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LinkedIn Logic.

LinkedIn strategy, without the tired, regurgitated nonsense.

Practical posts on profile optimization, personal branding, and the strategy questions most LinkedIn advice skips. Written for people who want to understand the why, not just the what.

LinkedIn Profile Strategy

The Best Time to Update Your LinkedIn Profile Is Not When You Think

Most professionals only update their LinkedIn profile when something goes wrong. Here's why the best time to update is when you don't have to.

Jul 14, 2026 3 min read

LinkedIn Profile Strategy

Your LinkedIn Profile Is in the Room Before You Are

She went to the same conference for 20 years and always left with a handful of cards. Then she rebuilt her LinkedIn profile. Here's what changed.

Jul 8, 2026 3 min read

LinkedIn Profile Strategy

Your Executive Title Is Worthless. Here's What It's Costing You.

'Team Lead' could mean a barista or a VP running a $140M budget. Your LinkedIn headline needs context, or you're invisible to the marketplace.

Jun 25, 2026 3 min read

LinkedIn Profile Strategy

She Booked Therapy Before Working on Her LinkedIn. Then She Cancelled It.

A client booked therapy before our first session. Because owning your accomplishments on LinkedIn is harder than it looks. Here's what happened next.

Jun 24, 2026 3 min read

LinkedIn Profile Strategy

A Resume Is 2D. Your LinkedIn Profile Should Be 3D.

What's the difference between a LinkedIn profile and a resume? A resume is a 2D snapshot. Your profile should be a 3D engagement tool. Here's how.

Jun 23, 2026 3 min read

LinkedIn Profile Strategy

Your LinkedIn Profile Speaks Two Languages. You Might Be Fluent in One.

What does 'optimizing' a LinkedIn profile actually mean? It speaks two languages: AI and the human eye. Keywords get you found; your story gets you chosen.

Jun 22, 2026 4 min read

LinkedIn Profile Strategy

Stop downgrading your job title on LinkedIn. Smaller isn't better.

Downgrading your job title on LinkedIn to seem less pretentious? Two clients tried it. One owned her title and found work. The other is still looking.

Jun 17, 2026 2 min read

LinkedIn Profile Sections

The LinkedIn Skills You Need to Cut (Starting With MS Word)

What skills should you cut from your LinkedIn profile? Start with 'Microsoft Word.' Those 100 skill slots are a ceiling, not a goal, and most are clutter.

Jun 16, 2026 3 min read

LinkedIn Profile Sections

The 3 LinkedIn Sections Most People Leave Empty (and Shouldn't)

What LinkedIn sections do most people leave empty? Featured, Services, and Projects. All free, all proof you're worth the conversation, all skipped.

Jun 15, 2026 2 min read

LinkedIn Profile Strategy

Most LinkedIn Advice Doesn't Work. So I Figured It Out Myself.

Most LinkedIn advice doesn't actually work. After the e-books, the experts, and endless profile reviews, here's what's really broken and how I figured it out.

Jun 11, 2026 2 min read

LinkedIn Profile Strategy

Why Working On Your LinkedIn Profile Is So Damn Hard

Why is working on your own LinkedIn profile so hard? It's not writer's block. You're too close to your own story to see it. That's the whole problem.

Jun 10, 2026 3 min read

LinkedIn Profile Sections

No LinkedIn company page? Your gray box is costing you clients.

No LinkedIn company page? That gray box next to your job title is a bad look. And the algorithm treats it as a dead end. The fix takes 15 minutes.

Jun 9, 2026 4 min read

LinkedIn Profile Sections

Your LinkedIn Headshot, Banner, and Headline Get 3 Seconds. Maybe.

Nobody reads your whole LinkedIn profile. They scan three sections — headshot, banner, headline — and decide in seconds. Here's how to survive the scan.

Jun 8, 2026 2 min read

LinkedIn Profile Sections

How to Write a LinkedIn About Section (It's Your Closing Argument)

You're positioning your LinkedIn About section all wrong. It's not an introduction; it's your closing argument. Here's how to write it.

Jun 4, 2026 5 min read

Profile Strategy

You nailed the interview. Then they checked your LinkedIn.

Why do candidates get rejected after great interviews? It could be your LinkedIn profile the recruiter checked afterward.

Jun 3, 2026 4 min read

Profile Strategy

How a career coach's advice tanked a supply chain analyst's LinkedIn profile

When career coaches treat LinkedIn like a resume, the client pays. Here's how that bad advice hurt one supply chain analyst's profile.

Jun 2, 2026 5 min read

LinkedIn Profile Sections

People aren't weird enough on LinkedIn (and it's killing their headlines)

Most LinkedIn headlines read like a stack of business cards taped together. Boring. Corporate. Forgettable. One small, slightly weird fix can change that.

Jun 1, 2026 5 min read

Profile Strategy

Your LinkedIn headline isn't a job title.

Most people default to their job title as their LinkedIn headline. Here's why that's costing them, and what to use instead.

May 21, 2026 4 min read

Engagement

Join me: how you can improve your LinkedIn trust score too.

My invitation to join the 30-day trust score recovery challenge. The rules, the tracking, and how we can teach the algorithm together.

Apr 15, 2026 2 min read

Engagement

Tracking the results of my LinkedIn trust score experiment.

How I'm measuring my 30-day trust score recovery plan: the spreadsheet, the anecdotal patterns, and the success metrics I'm aiming for.

Mar 29, 2026 2 min read

Engagement

The 5 rules I'm following to rebuild my LinkedIn trust score.

My 30-day plan to recover reach and engagement on LinkedIn. Five concrete rules, the constraints behind each one, and where I'm struggling to follow them.

Mar 12, 2026 4 min read

Algorithm

Why I'm rebuilding my LinkedIn trust score.

My impressions tanked after LinkedIn's June 2025 update. Here's why I'm following new rules to rebuild — even though the bias problem is real.

Feb 23, 2026 3 min read

Bias & Equity

LinkedIn reach is dropping for diverse voices. Here's why it matters.

Originally shared on LinkedIn as an unattributed experiment, this post by Jane Evans hits something the algorithm hides: women, POC, and DEI voices are being quietly silenced.

Feb 6, 2026 3 min read

Algorithm

LinkedIn trust score: why my reach plummeted (and how I plan to fix it).

LinkedIn has a 'trust score' nobody talks about. Turns out mine is in trouble. Here's what I've been doing wrong and the 30-day experiment to fix it.

Jan 20, 2026 4 min read

Why LinkedIn

'LinkedIn doesn't work' is a lie.

Founders keep telling me LinkedIn doesn't work for their business. It does. They just aren't showing up for it.

Jan 2, 2026 3 min read

Bias & Equity

Would LinkedIn treat you differently if you were male and white?

Cindy Gallop, Jane Evans, Stephen McGinnis, and Matt Lawton ran an experiment. The numbers were startling. Here's what it tells us about the algorithm.

Dec 15, 2025 4 min read

Bias & Equity

LinkedIn isn't working for women. Should we boycott it?

The bias is real. The 'goodbye cruel world' posts are piling up. The question is whether leaving actually helps — or just makes it worse.

Nov 28, 2025 4 min read

Bias & Equity

LinkedIn is basically Instagram now (but still biased).

Two women posted. One told a joke, the other shared strategy. Guess which one LinkedIn prioritized.

Nov 11, 2025 4 min read

Profile Strategy

Why LinkedIn recommendations matter (and how to ask for them).

LinkedIn recommendations are social proof. Most people are happy to write one. You just have to ask.

Oct 25, 2025 2 min read

Why LinkedIn

Everyone lurks. That's why your LinkedIn profile needs to work.

Everyone checks your LinkedIn before they engage with you. They just don't admit it. Here's why your profile has to be ready for the people you'll never know are looking.

Oct 8, 2025 3 min read

Engagement

Fix your LinkedIn feed: how to train the algorithm in 2025.

Tired of junk in your LinkedIn feed? You can train the algorithm. Three strategic moves to remove distractions and surface the content you actually want.

Sep 21, 2025 4 min read

Algorithm

Why your LinkedIn reach just tanked.

LinkedIn quietly changed its algorithm. Here's what shifted, who it hurts most, and what you can do about it.

Sep 4, 2025 3 min read

Security

LinkedIn is a goldmine for hackers. Here's how to fix that.

LinkedIn encourages you to share more personal information than is safe. Here's exactly what to remove from your profile right now to protect yourself.

Aug 18, 2025 4 min read

Engagement

Want more LinkedIn engagement? Think conversation, not content.

Most LinkedIn engagement advice is recycled from other platforms. Here's what actually works on LinkedIn, and what to ignore.

Aug 1, 2025 3 min read

Real Talk

How I became a LinkedIn expert by accident.

I never set out to be a LinkedIn expert. I just wanted a profile that actually worked. After six months of figuring it out the hard way, here's what changed.

Jul 15, 2025 3 min read

Why LinkedIn

Why LinkedIn is the one platform you can't ignore in 2025

You can skip Instagram. You can quit Twitter. But LinkedIn isn't optional. And most people are still using it wrong.

Jul 1, 2025 2 min read

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