LinkedIn Growth in 2026: 6 Experts Share Their Single Best Tip
LinkedIn rewards authenticity in 2026, and these six practitioners have each found one tactic that outperforms the rest.
Dr. Igor Ivitskiy PhD: Bait a Light Correction
Dr. Igor Ivitskiy, Founder of Doctor Ads, leaves intentional gaps in his analysis so readers feel compelled to correct him. “The single best move is to bait a light correction instead of asking people to engage. When I publish a breakdown I leave a hole on purpose and say I might be missing something — people fix you faster than they praise you. I treat the comments as a live focus group with a binary job, would you buy this or not, so the reader has a verdict instead of a blank prompt. If a format lifts comments but not reach or money, I drop it.”
Rinn R: Stop Performing, Start Being Real
Rinn R, Founder and Creative Director at Echo Omni Studio, stopped curating a professional persona and watched consistent engagement grow. “My single best tip: stop performing and start being a real person. My most engaged content has been posts about history and anthropology, how ancient trade routes shaped modern marketing, how I’m learning SEO in real time and documenting the messy parts. The moment that proved this was when Daniel Roe, lead of the Nuxt framework, created a Nuxt in the Wild channel and featured my projects. I tagged him expecting nothing — he replied. My reply back was, word for word, ‘MOTHER HE REPLIED MEEEEEEEE.’ People outside my network started liking it because they found it genuinely funny. I’m getting consistent, real growth by being consistently and unapologetically myself. Because being myself is the strategy.”
Will Yang: Write What Your Customers Tell You
Will Yang, Head of Growth at Chronicle Technologies, starts every post from a real customer conversation. “Forget writing what you think is clever and write what your customers are telling you. Every post I write begins with something a customer has said — typically a pain point from a support call or an onboarding conversation. The posts that result from real conversations have more comments than anything we have written from a content calendar. People can see when you write something to impress and when you write it because someone really said that thing to you last week.”
Lynnaire Johnston: Personalize Every Direct Message
Lynnaire Johnston, LinkedIn Strategist and Author at Link Ability, builds connections through the DM inbox rather than the feed. “Sending direct messages that are personalised and speak to the relationship you have with the person — a reminder of how you met, who you both know, or something on their profile that resonates with you. What does NOT work is bulk sending messages that could be written by anyone to anyone. Personalisation is the key and while it takes time, it opens the door to conversations which can lead to opportunities.”
Will Mitchell: Write for Your Smallest Viable Audience
Will Mitchell, Founder of StartupBros, targets 30 specific people rather than chasing broad reach. “Write your posts to the 30 people who could hire you. Pick a topic tight enough that someone can finish the sentence ‘this person talks about blank’ after seeing you twice. A tight topic gives the algorithm consistent signal about who to show you to. The tradeoff is patience — when I narrowed my own topic, my broad posts drew more reach for the first few weeks. I stayed with the narrow focus. Then reply to the people who comment on your posts. I answer mine myself, every one of them.”
Jon Hill: Participate, Don’t Broadcast
Jon Hill, Chairman and CEO of The Energists, shifted from posting to participating. “Stop treating LinkedIn like a distribution channel and instead approach it as a place to participate in industry conversations. The posts that generate the strongest engagement are not the ones with promotional messaging or polished graphics. When you leave thoughtful comments on posts from executives and experts in your industry, this puts your perspective in front of a broader audience that does not already follow you.”
The Common Thread
All six experts point toward the same shift: treat LinkedIn as a place to have real conversations rather than push polished content. Comments compound faster than likes. Real stories outperform frameworks. Specificity beats inspiration.
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One Thing to Do Today
Pick one expert from this list. Apply their specific tip on your next post. Then track whether it generates more replies than your average. That single data point will tell you more about what works for your audience than any generic advice.
