Short answer: several LinkedIn accounts for prospecting means several people, each on their own account, run from one place. LinkedIn allows only one account per person, under their real name, and forbids sharing an account or creating a profile for someone else. Everything that respects those two rules can be done cleanly; everything else exposes the accounts, and the agency with them.
What does LinkedIn say about multiple accounts?
The rules fit in three sentences, and they are public. A member has only one account, in their real name (LinkedIn User Agreement, section 2.1, accessed October 13, 2026). They do not share or transfer their account, even in part (same document, section 2.2). And they do not create a profile for anyone else nor use another person's account (Professional Community Policies, accessed October 13, 2026).
Those rules settle most cases. Two accounts for one person, one "professional" and one "for prospecting", is forbidden. An account in the name of a fictional salesperson is forbidden. A contractor logging into a client's account with the client's password is account sharing, forbidden too, even with the client's consent.
What remains allowed is simple: each person prospects from their own account, and a tool can gather the piloting of those accounts. That is the case of a sales team, of an agency whose employees prospect for it, or of a founder coordinating with partners.
In which cases do several accounts make sense?
Three situations come up. A sales team, where each rep has a territory and an account, and the manager wants one view of campaigns and results. A small agency, where two or three people prospect for the agency, with the same lists and the same messages adapted to their voice. A founder and partners who want to share prospects without stepping on each other.
In all three cases, the point is not to multiply volume. Each account keeps its own invitation ceilings, and two saturated accounts get restricted twice. The point is to avoid writing twice to the same person, to compare what works from one account to the next, and to have one place to read replies.
The limit: someone who prospects from their account puts their name on the line. An employee who leaves takes their connections, and the conversations in progress with them. An agency should know that before building its prospecting on its employees' accounts.
The case of the agency prospecting for its clients
It is the most requested case and the trickiest. A client wants the agency to prospect "in their name", from their profile, because their name is what opens doors. Technically, that requires the agency to log into the client's account, which LinkedIn's terms forbid, whatever agreement is signed.
Two approaches hold up. The first: the client keeps control of their account, and the agency prepares the lists and messages the client sends themselves, or that a tool sends from the client's own browser, under their control. The second: the agency prospects from its own employees' accounts, introducing itself as the agency, on the client's behalf. It is weaker than a message from the founder, but it is clean.
A tool installed on the client's computer, connected to the client's account, where the client sees and validates what goes out, stays within the first approach. The account is not shared: the client is the one logged in, at their place.
How do you organize lists so two accounts never write to the same person?
One single prospect list, split between accounts before the first send. The simplest split is by territory or by industry; the most fragile is "first come, first served". A person contacted by two accounts from the same company within a week understands she is in a machine, and sometimes says so in public.
Keep a shared record of people already contacted, with the date and the account. Before each new campaign, remove from the list everything that has been on it for less than three months. That one habit prevents more damage than any message setting. Our method to build and split the list is in define your ICP and build a LinkedIn list.
Should the messages be the same on every account?
The substance, yes; the voice, no. The same argument written by two different people does not give the same message, and that is a good thing: someone who receives the same text from two accounts sees a template. Keep the structure common, one specific fact then one question, and let each person write in their own words. The writing rules that hold from one account to the next are in first LinkedIn message: one specific fact, then one question.
The ceilings, on the other hand, stay specific to each account. An old account with a large network handles more invitations per week than one created last month, and there is no point setting both the same. The benchmarks by account type are in our guide to LinkedIn limits.
How does Sales Farmer run several accounts?
One LinkedIn account is one Chrome profile where the extension is installed, logged into that LinkedIn account and into the same Sales Farmer account. Each extension says which LinkedIn account it serves, and the server only hands it that account's work, with its own ceilings. Everything runs on the computer of the person logged in: no cloud browser, no LinkedIn password sent anywhere, everyone stays in control of their own account.
The Growth plan allows three LinkedIn accounts on one Sales Farmer account; the Team plan gives one seat per person, each with the Starter plan's features and a single invoice. Campaigns, replies and results are read in the same place. The Teams page details both cases.
What the tool does not do: it does not create LinkedIn accounts, does not get around the ceilings by spreading one campaign over several accounts, and does not let you log into another person's account. Those limits are deliberate: they are LinkedIn's rules, and they are what protects the team's accounts.
FAQ
Can I create a second LinkedIn account just for prospecting?
No. LinkedIn's User Agreement limits each person to one account, in their real name. A second account can be closed without notice, and the first one along with it.
Can a client give me access to their LinkedIn account to prospect?
They can offer it, but LinkedIn forbids it, even with written consent. The account stays theirs; you can prepare the lists and the messages, and they send them from their own browser, or a tool does it under their control.
How many LinkedIn accounts can a small agency run?
As many as there are people prospecting, each on their own account. In Sales Farmer, the Growth plan connects three to one account, and the Team plan adds one seat per person.
Do two accounts double the number of possible invitations?
Not in spirit. Each account keeps its ceilings, and two saturated accounts get restricted twice. The point of several accounts is to split territories and read results in one place, not to double volume.