NEW PROSPECT REACH. It helps you reach new people in a helpful and non-invasive way (vs cold direct messages, which can be invasive sometimes)
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ALGORITHM BENEFITS. The LinkedIn algorithm rewards people who do more commenting, both in responses on their own posts, and outbound commenting to others' posts. This is referred to as a "karma system" in social media algo lingo. It's similar on Reddit.
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HELPS YOUR OWN POSTS. If you write a lot of comments - say, 10-15 - right before you publish your own posts, your posts will usually get more engagement than otherwise.
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COMMUNITY BUILDING. Commenting is an easy way for others to get to know you in a small way. And, you're helping others get more engagement and visibility when you comment in a genuine way on their content, so you're adding to the ecosystem.
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LESS CREATIVITY NEEDED VS POSTING. It's a low-effort way to write what we call "micro posts". You don't have to be nearly as original to write a comment than to write a full post.
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LOWER EFFORT VS POSTING. It takes a lot less time to write 5 comments per day (we dare you to do this in under 60 seconds per day... it's possible!) than to write one full length post per week.

Start with 10 comments on the "Community" feed to build momentum. The Community tab shows you a clean, automatically created feed of posts by people who've engaged with you before. The purpose of engaging with these folks is to keep your network active, show support to those that engage with you often, and to help juice the algorithm such that these folks continue to see (and engage with) your own posts.
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Respond to all unanswered inbound comments in "Replies". LinkedIn's notifications are iffy on the best of days. It's inconsistent. Personally, I am constantly missing comments to respond to and if I didn't have Aware, I'd never get through them all. I go through here and either Skip or Reply to all of them. It's kind of like getting to "inbox zero" but with inbounds.
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Engage with 10 top Influencer posts in your niche. We know we don't have every niche covered with a specific Influencer list. But, we have many! And if we don't have yours, let us know. To do this, head to the Influencers tab and try to comment on as many relevant Influencer posts as you can. Don't forget to change the dropdown to be your preferred influencer list(s). SaaS CEOs, Marketing, and LinkedIn Growth are some of my preferred ones as the co-founder of Aware :)
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Engage with 10 posts on your Custom Lists. Just as we did above, head to My Lists and engage with the posts by people on any custom lists you've created, or posts that match your content/author keyword filters.
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By specifying people. This is more or less self-explanatory: you upload a list, either in bulk or one by one, of people whose posts you want to see in a dedicated feed within Aware. For example, see my list below of B2B agency owners:
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See that "+Bulk upload" button in the top right? If I need to add a lot of folks at once, I upload a list that way.
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By entering keywords. What does this mean? We leverage LinkedIn's post search capability to find and show you posts that match certain keywords. There are two fields we look for, when we try to find keywords:

Here you can see where we allow you to specify those keywords:
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Uploading a list of strategically-important prospects, partners, industry contacts, customers, or investors, to a Specific Person list

Exporting the LinkedIn profiles of your current target prospect list from Apollo or ZoomInfo, and bulk uploading those to a Specific Person list to complement your direct outreach strategy

Using a keyword list where Content Keywords = #yourhashtag to find posts containing a certain hashtag that is relevant to you

Using a keyword list where Author Title/Headline Keywords = "VP of [Department]" or "CXO", or whatever your typical target decision maker or partner's title might be.