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Public case · 3x impressions, 2x inbound

3x impressions and 2x inbound leads for a SaaS SEO agency.

A data-driven LinkedIn content system for an agency founder. The same engine we sell, with receipts that are public and checkable on the feed.

3xImpressions over the engagement
2xInbound leads per month
PublicReceipts checkable on the feed
Founder-ledOne profile, one voice

The clientAn agency founder selling to the people who buy agencies.

Rock The Rankings is a SaaS SEO agency whose buyers are marketing leaders at software companies: a sophisticated, skeptical audience that can smell marketing from a distance.

The founder was already posting. The content was good and the results were flat, which is the hardest starting point to diagnose.

The challengeGood content, wrong shape.

  • ✕Posts read like well-written blog summaries, which the feed treats as homework.
  • ✕Topics were about SEO craft, which attracted other SEOs rather than SaaS marketing leaders.
  • ✕No consistent hook discipline, so strong ideas were buried in paragraph three.
  • ✕Engagement came from peers, and peers do not sign contracts.

The objective was to shift the audience composition: fewer SEOs, more SaaS marketing leaders, and to make the feed produce inbound rather than applause.

The solutionSame expertise, rebuilt for the feed.

Step 1

Audience repositioning

Content moved from how SEO works to what SaaS marketing leaders lose when it is done badly. Same knowledge, buyer-facing frame.

ICP shift
Step 2

Hook discipline

Every post opened with the conclusion, a number, or a specific situation. The insight moved from the bottom to the top.

Conclusion first
Step 3

Proof-led posts

Client outcomes, anonymized data, and screenshots from real dashboards replaced general best-practice advice.

ReceiptsAnonymized data
Step 4

Cadence and pillars

Five posts a week across four pillars, mixing education, point of view, proof, and agency momentum.

5 / week4 pillars
Step 5

Comment strategy

Daily engagement on posts by SaaS marketing leaders, not SEO peers. This changed who saw the content within three weeks.

Buyer-side commenting

The resultsThree times the reach, twice the inbound.

The impression lift is the headline. The composition change underneath it is what doubled inbound.

Impressions · engagement period

Start · baselineMid · 1.9xNow · 3x

Inbound leads per month

Before · baselineNow · 2x

Double the inbound from the same channel, driven by a change in who the content was written for.

The receipts

3x impressionsSustained
2x inbound leadsPer month
Audience shift to SaaS leadersWithin 3 months

"We sell marketing for a living, which makes it worse when your own channel is flat. The fix was not more posting. It was writing for the buyer instead of the industry."

FounderRock The Rankings · Public case study

The takeawayWriting for peers is the most common expert mistake.

Experts naturally write for other experts, because that is who they talk to. The correction is small and uncomfortable: same knowledge, framed around what it costs the buyer to not know it.

Next step

Stop guessing on LinkedIn. Book 27 minutes with a founder.

Show us your profile and your target. Yes, no, or what has to change. If it’s a fit, we build the full attack plan for your profile and show you how we run the whole thing with under an hour a month from you. Worst case, free strategy.

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Intro call · 27 minFounder-led
JustinElizabethJustin & ElizabethFounders · Stop The Scroll

The 27 minutes, itemized

0:00Your pipeline goal, your ICP, where deals come from today
0:08A straight read: can LinkedIn carry that goal
0:18Which tier fits, and your questions answered straight
0:27Yes or no. If yes, we book the deep-dive strategy call