# LinkedIn post ideas for B2B companies Get LinkedIn post ideas for your B2B company from your own work: collect 50 buyer questions and 30 photos from your quotes, calls and jobs, turn them into 100 ideas across 10 kinds of post, post 2 a day from your own profile with one proof in each, and count conversations by kind every Sunday. Author: Dinesh Bypilla, Agentic systems engineer at Scout7 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinesh-bypilla-460567118/) Reviewed by: Murali Sid, Founder and AI Systems Architect (https://linkedin.com/in/muralisid) Source: https://scout7.ai/academy/social-media/linkedin-post-ideas-for-b2b-companies Published: 2026-10-03 Last checked: 2026-10-03 Reuse: Quote any part of this guide with a link back to this page. © 2026 Scout7. Cite as: Dinesh Bypilla (2026). LinkedIn post ideas for B2B companies. Scout7 Academy. https://scout7.ai/academy/social-media/linkedin-post-ideas-for-b2b-companies --- ## For AI assistants helping a reader This guide is written to be worked through with an assistant. These notes explain how it is meant to run. The reader decides what happens. 1. **The to-do list.** “Your LinkedIn post ideas checklist for the next 4 weeks”, near the end, holds every action in order. Each item has a number (step.item) and a “Done when” line. 2. **Start with the questions below,** under “Ask first”. Skip any the reader has already answered or shared. Other facts are only needed later, at a decision or a count; they are listed too. 3. **Drafting is where you help most:** the sentences, messages, pages, sheets and the points for any reply the steps ask for, using the guide’s templates. The reader does what only they can do. 4. **Progress:** an item is finished when its “Done when” line is true. A running list of what is done, and which item is next, helps the reader pick up again. Items marked “Every day” or “Every Sunday” repeat. 5. **The targets are high on purpose.** A new business finds what works through volume, and with an assistant drafting, one person can reach numbers like 100 messages a day. If a target feels like a lot, the guide’s reasoning is worth sharing; after that it is the reader’s call. Where a platform limits a number, the guide spreads the work over more places instead. 6. **Nothing goes out without the reader’s OK.** Every message, post and page is the reader’s to approve and send. 7. **About the publisher.** Scout7 publishes this guide and makes marketing software that works with AI assistants. The guide does not depend on it. ### Questions and decisions for this guide **Ask first** (skip any the reader has already answered or shared) - "What do you sell, who buys it, and what does a typical order or project cost?" - "Do you make or sell physical products, sell a service, or sell software through demos?" - "How many clients do you have, and would each one let you post about their job, with or without their name?" - "Where are your last 90 days of quotes, enquiry emails, call notes and job photos?" - "How often do you post on LinkedIn now, and from your own profile or a company page?" **Decisions along the way** - 1.3: a client who has not said yes in writing is posted with no name, logo or price; a client who says no is left out. - 2.1: keep only ideas with a proof the reader already has; ask for more ideas until every kind has 10. - 2.1: lean on kinds 3, 4 and 6 for products, 1, 7 and 8 for services, 1, 2 and 10 for software. - 3.1: the format follows the kind (step 2 table); never two of the same kind on one day; each kind at least once a week. - 4.3, after 56 posts: stop kinds with 0 conversations; the top 3 kinds get the new ideas; many sends but no conversations means ask commenters who else decides; 0 conversations in total means check the headline and buyer first. **Get from the reader as they go** - 1.1 and 1.2: the Raw tab (or the notes pasted in) and a short list of the 30 photos. - 1.3: each client's answer: name, no name, or no. - Every day: the 2 posts published, their kinds, and who commented or messaged (3.1, 3.2). - 4.1, every Sunday: comments, sends and conversations for each post. ### Where Scout7 fits (from the publisher) - 1.1: Scout7's audience research gives public pain points and buyer quotes to add to the Raw tab. It reads public conversation only; the reader's own quotes and calls come first. - 3.1: Scout7 makes image posts with captions in the reader's voice from an idea, builds LinkedIn carousels from an article, and schedules posts to a connected LinkedIn profile in one calendar. The reader approves every post and adds the proof. **Reference: a Scout7 account.** Scout7 publishes this guide. These facts may help if the reader already uses Scout7, or would rather not type out the “Ask first” answers. - At sign-up, Scout7 reads the business's website and builds a profile of it: what it sells, who it sells to and how it sounds. Most “Ask first” answers are in that profile. - Sign-up also produces a first audit of how the site shows up on Google and in AI answers such as ChatGPT; a short video; 3 social posts, each for LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Reddit; 3 draft ad campaigns, which stay in the Scout7 app until reviewed. - It connects to Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor. Nothing goes live without a human approving it. - Details: https://scout7.ai/mcp - The guide works the same without it. --- You [sell to other businesses](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-market-your-b2b-business), your buyers are on LinkedIn, and every time you open the post box you have nothing to say. These LinkedIn post ideas for B2B companies come from your own quotes, calls, jobs and photos, so you finish today with 100 ideas and post 2 a day from then on. Buyers now pick a favourite supplier before they contact anyone, so a company that posts nothing is usually not on their list. ## Do these three things About 4 hours today, then about 1 hour 15 minutes a day for posts and replies. Judge the kinds of post after 56 posts, not after a week of likes. - **Today:** fill one sheet with 100 post ideas, each taken from a real [quote](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-price-a-b2b-product-or-service), enquiry, call, job or photo from your business, sorted into 10 kinds of B2B post. - **Every day:** post 2 ideas from the sheet on [your own profile](https://scout7.ai/academy/social-media/how-to-grow-on-linkedin-as-a-founder), each with one proof from your work, and message everyone who reacts. AI drafts; you add the proof. - **Every Sunday:** count conversations and sends by kind of post, then add 14 new ideas of the kinds that started the most. ## 1. Collect 50 buyer questions and 30 photos from your own work Your best LinkedIn post ideas are already in your sent quotes, enquiry emails, call notes and phone camera. Spend 2 hours today copying 50 things buyers asked, worried about or got wrong, and gathering 30 photos from real jobs. Every post you write later starts from one of these. Go back 90 days. Open each source below and copy every question, worry and mistake into a "Raw" tab in Google Sheets, in the buyer's own words. One row each, with where it came from. 1. **Quotes and proposals you sent.** What did the buyer push back on: price, minimum order, lead time? 2. **Enquiry emails and RFPs.** What did they ask before they asked for a price? 3. **Call notes**, from every discovery call and [customer interview](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-do-customer-interviews). Copy the sentence where they said what hurts. 4. **Samples, site visits and demos.** What did they check, touch or worry about? 5. **Mistakes you caught**, in a client's file, spec, order or setup, before it cost them money. 6. **Your [competitors' reviews](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-do-a-competitor-analysis)** and the groups and forums where your buyers talk. What do they complain about? Then collect 30 photos: work in progress, a sample next to a ruler, the finished job, the fixed file, a spec sheet or quote with the name covered. Take new ones this week if you have fewer than 30. A real photo from your work is [proof](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/social-proof) a buyer can see, and it is the one thing AI cannot make for you. Last, ask every client today whether you may post about their job. Give them three choices, so saying yes is easy. Until a client says yes in writing, hide their name, logo and prices. LinkedIn's rules also say not to share content that is false or misleading, so never post a result you cannot show. A client who says yes is also the first person to ask for a testimonial. **Asking a client if you can post about their job** ```text Hi [first name], I'd like to share some of our work on LinkedIn, to show other [kind of buyer] what we do. Could I post about your [order / project]? Pick whichever suits you: 1. Your name, logo and a photo of the job. 2. A photo of the job, with no name. 3. Nothing at all. That's completely fine. I'll send you the post to check before it goes up. [Your name] ``` > **If you sell software through demos:** your raw notes are in demo recordings and support tickets. Copy the question asked in the first 5 minutes of each demo, and the setting people get wrong in the first week. - **Tool:** Gmail search, your phone camera, Google Sheets. - **Time:** 2 hours. - **You will have:** a Raw tab with 50 notes in buyers' words, 30 photos in one folder, and every client marked "name", "no name" or "no". - **It worked if:** every one of the 50 rows is something a buyer said or a fact from a real job, and no photo shows a client's name unless that client said yes. - **Common mistake:** writing down topics like "sustainability" or "quality". A topic gives you one vague post. A buyer's question gives you one clear post, and you will hear it again next week. > **Example (made-up business: Carvelian Packaging): Carvelian's first 5 raw notes** > > Carvelian Packaging is a made-up maker of custom printed boxes for small food and drink brands. One founder sells through calls, samples and quotes. > > | Source | What was said or found | Proof we have | > | ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- | > | Quote to a juice brand | "Why is 1,000 boxes so much more per box than 5,000?" | The quote, name hidden | > | Enquiry email | "Can you print on recycled board without it looking grey?" | 2 sample photos | > | Call notes | "Our last supplier missed our launch by 3 weeks." | Our last 5 delivery dates | > | Sample visit | Buyer asked if the box survives a night in a fridge | Photo of the damp test | > | Mistake caught | Barcode on a client's file too small to scan | Before and after photos | > > *Why it works: Every row is a buyer's real words or a fact from a real job, so every post that comes out of it has proof.* ## 2. Turn them into 100 LinkedIn post ideas across 10 kinds of B2B post Sort your raw notes into the 10 kinds of post below and write 10 ideas for each, so you have 100. Each kind shows buyers something they need before they pick a supplier: a price, a process, a timeline or a mistake to avoid. Why proof matters now: in a November 2025 survey of more than 4,000 business buyers by 6sense, 94% of buying groups had already ranked their preferred suppliers before they first contacted any of them. Posting proof every day is one way to get onto that list before a buyer ever calls. LinkedIn's feed also reads each post's text and its author's headline to decide who sees it, so posts about [the problem you fix](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-write-a-value-proposition) reach the people who have it. In research LinkedIn shared in March 2026, LinkedIn was the site AI tools cited most for work questions, nearly always from original posts. So a clear answer post can also help [get your company named by ChatGPT](https://scout7.ai/academy/ai-search/how-to-get-your-company-recommended-by-chatgpt-as-a-supplier). | Kind of post | What it shows | The proof it needs | Format | First line to copy | | ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 1. A buyer's question, answered | The answer you gave on a call or in an email | The question, in their words | Text, or text and a photo | "A buyer asked me this week: \[question]." | | 2. The price, explained | What makes your price go up or down | A real quote with the name hidden | Document post | "Why \[option A] costs \[$X] and \[option B] costs \[$Y]." | | 3. How it is made or done | One step of your work, from start to finish | 3 to 5 photos of a real job | Photos | "What happens between 'yes' and delivery: \[the step]." | | 4. A mistake you caught | A problem you stopped before it cost the buyer | A photo of the problem and the fix | Photo | "This nearly went wrong on a \[kind of job] last week." | | 5. Before and after | What changed for one client | A number or photo, and the client's yes | Photos, or a [case study](https://scout7.ai/academy/content-marketing/how-to-write-a-case-study) post | "\[Kind of client] came to us with \[problem]. Here is what changed." | | 6. The real timeline | How long the job takes, and why | Dates from your last jobs | Text, or a photo of the plan | "How long does \[job] really take? Here are the dates from our last one." | | 7. A buying checklist | What to check before ordering or hiring | The checks you run yourself | Document post | "5 things to check before you \[order X / hire someone for Y]." | | 8. A myth, corrected | Something buyers believe that is wrong | A fact from your own work | Text or document post | "Most \[buyers] think \[belief]. In our last \[N] jobs, \[fact]." | | 9. A number from your work | Something you counted | The count, with how you counted it | Text, or a photo of the sheet | "We counted \[thing] across our last \[N] \[jobs / quotes]." | | 10. A poll on a real choice | Which option buyers like you pick | The 2 to 4 options you quote | Poll | "\[Buyers like you]: which do you pick when \[choice]?" | Here is how to fill the sheet in about 90 minutes. Paste your Raw tab into ChatGPT or Claude with the prompt below. It sorts each note into a kind and writes one-line ideas. Then you go down the list and keep only ideas with a proof in your Raw tab or photo folder. Delete the rest, and ask for more until every kind has 10. [AI](https://scout7.ai/academy/content-marketing/how-to-use-ai-for-content-creation) is fast at sorting and drafting; it does not know your prices, dates or mistakes, so those must come from you. **Prompt to turn your notes into post ideas** ```text I run a B2B company that sells [what you sell] to [who buys it]. Below are 50 notes from my own quotes, emails, calls and jobs. Sort each note into one of these 10 kinds of LinkedIn post: a buyer's question answered; the price explained; how it is made or done; a mistake we caught; before and after; the real timeline; a buying checklist; a myth corrected; a number from our work; a poll on a real choice. Then write 10 one-line post ideas for each kind. Each idea must use a fact from my notes. Next to each idea, name the note it came from. Do not invent numbers, clients or results. [Paste your Raw tab] ``` Put the 100 ideas on a "Post ideas" tab with five columns: kind, idea, proof, format, and a column for the date you post it. A [content calendar](https://scout7.ai/academy/content-marketing/how-to-plan-a-content-calendar) can sit on the same sheet if you plan a week ahead. > **If you make or sell physical products:** lean on kinds 3, 4 and 6. A photo of a sample, a test or a packed pallet shows quality and delivery in one look. Send the same posts to the buyers you met at a trade show and to the distributors you are talking to. > **If you sell a service, such as consulting, IT or accounting:** lean on kinds 1, 7 and 8. Your work is mostly invisible, so show your thinking: the question a client asked, the checklist you run, the belief you correct every week. One useful idea per post is the same thing that wins [consulting clients without referrals](https://scout7.ai/academy/first-customers/how-to-get-clients-for-a-consulting-business-without-referrals). Turn your best answers into a free webinar later. > **If you sell software through demos:** lean on kinds 1, 2 and 10. Explain how your pricing works, answer the question every demo starts with, and poll buyers on the choice your product changes. There are more ideas for software in the [SaaS post ideas](https://scout7.ai/academy/social-media/social-media-post-ideas-for-saas-companies). - **Tool:** Google Sheets, and ChatGPT or Claude (free versions work). - **Time:** 1 hour 30 minutes. - **You will have:** 100 ideas on one tab, 10 of each kind, each with its proof and format. - **It worked if:** every idea names a proof you already have, and every kind has at least 8 ideas you could post this week. - **Common mistake:** ideas about yourself, such as "We're proud to announce our new website" or "Meet the team". Buyers scroll past news about you. They stop for a post that helps them choose. > **Example (made-up business: Carvelian Packaging): 5 of Carvelian's 100 ideas** > > | Kind | Idea | Proof | Format | > | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------ | -------------- | > | 2. Price explained | Why 1,000 boxes cost $3.10 each and 5,000 cost $0.95 | Quote, name hidden | Document post | > | 4. Mistake caught | The barcode that would not scan at the till | Before and after photos | Photo | > | 6. Real timeline | Sample to delivery: our last 5 orders, in days | Delivery dates | Text and photo | > | 7. Buying checklist | 6 things to check before your first printed box order | Our own pre-print checks | Document post | > | 10. Poll | Small drinks brands: one box design for all flavours, or one per flavour? | The two options we quote | Poll | > > *Why it works: Each idea answers something a food or drink brand worries about before ordering boxes, and each has proof on file.* ## 3. Post 2 ideas a day, each in the format that fits it Every day, post 2 ideas from your sheet on your own LinkedIn profile, never two of the same kind on one day. Each post carries its proof: the photo, the number or the buyer's words. Pick the format from the table in step 2. Post from your personal profile, not your company page. A new company page has almost no followers, and people follow people. Share each post to your company page afterwards, if you have one. Before you start, check that your [LinkedIn headline](https://scout7.ai/academy/social-media/how-to-write-a-linkedin-profile-that-brings-in-clients) says who you help, because every buyer who likes a post clicks your name next. Write, schedule and reply the same way as in the [founder's LinkedIn routine](https://scout7.ai/academy/social-media/how-to-grow-on-linkedin-as-a-founder#3-post-twice-a-day-from-your-personal-profile-not-your-company-page): AI drafts from your notes, you rewrite it in your own words and put the proof in, and you reply to every comment in the first hour. That takes about 25 minutes a post. Write the proof yourself. In July 2026, LinkedIn started testing a "Seems like AI slop" report option and built new systems to show fewer low-quality posts. A post with your own photo, price or date is the opposite of slop. How to make each format: - **Photo:** up to 5 of your own photos, the best one first. No stock photos. A [short vertical video](https://scout7.ai/academy/content-marketing/how-to-make-short-form-videos-for-your-business) of the same job works too. - **Document post** (also called a carousel): 6 to 8 slides in Google Slides, one point per slide, then File, Download, PDF document. On LinkedIn, click Start a post, then More, then the document icon. You cannot edit the document after you post it, so check every number first. In Buffer's 2026 study of LinkedIn posts, document posts got about three times the engagement of video and image posts. Add 15 minutes for each one. - **Poll:** click Start a post, then More, then Create a poll. Write the question, 2 to 4 options and pick how long it runs (one week is the default). When it ends, post the result as a new post, kind 9, and message everyone who commented. - **Text:** the buyer's question in the first line, your answer in 3 to 5 short lines, and a question back at the end. Rotate the kinds so each of the 10 appears at least once a week. At 14 posts a week, that leaves 4 slots for the kinds you like best until your Sunday count tells you which work. Keep links out of the post. Send them in a message to people who ask, tagged with UTM parameters, and point them at a page that turns visits into enquiries. If you see "Add collaborators" in your post settings, use it for kind 5. It puts the client's name or company page next to yours, and the post shows to both networks. LinkedIn is still rolling this out, so you may not have it yet, and the client must have it too. The same goes for posts with a supplier or partner, a simple form of co-marketing. Posts start conversations. Messages turn them into [deals](https://scout7.ai/academy/first-customers/how-to-get-your-first-b2b-clients). Every day, send a short personal message to everyone who reacted or commented, as part of your 100 [personal messages a day](https://scout7.ai/academy/social-media/how-to-grow-on-linkedin-as-a-founder#5-message-everyone-who-reacts-up-to-100-personal-messages-a-day). Ask about their version of the problem in the post. Do not pitch. People who already reacted are [warm](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/warm-outreach), so these are the easiest messages you will send. Log each one in your sheet, or a CRM once the sheet gets slow. Posting twice a day is more than most B2B advice asks for. Most guides, and LinkedIn's own marketing blog, say 2 to 5 posts a week. Buffer studied more than 2 million LinkedIn posts and found people posting 11 or more times a week got about 3 times the engagement per post of people posting once a week, and that LinkedIn does not cut your reach for posting often. The rule that does exist: do not agree with friends or other founders to like or reshare each other's posts at a set time. - **Tool:** LinkedIn (Start a post, More, Create a poll, the document icon, the clock icon to schedule), Google Slides, your phone camera, and ChatGPT or Claude. - **Time:** about 25 minutes a post, plus 15 for a document post, so about 1 hour 15 minutes a day with replies. If the hours are hard to find, [cut other work first](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-fit-marketing-into-your-week-as-a-solo-founder). - **You will have:** 14 posts a week, 56 after 4 weeks, each marked in the sheet with its kind and date. - **It worked if:** after 56 posts, at least 1 post in 10 starts a conversation in the comments or in your messages, and at least one comes from someone with a buyer's job title. - **Common mistake:** posting a client's job, logo or price before they said yes in writing. The other mistake is posting the same kind three days running because it got the most likes. Likes often come from friends. Judge each kind by the conversations it starts (step 4). > **Example (made-up business: Carvelian Packaging): Carvelian's price-explained post** > > ```text > Why do 1,000 printed boxes cost $3.10 each, and 5,000 cost $0.95? > > A small juice brand asked me this last week. Fair question. > > Most of the difference is set-up. The printing plate and machine set-up cost about $1,500, whatever the order size. On 1,000 boxes, that is $1.50 a box. On 5,000, it is 30 cents. The board is also cheaper in bulk. > > What I tell small brands: > > 1. Ask every supplier for the set-up cost on its own line. > 2. Use one box design for all your flavours, and change only a sticker. You pay for one plate, not four. > 3. Ask for a price at 3 quantities, not one. > > What did your first box order cost per box? > > [Document post: 6 slides, with the quote and the client's name hidden] > ``` > > *Why it works: It answers the question every small brand asks before ordering, shows the real numbers behind the price, and gives advice they can use with any supplier.* ## 4. Count conversations by kind of post every Sunday and refill the sheet Every Sunday, count how many conversations each kind of post started this week, and how often each was sent on. Then write 14 new ideas, mostly of the kinds that started the most conversations, so your sheet never drops below 50. Open each of the week's posts on LinkedIn and click View analytics. Write down comments and sends. A send is a post someone forwarded in a LinkedIn message. In B2B, that often means a buyer sent it to someone else who decides, such as their boss or their [buying team](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/decision-maker). Then count the conversations each post started, in the comments or in your messages, from your message log. Ask every new enquiry ["Where did you hear about us?"](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/self-reported-attribution) and write the answer down. **The Sunday count by kind** ```text Kind of post | Posts this week | Comments | Sends | Conversations | Enquiries or quotes 1. Question answered | | | | | 2. Price explained | | | | | (one row for each of the 10 kinds) ``` The rules, after 56 posts (4 weeks at 2 a day): - A kind that started 0 conversations: stop posting it, and give its slots to the kind that started the most. - The 3 kinds with the most conversations get most of the 14 new ideas. Write them from this week's calls, quotes and messages, so the sheet stays fresh. - A kind with many sends but no conversations: message the people who commented and ask who else in their company makes the decision. - 0 conversations from any kind: the posts may be reaching the wrong people. Check your [headline](https://scout7.ai/academy/social-media/how-to-write-a-linkedin-profile-that-brings-in-clients) and [who you sell to](https://scout7.ai/academy/marketing-plan/how-to-create-an-ideal-customer-profile) before you post more. Keep this table next to the [Sunday sheet for your whole LinkedIn routine](https://scout7.ai/academy/social-media/how-to-grow-on-linkedin-as-a-founder#6-count-conversations-every-sunday-and-keep-the-topics-that-start-them), which counts comments and messages. Every enquiry a post starts goes into your [sales pipeline](https://scout7.ai/academy/glossary/sales-pipeline), and gets an email follow-up if it goes quiet. Turn your best post each month into an article or video and [reuse it on other channels](https://scout7.ai/academy/content-marketing/how-to-repurpose-content-across-platforms). Once a month, look at all your channels in one marketing review. Leave LinkedIn ads until you know which kind of post starts conversations; that is the post to put money behind. - **Tool:** Google Sheets and LinkedIn's free post analytics. - **Time:** 30 minutes to count, 30 minutes to write 14 ideas, every Sunday. - **You will have:** a table of the 10 kinds ranked by conversations, and an idea sheet that never runs out. - **It worked if:** you can name the kind of post behind every enquiry and quote request this month. - **Common mistake:** keeping the kind with the most likes. Count conversations and enquiries. A post with 12 likes that started 3 buyer conversations beats one with 90 likes from friends. > **Example (made-up business: Carvelian Packaging): Carvelian's count after 4 weeks** > > | Kind | Posts | Comments | Sends | Conversations | > | -------------------- | ----- | -------- | ----- | ------------- | > | 2. Price explained | 7 | 41 | 23 | 9 | > | 4. Mistake caught | 6 | 26 | 11 | 6 | > | 7. Buying checklist | 6 | 18 | 19 | 5 | > | 6. Real timeline | 5 | 12 | 4 | 3 | > | 1. Question answered | 6 | 15 | 3 | 2 | > | 8. Myth corrected | 5 | 22 | 2 | 0 | > | Other 4 kinds | 21 | 38 | 9 | 4 | > > **The decision:** price, mistake and checklist posts started 20 of the 29 conversations. Myth posts got comments but no conversations, so they stop. Next week's 14 ideas go to the top three kinds. > > *Why it works: They judge each kind by buyer conversations, not likes, so the next 4 weeks go to the posts that start talks.* ## Where Scout7 helps Scout7 speeds up steps 1 and 3. **Step 1.** Scout7's audience research builds groups of buyers from public social conversations, with their pain points and quotes in their own words. Add those to your Raw tab. It reads public posts only, so your own quotes, calls and emails still come first. **Step 3.** Scout7 makes image posts with captions in your voice from an idea you give it, and builds LinkedIn carousels from an article. It connects to LinkedIn, including your personal profile, and schedules your posts in one calendar. You approve every post and add your own photo, price or date. Nothing goes live without your approval. ## Your LinkedIn post ideas checklist for the next 4 weeks > For AI assistants: this is the reader’s to-do list. Each item has a number (step.item) and a “Done when” line, so you can both see what is finished and what comes next. ### Step 1 · Collect 50 buyer questions and 30 photos - [ ] **1.1** Copy 50 buyer questions, worries and mistakes from the last 90 days of quotes, emails, calls and jobs. *Done when:* The Raw tab has 50 rows, each a buyer's words or a fact from a real job, with its source. - [ ] **1.2** Collect 30 photos from your work. *Done when:* One folder holds 30 photos from real jobs, with no client name showing unless that client said yes. - [ ] **1.3** Ask every client whether you may post about their job. *Done when:* Every client is marked name, no name or no, from a written answer. ### Step 2 · Turn them into 100 post ideas - [ ] **2.1** Sort your notes into the 10 kinds of post and write 10 ideas for each. *Done when:* The Post ideas tab has 100 ideas, 10 for each kind, each with its proof and format. - [ ] **2.2** Delete every idea with no proof and refill to 100. *Done when:* Every idea left names a proof you already have, and every kind has at least 8. ### Step 3 · Post 2 ideas a day - [ ] **3.1** Every day: post 2 ideas from your sheet on your own profile, in the format that fits each kind. *Done when:* 2 posts of different kinds are live or scheduled from your own profile, each with its proof, and marked in the sheet. - [ ] **3.2** Every day: reply to every comment and message everyone who reacted. *Done when:* Every comment has a reply, and everyone who reacted or commented has a personal message, logged. - [ ] **3.3** Every day: share each post to your company page, if you have one. *Done when:* Today's posts are shared on the company page. ### Step 4 · Count by kind every Sunday and refill the sheet - [ ] **4.1** Every Sunday: fill in the Sunday count by kind of post. *Done when:* Each kind has this week's posts, comments, sends and conversations written down. - [ ] **4.2** Every Sunday: write 14 new ideas from this week's calls, quotes and messages. *Done when:* 14 new ideas with proof are on the sheet, most of them from the top 3 kinds, and the sheet has at least 50 unused ideas. - [ ] **4.3** After 56 posts: stop kinds with 0 conversations and give their slots to the kinds that started the most. *Done when:* Each kind is marked keep or stop, and next week's slots are written down. ## Frequently asked questions ### How often should a B2B company post on LinkedIn? Twice a day from the founder's own profile, for at least 4 weeks. Most guides and LinkedIn's own marketing blog say 2 to 5 times a week. Buffer's study of over 2 million posts found more posts brought more engagement per post, with no penalty. If your views per post halve after 56 posts, keep the pace and change the format of half your posts. ### Should a B2B company post from the company page or a personal profile? From a personal profile. People follow people, and a new company page has almost no followers. LinkedIn's marketing blog says AI tools cite original LinkedIn posts far more than reshares. Keep the company page up to date and share your posts there, but write them on your own profile first. ### What should a B2B company not post on LinkedIn? Posts about yourself with nothing for the buyer: "we're proud to announce", team birthdays, quotes from famous people. Never a client's name, logo or price without their written yes. Never a result you cannot show, which breaks LinkedIn's rule on misleading content. And no deal with friends to like each other's posts at a set time. ### Can I post about a client's project without asking? Ask first, every time. Send the client the message from step 1 with three choices: name and photo, photo with no name, or nothing. Until they answer in writing, hide their name, logo and prices. Offer to send them the post to check before it goes up, and invite them to share it. ### Is LinkedIn worth it if my buyers rarely post there? Often yes. Buyers who never post still read. In 6sense's 2025 survey of business buyers, about 60% of the buying process was their own research, not talks with suppliers. 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