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You've seen this person on your LinkedIn feed.
They pop up out of nowhere to repost a company announcement, drop a generic caption or none at all, and they disappear.
They don’t respond to comments. It’s a classic “post and ghost.” There’s no sign a real human being is behind the profile. It’s just a checkbox marked done and they were on to the next thing.
Maybe you’ve been this person. No judgment if you have! Most people have.
The problem is what happens when you need something and nobody’s warmed up to you yet.
LinkedIn isn't a bulletin board where you post and walk away.
What do these names have in common?
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For you, someone with real experience, real opinions, and real influence, LinkedIn is a direct line to the exact people you want to reach. Peers, decision-makers, future collaborators. They're already there and the question is whether they know who you are.
And that familiarity doesn't happen from one post every three weeks. It's built in the comments you leave, the perspective you share, the consistency that tells people you're worth paying attention to.
Those small moments compound. You never know which exchange plants the seed that turns into something real six months later like a referral, an opportunity, or the “yes” you’ve been working toward.
When you ghost, you opt out of all of it.
I watched this play out with a client who came to me with the opposite problem most people have.
He wasn't unknown, he's well-known in his industry. But his LinkedIn presence was scattered. He'd show up randomly, go quiet for weeks, and never really engage beyond his own posts.
So we got him on a simple schedule of two posts a week with consistent engagement (responding to comments and commenting on other people’s content).
We've been working together for over a year now, and what changed was that his audience started to recognize him as someone worth paying attention to.
When it came time for his company’s annual event, we needed to drive traffic to the event website.
We asked and it worked. The links got traffic because his audience was already paying attention. He didn't come out of nowhere. He’d earned their attention.
That's what consistent presence actually does. It primes people to say yes before you ever make the ask.
Here’s my question for you this week.
If you made an ask on LinkedIn today about a new service, an open role, a product, an event, would your audience be ready to act? Or would they be thinking, who is this person?
You know it matters. The hard part is finding the time and knowing what to say when you sit down to write a post.
If you're not sure where to start, I made something for exactly this. My free LinkedIn Prompt Guide gives you 10 questions designed to pull out your stories, opinions, and expertise.
Each answer becomes a post. If you post twice a week, you're covered for five weeks. Once a week, you've got two months of content.
It also includes the MEAL Method. That’s the same framework I use with clients to turn a rough idea into a post people actually read.