Anne 🐝 Thornley-Brown, MBA

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Ever Feel Like a Wallflower on LinkedIn Publisher? You are not alone

Ever Feel Like a Wallflower on LinkedIn Publisher? You are not alone

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Wallflower  A person who has no one to dance with or who feels excluded at a party.


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It's a tradition that died out in the 1950s. 

At formal dances, ladies would be provided with a card listing the order of the dances. Men would sign up for specific dances. 

If no one signed their dance card, ladies would end up with the humiliating experience of sitting on the sidelines watching others dance.

Image Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries.

After 3 years of posting on LinkedIn Publisher, that's how I felt. 

I stopped posting on LinkedIn Publisher 4 months ago. I did another post last week as some individuals were indicated that things had improved on LinkedIn Publisher. They haven't. 

This photo gives a clear picture of my reasons. It was a pointless exercise with little return.


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I explained the reasons why I was stopping at the end of my post and directed readers to my blogs and beBee. 



"Sayonara... Auf Wiedersehen...for Now...

As organic reach, visibility, and distribution of blog content on this platform are so low, this will be my last LinkedIn Publisher post for a while. I will resume publishing here again if and when there is an improvement. 

In the meantime, I will continue to share team building tips and best practices on:

I also invited readers to sign up for my company's monthly team building updates. 

The Other Side of the Coin


Some individuals are having great success with LinkedIn Publisher. They have one thing in common. LinkedIn Editors feature their posts on LinkedIn channels. As a result, they are able to attract a lot of views and grow their follower base exponentially. 

Why LinkedIn editors feature some bloggers regularly and ignore others with equally compelling content is a mystery. There is a reason for everything. So I ask one question that is on the mind of many bloggers and writers:

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Please weigh in, especially if you have had some success. (Feel free to tag members who have had success in the comments. Perhaps they will reveal success secrets and tips.)  It would also be great if some LinkedIn editors would stop by (but I doubt that they will).

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Anne 🐝 Thornley-Brown, MBA

6 years ago #13

Wayne White It's not you. I know few who are doing well but they are doing very well.

Anne 🐝 Thornley-Brown, MBA

6 years ago #12

#15
Susan \ud83d\udc1d Rooks, the Grammar Goddess What are some examples of heading that have worked? Were these for Publisher?

Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess

6 years ago #11

Here's what's interesting, @Anne Thornley-Brown -- I am having more success on LI than ever before. I'm not exactly going viral, but my last Friday Funday (of all posts) went over 300 likes. I grant you it's very easy to just hit "like" and move on, but in the past I might have gotten 20-30 likes. And there were about 35 comments. Another couple of posts -- regular stuff -- went over 2,000 likes each, which amazed me -- and I was not featured on any channel (never have been). (I swear it's the headlines that are grabbing viewers.) Of course, I do well here on beBee, too, but it takes time to build a network on any platform, and day by day it's happening here. I stay on Medium (Thrive Global & The Writing Cooperative), LI, and beBee because why not? It takes me five minutes to copy and paste my articles on each, and I like knowing I'm reaching an even wider audience since I'm a teacher at heart. I look forward to continuing to see you here on beBee, of course -- keep those buzzes coming!

Joyce 🐝 Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee

6 years ago #10

I play around with posting on other sites. When I share, I usually share my bebee posts to LI, but I tend to try a LI article first. beBee beats the views hands-down. beBees reach is mysterious and welcome. One of my beBee shares received over 1300 views. Dum-me--I should have taken a screen shot.

Anne 🐝 Thornley-Brown, MBA

6 years ago #9

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Katyan Roach and like Brian and many others I have chosen to walk away from their blogging platform. There was no point.

Katyan Roach

6 years ago #8

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I truly view writing in LI as a place where your peers can easily gauge, based on how well you write or express a point of view, your knowledge on a particular topic. but like all platforms, connection and engagement with those connections are key. People read the stuff from their connections or the people who's opinion they admire or respect. I'm not privy to how much LI does to promote new content or what criteria is used to determine what/who gets promoted but in the end, any platform that we choose to write for that is not our own, leaves us open to their "whims and fancy." We have the choice as to whether we want to dance or to walk away. Nice Article Anne \ud83d\udc1d Thornley-Brown, MBA

Anne 🐝 Thornley-Brown, MBA

6 years ago #7

Brigette Hyacinth you too.

Milos Djukic

6 years ago #6

LI users are not important for LI. Period. Influncer marketing and nothing else there.

stephan metral 🐝 Innovative Brand Ambassador

6 years ago #5

Tag me when you write, i will relay the wave !

stephan metral 🐝 Innovative Brand Ambassador

6 years ago #4

I see LinkedIn as the collective transport bus..useful to carry ideas, but not here for perfomance unless you are elected by a non-controlled editors committee, they have 3 categories 1) they like you they push you on the stage 2) they don't like you...oblivion 3) They ignore you...its okay they have an agenda and you are not part of it. People that are your proactive audience will engage with you in a funnel that will lead to business conversion...and you will prosper. Scarcity but good distribution and automated marketing workflows works for me fine, I hammer the same topic and do not try to cover several to help people. Story telling and not self promotion...

stephan metral 🐝 Innovative Brand Ambassador

6 years ago #3

Hello Anne ! We have approximately the same numbers of followers on this LI restricted communication tool. Good old times are gone, whatever some authors (if they write things, let's call them this way)...At least Li keeps open the freedom of speech, so let's celebrate that. In my humble opinion, followers base is not as important as it was...Many ways to use linkedin for what people call social selling, but physical social networking in events is way more efficient, Linkedin became a PR channel as the others are, but conversion is so low for the price or the efforts pourred in. On that KPI twiiter or facebook are more effective. What strikes me is the 3rd layer contacts or better know as the (real) effective audience : Updates are locked and that is for the good of LI. As many users i stopped paying them because the value wasn't worth the investment, too many mistakes, downtime have taken down LINKEDIN personal brand. Customer loyalty is something fragile..beware...beware. I love the questions your posts raise because they lead to a foward thinking state of mind if we read correctly your lines and do not try our own interpretation, nor want absolutely showcase our opinions. Keep on posting on http://bebee.com

Anne 🐝 Thornley-Brown, MBA

6 years ago #2

Jim \ud83d\udc1d Cody You have written about this before. Nothing has changed. I would love to get your reactions and thoughts. Anders Liu-Lindberg you have had better luck. How do you perceive LinkedIn Publisher?

Helena Jansen van Vuuren

6 years ago #1

Just keeping an eye on some colleagues - good for nosy old ladies only.....the rest is humbug!

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