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As a "founder" in my job title, I attracted several people asking to share and promote my business to their linkedin fanbase.
Some were cheap, starting at $100 but I noticed these people were hungry so I got a few to tone it down to as low as $20 per post.
So these guys have profiles with 10k-100k followers, and I notice they're quite active so I bite, because I just want to try it out and I can afford it.
So these guys start sharing my business, their posts explode with 300-500 likes, the comments are basically what I read on linkedin posts every day, interests, questions, some snarky replies as well. Pretty authentic. Lots of marketers, software devs
So I start answering some of these people, and nothing. Even the "heavily interested" commenters lead to zero responses.
I check my website analytics, zero referrals from linkedin, literally.
Total spent: $150
Total posts: 6
Total likes: \~3500
Total comments: \~500
Visitors in page: 0
Conversions: 0
DM responses from "interested people": 0
It's literally bots. Bots everywhere.
Now I'm thinking, even the most authentic looking linkedin thread is just a bunch of bots who have automated their linkedin to take the thread into context and create a comment.
Might even close linkedin now as well as pull off my business page from it.