No. 06A familiar pattern
Inspiration strikes on a Monday. Three posts go out that week, and they're good. Then comes a launch, a hire, a holiday, and the profile goes quiet until the next burst of energy, about six weeks later.
It feels like progress, because the good weeks really are good. The trouble is the gaps.
Why bursts don't add up
Attention on LinkedIn behaves like a campfire: easy to keep going, annoying to relight. Every time you go quiet, three things happen.
- Your audience moves on. The people who'd started to notice you find someone who showed up last week.
- The feed cools off. After time away, LinkedIn tends to show your next posts to fewer people.
- The habit fades. Each restart takes more effort than the last.
So the sprinter earns the same small amount of trust three or four times a year and never gets to build on it.
Swap inspiration for a rhythm
- Split the job in three. Catch ideas whenever they come, even as voice notes. Write in one batch. Publish on fixed days.
- Keep a stock of finished posts. Never publish from an empty cupboard. Six ready to go is a sensible minimum.
- Set your pace for your busiest week, not your best one. Two posts a week you can always manage beats four you'll drop by March.
- Judge it at six months, not six weeks. That's roughly when steady posting starts to show up in real conversations.
Organised beats inspired
The founders who seem to post effortlessly usually aren't more inspired than you. They just have a system that doesn't depend on being in the mood.
Where we come in
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