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# Searching on Social Media

Best practices for searching on Social Media.

### Social Media - People Filters

| Available Filters          |                                         |
| -------------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| Keyword                    | Interested in Joining a Nonprofit Board |
| Interested in Volunteering | Pro Bono Consulting                     |
| Title                      | Location                                |
| Current Companies          | Past Companies                          |
| Connection Degree          | Connections of                          |
| School                     | Services Offered                        |
| First Name                 | Last Name                               |
| Services Offered           |                                         |

#### What are the most relevant lead filters for Social Media?

**Keyword**: Keyword searches are powerful because they pull from anywhere on the person's profile, such as title, headline, job description, skills or interests. 

**Title**: Find decision makers or as a good proxy for buying power by searching by title. 

**Location**: Target people in your local area.

**Interested in Joining a Nonprofit Board**: Board donors are typically the largest donors within an organization. There is native filter for people who want to join a board.

**Pro bono Consulting**: Find people want to give back by donating their talent.

**Volunteering**: Recruit volunteers from a list of people who have said they are interested in volunteering.

**Employees within a Company**: Start by doing a company search, and on the company page click view all employees.

### What tips do you have for searching social media?

#### Find donors by searching for people in your area interested in joining a nonprofit board

Use the location filter and the joining a nonprofit board filter to search for major donors in your area. 

**Find community partners by searching for specific companies and viewing their employees**

Instead of starting with a people search, you start with a company search to identify specific companies. Once you have found a company you want to ask to get involved as a community parter, navigate to their company page and search for their employees on social. 

![Click "See all 16 employees"](https://3956199357-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MFd6jD1SeA11KfQWGu0%2F-MFqGHKTp_uBYYGPjXcb%2F-MFqGv59YJwboaX1RCr-%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=b17fbc4b-cc1d-4e58-8366-a0388b6b69ba)

**Recruit volunteers with the contact interest filter**

Use the location filter and interested in volunteering filter to find local volunteers in your area ready to get involved. 

### What are Social Media's limitations? 

Each search must contain a maximum of 1000 people on a free account.. A search larger than 1000 people will only result in the first 1000 contacts in the search, because socials only displays the first 100 pages of a search. Learn how to get around this limitation by splitting large searches into smaller ones.

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MFnvMk9aSWsPYBVvxn-" %}
[Splitting Large Searches](/best-practices/splitting-large-searches.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

#### Increase your limits by using Premium Social Media

{% hint style="info" %}
You can increase the 1000 person per search to 2500 if you have a Premium Account
{% endhint %}

You can increase the 1000 person per search to 2500 if you have a Premium account. This gives you additional filters for deeper targeting and higher limits. 

Filters available on Premium not available on Free

* Search for contacts within specific groups
* Company headcount
* Seniority
* Function
* Technologies used on website
* Search within custom account lists

{% content-ref url="/pages/-MFoQwzZpoX7qAeSmjW\_" %}
[Searching on Premium Account](/best-practices/searching-on-linkedin-sales-navigator.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}