LinkedIn content ideas for your specific role

We split 12,988 posts by author role and compared each group's best work against its own weakest. Founders show the widest gap of all: first-person openers appear in 19.6% of their top-decile posts and 5.2% of their bottom half.

19 guides. Every figure comes from our analysis of 12,988 ranked LinkedIn posts, or from a named source we checked ourselves.

Playbook

LinkedIn content ideas for founders, ranked by what works

Founders who post well and founders who post badly write about the same subjects for the same audience. Here are 26 prompts you could write today, plus the one variable that actually separates the two groups.

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Guide

What should a founder post on LinkedIn?

Four kinds of founder material earn a reply, and most founders post none of them. A judgment guide built on 5,619 posts from 21 founders and CEOs.

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Playbook

LinkedIn for B2B SaaS founders: how to build pipeline, not applause

You need eight qualified conversations a quarter, not eight thousand impressions. Here is what to post for pipeline, positioning, building in public and hiring, with the data behind each.

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Data study

The mistakes founders make on LinkedIn

Eleven founder habits, ranked by how much they separate the best posts from the worst inside 5,619 posts from 21 founders and CEOs. One of them turns out not to be a mistake.

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Playbook

LinkedIn content ideas for CEOs, split by who is reading

A CEO writes for four audiences at once and three of them are not customers. Here are 22 ideas mapped to who actually reads them, plus how to keep a post specific after legal review.

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Playbook

How to get executives to post on LinkedIn

Executives do not refuse to post because they are lazy. They refuse because nobody has removed the writing from the task. Here is the 20-minute weekly system that does, plus the data on what executive posts that land actually look like.

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Playbook

LinkedIn content ideas for fractional executives

Three to five clients is a full book, so reach is nearly irrelevant. Here are 20 post ideas for fractional CFOs, CMOs, CTOs and COOs, plus an honest account of what our data can and cannot tell you.

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LinkedIn content ideas for consultants who need pipeline

A consultant is usually two conversations from a signed engagement. That makes most LinkedIn advice wrong for you. Here are 23 post ideas built for a short sales cycle, with the data behind each.

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Playbook

How consultants get clients on LinkedIn

Most consultant advice on LinkedIn is one person's case study. This is the system underneath it, checked against 3,958 posts from 14 coaches and consultants: what to post, what to say in comments, and how a comment becomes a call.

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Playbook

LinkedIn post ideas for coaches selling an intangible service

A coach sells a change that happens inside someone else, months later, and the client takes the credit. That is a hard thing to prove in public. Here are 24 post ideas that prove it anyway.

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Playbook

LinkedIn content ideas for marketers who post for a living

Marketers know the playbook and still get nothing back. The fix is posting things a company page structurally cannot. Here are 22 prompts, with the data and its limits stated plainly.

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Playbook

LinkedIn post ideas for recruiters, ranked by what the data supports

Thirty-plus recruiting post ideas, grouped by job, plus what separated the strongest hiring posts from the weakest ones in a 543-post sample.

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Playbook

LinkedIn content ideas for sales reps who want warmer outreach

Thirty content ideas for sellers, organised by where they sit in the buying cycle, plus what separated the strongest sales posts from the weakest in a 343-post sample.

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Playbook

LinkedIn content ideas for freelancers who want inbound

Thirty content ideas for solo operators, plus the within-topic split from 774 entrepreneurship posts that shows what actually separates strong founder content from weak.

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Guide

LinkedIn content ideas for solopreneurs

A solopreneur is not a freelancer, and the content problem is different. Here is an idea bank organised by where the raw material comes from, with the within-topic data on the formats each idea should live in.

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Playbook

LinkedIn content ideas for agency owners, from the founder's profile

How to run a founder profile as the agency's acquisition channel: what to post, what the data says about format, and how to prove a team exists without disappearing.

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Data study

LinkedIn post ideas for engineers, and why tech posts underperform

Technology posts almost never reach the top decile in our data. We dug into why, and what engineers should write instead of link-and-hashtag posts.

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Playbook

LinkedIn content ideas for accountants and lawyers

Regulated professionals post the safest possible content and it is invisible. What the finance data shows, what the rules actually require, and what to write instead.

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Playbook

LinkedIn post ideas for job seekers, including the awkward ones

What an open-to-work post actually does, how to post after a layoff without it reading as a plea, and which formats carried job-search content in our sample.

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