Practical, sourced guides to getting more out of the people you already know on LinkedIn
What the research on dormant ties found (executives who called contacts they hadn't spoken to in 3+ years got advice as useful as from current contacts, and often fresher), why it works, whom to pick first, the limits of the studies, and a simple monthly habit.
Read →Where LinkedIn shows the views on your comments, how comment impressions differ from post impressions, what a good number looks like when there is no official benchmark, and a simple way to track them. Every claim sourced.
Read →Senders consistently underestimate how much a short note, a thank-you or a compliment means to the person who gets it. What the studies found (with the actual numbers and limits), why we get it wrong, and what it means for the LinkedIn messages you keep not sending.
Read →Where the famous 150 comes from, what the layers of 5, 15, 50 and 150 mean, why some researchers say the number can't be derived at all, and a practical system for keeping up with a LinkedIn network of thousands without pretending you can be close to all of them.
Read →How to choose LinkedIn posts to comment on: audience size, post age, how many comments are already there, relevance, and the 'open door' window when a big post still has a short comment section. With a five-question checklist and the sources behind it.
Read →LinkedIn's own guidance says 2 to 5 posts a week. The big 'best time to post' studies disagree with each other. Here is what is solid, what is vendor data, what is weak, and how to find your own best time and pace.
Read →The people who react to and comment on your LinkedIn posts are the warmest list you have. Who to message first, how fast, what to say (with examples), and how to follow up without being creepy, backed by research on reaching out and privacy.
Read →What an MCP connector is in plain words, how to connect wait who? to Claude, 18 prompts grouped by goal (customers, fundraising, hiring, partnerships, brand, keeping in touch), what Claude can and can't do, and what happens to your data.
Read →A repeatable five-minute checklist for any call or coffee: your shared history, what changed since you connected, how they engaged with you, and the questions to ask. With example Claude prompts and the research behind it.
Read →Champions change jobs, and accounts wobble when they do. How CS and onboarding leaders can use their own LinkedIn network for warm paths to new stakeholders, staying close to champions who move, at-risk accounts, and references. With sourced job-change data.
Read →How LinkedIn comments put you in front of other people's audiences, which posts to pick, what a good comment looks like, how to read comment views, and the automation rules to respect. Sourced from LinkedIn's own docs.
Read →What the 20-million-person LinkedIn weak-ties experiment found, why dormant contacts beat current ones, which people to pick, and a weekly system that turns posts and comments into real conversations.
Read →LinkedIn is built to help you add connections and scroll a feed. It is not built to remember who someone is, why you connected, or what you owe them. That missing layer is relationship memory.
Read →LinkedIn will not tell you. Three ways to see who in your network changed jobs, from a free export diff to a weekly alert, and why more people move than you think.
Read →We opened a real Connections.csv with 8,071 rows: every column, what is usually blank, how long the export really takes, and two gotchas most guides miss.
Read →A three-line message that gets replies after years of silence, how to choose who to write first, and where in their profile to find the reason to reach out.
Read →A founder based in Amsterdam attends events constantly: Web Summit, local meetups, investor dinners. Here's how she turned 12 conversations in 2 weeks into 3 pipeline deals using her existing network.
Read →Most people have far more LinkedIn connections than they ever talk to. Here's a short weekly routine that turns forgotten connections into real conversations.
Read →Recruiters spend hours on cold InMail while ignoring warm connections who'd actually reply. Here's how to fix that.
Read →Before you spend months on cold outreach to break into a new market, sort your connections by industry. You may already know people there.
Read →People who already know you start with context strangers don't have. Here's how to use engagement on your posts to decide who to reach out to, and when.
Read →You may already be closer to the right investor than you think. Here's how to find the warm paths in your own network.
Read →One small message a day adds up over a year. Here's the habit that actually sticks, and what not to say when you reconnect.
Read →The people who could fill your next role, or point you to someone who can, may already be in your connections. Here's how to find them before you open the role.
Read →Messages become replies, and some replies become meetings. Here's a weekly routine for working the people who already know you, without burning out.
Read →Everyone has people from university on LinkedIn they've lost track of. Some of them have done remarkable things. Here's how to find out and actually say hi.
Read →You leave a conference with 25 new LinkedIn connections. By Monday you've forgotten half their names. Here's how to fix that with a 48-hour follow-up system.
Read →Most AI-generated LinkedIn messages fail because they sound exactly like AI-generated LinkedIn messages. Here's the anti-slop approach.
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