r/LinkedInTips

I’ve been posting twice a week but it's not working very well. 1-3 likes, no comments and definitely no leads. I actually have had some posts that did better in the past but it's taken a dive the last couple of weeks so it's been pretty demotivating. I try to keep it professional and share helpful tips.

How do you get people to actually stop scrolling and care? What was the first post that actually got you a real lead? Any advice?

My LinkedIn account was restricted a in May after LinkedIn determined I violated their User Agreement. I appealed multiple times and acknowledged my mistake.

The issue was that I had created additional accounts for private browsing. Due to personal circumstances at the time, I didn’t want to maintain a public online presence. I genuinely didn’t realize that opening multiple accounts violated LinkedIn’s policies. I wasn’t messaging people, posting content, or using the accounts for spam or anything like that I was mainly browsing profiles, job opportunities, and colleagues and would deactivate shortly after.

Since then, I’ve completed identity verification through Persona, updated my primary account with my profile picture, workplace information, and explained everything in my appeals. However, LinkedIn keeps responding that my account “will remain restricted” without ever clarifying whether that means permanently or if there’s any future review process or waiting period.

II’m starting professional/graduate school, so not having LinkedIn is becoming a real concern for networking and recruiting.

Has anyone here actually had a restricted account reinstated after multiple appeals? Or, if you received the same “will remain restricted” response, did LinkedIn ever clarify whether it was permanent?
I’d really appreciate hearing about any personal experiences.

no ads. no premium tools. no automation software.

just a repeatable process that anyone can follow.

most people use linkedin for sales completely wrong.

they connect, pitch, get ignored, repeat. then complain that linkedin doesn't work for b2b. linkedin works fine. the approach doesn't.

here's what i did differently.

i stopped targeting decision makers first.

sounds counterintuitive but hear me out. decision makers are the most guarded people on linkedin. their inbox is a graveyard of pitches. instead i started engaging with the people around them. their team members, their colleagues, people in the same company.

by the time i reached the decision maker someone in their orbit already knew my name. warm by association.

i treated my profile as a landing page not a resume.

most sales profiles read like a cv. job titles, company names, dates. nobody buying from you cares about that. i rewrote everything around the problems i solve and who i solve them for. profile views started converting into conversations instead of just views.

i gave before i asked. every time.

before reaching out to anyone i'd spend a week commenting genuinely on their content. sharing something useful in their industry. asking a thoughtful question on their post. by the time i sent a dm it never felt cold.

the result after 6 months.

6 figures in closed deals. zero ad spend. zero automation. just consistency and actually treating people like people instead of leads in a pipeline.

what's the biggest mistake you see people making when using linkedin for sales?

How to get the LinkedIn premium for free about more than 6month, I don't have the money at all to buy it as i am jobless

student man in India😭😭

Edit: got premium for 3 months really thanks to u/apeacefulevening

Everyone told me AI posts sound robotic. Mine didn't. Here's the difference.

Most people open ChatGPT, type "write me a LinkedIn post about X" and paste whatever comes out. That's why it sounds generic. The AI has no idea who you are.

What actually works is telling it how you talk before you ask it to write anything.

A few things that made the biggest difference for me:

Go through your last 10 posts and write down every phrase you would never actually say out loud. Things like "in today's fast-paced landscape" or "I'm excited to share." Give that list to the AI and say never use these.

Then paste in 3 or 4 of your actual posts as examples. Don't describe your writing style. Just show it. Real examples work so much better than instructions.

Then be specific about tone. "Professional but conversational" means nothing. Say "short sentences, first person, no hashtags, no corporate words."

That's it honestly. Once I set this up properly I stopped editing AI drafts and just tweaked small details.

The blank page problem goes away and it still sounds like you.

I have seen few companies hiring daily, even 10 job posts/day, spamming my job search page. Anyway to block?

I've been writing on LinkedIn for quite a decent amount of time and I feel I've gained good insights that I can share with someone trying to grow their presence on the platform.

Things I can help with:

- Brand positioning

- Profile optimization

- Content planning

- Community building

- Thought leadership

All I expect from you is to put genuine efforts to get results. I'm collecting testimonials. But I'm willing to do this without testimonials too, I'll be so happy if our conversation can help you get some good results.

Share your experience with the platform. How long you're posting there. What struggles you're facing and what's your goal for posting there. Would love to share things I know and experienced.

How much do good linkedin content creators charge money per month.

How do you promote on LinkedIn without the usual "guru" or "celebrity" vibe?

Been avoiding public posts on LinkedIn since I joined almost 20 years ago. (That was way before LinkedIn started feeling more and more like Facebook.) I have over 3200 connections, and I must have sent hundreds of DMs over the years.

Fast forward to today, I now have a newsletter. And a sizeable number of the people who viewed last week's edition came from LinkedIn

GULP!

The stats don't lie, right?

Finally made my first public LinkedIn post today. (Would have linked it here but not sure whether that would be flagged as self-promotion)

It was an excerpt from one of my newsletters, with a soft plug for the newsletter at the very end.

The question now is: what next?

Would greatly appreciate any guide on promoting on LinkedIn without being a "guru" or having to post pics of myself and whatever I may be doing at the time

I’ve been trying to post more consistently on LinkedIn, but one thing I keep struggling with is coming up with good post ideas

For those of you who post regularly:

How do you find ideas for your LinkedIn posts?

Do you take inspiration from daily work, client conversations, industry trends, or somewhere else?

Do you have a system for capturing ideas?

Trying to build a better content habit and learn from people already doing it well.

So a guy reached out to me on LinkedIn today asking for a referral, and let me quote his words in the message - "Hi, is there opening in your company for an associate engineering"

Apart from this no resume, no RecQ ID, no Job Link...nothing

I'm happy to refer people on LinkedIn. If I can help someone land an interview, I'm happy to do it.

But please make it easy for the person you're asking.

Please don't send a generic "Hi, can you refer me?" and then stop.

What I need is:

• The job link
• Your resume
• (Optional, but helpful) A one-line note on why you're a good fit

Most employees don't have the time to dig through your profile, figure out which role suits you, or guess what you're looking for.

A referral should take a couple of minutes—not become a recruitment exercise.

Help the person who's trying to help you.

I see this question come up constantly here so I want to give a proper answer based on what's actually worked for me posting 4 times a week consistently.

The honest truth: I don't wait for inspiration.

I have a system. Here's what it looks like.

1. I keep a running notes doc on my phone

Any time something happens during my day, a conversation with a client, a mistake I made, something that surprised me, a question someone asked - I write it down. One line is enough. It takes 10 seconds. Most of my best posts came from these tiny notes, not from sitting down and trying to think of ideas.

2. Write about your own life

Everyone's story is different. And your story however ordinary it feels to you can inspire someone who needs to hear exactly that. Some of my highest performing posts have been the most personal ones.

When I wrote about how my first job in sales shaped my entire career. When I shared what it felt like to leave Amsterdam and become a digital nomad. When I turned 45 and wrote about starting over. None of those posts were tips. None had frameworks or bullet points.

They were just real moments from my life written honestly. And they connected more than anything else I've posted.

So if you're stuck on ideas, look at your own timeline. The job that changed you. The city you left. The decision that scared you. The thing you almost didn't do. Someone out there is standing exactly where you were. Your story is the post they need to read today.

3. I ask: what did I learn this week that I wish I'd known earlier?

If the answer is interesting to me, it's probably interesting to someone else. That's the filter.

4. I batch and schedule

I write 4 posts in one sitting, usually on a Sunday. Schedule them for the week. Done. No daily scramble. The result: I never run out of ideas because I'm not waiting for inspiration. I'm collecting it constantly.

Hope this helps. Happy to answer any questions on any of the steps above.

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I'm silently quitting my current job and looking to make a smart career pivot.

AI keeps telling me I need to jump into linkedin and connect with recruiters one on one prior to applying.

Is this sound advance? I have more than 8 years of experience in finance/operations with an MBA.

I've never paid attention to LinkedIn so I need some tips on how to get started and start making fast and quick connections.

I'm also a military veteran and looking to connect with other vets for support

Many thanks.

Hey everyone,

I'd love to get some advice from people who have been in this space longer than I have.

Over the past couple of years, I've designed GTM strategies and built outbound systems for B2B companies using Clay, n8n, GoHighLevel, and AI automation. I've worked on lead sourcing, enrichment, CRM automation, personalized outreach, and building workflows that support sales teams at scale.

I'm at the point where I want to level up, but I'm not sure what the highest leverage skill is from here.

If you were in my position, what would you focus on next? Is it becoming world-class at GTM engineering, diving deeper into AI agents, improving sales, or something else entirely?

I'd genuinely appreciate any advice, lessons, or mistakes you've learned along the way. Thanks in advance!

My linkedin account got suspended 3 days after i opened it . I posted a couple of pics with ai captions thats all .but the pictures were of my achievements. It shows my account has been temporarily suspended and keeps asking me to verify identity . I verified my nid many times it still doesnt let me sign in

I've been saving linkedin posts with all sorts of alpha and knowledge shared by people for a long time, but I never really go back to them. So I finally decided to something about it.

I exported all my saved posts using LinkedIn bookmark exporter chrome extension into a markdown, took them to Obsidian to create a knowledge base of all saved posts context and then connected it to Claude.

Now whenever I need to get relevant actionable insights around a niche I'm interested in, I just ask Claude connected to the AI Obsidian brain, something like :

-Based on last 3 months what this company's leadership has been publicly saying, what internal problem are they most likely under pressure to solve right now?

Or for job search something like this is useful:

-Based on the people and companies whose content I've been collecting, what do they have in common culturally and operationally? What kind of environment am I actually drawn to?

Or I can ask questions like

-Analyse the openings of every post I've saved written by CMOs that got high engagement. What do the opening sentences look like, can you reverse engineer and create a framework by analyzing their posts and wtite a high quality one for my niche

After disappearing 1 year from professional socials, um back at social platform. Looks like a lot has changed rapidly while i was gone. Um completely clueless how do i begin now again.

I will really appreciate the help from experts to guide me to kickstart. Since I was going through intense traumatic experiences in personal life’s that consumed my professional, social and all life. I am rebuilding whats lost.

I don’t need much help, mostly ideation and motivation. My credentials are decently strong, running profitable bootstrap startup. just need some motivation and support to articulate my life and work experiences .

I just graduated high school and I’m planning on going to Michigan State this fall for accounting along with miring and real estate. I did a lot of extracurricular activities in high school but I made a terrible mistake of never really making any post about them on LinkedIn and I really do want to change that so what all should I make post about right now? I mainly just retweeting a lot of things.

One small thing I’ve noticed on LinkedIn:

Most profile pictures blend into the feed.

Grey background, office blur, tiny face, bad crop, old wedding photo, etc.

The issue is that your headshot is not only shown on your profile. It shows up next to every post, comment, DM, search result, and connection request.

So I started treating it more like a tiny “visual logo.”

What worked for me:

1. Crop closer than you think Your face should be easy to recognize even when the image is tiny.
2. Use a clean, simple expression A normal confident smile beats a forced “corporate” pose.
3. Wear what you’d actually wear for work Not too casual, not fake-professional.
4. Use a background color that stands out I use a yellow background because it pops in the LinkedIn feed. It makes my comments and posts easier to spot while people scroll.
5. Keep it consistent If people see your posts often, your photo becomes a recognizable cue.

Curious what others think: do you use a plain background, office background, or something more branded for your LinkedIn photo?

I'm looking for small setups on AWS. helping them optimize their infra, but i can't seem to find clients on linkedin properly. I've tried searching #solofounders #indiehackers, but i'm rarely finding someone suitable who's on aws too by searching and scrolling. Can anyone recommend what i should try? Any tips appreciated