Like, the person who comments and engages on the person's behalf can damage their reputation. Write by hacking my account, and I am damn sure the owner of that personal branding agency would not be sitting and doing engagement on my behalf. I'd like your take on this, or from people who work in LinkedIn personal branding agencies.
I am in my mid-50s and work in the data related field. My LinkedIn profile gets poached by vendors every day:
They all just want "15 minutes" of my time. I am talking 2 or 3 a day ok? do the math. My job IS NOT to talk to vendors. There is a group of people that does that. Pitching me is like trying to sell a yacht to a goldfish.
And now, I am noting the new closer:
Oh, even a no works! this is a tactic to engage you in conversation. You try to be polite but it is a never ending story unless you stop it.
When I started my career, you did not walk up to someone's desk hand them a brochure and demand them to verbally reject you. That was understood to be insane behavior. Now it is a LinkedIn growth tactic.
So Reddit community, AITA for treating these like the spam they are? Or have I finally become the old man yelling at the cloud (the cloud being sales people)?
I’ve been thinking it might help to have a small group of people who are also trying to post more, mostly to swap ideas, review drafts, and give honest feedback before things go live.
Not talking about fake engagement or those “like/comment on everything” groups.
More like:
a few founders/operators/freelancers sharing drafts, improving hooks, and helping each other make posts sound less generic.
Curious if anyone here is doing something like this already.
And if a few people are interested, maybe we can put together a small group
Built a LinkedIn outreach workflow yesterday and got 4 positive replies on day 1.
A few weeks ago I posted about wanting to build AI systems publicly and got called out because I was mostly talking instead of executing. Fair criticism honestly. So I spent the last few weeks building a LinkedIn outbound workflow focused on keeping humans in the loop instead of fully automating conversations.
The system handles prospect scraping, personalized connection requests and messages, reply tracking, automated follow ups, and Slack notifications when someone responds positively so I can manually take over the conversation myself. The goal was never mass spam. I wanted to see if lightweight automation combined with manual closing could still feel human enough to get real responses.
Yesterday was the first live run and it generated 4 positive replies. I also sold a version of the system to a client recently which was probably the bigger validation for me.
The hardest part so far has not been the automation itself. It has been making the personalization believable enough that people do not instantly assume it is botted outreach. Still improving deliverability, warm up behavior, follow up timing, and message quality.
Curious what outreach workflows are actually working for people here right now because LinkedIn automation feels way more fragile than it did even a year ago.
LinkedIn’s “intimate imagery” AI detection seems to be a bit … off today.
One of our clients (a charity) is being accused of sharing pr0n. It’s an article on how impact investing can drive long-term resilience (don’t ask). The other one is … even more boring and innocent.
We’ve had a post removed from our own page, as well. It’s a repost of a story about AI legal issues. The OP is a major international law firm.
Hi Reddit. I want your opinions on something. I have a PhD (from a very prestigious institution) and I put the “(Ph.D.)” after my last name on linkedin after graduating. Now a few years later, I’m more in leadership positions and I’m wondering whether I should remove it.
My reasons to remove it are that (a) I don’t want to look like a show off, and (b) whenever someone tags me on LinkedIn the “(Ph.D.)” really stands out.
What do you think?
Do you really have to pay linkedin to be able to send private messages?
Currently doing my MBA from masters union and getting 30-40 profile views a week. no idea if that's terrible or normal, linkedin never gives you any context for the number.
For context: MBA student, applying for summer internships in product/strategy, profile is filled out, open-to-work toggle on (private mode), posting maybe twice a month. Is 30 low? what are y'all at, especially other MBA folks in active recruiting? Trying to figure out if i need to actually fix something or just chill.
Also curious about the OTW toggle. mine ticked up a bit when i flipped it on but less than i expected.
Drop your weekly number if comfortable, trying to get a real benchmark for this cycle.
ran my profile through careerflow's free linkedin scorer this weekend out of curiosity. flagged 6 things i hadn't thought about, mostly headline + about section. views jumped to ~65 this week after the fixes. too early to call but interesting.
Trying to access my LinkedIn profile page in Chrome browser. I'm logged in, but trying to click any "view profile" link - whether my pfp image, or the "me" dropdown > "view profile" button - acts exclusively like a back button.
The only way to access my profile is to manually input the url.
Is anyone else having this issue?
When going through the posts of some big Linkedin influencers, I've noticed that they have the same post coming up on that list twice and sometimes several times. I think it's because they repost the same post to come up in the feeds of people in different time zones. Does it not come across desperate? Does it really work?
In practical terms, one one reposts the same post a few hours later, would the impressions and engagement count restart from zero?
Anyone willing to connect with me on LinkedIn? I need 10 connections (I have 5) for my COMP university class. I need 5 more, if anyone is willing to help out I’d appreciate it.
The profile is Jay linkin
If you're a founder, co-founder, or part of a senior leadership team looking to build a strong personal brand on LinkedIn and grow your professional network, I can help.
I’m currently looking to work with clients based in India. To demonstrate the quality of my work, I can offer the first two pieces at a nominal rate. After that, you can decide whether you'd like to continue.
No AI-generated fluff....only real insights, thoughtful positioning, and authentic storytelling.
Let's take today's post.
I've got a post with 9 likes, and yet it has been shown to 176 people only?
I've been posting daily for a week, and have 2.500 followers... I also pay for premium.
What else can I do to improve my views?
A post like that, with that many reactions last year would've gotten 10x more people seeing it.
Live help used to be one of the key features of a premium account.
Now they just don't care.
I'm starting a new job so updated it on LI and had a bunch of engagement over about 5 days (likes and comments). I went to look at it yesterday, and the post is completely gone, including the notifications related to it. It is no longer on my profile at all, and my husband can't see it when he goes to my profile. The job is still in my experience, but the post announcing it is gone.
I didn't write anything additional in the post which would have had it flagged for removal, and had not written any comments. The AI support chatbot was useless of course.
Does anyone have any insight into what happened? It's just embarrassing, this is an important role and now it looks like I deleted the post or something.
Is there any good way to get LinkedIn Premium cheaper? The yearly price feels too high for me right now.
Also, for people who used it before: Was it actually worth it for job searching and networking, or is the free version enough?
Hi, I recently went to one of my first networking events with recruiters, and I fortunately managed to connect with quite a few representatives during the events. I wanted to follow up within 24 hours, especially since a few of them discussed referring me to another person within their company. However, my requests are still pending and I am unable to message them unless I have premium. I believe I have to wait until they accept my request, but given the amount of people who attended the event, I am worried I will not ever get to follow up, let alone within the next 24 hours. I’m wondering if there is still a way to another way I should go about this— should I revoke my request and wait a week to send a new request with a note? Should I try to email them if they have included a contact on their LinkedIn? Is there another method I am missing? Moreover, for next time, should I try to just write down their names and then connect with a note on LinkedIn afterwards? Thank you for taking the time to read my post, I am open to any advice regarding this dilemma.
Are recruiters on LinkedIn mass messaging candidates with AI and then ghosting the second they respond? Genuinely asking.
Like... I’m not the one who reached out here. You messaged me, asked for my availability to chat, and then the moment I reply with times that work for me… crickets.
Am I doing something wrong? In the last 2 months I’ve had 3 recruiters reach out asking for an intro chat and then disappear the second I send over availability. I follow up once and still nothing.
I get it if I’m the one sliding into your inbox and you’re busy. But if you’re reaching out to me first, at least have the decency to reply? Even if its “role got filled,” “timing changed,” whatever.
Anyway, rant over.
Comments are the king when you are small, like under 10k-20k
Linked In likes comments much more and when you comment more -> you are engaging with others and spend more time on the platform -> algorithm remembers that and pushes your posts more.
Of all of features Linked in likes comments the most.
But not any comment, Ai slop comments destroy reputation.
Good comments are gold.
If you comment often to someone's profile you get free visibility out of his audience.
Then you get views to your profile, cause people click and want to connect with someone smart and like-minded.
Then they see your page - what you do, what you offer, your prospect, if its interesting they will connect or reach out with DM so you can help them with something and sell your services.
Its pretty simple actually, the whole process.