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Last week, I talked about how to structure your first five posts to warm up a cold profile. The posts help them find their voice and build their habit.
This week I want to talk about what happens after month one.
Think of every post like a page. A chapter is your month of content. Just like a book, one page doesn't tell you much. You have to keep reading the whole chapter before the story starts making sense.
That's how I approach my monthly client reports.
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Here's what I keep an eye on.
The big picture overview. Before I look at individual posts, I write a short read on the month as a whole. What did the content establish? What is the audience already responding to? What does that tell us about where to go next? This is the most important part of the report because it keeps us anchored to the goal of building a credible, recognizable presence for the right people, not chasing vanity metrics.
Top performers. I flag what worked well and why. I look at the hook, format, and how the POV was communicated. Understanding the reason matters more than celebrating the result, because that's what you repeat.
What missed the mark. When something doesn't do as well as I expected, I look at whether the topic drifted from the core themes we're building, whether the framing was clear, and whether it was obvious who the post was for. The idea is rarely the problem.
One-to-one signals. The analytics tool tracks impressions, engagement, and follower growth, but it doesn't capture what happens off the feed. Meaning, if my client gets a DM from the right person, they field an inbound email that mentions one of their posts, or someone brings up their LinkedIn in person. Those signals matter, and they go into the report.
Next steps. I take everything we learned the previous month and apply it to how we’ll build on it in the next month. What should we do more of? What should we move away from?
The feedback I share in these reports is direct. If conviction-driven posts are outperforming everything else, I say that, and we lean into it. If the content has been drifting toward generic, I name it and we course-correct.
If you want to try this for yourself, here are five questions to answer at the end of each month:
Which posts generated real engagement, not just vanity metrics?
Which ones got the right people to comment?
Did any lead to DMs or conversations off the feed?
What themes showed up across your strongest posts?
What didn't land? What do you think got in the way?
For example, if your most personal posts keep outperforming everything else, that's a signal.
Write the answers down and review them each month. Patterns only show up when you look across the whole month, not when you react to how last Tuesday's post made you feel.
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P.S. This is exactly what I do for executives and founders who don't have time to figure it out themselves.