You have a folder.
It sits on your desktop, or maybe it’s buried three levels deep in a shared drive. It’s full of whitepapers. Client memos. Strategy decks from 2023.
Dead intellectual property.
You spent hours writing that material. Your team spent weeks refining it. Now it gathers digital dust.
Meanwhile, your LinkedIn profile looks like a ghost town.
You post once. You feel good about it. Then a client crisis hits, and you vanish for three weeks.
You might think this doesn't matter. You might think your reputation speaks for itself.
You’d be wrong.
Inconsistency isn't just a missed marketing opportunity. It is a professional liability.
It signals disorganization. It signals a lack of reliability. It tells your network that you only show up when it’s convenient for you.
We need to fix this.
Act 1: The Trust Deficit
Let’s look at the psychology here.
When you meet a professional in the real world, you judge them by their handshake. Their eye contact. Their punctuality.
On LinkedIn, your posting cadence is your punctuality.
If you post brilliant insights on Monday and then disappear until the following Thursday, you aren't being mysterious. You’re being flaky.
Inconsistent branding creates doubt.4
If your digital presence feels scattered, your audience assumes your services are scattered too. They assume your operations are messy. They assume you are too busy to handle their business.
That is a dangerous assumption.
I’ve seen this happen with senior executives. They have decades of experience. They are asset-rich. But they are distribution-poor.
They let their profiles go dormant.
Then, when they finally do post, the algorithm punishes them. Their reach plummets. They get five likes.
They think the platform is broken. It’s not.
The platform just forgot who they were.
The Algorithm Hates Tourists
LinkedIn is a database. It wants data.
When you feed it sporadically, it starves. It stops showing your content to your network because it can’t predict if you’ll stick around to engage with the comments.
Inconsistency is the number one reason for limited growth.5
You don't need to be an influencer. You don't need to post selfies.
But you do need to be present.
Think of it like a gym membership. Going once a month for five hours does nothing. Going three times a week for twenty minutes changes everything.
We need rhythm. We need predictability. We need momentum.
Act 2: The "Daily Posting" Myth
Here is where most people get stuck.
They read advice from twenty-year-old growth hackers who say, "Post every day!"
That is terrible advice.
You have a job. You have clients. You have a life.
Posting daily is nearly impossible for most professionals.2
If you force yourself to write daily, the quality drops. You start posting filler. You start sounding like everyone else.
And your audience notices.
They can smell the desperation. They can tell when you are posting just to hit a quota.1
High-quality posts are your reputation reps.2
If you dilute them with garbage, you dilute your brand.
So, what is the target?
Two to five times a week.2
That’s it. That is the sweet spot.
Tuesday through Thursday, mid-morning.2
You can manage that. Anyone can manage that.
But you have to stick to it.
Act 3: The "Dead IP" Strategy
I know what you’re thinking.
"I don't have time to write three posts a week."
You don't have to write.
You already wrote it.
Remember that folder? The one with the dead IP?
That is your content mine.
You are sitting on a mountain of insights that no one has seen because you buried them in a PDF attachment that nobody opened.
Take one internal memo. Break it down.
That memo has three main points. That is three posts.
Take a client email where you explained a complex concept. Copy it. Sanitize the names. Paste it.
That is a post.
You don't need to create. You need to document.
This approach solves the time problem. It solves the "writer's block" problem.
And most importantly, it solves the hallucination problem.
You are terrified of AI making things up. I get it. A single factually incorrect post is a disaster for someone in your position.
But if you are using your own archival work, there are no hallucinations.
It’s your work. It’s your voice. It’s fact-checked.
You just need to format it for the feed.
Concrete Examples of Asset Recycling
Let’s get specific.
The Annual Report: Don't post the link. Take the CEO letter. Chop it into four quotes. Post one each Tuesday.
The Sales Deck: Take the "Problem Slide." Write a post about why clients always get this wrong. Use the bullet points from the slide.
The Onboarding Doc: Take the section on "Our Values." Explain why you fired a client who violated them. (Okay, maybe soften that one. But you get the point.)
This is how you win.
You use what you have.
Act 4: The Engagement Trap
There is one more catch.
You cannot just post and leave.
That is called "posting and ghosting." It’s like walking into a networking event, shouting your name, and immediately running out the door.
It’s rude. It’s ineffective.
Posting is just half the game. Engaging is the other half.3
If you don't reply to comments, you kill the reach of the post. The algorithm sees a dead end. It stops pushing the content.
But more importantly, you ignore your network.
These are real people. Potential clients. Partners.
If they take the time to comment, you owe them a response.
I’d argue that fifteen minutes of commenting is worth more than an hour of writing.
It builds relationships. It builds visibility. It builds trust.
So here is the new protocol.
Step 1: Open your "Dead IP" folder.
Step 2: Schedule three posts for next week. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Step 3: Block fifteen minutes on your calendar each of those mornings.
Step 4: Reply to every single comment.
That’s it.
No magic. No growth hacks. No emoji-filled nonsense.
Just professional consistency.
Your audience is waiting.
They want to hear from you.
But they won't wait forever.
If you stay silent, they will move on to someone who isn't.
Someone who might know less than you, but shows up more than you.
Don't let that happen.
References
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