Win LinkedIn In 30 Minutes A Day Without A Social Media Manager

Jodie Cook

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Jodie Cook covers ChatGPT prompts & AI for coaches and entrepreneurs.

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Nov 19, 2024,10:00am EST

Updated Nov 19, 2024, 01:01pm EST

Win LinkedIn in 30 minutes per day without a social media manager 

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Building your business on LinkedIn seems impossible when you're busy running a company. Everyone tells you to show up, create content, and engage with your audience. But who has time for that? Most founders end up hiring a social media manager or giving up completely.

You don't need hours each day to build a powerful LinkedIn presence. Smart founders know success comes from targeted actions at the right time. Here's your blueprint for making LinkedIn work without losing your mind, your mojo, or hiring help.

Get in LinkedIn’s 1% with expert planning and action

Start with five minutes of power commenting

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Jump on LinkedIn first thing each day. Open 10 profiles of the top 100 people in your field, with follower counts between 4 and 10 times yours. Leave solid comments on their recent posts. Not just, "great post!" Add real value. Share your take. Your name pops up in their notifications. Their followers see your wisdom. Connections flow your way, and you decide which to accept.

Add the accounts you’re engaging with to a bookmarks folder on your browser. Click once, open all, blast through your comments. Five minutes of focused action beats hours of aimless scrolling.

Block fifteen minutes for one perfect post

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Write your daily post when your brain is fresh. Pick one story from yesterday. One lesson you learned. One problem you solved for a client. Keep it real and raw. Your followers want the behind-the-scenes stuff, not corporate announcements.

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How to write a post in fifteen minutes? Pull up your phone and record a quick video sharing your thoughts. Or type out bullet points if that's your style. You could add a picture of your notebook, your workspace, your team. Follow the rules of a great LinkedIn post. Hit publish and move on with your day.

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Spend three minutes boosting engagement

Stay on your post after hitting publish, and consider sharing with a few close connections. When the interaction starts happening, spend just a few minutes replying to comments. Ask questions. Start conversations. Tag relevant people into the discussion. The LinkedIn algorithm loves posts with back-and-forth chat. Make every comment count.

Your post gets shown to more people when you reply fast. If you find yourself with another three minutes later in the day, respond to more comments in one fell swoop. Build energy around your content.

Use five minutes to connect with profile views

Find time each day to check who’s viewed your profile. These people checked you out for a reason. Message the ones who match your ideal customer. Thank them for stopping by. Ask what caught their eye. Turn views into conversations, conversations into calls.

Skip the sales pitch. Build relationships first. Your expertise shines through in how you chat. Let them ask about working together.

Save two minutes to plan tomorrow

End your LinkedIn time by picking tomorrow's focus. What story will you share? Which lesson stands out? Write your hook, ready to expand in the morning. Sleep on it. Wake up knowing exactly what to post.

Simple planning prevents writer's block. You never stare at a blank screen wondering what to write. Your mind works on the post overnight.

Make LinkedIn your most powerful growth tool

Thirty minutes each day adds up fast. Power commenting gets you noticed. Perfect posts showcase your expertise. Quick replies boost your reach. Smart connection requests build your network, and daily planning keeps you consistent.

Stop overthinking LinkedIn and get strategic with your time. No social media manager needed. Just you, your expertise, and a solid plan. Thirty minutes from now your first post could be live and you could be well on your way to growth on the platform.

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Boosting Your Productivity With AI: Using AI for Writing

LLMs can help you a great deal with all kinds of writing tasks, whether creative or informative. They can help your writing in ways we’ve discussed in other sections, such as: 

• brainstorming ideas (see Brainstorming), 

• aiding research (see Researching a Topic), 

• checking your arguments and reasoning (see Reasoning), 

• naming things like characters or locations (see Naming Things), 

• and editing (see Corrections / Editing). 

  
  

and to draft a variety of types of writing, including books, research papers, pop articles, and more. In this section, we cover a few additional ways you might use LLMs to help your writing.

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• On Plagiarism

• Drafting Text

• Feedback and suggestions

• Tone checking

• Writing prompts / writer’s block

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Before we do, however, it’s important to be careful about plagiarism.

On Plagiarism

The mere fact that an LLM has written something for you does not mean it is plagiarism-free (and, indeed, there are widespread moral concerns about how much theft of people’s work goes into the training of LLMs). To illustrate, consider the following example, starting with a ChatGPT conversation:

We can’t know for sure which sources in ChatGPT’s training data it is drawing on for this explanation, but the text it has given us here (specifically, the highlighted part) is close enough to the text below (from Wikipedia) that it would probably raise concerns about plagiarism, in an academic setting:

For this reason, we advise that, if you are going to use LLMs to help with your writing, you should not merely copy and paste the text they give you into your writing. Instead, consider using it as a springboard, a starting point, or inspiration.

With that said, here are some ways that LLMs can help you with your writing.

Drafting text

You can use LLMs to help draft any kind of text you can think of. Whether it be fiction prose, poetry, a screenplay, an academic article, or anything else! Of course, we advise you to check whether there are any relevant prohibitions on using LLMs this way (for example, it’s probably not permitted for help with your college essays), and to take heed of our above warning about plagiarism. 

With that in mind, here’s an example in action (note: the data in this example are made up - they are not the results of a real survey):

Feedback and suggestions

An LLM can provide preliminary feedback on your drafts, pointing out areas that may require more development or suggesting improvements, much like a beta reader might.

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Tone checking

You can use LLMs to adjust the tone of your work, making it more professional, conversational, formal, informal, etc. Just give the LLM your text and some details about the context and tone you want. For example:

Writing prompts / writer’s block

When you hit a roadblock, an LLM can offer suggestions for moving forward, whether it’s through dialogue, action, or shifts in focus, helping to spark creativity and maintain momentum.