t like to give and prefill anything.
Leads from Linkedin would be nice, already possible with middleware.
Do they send Webhooks for Leads?
You can make it happen with Make.com for sure.
What would be awesome in my opinion, would be an Apollo plugin for Mautic, to directly enrich contact data within Mautic.
If there’s other interest in this, I’ll chip in to have this developed. DM me if interested in joining.
Currently I do this by API outside of Mautic.
Ask and you shall receive @entrepositive … An easier approach would be using the Active Pieces Module (Similar to N8N and also open source) of Apollo and connecting it to Mautic. Apollo · Activepieces – I just installed an Active Pieces Docker Container and I noticed the latest version did not come with the Mautic “Piece” installed - but it is super easy, you just install it right from the Gui - Click on Install Piece, and then use @activepieces/piece-mautic with version 0.4.4 - as of the day of me writing this - @activepieces/piece-mautic - npm
if you do not have much experience with Docker, they have a free version and very low cost on the active pieces website…
Just one comment here, n8n is not open source, it’s fair code.
You can’t install for a client for example.
Hmm, interesting. Looks like you can actually work on n8n for clients and get paid as a consultant, but you can’t resell it (or install it for them). And yeah, if your company’s under 10,000 people, you can use n8n for free If I read the license right, that seems like a pretty generous license. I’ve been pretty happy with Active Pieces and its MIT license so far. I guess it really depends on what you’re trying to do with it… With Mautic, I really like working with the Active Pieces module (or as they call it ‘piece’), far better than the N8N Mautic Module, but if you have any tips on the N8N Mautic module to make it better please let us know.
First of all @mybpoconsultant - legend! Great work.
I actually have a similar structured workflow in my n8n setup.
And @joeyk you sir are correct; it’s fair code. I understand it’s possible to use n8n for client cases, quite broadly and with specific restrictions. For example, one cannot bill on a per-execution basis. n8n is a great tool and I can recommend it.
Thanks for sharing @mybpoconsultant.
FYI -
Activepieces is open-core. All the main features like building, modifying and publishing automation flows are published under the MIT license, while some features are published under our enterprise license that requires an active subscription to use them.
From: Activepieces FAQ section
We use nodered. That’s 100% open source.
Much better to debug also compared to the free of charge n8n version.
You will quickly come to the point, were the n8n free version is not viable… especially for the limitations in debugging.