I’ve grown two agencies from 0 to $120k and $200k p/m in revenue and personally worked with 40+ B2B businesses (agencies + SaaS). I’ve tested over 15+ growth channels over 4 years - hunting for profitable growth channels. In doing so, I discovered how lucrative LinkedIn can be (when done right)

Instead of: 
- Spamming prospects
- Posting irrelevant selfies
- Trying to get likes / comments

Imagine a world where
- Leads book calls inbound
- Sales calls close at 3x higher win rates
- Prospects respect you and see you as an authority 

For Agencies, Coaches & Consultants.... 

If you're good at what you do

And want to make LinkedIn a push channel that gets you Big Clients... 

We’ll show you how we get results like: 

- Lead generation agency adds $22k MRR, closes 4 clients and books 45 calls in 40 days 
- eCom email marketing agency closes $20k, books 28 calls in 90 days
- B2B Paid ads agency adds $100k+ in revenue, closes 5 clients in last 180 days (including Reddit)
- Media Engine book 100 calls in the last 60 days

Book in a call here or DM me 'ABOUT'. 

I’ll tell you what sort of results you could expect. 

https://www.themediaengine.co/lce-elite

Aman Ghataura

We spent $29k on some LinkedIn Thought Leadership ads. 

I was shocked what happened.

Turns out...

They print. 💰

- $2k closed $200k for an agency - 10x ROI
- $9k closed $360k ARR for a SaaS - 17x ROI
- $18k closed $180k for a consultant - 10x ROI

We used to boost random LinkedIn posts... 

Then we studied all the top Thought Leader Ads across multiple accounts 

And made some big changes to improve
- Engagement Rates
- Qualified ICP Commenting / Liking
- Inbound DMs / Form Fills
- Booked Calls 

And now we're consistently driving higher returns for our clients with a combination of 
- Organic LinkedIn Posts
- Automated Connection Requests
- Boosted LinkedIn Posts
- Remote SDR Managing Inbox

Took me ages to work it out 

So I'm sharing a swipe file of the best Thought Leader Ads I've seen 

Even if you're not ready to turn them on right now.

Keep this in your war chest. 

Comment 'ADS' below and I'll DM it over

PS - The best part? These ads don't even look like ads. They blend right into the feed with all the original engagement intact.

Co-Founder @ Media Engine | LinkedIn Content, Ads & DMs

LinkedIn has changed...

This new 5-step playbook closed $6m+

Here we go: 

1. IDEATION

We ingest every source of novel & interesting insight into onboarding flows and our Claude AI brain
- Case Studies
- Internal Processes
- Competitor Posts  
- Industry Media
- Trending Topics (Twitter advanced search)
- Sales Calls Transcripts  (Fireflies.ai / Fathom.ai typically)
- Guided Interviews (Riverside if you want to repurpose to video later) 

↓

2. CREATION 

Ghostwriter (or Founder/CEO) and AI brain work together to create content following PPT framework
- Pain Posts (make ICP feel seen)
- Process Posts (educate ICP with steps, listicles - e.g. this post)
- Trend Posts (capture impressions by brand/trend jacking) 

Formats
- Create text based posts
- When see top 20% post, convert into Loom style video 
- Changes optimizaton from attention to consumption 

↓ 

3. GRADUATION 

Graduate top 10% of posts into LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads 
- Engagement objective
- Upload list of ideal contacts 
- Boost thought leadership ads into ICP
- Retarget website visitors and high intent engagers 
- Monitor key metrics (CPM, frequency, penetration, dwell time and  conversions) 

↓

4. INTENT SIGNALS 

Do this manually first, and then go into automations 
- Identify post likers / commenters (manually use Clay / Unipile) 
- Identify profile views (manually or use PhantomBuster
- Identify ad engagers (manually or use Fibbler / ZenABM)
- Qualify every company (manually or use Clay / Apify / RapidAPI)
- Qualify every lead (manually or use Clay / Apify / RapidAPI)

↓

5. OUTBOUND

Send warm DMs 
- Blank connection requests (if not connected) 
- Messaging using compliments / observations to increase reply rates
- Opt for manual first then automate using HeyReach.io
- Push into Instantly.ai (new integration with HeyReach.io available) or Smartlead


And boooom, you're now a billionaire (lol jk)

But seriously, if you want LinkedIn to start really generating you real pipeline.

This is the playbook you need to be following and building internally

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P.S. DM if you want to skip the trial & error and install this into your business.

I repeated this hook 8x

7x times it has gone viral. 

The hook followed this formula

"I [ACHIEVEMENT]"

If we find something works on LinkedIn, we do 5x Iterations: 
(I'd argue you can do this for any organic social platform) 

1. Copy the post, but change the image
2. Copy the hook, but change the body and image 
3. Copy the hook, but change the format (e.g. image to video) 
4. Copy the body and image, change the hook 
5. Copy and paste the exact post 

Ever variation gives us new data: 
- Was the hook the reason it went viral?
- Does the image need to look a certain way? 
- Do we need to target specific emotional angles? 

In this case, the winning combination is a very specific opening hook with a specific style of image. Consistently it's helped us go viral AND generate inbound leads in the process. 

Internally, we call that hook formula ("I [ACHIEVEMENT]") a 'Credibility Statements'. 

They're 1 liners that prove you're good. 

E.g. The hook of this post is a Credibility Statement.

I've got internal documentation on credibility statements:
- How to use them
- 100 examples of them 

Comment 'STATEMENT' below and I'll ping it over 

Don't forget to send me a connection request

I am BEYOND excited

Just wrote 33 pages on our Scalable Thought Leader LinkedIn playbook

Took an age to put together and covers all the fun stuff...

- How to differentiate yourself in content 
- Winning content pillars / frameworks
- Identifying what to turn into ads and when 
- How to build audiences
- How to track performance
- How to budget correctly
- How to leverage intent signals

And loads more. 

Just putting the final touches on it. 

It's NOT ready yet, but comment 'WAITLIST' if you want to be the first to get access (I'll send it next week)

Instantly.ai & Perspective do this so damn well.

Their LinkedIn ads look different to other SaaS brands

Why? They've just hit Level 3. 

Level 1: Company Ads
Level 2: Founder Thought Leader Ads
Lever 3: Customer Thought Leader Ads 

They're using posts from customer personal profiles and running them as ads.

And unknowingly, I'm reading a lot of their ads, without realising their ads (until it's too late haha) 

- I know some of their customer names weirdly enough
- And I have a much deeper belief that they're good at what they do.

I don't know Instantly & Perspective numbers but I was on a call w/ another GTM SaaS who revealed their Customer Ads were their top performing in their ad account (and generated direct pipeline) vs the ad run from their founder. 

If you're reading this, you can graduate to Level 3 straight away + start building more pipeline faster. 

It's an easy playbook to run 

1. Reach out to current customers
2. Ask them to post about their experience with you
3. Draft the post for them, let them edit it
4. Once they post it, activate your team to engage with post
5. Head over to LinkedIn Ads Manager
6. Send request access to use their post as an ad 
7. Run it as an ad. 

Which other brands do you see running Customer Ads? 

Tag em below. 

(I want to build a swipe + do some analysis)

Best advice I've recieved:

When stuff is going well...

Remember, it's not going to go well forever. 

Double down, make the best use of the opportunity...

But start diversifying early.

We do the same thing with LinkedIn.

Organic is working. But it won't forever.

Start diversifying into paid ads to build a moat faster than the competition.

Everyone is flocking to this platform.

But you can make the gap wider.

Head of Instagram: "Stop posting" → lower reach 

On LinkedIn? It's the opposite. 

I love Adam Mosseri (Head of Instagram)'s stories. He's incredibly active and  transparent. He gives loads of insights into the Instagram Algo 

And most social platforms operate in similar ways. So it's a no brainer for any marketer to watch his content. 

Multiple times I've seen big overlaps with stuff I've seen on the LinkedIn algo and have been able to take advantage of it. 

STORY TIME: 

On Friday's story he replied to the question: "If I don't post for 4 months, is it hard to get the momentum back"

His answer (slightly paraphrased but keeping core to his message)
- It's true that it's hard to get the same amount of reach / impressions
- The longer you don't post, less information Instagram has about who your content should be served to
- Instagram has more information on other creators (so my inference here is that it will preferentially push their content) 

And LinkedIn probably has similar mechanics...

But from what I've observed, I think they have a different mechanism which takes more weight in the algorithm: 

- If you've never posted before, you seem to get a 'New Profile' boost. Lots of accounts I've worked on have done incredibly well on their first post. I remember reading Jake Ward's first post on LinkedIn and it went absolutely ballistic viral. Objectively, there is very little data on who this content should be served to, but it seems like LinkedIn will push it out widely and give it a very fair go. 

- Accounts that haven't posted for a long time, seem to get a 'I'm Back' boost when they start posting again. According to Insta logic, there is less data on the algo. But again, I think LinkedIn is rewarding an account for returning and dangling a juicy impression carrot. Also maybe it's because the stuff we work on together is better than their old content lol. I also saw this with my own content in the last month. I took a month off and I'm still basking in the 'I'm Back' impression glow. 

This is what it means for you on LinkedIn

1. If you take a month off from posting.... 
That's fine. It won't suck. (But ideally you shouldn't and compound whatever organic presence you've built) 

2. If you're a new account thinking about posting
Take advantage of your first post. Getting it right can get you instant ROI.
A few months ago I remember helping a client write their first ever post. We smashed through 20k impressions, generated ~8 calls and closed a couple deals. Happy to DM my first post framework to anyone who's never posted before on LinkedIn - happy to give you a guiding hand here. 

P.S. I've purposefully included his story here so you can hear his first hand description of it and the exact words he uses as the nuance is interesting. I 

P.P.S Also LinkedIn, who's your Adam Mosseri? This platform's missing that public, transparent creator voice.

2nd / 3rd time founders who want to start LinkedIn personal brands seem to battle internally with the same thing: 

Whenever I speak to them it's clear they have such rich experiences. 

- Acquiring / exiting companies
- Scaling companies to 100s of employees
- Founding, raising money etc 

They're multi dimensional, interesting, and have 100s of unique takes and stories. 

So they begin to find ways to meld all their experiences together and their positioning becomes this mish-mash of things - but in reality will struggle to work on this algorithm. 

They know this. 

So that causes an internal battle. It paralyses them from taking action. 

I've run enough 1:1 positioning sessions to confidently say there is a way to get around this... 

Here's a few points to help guide you on that journey 

1. Know your LinkedIn identity is not your whole identity. You're allowed to present a version of yourself on here that's not your complete in-person identity. 
2. Make the decision to solely focus on 1 thing for the purpose of LinkedIn for the next 6 months. This isn't permanent. It's an experiment
3. Work through all your professional experiences and cherry pick the specific stories that mirror who you want to attract inbound. Only tell those stories on LinkedIn. You're being selective about the version of yourself you present. 

Now over time, you'll get to stage where you can make your online identity more multi faceted. Where you can introduce your side quests, your hobbies.

If we treat activities as temporary, and not permanent. 

It's much easier to get started

And hey, let's have fun in the process.

Our new LinkedIn workflow 

Responsible for $2m in pipeline in last quarter 

Here we go: 

1. IDEATION
We ingest every source of novel & interesting insight into onboarding flows and our Claude AI brain - and then surface the validated ideas (proven to work on social) 
- Case Studies
- Internal Processes
- Competitor Posts 
- Industry Media
- Trending Topics (Twitter advanced search)
- Sales Calls Transcripts (Fireflies.ai / Fathom.ai )
- Guided Interviews (Riverside if you want to repurpose to video later) 

↓

2. UNIQUE INSIGHT 
We layer on our unique insight beyond the validated idea. 
- What's our unique take?
- What first party data do we have? 
- Are we for or against the general idea and why? 

↓

3. FORMAT MATCHING 

Ghostwriter (or Founder/CEO) and AI brain work together to create content following PPT framework
- Pain Posts (make ICP feel seen)
- Process Posts (educate ICP with steps, listicles - e.g. this post)
- Trend Posts (capture impressions by brand/trend jacking) 

Formats
- Create text based posts
- When see top 20% post, convert into Loom style video 
- Changes optimizaton from attention to consumption 

↓ 

4. REPURPOSE FOR CONSUMPTION 
We take our winning posts and repurpose into a longer form video asset
- Graduating from 'Attention' into 'Consumption'
- From text/image into Loom / Tella video / walkthrough
- Unlocks 'Video Watch Time' data inside Ads Manager
- Encourages deeper consumption and leads to higher quality leads

↓

5. REDO POSTS
Identify any posts that didn't get leads but got >2x impressions
- Understand why they received more impressions
- Redo post to capture more impressions (ride wave)
- Redo post to target more qualified user but still get impressions (narrow down) 

↓

6. GRADUATION

Graduate posts that generate qualified leads / profile viewers into LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads
- Engagement objective
- Upload list of ideal contacts
- Boost thought leadership ads into ICP
- Retarget website visitors and high intent engagers
- Monitor key metrics (CPM, frequency, penetration, dwell time and conversions)

↓

7. INTENT
Do this manually first, and then go into automations 
- Identify post likers / commenters (manually use Clay / Unipile) 
- Identify profile views (manually or use PhantomBuster)
- Identify ad engagers (manually or use Fibbler / ZenABM)
- Qualify every lead (manually or use Clay / Apify / RapidAPI)

↓

8. OUTBOUND
Send warm DMs 
- Blank connection requests (if not connected) 
- Messaging using compliments / observations to increase reply rates
- Opt for manual first then automate using HeyReach.io/ Aimfox
- Push into Instantly.ai / Smartlead


If you want LinkedIn to start generating real pipeline.

This is the playbook you need to save and share with your team. 

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P.S. I'm launching a 34 page playbook this week. It's taken me 3 weeks to write. Early feedback: "This is INSANELY good - are you sure you want to give this away?" 

Save this post & comment 'WAITLIST' to get access

I've never seen Meta or Google do this

LinkedIn tells you what % of people your ads have reached.

It's called Penetration Rate. 

Penetration Rate =  Unique Reach / Audience Size * 100%
Example = 3000/15000 * 100% = 20% Penetration Rate

If you have a small potential list of clients (few thousand people) it's stupidly powerful to know what %age of your audience are actually seeing your ads.

For most businesses, just having you target client aware you even exist is half the battle. 

And Penetration Rate can infer some interesting things about your campaigns: 


LOW PENETRATION RATE

If Penetration Rate = low AND you've bid high / spent budget: 
--> Likely your audience is inactive on LinkedIn. 

FLAT PENETRATION RATE

If Penetration Rate = not increasing AND you're bidding & spending more
--> Likely you've hit your full LinkedIn active audience

HIGH PENETRATION RATE

If Penetration Rate = high AND no conversions 
--> Likely your audience is seeing your ads, but somethings wrong. The messaging isn't landing / offer isn't converting / marketing cycle is longer than you think 

If you know:
- Your audience is active on Linkedin
- Your offer is converting / getting traction
- You've got a few grand in ad budget

It's a no brainer to start forcing content into your audience on LinkedIn

Organic posts + thought leader ads = Best 2025 LinkedIn strategy 

Here’s the step-by-step play


1. MAPPING

Create an exact list of 500-1,500 companies you’d like to become clients of yours. We don’t necessarily need a list of contacts (found you get 90% match rates vs 60% when uploading companies vs contacts) 


2. VALUE PROPS 

Define exactly what 
Makes you different to competitors
Makes you safe to buy 
Makes you specific to your ideal customer

For example, you could be an ads agency that creates high volume AI ads and only work with fashion brands, and you have lots of internal data to prove that your mechanism works better than everyone else 


3. CONTENT

Create 30 amazing pieces of LinkedIn content. Speak exactly to your value props and your mapped accounts you’re targeting. 

We want these posts to perform well organically. Go for 100% text / text + image posts. Don’t do any video (yet)

When a post does well, do it again but this time make it Loom / screen share video (we want this for later) 


4. BOOSTING

We’re now going to boost your top 15% of posts into your mapped accounts. Make sure every post is edited with CTAs & links so we can measure clicks to landing pages.

Use Engagement objective. Create a separate campaign for every ad so you can really manually control bids and ad spend. Rotate in and out content.

LinkedIn even shows you exactly how much you penetrated your target list and how often they saw your content

After 5-7x rotate out the ad and push a new one in.  Use this formula to work out monthly budgets: Audience Size * 50% Activity Rate * 5x Frequency * CPM / 1000

5. HOT AUDIENCES

Build audiences of people who’ve engaged with your image ads, watched 50% of your videos. This will feed into your retargeting pool. Push all your posts that make you ‘safe to buy’ into them.

LinkedIn even shows you which companies got paid impressions / engaged with your content etc. 

Send this data into Clay, enrich and hook up to a tool like HeyReach to send automated outreach. 

If you want to avoid paying a hefty tech stack, do this every week. And then every day open every single ad and send connection requests and message to likers, commenters, and profile viewers. 

CONGRATS - If you've run this playbook - you're officially a Scalable Thought Leader 

Like these three clients we worked with 

- Consultant spends $5k and closes $55k every single month
- Agency spent $3k and booked $2.5m pipeline in 90 days 
- B2B SaaS spent $9k, booked $1.9m+ in pipeline and closed $350k

P.S. I can set this up 1:1 with you - DM me. 

Save and share this post with your team for later.

Last week, a LinkedIn post got a client a $200k lead

But he posted it 4 months ago. 

- Posted it 4 months ago
- The post did well 
- So it graduated into a Thought Leader Ad

The key was uploading an ICP list to LinkedIn

1. Scraped a full list of the ICP using Clay & LinkedIn
2. Enriched with some extra data from Apify 
3. Uploaded that list to LinkedIn Ads Manager
4. Decided which job titles we wanted to see that post 

It wasn't the only post that made it to LinkedIn Ads. 

Every time we saw a post: 
- Generate qualified profile views / followers and/or getting leads, they were contenders for graduation
- Get 3X average impressions organically they were typically investigated and then the hooks repurposed into other posts to improve organic performance of lead generators 

They were then edited - adding CTA links at the bottom and making the hooks tailored for the ICP --- not the algo 

And then every post was tracked for Commenters / Likers / Engagers. And a remote SDR would work on those leads. Their job was to start conversation with warm traffic (instead of trying to convince cold leads that our client is Safe, Different and Relevant to them.

My post got 300 impressions

It’s not because I chose a bad idea:
-> The idea was bad.

It’s not because I wrote a bad hook:
-> The hook was bad

It’s not because I used a bad image:
-> The image was bad


Equivalently…


My post got 10,000 impressions

It’s not because I chose a great idea. 
-> The idea was good

It’s not because I wrote a great hook
-> The hook was good

It’s not because I used a great image
-> The image was good



I used to blame myself for every failure and take credit for every win.

And that’s just a rocky dopamine junkie rollercoaster

It’s far easier to remove yourself

- Act like a consultant
- Measure objectively 
- Forget the time you invested


I teach my clients the same thing

1. It’s not you -> don’t blame yourself

2. It’s not the algorithm -> don’t blame 
something you can’t control 

3. It’s the post -> you can change that


We’re on an awesome run with a client I’ve featured in the images (not revealing so we can keep going without attracting too many competitors) 

- Booked 30+ calls with 8/9 Figure ICP clients
- $800k+ in pipeline value
- 5 contracts sent out




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P.S. @bonusfootage on Insta summed this up so well I had to post it here.

graphical user interface, text, application

Posted on LinkedIn.

3 months later, that same post is booking in 1 call / day. 

The algorithm gave it a boost for around a week.

But what gave it long term longevity was:

1. Uploading a list of target companies to LinkedIn
2. Editing the post with a link at the bottom to book a call 
3. Creating a campaign inside LinkedIn ads manager
4. Turning the post into a Thought Leader Ad
5. Boosting that Thought Leader Ad into target companies
6. Guaranteeing impressions with the perfect ICP

This is what I call the 'Scalable Thought Leader' 

Put energy and effort into creating organic content.

And then just pay for the distribution to make sure it keeps getting in front of target customers.

And to start only costs $1k-$3k in ad spend per month. 

Peanuts compared to the ROI.

I took a consultant through the PPP framework in 90 minutes. They closed just over $100k in the following 12 weeks. 

PPP = Person, Pain, Problem
Why = To get the exact client you want INBOUND. 

Here's the framework (save it down) 

P1: Person
- Define the person you're selling to firmographically
- What are the attributes you would put into a lead database
- Job Title
- Company Size
- Location 
- Revenue 

P2: Pain 
- What are the things that the Person says out loud as complains
- If you were unwell, this would be the symptoms you were suffering from
- E.g. "Runny nose" --> "My clients churn fast" 
- E.g. "Headache" --> "CPMs are really high this quarter" 
- The more 'present' and 'symptomatic' these are, the more you should reference them early in your posts 
- This is what your Person understands. 

P3: Problem
- What are the root causes of the Person's Pain
- This is what the Doctor diagnoses because of all your Symptoms
- E.g. "Runny nose + Headache + Winter" = Flu? 
- E.g. "High Client Churn + Team Churn + Can't Delegate" = Culture Issue? 
- You'll find your clients have many Problems for their Pains.
- You need to choose the Problem you can solve, how fast you can alleviate their Pain, depending on your Solutions 

This framework is general enough it works for any niche
And specific enough it'll actually help you

Particularly useful for experienced individuals who can speak to LOADS of different People - but need a little help focusing on their exact ideal. 

Let me know if this is helpful.

I've got a few more frameworks like this.

A client just graduated to Level 5 of LinkedIn 

Why? To add $20k+ new MRR monthly

Level 1: 
• Post from Founder account
• Send outreach from Founder account

→ Now we want to increase volume.. 

Level 2: 
• Post from Founder account
• Send outreach from Founder account
• Send outreach from 1-3 team profiles 

→ Now we want to double down on our best posts

Level 3: 
• Post from Founder account
• Send outreach from Founder account
• Send outreach from 1-3 team profiles 
• Run Thought Leader Ads from Founder account

→ Now we want to scale organic impressions without the Founder

Level 4: 
• Post from Founder account
• Send outreach from Founder account
• Send outreach from 1-3 team profiles 
• Run Thought Leader Ads from Founder account
• Post content from 1-3 team profiles 

→ Now we want to diversify ad content mix 

Level 5: 
• Post from Founder account
• Send outreach from Founder account
• Send outreach from 1-3 team profiles 
• Run Thought Leader Ads from Founder account
• Post content from 1-3 team profiles 
• Run Thought Leader Ads from Customer accounts

→ Next step - activate more of the team 

Level 6: 
• Post from Founder account
• Send outreach from Founder account
• Send outreach from 3+ team profiles 
• Run Thought Leader Ads from Founder account
• Post content from 3+ team profiles 
• Run Thought Leader Ads from Customer accounts

To go from Level 1 to 6 requires you to:
- Use the right software
- Set up right databases
- Build the right AI prompts 
- Incentivise your team correctly
- Engage with customer accounts intelligently 

We had to build the systems to help out clients go from Level 1 to 6. 

I've recorded a Loom video showing how you can go from 1 to 6 too. 

Comment 'SYSTEM' and I'll share it.

"When should I run LinkedIn Ads?"

Are you a Cautious Cory or a Confident Cam? 

Cautious Cory: 
- Want to know their ad dollars are spent efficiently
- Have limited budget and it needs to show ROI in 3 months.

If you're a Cautious Cory, wait till:
- Know specific hooks get you impressions
- Know specific posts generate them leads 
- You can budget $5k to $9k ad spend over next 3 months

Cautious Cory opts to spend more time in Organic land before boosting into Paid. 

Confident Cam: 
- Know their audience lives on LinkedIn 
- Know it's a trust game and it takes time
- Can spend on ads for 6 months+ without an issue 
- Have a proven offer that's worked on LinkedIn or another channel

If you're a Confident Cam, don't wait 
- Start boosting content and measuring pipeline signals
- Get going before you're competition wakes up to LinkedIn 

Confident Cam typically gets going faster. They make more bets. 

I work with Cautious Corys and Confident Cams all the time. 

Both get awesome results and become scalable thought leaders. 


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P.S. I'm 70% through my Scalable Thought Leader Playbook. It generated $2m in pipeline from LinkedIn Ads for a single client. Comment 'Waitlist' and I'll send it to you when it's done.

Don't copy big influencers on LinkedIn.

Here's what they're doing:
- Optimizing for the biggest market
- Selling to the 'beginners' 
- Selling low cost services

On the other hand - if you're selling expensive, sophisticated solutions, you need to get comfortable with ignoring the impressions metrics and focusing (mostly) on qualified profile viewers, followers and of course leads.

The best way to achieve this is to use the TIMELINE EXPERT framework. 
(I've introduced this to a few consultants this week and they're loving it) 

--> This is not explained in the video so read it here.

PAST: 
- Talk about your previous experiences.
- Open posts with "When I was a" or "When we", "At [LastCompany]" 
- Only experts have war stories and real experiences. Lean into these as the bedrock of why you're competent

PRESENT: 
- Clearly state why you're an expert today
- Do this with credibility statements that you pepper into your content. Some examples of competency statements for example are: 
- Written 6,000+ LinkedIn posts. Worked on over 200+ LinkedIn accounts. Driven $5m+ in Revenue from LinkedIn. Etc....

FUTURE: 
- Provide your commentary on what's happening in today's market.
- This brings your expertise into the relevancy of NOW
- Example "This is what AI means for EV market" or "Figma's IPO is a warning signal for consumer sentiment" 

There's of course more to being an expert than these tips.
- Have high standards for a future customer
- Genuinely good at what you do
- Spent years doing it 


New post format - what do you think? 

P.S. Comment SPEAR and I'll share with your my post templates that generate leads (not likes)

LinkedIn ABM ads tech stack 

(quick and dirty edition)

1. LinkedIn Sales Navigator ($125 /mo)
- Build your account list
- Build your lead lists 

2. Clay ($134 /mo) 
- Qualify every single company / lead
- Create a clean lead / company list to upload 

3. LeadMagic ($60 /mo)
- If uploading contacts to LinkedIn, use to get verified emails (required for matching) 

4. Fibbler ($89 /mo)
- Initially you don't need this, just click over to the Audience Companies tab to see exactly who engaged
- Worth investing if you're looking for cleaner UI / better reporting / ad scheduling

5. Supermetrics ($43 /mo)
- Don't need until you want a bit more automation
- Send LinkedIn ads data directly into spreadsheet for analysis 

I see 1 & 2 as non-optional. 
You can cancel 2. once you're done. 
3, 4 and 5 are dependent on your situation

HubSpot's LinkedIn game deserves an award.

Here's a breakdown: 

Level 1: Post from Founder account
- Dharmesh Shah's content is SO engaging.
- I didn't know about Hubspot's LinkedIn presence until I saw his content 
- It's both fresh, interesting + develops his unique personality / experiences. 
- If you're a founder you have to have a scroll through his posts. 

Level 2: Post from Team accounts
- I then came across Kieran Flanagan's AI content (exceptional)
- Their content doesn't read promotional NOR does it feel like they're being incentivised / forced to post. It's real + authentic. 
- If you're posting already, the next step is to give our team the tools / encouragement for them to post too. 
• Send outreach from 1-3 team profiles 

Level 2.5: BONUS  -- PARTNER Content. 
- It's hard to discuss Hubspot without mentioning their partner/agency program
- Just a quick search for 'Hubspot' on LinkedIn ad library and you'll see how many other agencies are creating content. 
- Going down the grape vine I found Dan Stillgoe - produces awesome content that positions himself both individually as an agency and also enables him to have a strong relationship with Hubspot. 
- From what I can see - Hubspot don't promote his content on their own ads (opportunity?)

Level 3: Thought Leader Ads
- Looks like HubSpot are exploiting the benefits of running ads from personal profiles
- They've enabled multiple team members across different geographies with different job titles. Some of these profiles don't post as often but they're still running a couple posts here and there for boosting as thought leader ads. 
- I personally love the static image from Yves Bourgoin - it feels less produced + probably gets a higher CTR than the polished talking head videos. 
- Can also see their running an interesting campaign around Loop Marketing

Level 4: Customer Ads [unactivated?] 
- The final frontier: running ads from your customer's LinkedIn profiles
- I couldn't see Hubspot doing this but they must have 100s of potential customers open to this idea: 
1. Find an evangelist customer
2. Interview them + collect case study
3. Ask (or incentivise) them to post organically about their experience
4. Boost that post into companies exactly like them

This is a mature program - I don't think any co. should beat themselves up for not executing like Hubspot

BUT - at a minimum a Founder / Leader / Execs should be posting on LinkedIn.

Every time you post you're building awareness, building credibility, creating optionality for yourself and helping build pipeline. 


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P.S. I also have an internal notion guide on how to get your team to start posting (and some AI prompts) - comment "hubspot" + connect and I'll ping it over.

Moe Choice

Today I want to give a fuckload of thanks

And show shitloads of gratitude

Which should be as easy as 1-2-3

Except most people can't even get to 1

Before I get to it though, I want to make a declaration

I do NOT:

• Subscribe to the idea that the world is a horrible place
• Buy into the notion that things used to be better
• Waste my time with pessimists and nihilists

Why judge, hate and complain when there is

SO. MUCH. OPPORTUNITY?!

Anyway.

What I am most grateful for is:

- My health and the health of my family 
- The wealth I have, and the opportunity for more
- The relationships I have with family, friends, & clients

And here are another 123 things I wanna give thanks for:

Elite Sports
The Internet
Jesus Christ
French Fries
Hot Showers
Liquid Stevia
Whole Foods
Waffle Cones
Board Games
Playing Cards
Trees & Parks
Clotted Cream
Amazon Prime
Paid Education
Athletic Greens
Cheese & Wine
Sesame Bagels
Micro Breweries
Savoury Crepes
Solopreneurship
Second Screens
Entrepreneurship
Netflix Downloads
Turmeric & Ginger
Cheese & Crackers
Apple Cider Vinegar
Foaming Hand Soap
Independent Thought
Electric Toothbrushes
Heated Steering Wheels
Fresh Bread & Salted Butter
Bananas & Blueberries
Soft Serve Ice Cream
Trusted Housesitters
Wireless Technology
Heated Toilet Seats
Boiling Water Taps
Collagen Peptides
Loyal Friendships
Coconut Yoghurt
Scrambled Eggs
Recorded Music
Real Journalism
Bamboo Boxers
Spotify Playlists
Cheeseburgers
Free Education
Running Water
Fresh Laundry
Smart Phones
Mug Warmers
The Unknown
Healthy Teeth
Conversation
Android Auto
Free Speech
Nail Clippers
Salt & Straw
Hiking Trails
Competition
Curve Card
Propercorn
Voicenotes
Full Moons
Half & Half
Live Music
Innovation
Sanitation
Sunshine
Medicine
YouTube
Jacuzzis
LinkedIn
Children
Intimacy
Science
Jet Skis
Dreams
Experts
Airlines
Debate
Movies
Towels
Kondo
Dance
Trains
LMNT
Apple
Beds
Turo
Tea
X


Happy Thanksgiving ✌️


PS - I am most grateful for all you mo-fos who got to the end of the list

Hopefully it inspires you to be a little bit more grateful today

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is mentoring solopreneurs to $15k+ months

I am delighted to announce that...


#FuckBlackFriday


PS - The word black implies doom and gloom. No?

$3k months are quicksand

The harder you hustle, the deeper you sink

Sam Abazari was drowning in it
Working 80-hour weeks
Getting paid like a part-timer

Then something flipped inside The 216

Month 1: $3k → $10k 💥
Month 2: $10k → $18k 💥
Month 3: $18k → $26k 💥

Now? $40k months on repeat

Here's what nobody tells you:

Sam didn't need a new niche
Didn't need more certifications
Didn't need to "find his passion"

He needed to stop playing business
And start running one

The framework showed him:
• How to price without explaining
• How to sell without begging
• How to scale without burning out

First cohort filled in 48 hours
Raised his prices

Second cohort? Same story
Raised them again

That's not luck
That's math

While everyone else is chasing viral posts
Sam's chasing wire transfers

The difference?

One runs on hope
The other runs on systems

You can grind yourself to dust at $3k
Or you can learn the game and hit $40k

Your choice


Gangsta Shit 😎


PS – "Framework" literally means "frame for work"
Not "frame for thinking about maybe possibly doing work"

PPS – The only thing worse than being stuck at $3k?
Being stuck at $3k while pretending you're not

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I was never broken

But the model I was using was

Now, every solopreneur who walks through my door says the same shìt:

"I'm lost"
"I can't sell"
"I'm burnt out"
"Maybe I should just go back to a job"

That's not the actual problem

The problem is you're running your business like it's 2010

Using frameworks that died when Facebook was still cool

Most people think they need more tactics

More funnels
More AI prompts
More morning routines

They don't

They need a model that actually works

Because when the model is wrong, every tactic fails

The game isn't about chasing the newest guru's course

It's about nailing the shìt that never changes:

• Positioning (so they choose you over everyone)
• Attention (so the right people actually see you)
• Persuasion (so they buy without the cringe)

Get those three locked

The tools can change
The platforms can die
Zuckerberg can rename everything again

But you'll still be making money

Because frameworks beat tactics
Every. Fùcking. Time.


Capeesh? 🤌


PS – My model’s never been scouted by Vogue...

But it makes money like it has

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Everything (Literally EVERYTHING) I do on Linkedin

Is designed for ONE outcome:

To get them on a call as quickly as possible

My DMs
My about
My banner
My content  
My comments
My masterclass
My featured section

Are ALL designed

To get them on a call as quickly as possible

99% of my clients struggle with this

They'll spend 6 hours perfecting their offer

But won't spend 6 minutes starting a conversation

Not scared of failure
Not scared of rejection

Scared of outreach
Scared of being seen
Scared of being rejected

You can't hide behind "I'm still working on my offer" anymore

But most people don't lose sales because they're pushy

They lose them because they never pitch at all

They're so busy being 'valuable' they forget to be valuable

Playing therapist when they should be playing closer

I see it every day:

17 messages deep:
"How's your weekend?"
"Love your content!"
"That must be so hard..."

Meanwhile the prospect is literally asking:
"Can you help me get what I want?"

And they miss it
Every. Single. Time.

DMs don't close high ticket items
Calls do

If you're resisting outreach
You're resisting income


Capeesh? 🤌


PS – There's someone in your DMs right now who needs your help

And you're out here sending "How's the year treating you so far?" BS

PPS – Yes, you can be kind AND 'salesy'

You're running a business, not a pen-pal service

________

The fear of losing is stronger than the desire to win
 
Most solopreneurs would rather not grow

Than risk what they've already built 

They'll say:
I don't want to change my offer
I don't want to niche down
I don't want to experiment 

Translation:
I'm scared to lose what's already working 

So they keep the same $3k offer that takes 40 hours

Instead of testing the $10k offer that takes 10

The real risk isn't losing what you have 

It's getting stuck protecting something that was only meant to be temporary 

Because playing not to lose…
is the fastest way to stop winning

Watch me break down why your brain would rather protect $5k/month
Than risk it for $50k 👇


Capeesh? 🤌


PS – Your brain treats losing money like physical pain

No wonder you're still selling the same shit from 2022

________

The hardest thing I ever did wasn't building businesses or making money

It was walking away from all of it

I'd built up these businesses

Good money flowing in
Strong network
Solid reputation
I was known for something
Popular in Dubai, where I'd built everything

Access to whatever I needed

But here's what was eating at me: 

How do I keep all the good stuff—the income, the freedom, the lifestyle, but get rid of the investors breathing down my neck, the staff drama, the landlords, the endless obligations? 

I spent 3 years trying to figure out how to have my cake and eat it too

Then it hit me: The only way forward was to leave everything behind

So that's exactly what I did

Put my passport in my pocket
Booked a one-way flight from Dubai to London

Left everything I'd built
Started from scratch

Sometimes the cost of keeping what you've built is higher than the cost of starting over

And sometimes, starting over is the only way to build what you actually want


Capeesh? 🤌 


PS - Fun fact: The world’s tallest building in Dubai is 828m tall

Same height as my stress levels were before I left

_______________________________

CEOs keep hiring ghostwriters

And I get it

When you're running a $70B company

You don't have time to craft the perfect LinkedIn hook

But here's what they're missing:

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱

I've written over 1000 posts
I've used Ghostwriters
And I've used Ai

And I can tell you exactly what kills a personal brand:
Pretending to be personal

𝗔 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱

Your audience knows when it's you
Or when it's actually Kyle from Marketing
Trying to "humanize your executive presence"

The posts that hit different?

• My $55K in 3 years confession
• The BMW road rage revelation  
• Calling out AI grifters

No ghostwriter would write those
(They'd get fired for even suggesting them)

Too risky. Too real. Too... me.

While Corporate CEOs keep delegating their voice
I'll keep creating the content I want to
In the way I want to

One of us is building an audience that actually gives a shit 
The other is building a content calendar


Capeesh? 🤌


PS - Most Fortune 500 CEOs have ghostwriters

I have ghosts from my past that appear in every post

_______

Everyone’s talking about thought leadership

Nobody’s talking about meme leadership

One uses jargon to sound smart
The other uses stupidity to tell the truth

So, in the spirit of efficiency (and because I refuse to pretend my brain has any room left for actual wisdom),

I’ve compiled this week’s carousel of internet genius

A visual anthology of:

• The guy who missed every single point ever made online
• The modern Moses who apparently left the commandments for crime
• A neurological PSA for anyone who says “I love Microsoft Teams”
• And a Linkedin post so painfully wholesome you can feel the engagement bait radiating off it

It’s humanity
It’s content


Gangsta Shit 😎


PS- If you don’t laugh at least once scrolling through this

Please close the app, touch some grass, and file a support ticket for your sense of humor 

_________________________________________________

Shit I Found On The Internet 

Linkedin keeps showing me "thought leadership"

X keeps showing me unhinged shìt that makes me question humanity

Guess which one I screenshot

The best memes aren't on Linkedin

They're in X threads at 2am where someone's having a complete breakdown

That's content
That's art
That's why I'm still scrolling at 3am like a degenerate

So here's this week's collection of internet gold

Swipe if you need to feel better about your life choices


Gangsta Shit 😎


PS - If Linkedin is where careers go to thrive, X is where they go to have a breakdown

And I'm here for it

Shit I found on the Internet 

My framework has the worst acronym in business history

POOP

Position. Offer. Outreach. Persuasion.

And yes, I named it that on purpose

Because while you're giggling at the name
I'm helping solopreneurs hit six figures

The framework isn't about money
(Though that's the six-figure part)

It's about freedom

Freedom to stop following someone else's blueprint
Freedom to figure out your own path
Freedom to actually think

Most "gurus" give you a process:
"Do this, then this, then this"

I give you questions:
How will you position yourself?
How will you test your offer?
How will you reach people?
How will you persuade them?

𝗜'𝗺 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼
𝗜'𝗺 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁

That's why it's a framework, not a process

Answer those four questions properly?
You'll hit six figures

Keep avoiding them?
You'll keep buying other people's "proven systems"

While they're selling you their success story
I'm helping you write yours


Capeesh? 🤌


PS - The name POOP also filters out people who take themselves too seriously
And those aren't my people anyway

_______

Another week, another deep dive into the internet's finest garbage

While you were being productive, I was collecting memes like they're rare Pokemon cards

Some people curate art galleries. I curate screenshots that make my therapist concerned

Here's this week's harvest, carefully selected from the depths of my 3am scrolling sessions

Swipe through if you dare. Your algorithm will never recover

"Shit I found on rhe Internet" Episode [whatever number we're on, I've lost count]


Gangsta Shit 😎 


PS - An FBI agent just texted me asking if I'm okay after seeing my search history this week

I told him these memes are for "market research" 

He's not buying it

_______________________________

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