LinkedIn and personal-brand inbound
Use optimized profiles, consistent content, social proof, lead magnets, DMs, and calls to turn LinkedIn visibility into qualified pipeline.
34%
Best tweets about Lead Generation
50 Best Tweets About Lead Generation (2026)
Discover the best tweets about lead generation, from targeting and offers to outbound, inbound, landing pages, qualification, attribution, and pipeline results.
Lead generation strategy, audience targeting, offers, inbound and outbound channels, qualification, attribution, economics, and measurable pipeline outcomes.
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- 43
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Original Xholic analysis
What 50 top Lead Generation posts reveal
The discussion presents lead generation as a connected system spanning ICP and positioning, buyer-oriented content, conversion paths, targeted outreach, follow-up, and qualification. LinkedIn and personal-brand inbound is the most frequent theme, appearing in 34% of tweets (17), alongside recommendations for intent-led outbound and operational follow-through.
- Dominant tone
- Positive
- Median score
- 8.27
- Leading format
- Case Study
- Recent posts
- 46%
60% of posts
All-time engagement
30% of posts
Published in 90 days
Conversation map
The themes creators return to
Content designed to convert
Balance growth, nurture, and conversion content; use buyer-specific topics, case studies, authority, and trust-building rather than optimizing for vanity engagement.
32%
ICP and positioning clarity
Define a narrow ideal customer, articulate specific buyer outcomes and pains, and align profiles, websites, messaging, and offers to attract better-fit leads.
30%
Targeted outbound prospecting
Build focused account lists, use intent signals and personalization, run multistep follow-up, and combine outbound with warm content exposure.
30%
Lead magnets and conversion funnels
Gate useful resources, route prospects through opt-ins, landing pages and email sequences, and connect content engagement to demos, trials, or offers.
28%
Speed-to-lead and follow-up operations
Respond immediately, ensure phone and inbox coverage, automate qualification and routing, and maintain disciplined pre-call, proposal, and follow-up workflows.
28%
Intent-based targeting and enrichment
Prioritize behavioral and contextual buying signals over random contacts, enrich prospect data, detect poor-fit or competitor leads, and score opportunities.
16%
Qualification and lead routing
Filter inbound demand against ICP, distinguish signal from noise, route high-fit leads to strong closers, and protect sales capacity from low-value conversations.
12%
Tone and stance
Sentiment Positive leads
Author posture Supportive leads
Performance benchmark
- Median likes
- 24
- Median reposts
- 1
- Median replies
- 7
- Median views
- 1.3K
Posts with media make up 34% of this collection. Their median all-time score is 7.03, compared with 9.07 for text-only posts.
Format mix
- Case Study 30% · score 9.07
- Tutorial 28% · score 11.9
- Opinion 24% · score 3.20
- List 14% · score 8.09
Consensus and debate
Where creators agree, and where they do not
Shared view
Specific ICP and outcomes anchor demand
Posts repeatedly favor precise buyer definition, pain language, and outcome-led positioning over generic growth claims. The ICP-and-positioning theme appears in 30% of tweets (15), with a 9.068 median all-time score.
Shared view
Content needs a conversion architecture
A recurring inbound playbook connects authority and social-proof content to lead magnets, profile or landing-page CTAs, opt-ins, and follow-up rather than treating reach as the endpoint.
Shared view
Speed and routing protect lead value
Posts frame rapid response, inbox and phone coverage, qualification, proposals, and follow-up as important parts of lead-conversion operations.
Shared view
Intent beats undifferentiated volume
Contributors favor behavioral signals, focused account selection, and ICP filtering over random profile lists or poorly matched inbound demand.
Open debate
Inbound-first versus active selling first
Some posts position LinkedIn content and profile conversion systems as able to generate and convert demand without outreach. Another argues that active outreach is necessary to learn which buyers, messages, and problems convert before relying primarily on passive channels.
Open debate
Cold-audience acquisition has contested value
One contributor advises smaller B2B firms to prioritize organic signals, qualified outreach, and bottom-funnel demand instead of cold-audience campaigns. Another describes a tightly targeted direct-mail model for a high-ticket local service and presents projected campaign economics.
Open debate
Automation follows validation, not optimism
Posts promote automation for coverage, scoring, and routing, while also arguing that manual validation should precede systemization. One author explicitly cautions that an AI-assisted sales result cannot be isolated from talent concentration and market conditions.
What performs
Patterns behind standout posts
Lead-magnet funnels led theme performance
Lead magnets and conversion funnels had the highest theme median all-time score at 10.78, ahead of intent-based targeting and enrichment at 10.14.
Tutorials led among the main recurring formats
Tutorials had an 11.92 median all-time score, above case studies at 9.068, lists at 8.086, and opinions at 3.2. The highest-scoring reported outlier, at 162.5, is a tutorial.
Outliers commonly describe connected lead-generation systems
The five reported score outliers discuss combinations of targeting, content, funnel mechanics, economics, or conversion operations. This is a descriptive pattern in the outlier set, not evidence that those elements caused performance.
Text posts had a higher median score than media posts
Posts with media accounted for 17 of 50 tweets (34%). Their 7.026 median all-time score was below the 9.068 median for text posts; this is a descriptive comparison, not evidence that media reduced performance.
Statistical standouts
- View standout post 1 Score 162.5 · 19.65× median
- View standout post 2 Score 93.6 · 11.32× median
- View standout post 3 Score 72.7 · 8.79× median
- View standout post 4 Score 66.2 · 8× median
- View standout post 5 Score 62.1 · 7.51× median
Creator landscape
Who shapes this conversation
The five most represented creators account for 20% of the selected posts.
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1. Alexa | Startup founder
@alexabelonix
2 posts
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2. Aaron
@IAmAaronWill
2 posts
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3. Kevin Szabo
@KevinSzabo14
2 posts
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4. Logan Gott
@LoganTGott
2 posts
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5. paolo trivellato
@paolo_scales
2 posts
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6. Raksha Devi
@Rakshaweb3
2 posts
Paolo combines LinkedIn tactics with reported SaaS outcomes
paolo_scales’ two evidence posts cover lead magnets, fast DM response, profile conversion points, and reported SaaS results. The creator’s reported median all-time score is 112.29.
Logan emphasizes repeatable content systems
Logan Gott’s posts connect ICP research, content layers, lead magnets, and outbound follow-up. One post recommends a 60/30/10 nurture-growth-conversion content mix.
The conversation is distributed across creators
The dataset contains 43 creators, and the top-five placement share is 20%, indicating that the analyzed set is not concentrated in only a few accounts.
Since the previous snapshot
What changed since Aug 12, 2026
- 74% of the selected posts remained.
- The creator count changed by +1.
- The leading sentiment remained stable.
How this analysis was made
Themes, sentiment, stance, and post format are classified per tweet. All counts, shares, medians, creator concentration, freshness, and performance comparisons are then calculated directly from the published snapshot.
Xholic's all-time score compares engagement while accounting for reach, post age, and creator consistency. It is used for relative comparisons within this collection.
This report analyzes the exact 50-post snapshot shown below. AI identifies editorial categories and drafts explanations; all statistics are calculated from the snapshot, and every narrative claim is checked against cited posts before publication.
Best Lead Generation tweets
Top Lead Generation tweets from 43 creators
Ranked 01–50
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@paolo_scales ·
Every single founder I know that has cracked LinkedIn does these 5 things: 1. Posts every single day (1x/week lead magnets) 2. Messages every single profile viewer, ICP comment and new connections (soft conversation starter) 3. Maxes out connection request limit (approx. 20/day) 4. Gates every single free lead magnet behind an email opt-in page (sends 3x emails to the list every week) 5. Replies to inbound leads in less than 10 minutes (speed to lead is everything) Do all of this and it's extraordinarily unlikely for you to NOT get results from LinkedIn.
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@AndrewWriteCopy ·
Dan Kennedy is an industry legend. He’s maybe the most influential direct response guru of the last few decades. He was my introduction to the world of marketing and copywriting. And he remains my biggest influence. So I’m sharing 10 of the most powerful marketing ideas I learned from Dan: 1) Your Real Business is Lead Generation and Sales Conversion The single most important thing I've learned: No matter what business you're in, your real business is lead generation and sales conversion. As without leads and sales, you don't have a business. 2) Know Your Numbers You've got to know your business's key metrics. You need to know what's working and what's not working for you so you can make informed decisions. At the very least you should know: 1) The cost of getting a customer. 2) And the value of that customer. 3) Sell To Want Not Need You've got to sell what people want, not what they need. This is a mistake I see all the time. Just because someone doesn't have something - like a smart, new website - doesn't mean they want it. It often means they're just not interested in it. 4) Guard Your Time Time is your most valuable asset as unlike money you can never create more of it. So treat it as such and guard it as best you can. Don't fritter away your hours. Have a time management system to ensure you get the most out of your days. 5) Focus On Your Headline The headline is the most important copywriting element. It's the ad for your ad. If your headline fails, chances are your ad fails. So you want to spend the most time on it. Write multiple headlines, pick the best few, and then test them. 6) Understand Your Target Audience A huge part of how well your copy does depends on how well you know your audience. The better you know them, the better you can target your copy at them, and the better your sales. Get to know them so well you could write a page in their diary. 7) Don’t Reinvent The Wheel You don't need to write copy from scratch. You can borrow everything from headline templates to body copy structures from decades worth of proven direct response marketing. Use them as a starting point and then build on them. 8) Why You? Why should a prospect buy from you and not your competition? This is a key question you need to answer. You always want to be looking for ways to differentiate yourself. 9) Don’t Assume We all tend to assume we know things we really don’t. And we're almost always wrong. So don't assume you already know what does and doesn't work. Don't let tradition or industry norms blind you. Decide on data not on assumptions. 10) The Bigger Picture Always look at the bigger picture. Don't get too focused on the details of your copy. Instead, look at your offer, who you're targeting, your upsells, your follow-up, etc. These will make you more money than polishing your copy. To sum up: • Your real business is lead generation and sales conversion • Always look at the bigger picture • Understand your target audience • Don't reinvent the wheel • Focus on your headline • Know your numbers • Guard your time • Don't assume • Why you? And if you found this useful: Repost it to help your fellow persuasion professionals. Make sure you’re following me @AndrewWriteCopy for more quality copywriting and marketing content. And enjoy the rest of your day!
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@aakashgupta ·
The customer acquisition cost for a pool installer to land one $48,500 job traditionally runs $2,000 to $4,000 in paid ads, follow-ups, site visits, and quotes that go nowhere. Close rates on cold leads hover around 5-8%. This agent flips the entire funnel. It scans satellite imagery for 25,000 sqft lots in Tampa, checks setbacks, filters by home value ($500K-$1.2M), and renders a photorealistic pool in the homeowner's actual backyard. Then it mails a postcard. The postcard is the part that makes this print money. A homeowner who has never considered a pool opens their mailbox and sees their own yard with a pool already in it. The visualization does the selling before a human ever picks up a phone. Every pool builder in America spends thousands trying to get homeowners to imagine the finished product. This agent generates that image for pennies per address and sends it unsolicited to qualified prospects. The economics work because the targeting is surgical. $500K-$1.2M homes without pools means the homeowner can afford $48,500 and has yard space. The $37,500 property value increase means the pool nearly pays for itself on paper. 43 days to Memorial Day is the urgency trigger. Every variable in the postcard is calculated to push one decision. Pool installation in Florida runs $70,000 to $120,000 on the high end. At $48,500 this is priced at the impulse tier of an industry where "impulse" used to mean $100K+. One closed deal from 500 postcards and the entire campaign is profitable by 10x. The real product here isn't pool sales. It's an AI-powered lead generation machine that works for any high-ticket home service: solar panels, ADUs, kitchen remodels, landscaping. Anywhere you can render the finished product onto the prospect's actual property photo and mail it to them, this model applies. Pool installations are the proof of concept.
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@LoganTGott ·
How to Build A LinkedIn Lead Generation System: 1. Define your ICP before you touch anything else. Pull your last 10-20 sales call recordings, transcribe them, and paste them into Claude. Ask it what problems come up most and what language people use to describe their pain. That language becomes the foundation for every post and every DM you write. 2. Rebuild your profile like a landing page. Your banner should communicate your core result in one sentence with client logos. Your bio should name who you help and what outcome you deliver. Your featured section needs three links: one for buyers ready now, one top post for the curious, one lead magnet for everyone else. 3. Run 3 content layers. • Growth content fills the top of funnel • Nurture content positions you as the authority • Conversion content captures people who are already warm 4. Build lead magnets tied directly to your service. Frame them around outcomes, not deliverables. When someone comments, DM the resource manually with a question that starts a conversation. 5. Stack a funnel behind every lead magnet. Send them to an opt-in page, not the doc directly. After they submit, they land on an offer page with a CTA to book a call. Then a 3-email sequence hitting your top objections. 6. Run outbound alongside content every week. Qualify manually. When you DM, reference something specific about their business and lead with results you've driven for similar companies. Three follow-ups after. 7. Batch the entire week in one 3-hour block. Ideation through Taplio and your swipe file. Drafting through Claude. Visuals in Canva. Schedule everything out, then 30-45 minutes daily for engagement and outbound. What part of this system are you missing right now?
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@paolo_scales ·
I might regret doing this, but today I'm going to leak the exact LinkedIn GTM strategy we used to scale a B2B SaaS from 0 to €42.9k MRR in 120 days: (NO OUTREACH OR ADS) Step 1: Set up the DM conversion mechanism The first thing anyone sees when they visit your profile is the message button. When someone clicks it they're already high intent, they saw your content and decided to reach out. Push them straight to a demo or setup call, or directly to the product if they're ready. Keep it simple and don't overthink it. Step 2: Set up the custom button This is the highest traffic conversion point on the entire profile because it's the biggest and most visible button. Point it directly at your landing page or Calendly. Every post you write sends people here so it needs to be live before you publish anything. Step 3: Build the featured section for cold visitors Some people scroll past the DMs and the custom button because they're not ready yet. The featured section exists for them. Use it for: > YouTube videos > Free resources > A newsletter Anything that builds trust and keeps them moving through the funnel at their own pace. Step 4: Write lead magnet posts (2x/week) Hook = outcome + timeframe + mechanism in the first three lines. "I booked 1.6K meetings in 12 months using LinkedIn. (Giving away the exact copy & paste playbook for free)" - Add an effort signal: "it took me 27 hours to build this" - Outline exactly what's inside with bullet points - Frame it as exclusive: "this is what we only give to paying clients" - One word CTA under 6 letters, comment the word, connect with me - Always include an image that proves the hook is real Every comment becomes a new follower and a DM conversation. Step 5: Write a setup call post (2x/week) Give away genuine step-by-step value throughout the post itself and close with a very soft CTA at the end. "PS, comment DM if you want me to personally set this up for you." Everyone who comments gets booked onto a call where you onboard them onto the product and collect credit card info on the call. 95% of people won't push back on it when they're already live with you. Step 6: Write a social proof post (2-3x/week) Lead with a real result from a real user. Walk through exactly how it was achieved step by step. Don't mention the product until late in the post, let it appear naturally as one step in the process rather than making it feel promotional. The goal is installing belief, not pitching. Step 7: Set up the landing page conversion flow The full funnel looks like this: - Post drives traffic to the profile - Profile pushes to the landing page via the custom button - Landing page pushes to a free trial with credit card capture Inbound leads from content convert on credit card details at a significantly higher rate than cold traffic because the content has already done the selling before they ever land on the page. Step 8: Repurpose every LinkedIn post to X the same day Every LinkedIn post gets reformatted for X in under 10 minutes. All lowercase, hard line breaks, shorter sentences, more direct and polarising tone. Make sure to add one link in bio pointing to the same landing page as the custom button. Step 9: Scale beyond the founder account Once you have consistent DMs and a content formula that converts, add team member accounts running the same system with slightly different angles. Change one word and one image per post and LinkedIn won't penalise the repurposed content. The audiences barely overlap so reach compounds with almost no extra effort. We ran this for one SaaS in the outreach niche and hit €42,975/month in 120 days. We even ran it again for a different AI saas and hit $11.5K MRR in 50 days, from zero. By the time someone gets on a call or starts a trial the content has already done the selling, the close is almost automatic.
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@SalesBlastBen ·
“Ben, I can’t close outbound leads 😭😭” Do this: • Reply in <5 mins • Send pre-call assets right after booking • Proposal sent IMMEDIATELY post-call • Book follow-up next day • Follow-up every 3-5 days until it’s a yes/no • Onboard same day they pay Cold traffic doesn’t “convert” itself. You have to drag it by the neck across the finish line.
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@Codie_Sanchez ·
There’s a guy in our business scaling advisory that went from $576K to $1M in projected revenue in under a year. His name is Stephen Rice. He started hosting karaoke in 2016 at a dive bar after his divorce. Built it into a full event and wedding DJ company doing 6 figures a year. When he came to us, he was still personally carrying the whole thing and couldn't see a way to grow without just doing more of it himself. 4 things we changed to bump his projected revenue up 58% in half a year: 1. We raised prices by 12% across all his packages. He went from charging $1,500 for his entry level offer to more than $3,000 for his premium one. And to his surprise... his close rate didn't move. 12% pure margin added to the business. 2. Before, add-ons were sold individually. A photo booth here, a dance floor there... We bundled them into higher-tier packages instead. Customers naturally gravitated toward the middle option. So the average order value went up without him having to sell anything new. 3. He hired a full-time VA and built out automations to handle all 2,500 inbound leads a year. Brochures, videos, proposals… all sent automatically. 90% of clients now book without a single human conversation. He removed himself from the sales process entirely. 4. We built a training portal on Teachable to walk new hires through the entire process from onboarding to event day. So new DJs can now get up to speed without him being in the room. From 3am bar gigs to a $1M run rate in under a year. Not bad for a karaoke host.
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@WilsonCompanies ·
I bought a plumbing business, and in the first 90 days, we doubled sales. Here's how we made it happen: -> We shifted marketing toward lead generation and filling the board daily -> We installed speed-to-lead systems to respond to leads instantly -> We added 24/7 phone coverage so calls stopped going unanswered -> We raised pricing roughly 15% to better match the market -> We improved technician training and sales consistency -> We updated compensation plans to reward performance -> We centralized admin work so the branch could focus on customers Working together, these adjustments were (and continue to be) a game-changer.
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@coreyhainesco ·
I built a skill that designs free tool strategy for lead generation — tool selection, viral mechanics, SEO targeting, and conversion paths from free tool to paid product. You describe your product and ICP, and it identifies free tool opportunities that solve real problems, have natural bridges to your paid product, and can rank for "free [tool]" keywords. Free tools are the most underleveraged growth channel in SaaS. One good tool can generate more qualified leads than months of content marketing. It's called /free-tool-strategy and it's part of Marketing Skills — a free, open source collection of 40 marketing skills for AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills
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@KevinSzabo14 ·
The reason your content isn't converting isn't the algorithm. It's that you're creating for engagement instead of buyers. Likes come from relatable at scale. Sales come from being specific. "I help people grow on X" gets scrolled past. "I help B2B founders get 3 inbound leads a week through content" One is specific, one is generic.
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@ShubhAgrawal26 ·
this is your friendly reminder from your favourite b2b growth dude that if you’re doing below $200k a month in revenue. you’re almost always better off not investing direct response marketing and lead gen efforts on cold audiences. it just isn’t worth it. your only job is -> creating content that generates inbound leads + signals (likes, followers, website visitors etc) -> send outreach to qualified leads that showcased a signal -> any ads or organic search efforts on bottom of funnel leads that’s it. below $3M ARR in most markets, trying to go after audiences that are (maybe) only problem aware IS NOT WORTH IT. it takes a shit load of money and effort to educate someone on the problem, then the solution, then ur product for said solution and then conversion. lets companies like rippling play this game - they’re doing hundreds of millions in revenue, they can do this. you can not. thumb rule - organic can do top of funnel, performance cannot. doesn’t apply to b2c go win.
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@Rakshaweb3 ·
A founder came to me saying: "I've been posting for 6 months. Nothing is working." I looked at their profile. The problem wasn't the content. It was the signal. Every post was about different things: Startups. Marketing. Life advice. Travel. Tech. The algo didn't know who to show them to. Viewers didn't know why to follow them. We picked one lane: "Help B2B founders generate leads without paid ads." Every post after that served that message. In 45 days: 3,200 new followers. 4 inbound DMs. 2 clients. Clarity is the strategy.
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@LoganTGott ·
Our clients have been putting up some absurd numbers recently: - $30K closed in the first 21 days on a brand new account - 400K+ impressions in 30 days plus multiple five-figure deals closed - Multi six-figure deal closed straight from LinkedIn (save this... here's the system behind it) You post daily. Not 3x a week. Not "when you feel inspired." Daily. If you can't post daily, this isn't going to work for you and no agency on earth is going to fix that. Here's the actual mix we run for every client: 60% nurture content Pain points, objections, how-to breakdowns, opinions on what's happening in your space, your real take on industry trends. This is the workhorse. This is what makes someone go from "who is this guy" to "this guy actually knows what he's talking about." 30% growth content Stories, shallow ideas, personal life updates, behind-the-scenes from the business. Zero pitching. Pure trust-building and reach. Most of these will outperform your value posts and you'll be tempted to do nothing but this. Don't. 10% conversion content Case studies with real numbers, result screenshots, lead magnets, hard offers. Two to three lead magnets per week is the sweet spot. The founders complaining their content "doesn't generate leads" are doing one of three things: 1. Only posting conversion content, so no one trusts them yet 2. Only posting growth content, so they have an audience that will never buy 3. Posting 2x a week and wondering why they're invisible The system isn't complicated. The execution is what kills people. Most founders quit at week 6 because they haven't closed a deal yet. The ones who close in month 4-6 are the ones who didn't quit. Try it.
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@WilsonCompanies ·
Earlier this year, I bought a plumbing business. In the first 90 days, we doubled sales. January hit 120K. February hit 140K. March hit 170K. Here's how: /We shifted marketing toward lead generation and filling the board daily /We installed speed-to-lead systems to respond to leads instantly /We added 24/7 phone coverage so calls stopped going unanswered /We raised pricing roughly 15% to better match the market /We improved technician training and sales consistency /We updated compensation plans to reward performance /We centralized admin work so the branch could focus on customers
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@stijnnoorman ·
You're doing content wrong. That's what I recently told myself after I had an insight. And based on this I changed my entire content system. I see 90% of creators make the same mistake as me. So here's what I learned so you can fix your system. Most people just post and hope it works. They keep repeating this. But they never actually keep track of what works. This is because they don't know what they are optimizing for. So they aim for views and likes because it's easy to see. It looks good. But these are the wrong things to focus on. Views and likes don't necessarily grow your audience and business. That's why you should focus on different things. Things that actually track the goals that matter. And these goals are: • Growing your audience • Getting email subscribers • Getting inbound leads and clients Those are the only 3 goals that actually matter. So you should track those. How do we do this? • Track profile clicks for growth • Track link clicks for email subscribers • Track inbounds leads with keywords for clients That's how you actually grow your X audience and business. You can't improve what you don't track.
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@alexabelonix ·
SEO is boring until it starts acting like a silent SDR. Don’t write “the future of AI in sales.” Please. Write what buyers search when they’re already in pain: “how to qualify inbound leads” “best CRM for founder-led sales” “automate sales follow up” “AI lead scoring workflow” “HubSpot alternative for startups” “how to turn DMs into CRM” “n8n sales automation template” Those searches are closer to money. A high-intent page does not need to go viral. It needs to catch the person already trying to solve the problem.
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@NaivaidyaY66600 ·
Most “lead generation” is just pulling random profiles. That’s not useful. The real value is intent. Who is actively talking about: • leads • pipeline • follow-up • growth bottlenecks • missed opportunities • sales process That’s what my system looks for before scoring and drafting outreach.
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@PromiseJr_ ·
What if I told you your next client is hiding in your replies? Hear me: You don’t have a content problem You have an attention problem. I’ve used replies to: → Attract inbound leads → Grow visibility from scratch → Turn conversations into clients And the shocking part? → No ads → No giveaways → No big followers → No generic content → No follow for follow Just with my strategy. Replies are distribution + positioning combined. That’s why they work faster than posting. Here’s the truth nobody tells you: → Posting daily won’t save you → Threads won’t magically blow up → “Value content” alone is not enough Attention on X is earned in the replies. That’s where conversations happen. That’s where trust is built. That’s where clients are watching silently. While you’re busy tweeting, smart creators are positioning in other people’s audiences. And that’s why they win.
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@cleanwithmike ·
How I built a $40k/month cleaning business: • Found cleaners on Indeed and Facebook • Set up Google LSA to generate leads on autopilot • Used Booking Koala to automate scheduling and payments • Hired a VA to handle customer comms • Reinvested early revenue to add more cleaners and more markets There are 140 million homes in America. AKA room for a lot more winners.
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@namyakhann ·
Talked to a founder last month who told me 80% of his inbound leads were unqualified noise. His site was 2 years old, hadn't been touched since their seed round. They've grown, raised more, built a real product but the website still looks like a pre-revenue startup. So every enterprise buyer who Googles them sees a site that doesn't match the company they've become. And the leads that do come in are bottom of the barrel because the site is attracting the wrong people. Your website is a filter. If it looks cheap, you attract cheap leads.
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@dudu_bitcoin ·
A founder I worked with was spending $15K/month on paid ads and getting nothing, just bot clicks and tire kickers. We changed one thing: shifted that budget to building his personal brand. Within 60 days: • 10 qualified inbound leads per week • Outbound leads were converting better • 2 podcast invitations • 1 investor intro that turned into a term sheet conversation Paid ads rent attention. Personal brand owns it.
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@IAmAaronWill ·
Claude Code + n8n = 1 Brain + 1 Engine Claude Code: → Writes proposals → Audits workflows → Scores inbound leads → Builds tools on demand → Drafts personalised DMs → Generates a week of content n8n: → Routes hot leads → Runs workflows 24/7 → Fires DMs on schedule → Sends proposals automatically → Publishes across every platform → Connects everything to everything
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@alphabatcher ·
5 ways you can use AI to solve key business needs (automation guide) I talked to dozens of small business owners over the past year Most of them were losing 15-20 hours a week to tasks that could run on autopilot Not because of bad strategy. because of repetitive tasks no one ever automated Here are 5 real business problems AI solves right now 👇 1. Losing leads because you respond too slow the average business responds to a new inquiry in 2-3 hours but studies show that if you don't respond within 5 minutes, your chances of closing drop by 80% the fix: - AI responds to every new inquiry instantly, 24/7 - qualifies the lead with 2-3 questions - books a call or sends an offer automatically - logs everything into your CRM without anyone touching it tools: Manychat, Tidio, n8n + your CRM of choice 2. Team wastes hours answering the same questions the average support agent spends 4-5 hours a day answering questions that never change that's more than half the workday gone on copy-paste replies "what's the price", "how does it work", "what's the timeline", "do you have X" the fix: - AI handles all repetitive questions instantly - complex or sensitive cases get escalated to a human with full context already attached - customer gets an answer in seconds, not hours - team focuses only on conversations that actually need them tools: Intercom, Tidio, custom GPT connected to your docs 3. Data lives in five different places and nobody looks at it most small businesses collect data, but almost nobody actually uses it decisions get made on gut feeling because the numbers are never ready in time because pulling it together takes so long that by the time the report is ready, it's already outdated the fix: - connect all your tools once (CRM, ads, sales, ops) - AI pulls the data automatically on a schedule - you get a clean summary delivered to your Slack or email every Monday morning - no spreadsheets, no manual work, no outdated numbers tools: n8n or Make + Airtable + your data sources 4. Onboarding is inconsistent and nobody notices until it's too late the first 7 days after someone buys or joins your team are the most important but in most companies, no one actually checks whether the person received everything they needed the fix: - new client or employee triggers an automatic sequence - day 1: welcome + what to expect - day 3: useful resource or check-in - day 7: quick feedback question - all of it runs without anyone managing it tools: n8n or Make + ActiveCampaign or MailerLite + Notion or Google Docs (for resource delivery) 5. Content either doesn't happen or happens in chaos businesses that post consistently get 3x more inbound leads than those that don't but most small businesses either don't post at all or post randomly when someone finds 20 minutes between meetings the fix: - you prepare content once a week - AI generates post variations for each platform - you pick one, make small edits, approve - everything goes out on schedule automatically tools: Make or n8n + Claude or ChatGPT + Buffer or Publer CONCLUSION: Most small businesses already have the problems listed above They just don't know they can be solved without hiring more people Pick one problem from this list. Build one solution. Deliver one result That's how you start. That's also how you scale The demand is real. The tools are accessible. The businesses that move first will have a serious edge over everyone still doing it manually
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@jasonlk ·
Our 1.25 humans + 20 AI agents closed 140% of what our all-human sales team did last year. That's a real number. But I'm not sure it tells you what you think it does. Here's what we actually changed: 1️⃣ First, we concentrated every qualified lead into our best closers When you go from a bench of mixed-quality reps to 1.25 humans who are your best people, close rates go up. That alone probably moved the number 15-30%. Maybe more. 2️⃣ Second, AI agents gave us something we never had: 100% coverage Our human team responded to less than 40% of inbound leads. Not because they were lazy. Because humans have meetings, they eat lunch, they sleep, they take PTO. Our AI agents respond to 100% of inbounds within minutes. Every single one. 3️⃣ Third, the AI agents worked every past prospect in our CRM Thousands of old leads that no human rep wanted to touch. No cherry-picking. No "I'll get to those next quarter." The agents just worked the list. All of it. 4️⃣ Fourth, AI as a market exploded Our content is now all AI agent content. Our community is AI + B2B. Demand went up because the market went up. That's a tailwind, not a strategy. So did we close 140% because of AI agents? Partly. Did we close 140% because we concentrated talent? Partly. Did we close 140% because the market was on fire? Partly. We can't run the A/B test. I can't go back in time and try the same period with a full human team selling into the same AI-fueled market. Nobody can. What I do know: 20 AI agents + 1.25 humans costs a lot less than a full sales team. 140% of last year is 140% of last year, whatever the cause. And 100% response rates on inbound beats 40% every single time, regardless of who or what is doing the responding. If you're thinking about deploying AI agents in sales, don't do it because you think AI is magic at closing deals. Do it because you have a coverage problem you can't solve with humans alone. That's the real unlock. More at-bats for your best batters. Not better batters.
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@TristenPalori ·
I haven't talked about my google ads in a while. For those that don't know -- I run paid google ads to my landing page for CRE brokerage. TBH it hasn't performed as well this year as it did in 2026. However, I recently closed a small transaction from it that generated about $12,000 for me which is what I spend per year on ads. That means any additional deals I do this year are straight profit/gravy. Ads are paid for. And I recently got a lead that told me they found me through Chat GPT! The lead generation from a local targeted websites is still very strong and under utilized in CRE Brokerage.
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@ephraimlamar ·
One of the most expensive mistakes in brand activation is choosing the wrong format for the objective. Welcome to day 12 of Brand Activation 101. I've seen brands spend ₦10M on an immersive experiential event when what they needed was a ₦2M street sampling campaign. I've seen startups do guerrilla activations for objectives that required trust and education and wonder why conversion was flat. Format must follow objective, not budget. and definitely not what looks impressive. It must follow objective. Here's the matching guide: OBJECTIVE: Drive trial and first purchase → Best format: Product sampling, pop-up, live demo → Example: Fast-moving consumer goods brands at trade fair sampling stations, or a fintech brand setting up demo booths outside bank branches. OBJECTIVE: Build awareness in a new market or city → Best format: OOH, guerrilla, earned media stunt → Example: A new food brand activating at Lagos-Ibadan expressway rest stops and truck parks. OBJECTIVE: Deepen loyalty with existing customers → Best format: Exclusive experiential event, community activation → Example: GTBank Food and Drink Festival. Customers feel rewarded. The brand feels generous. OBJECTIVE: Generate leads and data capture → Best format: Trade shows, hybrid digital-physical activations → Example: Tech brands at Lagos Startup Week with QR lead capture and instant digital rewards. OBJECTIVE: Launch a new product with maximum conversation → Best format: Stunt marketing, immersive launch event → Example: A bold ambient creative in a high-traffic area that gets photographed and shared before the official launch date. The brief tells you what to achieve and the format is the vehicle. Mismatch them and no amount of creative excellence rescues it.
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@avijeet_writes ·
I have been working with multiple clients for the past three years on Twitter, and I have worked with 7 coaches who are absolute beasts in their fields, but their lead generation pipeline was completely hollow. I identified three major issues when I interacted with them for the first time: 1. They were shy. - They didn't want to talk about their results, achievements, or failures at all. - There was a trust deficit between them and their audience. 2. They were not solving the immediate pain problems of their customers. - They had this mentality that if you solve their problem for free, why would they pay for it? - They will pay because of the convenience, guidance, and direction. 3. They had no proper strategy for: - when to talk about results, - when to talk about personal stories, - when to talk about authority building. They were doing it erratically, and the audience could not connect with them. Whenever you try to build a personal brand, first clarify your why. Why are you building it? If you are here just to share your stories, share your stories. If you are here to generate leads, talk about your results, your expertise, and how you solve problems. Every kind of problem requires a different solution.
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@suraj_sharma14 ·
Reallocate your weekend schedule to advance your professional development, particularly if you are employed in the marketing sector. It is imperative to address the following priorities: - Configure Claude Code, ensuring the activation of advanced capabilities, permission overrides & Obsidian integration. - Develop a comprehensive brand foundation document detailing voice, tone, target audience & prohibited messaging. - Map existing workflows to identify opportunities for integrating AI automations. - Establish marketing skill sets, either by sourcing them from GitHub or developing them independently. - Implement Wispr Flow to enable voice-to-text functionality across all applications. - Construct an n8n content repurposing pipeline to distribute a single post across multiple platforms. - Utilize Clay for AI-powered lead generation and data enrichment. - Engineer a multi-agent content system comprising roles for researcher, writer, editor & publisher. - Evaluate Perplexity Computer to establish a dedicated marketing agent team within the environment. - Complete the Anthropic Skilljar course to obtain Claude certification. - Assess Perplexity Pro source mapping capabilities for competitive research. - Develop an outbound pipeline integrating Apify, Claude Code, and n8n to execute scraping, enrichment & email outreach. - Deploy AI-powered advertising dashboards capable of real-time updates. - Implement a targeting strategy utilizing LinkedIn scraping, email enrichment & Facebook custom audiences. - Study Go-To-Market (GTM) engineering, recognizing that the interval between product shipment and user acquisition represents the primary value driver. - Acquire proficiency in prompt engineering as input quality directly dictates output results. The present moment is critical for securing these advancements.
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@Growgami ·
1.5 years ago everybody thought that Ramp was winning, but their CTO was worried about one leading indicator - Ramp had a lead generation problem. Here, he breaks down how Ramp fixed their marketing and took it to the next level Watch the video, but quick summary for founders and marketers: 1. Differentiate for the sake of differentiation (James Dyson's principle) 2. As the CTO, he didn't try to fix the creative. He fixed the systems to increase output speed 3. Get rid of committees. You don't want committees to dilute good work 4. Make people self sufficient with AI tools - they built custom image gen tools to create on-brand images instantly 5. Make it work - if you think podcasts don't work for you, it's probably because you're working with the wrong podcasts or the format is bad or the message is wrong. Don't give up because it didn't work once, make it work
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@jakubmuzzik ·
One of the biggest challenge in lead generation has been to filter out leads that are actually "hidden" promo Example: - someone is asking other's what tools they're using for XYZ But the real intent behind this is they actually do this, just so they can comment their own tool below it I just shipped a feature that should indicate these users and mark them as "Potential Competitors" I simply track whether these users have posted a different posts promoting their own stuff in the same niche Once spotted - an indicator is shown and my tool allows to block this user and not receive any leads from him anymore..
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@MichLieben ·
We spent $50K promoting our best LinkedIn posts through ads. But not to generate inbound leads. To make cold email convert better. When prospects have seen your content 5 to 15 times before the email lands, everything changes. Reply rates went up without touching a word of copy. Same sequences and targeting. The variable? Recognition. Content doesn't replace outbound. It pre-loads the trust so outbound actually works
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@LinkedinWithA ·
The full LinkedIn personal branding playbook from 0 to $1T company founders in one visual: 📂 LinkedIn personal branding ┃ ┣ 📂Foundation ┃ ┣ 📂 Goals ┃ ┣ 📂 Offer ┃ ┣ 📂 Positioning ┃ ┣ 📂 Niche Selection ┃ ┣ 📂 Target Audience profile ┃ ┗ 📂 Profile Optimisation ┃ ┣ 📂 Content Strategy ┃ ┣ 📂 Voice ┃ ┣ 📂 Content Pillars ┃ ┣ 📂 Visual Identity ┃ ┣ 📂 Posting Frequency ┃ ┣ 📂 Distribution Plan ┃ ┣📂 Repurposing System ┃ ┗ 📂 Personal Story ┃ ┣ 📂 TA Research ┃ ┣ 📂 TA Pain Points ┃ ┣ 📂 Customer Language ┃ ┣ 📂 Industry Trends ┃ ┗ 📂 Competitor Analysis ┃ ┣ 📂 Writing ┃ ┣ 📂 Hooks ┃ ┣ 📂 Storytelling ┃ ┣ 📂 Educational Posts ┃ ┣ 📂 Authority Posts ┃ ┣ 📂 Inbound Generating Posts ┃ ┗ 📂 CTAs ┃ ┣ 📂 Content Library ┃ ┣ 📂 Founder Stories ┃ ┣ 📂 Customer Wins ┃ ┣ 📂 Behind The Scenes ┃ ┣ 📂 Lessons Learned ┃ ┗ 📂 Industry Opinions ┃ ┣ 📂 Engagement ┃ ┣ 📂 Comment Strategy ┃ ┣ 📂 Creator Networking ┃ ┣ 📂 Community Building ┃ ┣ 📂 DMs ┃ ┗ 📂 TA Networking ┃ ┣ 📂 Lead Generation ┃ ┣ 📂 Lead Magnets ┃ ┣ 📂 Inbound DMs ┃ ┣ 📂 Outbound List (Engage + DM) ┃ ┗ 📂 Discovery Calls Booked ┃ ┣ 📂 Social Proof ┃ ┣ 📂 Testimonials ┃ ┣ 📂 Case Studies ┃ ┣ 📂 Client Results ┃ ┣ 📂 Media Features ┃ ┗ 📂 Milestones ┃ ┣ 📂 Growth Analysis ┃ ┣ 📂 Reach ┃ ┣ 📂 Engagement ┃ ┣ 📂 Profile Views ┃ ┣ 📂 Follower Count ┃ ┗ 📂 Revenue Attribution ┃ ┣ 📂 Strategy Optimization ┃ ┣ 📂 Content Audits ┃ ┣ 📂 Format Testing ┃ ┣ 📂 Hook Testing ┃ ┣ 📂 Topic Expansion ┃ ┗ 📂 Performance Reviews ┃ ┗ 📂 Scale ┣ 📂 Repeatable Playbooks ┣ 📂 Ghostwriters ┣ 📂 Content Team ┣ 📂 Multi-Platform Distribution ┗ 📂 Thought Leadership Engine
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@marketingeyeaus ·
Automate your lead generation with this prompt. You are an AI Lead Generation and SDR Operations Agent for [company]. Your job is to produce 100 qualified B2B leads per business day, enrich each lead with publicly available company and contact information, draft a personalised outbound email from [name of email account holder], save each email to [name of email account holder] Outlook Drafts, monitor replies and delivery signals, and produce a Friday follow-up and demo-booking action list. Operating principles - Use only publicly available information and compliant data sources for contact discovery. Do not guess private emails or phone numbers. If uncertain, mark as “unknown” rather than fabricating. - Respect privacy, anti-spam, and terms of service. Prioritise business emails published by the company or professional directories that permit use. Never scrape gated sources that prohibit automated extraction. - Accuracy over volume when in conflict. The target is 100/day, but quality controls must be met. - Everything must be repeatable and reliable. Produce outputs in consistent formats every day. - Write in US English. - Do not use hype language. Maintain a confident, senior B2B tone consistent with [name of sender]. Core objective Build pipeline by targeting organisations that can [buy/resell etc - your company product/solution/service] See below for rest of prompt⬇️
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@danmall ·
Most “networking” is procrastination dressed up as a lead generation strategy. Coffee chats feel productive because they’re social and low risk. But they’re rarely tied to an offer, a buyer, or a timeline. If you don’t know who you help and what you help them do, networking just delays the real work. At best, you end up talking about the business instead of moving it forward. When you need money, networking is slow. You don’t need more conversations. You need paying business from people who already trust you. When you’re building your reputation and niche, networking only works if it’s targeted. Talking to the wrong people is just burning time politely. If the activity doesn’t directly connect to cash now or clarity later, it’s not strategy. It’s avoidance.
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@itsmarcosruiz ·
Q1 2026 at The Birdhouse 🐦🏡 +80,726 Followers gained on 𝕏 +39,275 Followers gained on LinkedIn ~921 Calls booked on 𝕏 ~700 Calls booked on LinkedIn 16,784 Inbound leads generated $1,136,373 Frontend Cash Collected for clients ~ $1,800,000 Revenue Viral and Profitable 🪽
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@itsalexvacca ·
LinkedIn made us over $10M in pipeline. But it has a fatal flaw. You can't control who books a call from a post. A startup and a large enterprise both clicked 'Book a Demo.' One has budget. One wants free advice. Content is a megaphone, not a sniper. If you're not scoring inbound leads against your ICP before the rep picks up the phone, you're wasting your best seller's time on your worst-fit leads.
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@riyaelity ·
I've shot ~200 podcasts and I've never talked about our Personal Branding services. Yet, somehow our podcasts have given us the maximum inbound leads for our business. People saw our team, our culture, how we think, and how we solve problems. By the time they reached out, trust was already built. If you want to build your personal brand on Instagram, ask yourself: Are you creating content to get views? Or are you creating enough moments for people to trust you?
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@JustinRFrench ·
1/ Tactical Tuesday hit different today. Topic: How are you filling your pipeline? Lead generation vs. demand generation. Two completely different strategies. Most people are running the wrong one and wondering why nothing converts. 2/ The rule I keep coming back to: validate manually before you automate. Everyone wants to push a button and automate everything. But if you haven't proven the outcome works by hand yet, automating it just scales the failure faster. Prove it. Then systemize it. 3/ The community brought the receipts today. Ben repositioned his LinkedIn and X titles to speak directly to who he wants to attract. Inbound interest within hours. A call booked in under 10 minutes using Bordi AI. 4/ Christelle turned ONE nonprofit client relationship into a multi-org referral pipeline, by leveraging the client's own board network. That's leverage. That's the amplifier most people skip. 5/ Judas broke down the Dream 100 (Chet Holmes, The Ultimate Sales Machine) and sharpened it into a Dream 33: fewer targets, deeper follow-up, multiple channels. One DM is not a campaign. 6/ And the real lesson underneath all of it: compatibility beats volume. I lost a $7K/month client in January because it wasn't a fit. Best decision I never had to make. 7/ We're not even warmed up yet. 1,000 Ronins. Building in public. Discipline. Data. Results. "At the end of our lives, we will ask ourselves 4 simple questions: Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter? Did I make a difference? Keep making a difference. Build that mind. Build that body. Build that business. Build that bank account. But most importantly — build that legacy. Stay healthy. Stay hungry. Stay humble. We'll see you at the top!" 🥷 The Revenue Ronin | ⚔️ Discipline. 📊 Data. 🎯 Results. | https://t.co/ZVVbGAKlyT
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@ChrisLDyson ·
Most people start building an audience before they know how to sell to one. They go straight to passive. Content, audience building, waiting for people to come to them. Posting three times a day, optimising their profile, running ads to a lead magnet, building an email list full of strangers. All before they've figured out three things: Who actually buys. What gets them interested. How to turn a conversation into money. They think they've got a marketing problem. They've got a sales problem. And no amount of content fixes a sales problem. There are two games in lead generation. Active and passive. Active means you control the volume. You decide who you contact, how many conversations you start, and when. You initiate instead of waiting around hoping someone finds your content and decides to reach out. Passive means organic content, referrals, partnerships, visibility. People find you. They've already decided you're worth talking to before the conversation starts. Passive is better. Obviously. Warmer leads, less effort per conversation, higher trust before you even open your mouth. But passive has a problem. It doesn't teach you anything. You can build the most beautiful inbound machine on the planet. Leads flowing in, DMs pinging, calendar full. And if you don't know how to convert a conversation into an opportunity, all you've built is an expensive waiting room. Better leads won't fix a broken sales process. They'll just fall through it faster. Active is where you learn. It's where you find out what language makes people lean in. Where you discover which problems people will actually pay to solve versus the ones they just nod along to. Where you get punched in the face enough times to stop flinching. The reps matter. So does the rejection, and the awkward silences where you realise your pitch is wrong and you need to start again. That's where the skill gets built. Most people hate active because it's uncomfortable. Cold outreach, starting conversations with people who didn't ask to hear from you, getting ignored more often than not. So they skip it. They tell themselves passive is "smarter." And honestly, maybe it is, but only once you've earned the right to stop doing the hard bit. I closed over a hundred thousand in fourteen days using someone else's email list of 2,400 people. I didn't have an audience or a funnel. I had a list, a message, and the ability to turn a conversation into a sale. That didn't come from posting. It came from years of active. Years of starting conversations nobody asked for, failing at most of them, and getting slightly less terrible each time. The question you should be asking isn't "how do I get more leads?" It's this: Do I need control right now, or do I need visibility for later? If the answer is revenue now, active is the only game that makes sense. Conversations you can start today, with people you can identify today, about problems you can solve today. If you've already got the sales ability and you're trying to scale beyond your own outreach capacity, passive makes sense. Build the audience and let the content do the work over time. But if you're skipping to passive because active feels uncomfortable, you're not being strategic. You're hiding. And the market will find you out eventually. Because the leads will come, and you won't know what to do with them. Get good at selling first. Everything else gets easier after that.
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@sharyph_ ·
Want to rank in search and get cited by AI? Great. Here is all I know about this 👇 It takes 6 months. Not 6 weeks. Not 1 viral post. 6 full months of consistent, optimized publishing. Here's what most creators do: → Optimize 3 posts → Check analytics after 2 weeks → See no traffic spike → Assume SEO doesn't work → Quit Here's what actually happens: Month 1-2: Google crawls, no rankings yet Month 3-4: A few posts start appearing on page 2-3 Month 5-6: Rankings improve, AI citations start, traffic compounds I optimized 12 posts over 4 months. Months 1-2: Nothing. Month 3: One post ranked page 2. Month 4: Three posts ranked page 1. AI started citing them. The people who win aren't the ones who publish daily. They're the ones who publish strategically and stay consistent. SEO isn't a tactic. It's infrastructure. You don't see results from infrastructure in week 1. You see results in month 6, then every month after. If you're not willing to commit 6 months, don't start. But if you are? Your back catalog becomes a lead generation machine. Your content works 24/7. Your authority compounds monthly. That's the bet. Most creators won't make it. They'll chase the next shiny tactic in week 3. Which means the ones who stay the course will dominate.
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@ChrisClickUp ·
Marketing teams track dozens of metrics. Most of them are vanity. Here's the one that actually tells you if your content strategy is working. And almost nobody tracks it. It's called "content-sourced pipeline." Not "content-influenced." Not "content-assisted." Content-SOURCED. Meaning: the prospect's first meaningful interaction with your company was a piece of content. Not an ad. Not a cold email. Not a referral. They found you through something you published. Here's why this matters more than impressions, traffic, or engagement: - A blog post with 500 views that sources 3 qualified leads is infinitely more valuable than a post with 50K views that sources zero - Content-sourced leads typically close at 2-3x the rate of outbound leads because the prospect already trusts you before the first sales call - Tracking this metric forces your content team to think about who they're writing for, not how many people they're reaching How to actually track it: 1. Add "how did you hear about us?" to your demo form. Open text, not dropdown. People will tell you the exact blog post, podcast, or tweet. 2. Set up first-touch attribution in your CRM. Not last-touch (which credits the demo page). First-touch (which credits the content that brought them in). 3. Ask sales to note it in discovery calls. "What made you reach out?" is the most underrated question in B2B sales. 4. Review content-sourced pipeline monthly with your team. Kill what doesn't source pipeline. Double down on what does. When I started measuring this at ClickUp, it completely changed how we thought about content. We stopped chasing traffic and started chasing the topics and formats that actually brought in buyers. Our output went down. Our pipeline went up. If you only track one content metric, make it this one.
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@DanielPriestley ·
When a new regulation drops, a new technology emerges, or a new trend starts to shift the ground under your industry, there's a question worth asking. Who in your space becomes the centre of that conversation? It's almost never the loudest voice. It's almost never the biggest brand. It's the one who organises the response. The person who runs the industry survey when the regulation lands becomes the person whose name comes up in every conversation about it. The person who publishes the report on what their peers think of the new technology becomes the reference point everyone else cites. They didn't have the most authority going in - they built it by being the one who put the questions on the table. A live survey isn't just a lead generation tool. It's a positioning move. It says: I'm the person collating the thinking in this industry, I'm the person asking the questions that matter, I'm the person you turn to when you want to know what's really happening. You don't need to be the biggest player in your industry to do this. You just need to be the one who builds the room first. Take part in our live State of Entrepreneurship 2026 benchmark and see what becoming the centre of a conversation can look like: https://t.co/cNi8925OFa
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@StephenCaggiano ·
Start a zero budget business. Copilot said: If your budget is truly $0, the most profitable online business is usually not ecommerce, SaaS, or dropshipping. Those often require money for inventory, software, or advertising. Instead, focus on selling a high-value service using skills and free tools. Top Choice: AI + Automation Consulting Potential: $500-$5,000+ per client Examples: Build simple AI chatbots for small businesses Automate repetitive tasks with Microsoft Power Automate, Zapier, or AI tools Create AI-powered content workflows Set up customer support automation Why it's attractive: No inventory No upfront costs Businesses already pay for productivity improvements You can learn while doing Other Strong Zero-Budget Options 1. Freelance Content Creation Potential: $500-$10,000/month Services: Blog writing LinkedIn posts Newsletter creation Video script writing Acquire clients through LinkedIn and freelance marketplaces. 2. Lead Generation Agency Potential: $1,000-$10,000/month You help businesses find potential customers and charge per lead or monthly retainers. 3. Niche Website + Affiliate Marketing Potential: Slow start, high long-term upside Create content around: Software reviews Personal finance AI tools Health and fitness Earn commissions when readers buy products through your links. 4. Digital Products Potential: Highly scalable Sell: Templates Prompt packs Notion workspaces Spreadsheets Mini-courses Creation costs can be near zero. What I'd Do in 2026 With $0 Pick a niche (real estate, fitness, local businesses, accounting, etc.). Learn one valuable AI workflow. Create 3 sample projects. Reach out to 20-50 potential clients daily on LinkedIn and email. Land the first client before building a website. This approach reaches revenue much faster than starting a blog, YouTube channel, or dropshipping store. If you tell me your skills, experience, and how many hours per week you can commit, I can suggest the single highest-probability online business for your situation. I'd start with selling a service before building anything. Most people spend months creating a website, logo, or course and make $0. The fastest path is finding someone with a problem and charging to solve it. Week 1: Pick One Market Choose a group you understand or can easily reach: Realtors Contractors Local restaurants Fitness coaches Attorneys Small online stores Don't pick "everyone." Week 1: Learn One Valuable AI Solution For example: Local businesses AI chatbot for websites Automated appointment booking AI-powered review responses Coaches Content generation system Email newsletter creation Lead follow-up automation You don't need to be an expert. Just be one step ahead of your customer. Week 2: Create a Demo Make a simple example. For a realtor, record a 2-minute video showing: AI answering buyer questions Lead capture Automatic follow-up A demo is more convincing than a certificate. Week 2-3: Prospect Aggressively Send messages like: Hi Sarah, I noticed your website doesn't automatically respond to new leads after hours. I built a simple AI solution that could help capture and follow up with inquiries. Would you be open to a quick demo? Aim for: 20-50 outreach messages per day LinkedIn Facebook groups Email Local business directories First Revenue Goal Don't aim for $10,000. Aim for: Client #1: $200-$500 Client #2: $500-$1,000 Client #3: Raise prices Getting paid once proves the business model. If I Had Exactly $0 Today My plan would be: Pick local service businesses. Learn AI chatbot setup and automation. Build one demo. Send 50 personalized messages daily. Close the first client within 30 days. The reality is that outreach, not technology, is usually the bottleneck. A simple service with customers beats a perfect business idea with no customers.
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