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President & CEO - Fullerton Strategies. Ex WeWork, Obama Admin, New York State and more

This is a truly important post that LIAM DARMODY dropped today. Very clear evidence that many of the "personal brand" voices on LinkedIn are juicing their engagement by using engagement pods, which gives fake engagement that then leads to more reach, awareness and yes, followers. We have known this is going on for quite some time, but I haven't seen anyone lay it out as clearly and concisely as Liam does here. Now why should you care if people are doing this? They're gaming the system. Good for them! Well, not so fast. It's messing with the algorithm and likely hurting everyone elses posts in the process. When people get pods together and start liking content, the LinkedIn algo then thinks people want this content (because real people are liking/sharing). But when you look at these posts, they're usually vapid and lacking in any real substance. So it hurts everyone. Plus, LinkedIn is supposed to be about people authentically posting and engaging with others as we navigate this world of work. When posts like these get amplified, it hurts the experience of everyone. So when you see really bland posts getting a crazy amount of engagement, or posts with far more shares than comments - the poster is likely using engagement pods to fake their engagement. Everyone should be up in arms about this. It hurts our experience. And it especially hurts people like Liam who is a real personal brand guy doing amazing work with NO PODS. He's the real deal. Go follow him and block the bad faith actors.

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Personal Brand Strategist & Networking Coach → I help entrepreneurs, executives & teams build brands to attract clients, talent & opportunity | Family Man | Connector | AI & Blockchain Bull | Hot Sauce Aficionado🌶️

I recently analyzed the comments received on posts from 3 well-known LinkedInfluencers I've long suspected of colluding to boost engagement. If you've been here a minute, you know these names. But for the purposes of this exercise, we'll call them: • LinkedInGuru1 • LinkedInGuru2 • LinkedInGuru3 I compared the average number of comments on 40 of their posts to the number of comments on 40 posts by: • Ryan Reynolds • Snoop Dogg • Bill Gates The LinkedInGurus CRUSHED the famous actor, rapper, and billionaire despite having just 1.2% of their combined ~38,000,000 follower count. Pretty impressive stuff. Especially since they swear they're not podding. (And they'd 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 lie about that, right??) Be careful who you take advice from here. Where there is organic reach, there will always be growth hackers trying to swindle others. If those are your kind of people, Godspeed. For those who want to build an authentic brand and learn to create content that stands out on its own without hacks or pod shenanigans... 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 up top 🔝 and let's have a chat. Hi5, LD 🌶️

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