Week of 26 Oct · 20 ideas · Updated every Monday

20 LinkedIn post ideas for marketers, this week.

Ideas from the real work of marketing: briefs, launches, budgets and the numbers you report every month. Each one has an opening that works, or let Wiri write the whole post in your voice.

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02Lesson

What a trade show booth taught you

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We paid $18,000 for a booth at a trade show. We came home with 63 badge scans and two real conversations. Both of those turned into customers.
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Why it works: Event spend is a constant question. An honest result helps others decide.

03Opinion

Stop trying every new channel

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Last year we tried TikTok, a podcast, Reddit ads and a community. We did all four badly. This year we’re doing one thing, and doing it properly.
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Why it works: Focus over shiny channels is an opinion small teams need to hear.

04Numbers

Cutting our demo form to three fields

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Our demo form had nine fields. Sales wanted every one of them. We cut it to three for a month. Form completions went up 61%, and something else went down.
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Why it works: A clear test with a twist at the end pulls people past “…more”.

05Behind the scenes

The first hour after a launch

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In the first hour after a launch, I don’t look at signups. I watch three other things, and one of them is the support inbox.
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Why it works: A practical routine people can copy on their own next launch day.

06Question

Advice for a first-year marketer

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A marketer in her first year asked me what to learn next: SEO, paid, or analytics. I told her none of them. What would you tell someone one year into marketing?
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Why it works: Senior marketers love to answer this, and newer ones save the replies.

07Story

The launch that went live a day early

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Our product launch went live at 9 AM on a Wednesday. It was meant to be Thursday. Someone scheduled the email in the wrong time zone, and I learned more that day than in six weeks of planning.
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Why it works: Launch-day chaos is relatable, and readers want to know how you recovered.

08Lesson

The brand guidelines nobody followed

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We spent $60,000 and five months on new brand guidelines. Six months later I checked 50 sales decks. Four of them used the new fonts.
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Why it works: A costly project that quietly failed is a lesson every in-house team recognizes.

09Opinion

MQLs are the wrong target

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I’ve asked my team to stop reporting MQLs. We hit our MQL number eleven months in a row, and sales still told us the leads were bad.
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Why it works: It questions a number most marketing teams live by, so both sides comment.

10Numbers

The email with the worst open rate that won

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Our worst email last year had a 9% open rate. It also brought in more pipeline than the other 47 emails we sent combined.
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Why it works: A bad number that beat the good ones makes people need the explanation.

11Behind the scenes

How long one ad takes to get approved

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A single LinkedIn ad here needs sign-off from four people. Last week I timed it. From first draft to live took 19 days.
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Why it works: Every marketer has fought approvals. A timed example gets nods and stories.

12Question

How others prove brand work pays off

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My CEO asked me on Monday what our brand spend actually returns. I gave an honest answer, and it wasn’t a number. Marketers, how do you answer this one?
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Why it works: An open problem the whole field shares, asked by someone who admits they don’t have it solved.

13Story

The customer quote that rewrote our homepage

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A customer said on a review call: “I bought you because I could cancel any time.” We’d never mentioned that anywhere. Our homepage led with AI features.
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Why it works: One real quote that beat months of messaging work is a story people retell.

14Lesson

The A/B test you called too early

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We called an A/B test after four days. Version B won by 22%. Two weeks later, with the full sample, it was losing.
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Why it works: A mistake with a clear fix that readers can avoid on their next test.

15Opinion

Content calendars kill good ideas

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I scrapped our 12-week content calendar in May. The best post we published all year was written in an afternoon, about something that happened that morning.
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Why it works: It goes against standard advice and gives a real result, which starts a debate.

16Numbers

What one webinar really cost

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Our last webinar had 412 registrations and 118 live attendees. When I added up everyone’s hours, each attendee cost us $94. This is what I’d change next time.
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Why it works: Hidden costs, counted honestly, get saved by anyone planning their next event.

17Behind the scenes

The spreadsheet behind the dashboard

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Our board sees a clean marketing dashboard every month. Behind it is a spreadsheet with 31 tabs and one person who understands tab 17.
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Why it works: A funny, honest look at the messy work behind polished reports.

18Question

The channel you’d cut first

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If my budget got cut in half tomorrow, I know which channel goes first. It’s the one I spent the most time on last quarter. Which would you cut first, and why?
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Why it works: A hard choice everyone has an opinion on, with your own answer as a teaser.

19Story

The agency pitch we lost

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We lost an agency pitch to a team with half our experience. The client told me why on the phone a week later. It had nothing to do with our ideas.
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Why it works: Losing to a weaker rival is painful and common. The reason is what they stay for.

20Lesson

Sharing one target with sales

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This quarter, marketing and sales have one shared number. Not leads. Revenue. The first two weeks were awkward. Then the arguments about lead quality stopped.
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Why it works: Marketing and sales friction is universal. A fix that worked gets shared.

KA note from KaustubhFounder, Wiral.Social

Why these ideas work

Marketers write for a living, and somehow their own LinkedIn stays empty. You spend all week on other people’s campaigns, and by Friday there’s nothing left for yours.

And when you do post, it comes out like an ad. Polished, careful, and sounding like it went through three rounds of approval.

The ideas here come from the work itself: the brief that went wrong, the test you called too early, the number you report but don’t trust. That’s what other marketers want to read, because they live it too.

How to use them

Pick one idea that matches something from this month. A real campaign, a real meeting, a real number. If you have to invent the detail, skip that idea.

Write it like you’re telling a colleague what happened, not like you’re writing copy. No headline voice. No “excited to share”.

Tip: Leave the brand polish out. Post like your company’s marketing account and people scroll past you the same way they scroll past it.

A fresh set of ideas goes up every Monday. Bookmark this page and check it before you plan your week.

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Questions, answered.

New ideas every Monday, at the same address.

What should marketers post on LinkedIn?

Post about the work behind the results: what you tested, what failed, what a number really meant. Other marketers follow people who show their thinking, not just the final campaign.

How can marketers post about results without sharing confidential numbers?

Use percentages, rough ranges or older results. “Demo requests dropped 8%” tells the story without exposing your budget. If a detail needs approval, leave it out.

Can I use these marketing post ideas for free?

Yes. Every idea and example on this page is free to use, and you don’t need an account. A free account lets Wiri write the post in your voice.

Will Wiri write the post for me?

Yes. Pick an idea, give Wiri the real details from your campaign in a line or two, and you get three posts in your voice to choose from.

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