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How to import LinkedIn Sales Navigator into Close

16 of the 39 columns in a LinkedIn Sales Navigator export, mapped into 5 Close fields under Close's own names.

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Check your LinkedIn Sales Navigator export first

Built on LinkedIn Sales Navigator’s export columnsChecked against Close’s import rulesUpdated October 3, 2026

One LinkedIn Sales Navigator row, through the templatecopied as it ischanged on the way1explained below
  • Email to Emaillowercaseddavid.garcia@lumenlabs.example.com
  • First Name, Last Name to Name1joinedDavid Garcia
  • Job Title to TitleVP of Sales
  • Company Name to CompanyLumen Labs
  • Mutual Connections, Past Title 1, Past Company 1, Past Company Duration 1, Past Title 2, Past Company 2, Past Company Duration 2, Profile URL, Location, Description, List Name to Description2one line per entry- Mutual connections: 12 - Past role: Director of Sales | Company: Orbit | Time there: 3 years - Past role: Account Executive | Company: Fernway | Time there: 2 years - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/david-garcia-example - Location: Lake Oswego, Oregon, United States - About: Builds sales teams for B2B software. - Sales Nav list: Q4 West Coast
Not imported: Personal Email, Full Name, Sales Navigator URL, Years in Role, Years in Company, Country and 17 more. The template leaves these out; map any to a custom field in Operelio.

Where LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Close don’t line up

1

First Name and Last Name become one Name

LinkedIn Sales Navigator keeps First Name and Last Name apart, and Close has one Name field.

The template joins them, leaving out any that are empty.

ExportFirst Name David
Last Name Garcia
CloseDavid Garcia
2

11 columns kept in Description

This template gives Mutual Connections, Past Title 1 and Past Company 1 and 8 more no Close field of their own.

The template writes them into Description, one labeled line each; a line with an empty cell is left out.

ExportMutual Connections 12
Past Title 1 Director of Sales
Past Company 1 Orbit
Close- Mutual connections: 12 …

Check your LinkedIn Sales Navigator export before you import it

Looks for the 16 columns this template reads, and what Close would skip.

Drop your LinkedIn Sales Navigator CSV here

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LinkedIn Sales Navigator to Close in three steps

Step 1Export from LinkedIn Sales Navigator

LinkedIn says Sales Navigator has no CSV export for leads or accounts, so the list is exported with a separate tool. This template is built for the column set Evaboot produces.

  1. Install the Evaboot Chrome extension.
  2. Build your lead search or open your lead list in Sales Navigator.
  3. Click Export with Evaboot, then name the export and launch it.
  4. Follow its progress in your Evaboot dashboard.
  5. Download the finished file as CSV or XLSX.

Evaboot exports up to 2,500 leads or 1,000 accounts every 24 hours per Sales Navigator account.

Each lead exported uses 1 Evaboot credit, and each email found uses 1 more.

LinkedIn: Exporting data from Sales NavigatorEvaboot: How the Sales Navigator export works
Step 2Paste into the template
  1. Paste the export at A1 of Paste your export here.
  2. Start here checks all 16 columns were found.
  3. Save Close Contacts import as a CSV.

Works in Excel for Microsoft 365 and Google Sheets. Excel 2019 and older, Apple Numbers and LibreOffice can't run the formulas this file uses.

Just the 5 headers as a CSV

Step 3Import into Close
  1. Click your name at the top right and choose Import data.
  2. Upload a CSV or Excel file, or paste straight from a spreadsheet.
  3. Choose where each column goes, or check Skip to leave it out, and click Next.
  4. Choose a column to group rows into leads, such as Company.
  5. Set the duplicate matching and choose to add missing information, replace the lead or skip it, then start the import.
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Questions

Where do Mutual Connections, Past Title 1 and the other columns go?

Into Description on each contact, labeled like "- Mutual connections: 12".

Does this template map email?

Yes. Evaboot's export has an Email column, filled only where Evaboot finds an email. The template maps that work Email column to Close's email field, so rows where Evaboot found an email land with one and the rest stay blank. The separate Personal Email column is left unmapped, since this template has one email field and it takes the work email. The export has no phone column, so phone is not mapped.

Duplicates and undoing an import: Close import questions.

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