On-demand replay · Recorded 18 August 2026
A 31-minute session for people who sell into enterprise IT: why deals drift during the long quiet stretches, why “just circling back” makes it worse, and how one weekly LinkedIn newsletter keeps you present without asking anyone for anything.
In this session
The session builds one argument end to end. If you are skimming the replay, this is the shape of it.
Most lost enterprise deals never go to a competitive bake-off — they just go quiet. By the time a buyer is willing to take your call, most of their thinking has already happened, and outreach cannot reach them during that stretch because they are not answering. Only presence can.
Staying present normally means reaching out, and reaching out with no news reads as nagging. So reps face a choice between going quiet and becoming annoying — and most choose quiet. The session is about a third option: showing up because the buyer gets something, not because you need something.
An edition is a LinkedIn Article, so there is no length limit to fight. A company page gets one newsletter; a member account gets up to five — which is why an individual rep can own one without asking marketing for permission. The feature itself is free.
The distinction that matters to a seller is distribution and ownership: a post depends on the algorithm choosing to show it, while an edition arrives as an email and a notification. Followers are a number; subscribers are a permission. The full comparison is in the table below.
Two about how buyers see you, two about pipeline, one about deal speed, and one about your career — mental availability, advisor positioning, self-sourced pipeline, a legitimate reason to re-open a stalled deal, better-educated buyers and champions, and an audience that follows you to your next role.
All of the above is true, and it is also true that most people will not sustain a weekly publication by hand. That is arithmetic, not a character flaw. So the real question is not whether a newsletter is worth having, but whether you can get one without becoming an editor. The session closes on the practical setup steps.
Reference
The table from the deck, in full. The two rows that matter most to a seller are built-in distribution and audience ownership — a post depends on the algorithm choosing to show it, while an edition arrives as an email and a notification. Posts and a newsletter are not either/or: posts are how people discover you, the newsletter is how you keep them.
| Weekly LinkedIn newsletter | Series of LinkedIn posts | |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Formal, long-form publication — an “edition” is a LinkedIn Article. | Informal, short-form updates. |
| Built-in distribution | High. Subscribers receive an email and a push notification for every new edition. | Low. Dependent entirely on the feed algorithm; followers must proactively see it. |
| Subscriber model | Formal. Users click a dedicated “Subscribe” button. | Informal. Followers simply follow you, with no formal opt-in for the series. |
| Content structure | Deep-dives, analysis, curated lists, multi-topic digests. | Quick insights, questions, tips, progress updates, “episodes.” |
| Visual identity | Has a dedicated title, logo and description. | Dependent on each post’s visual assets and consistent text hooks. |
| Archive | All editions are permanently housed on a dedicated newsletter page. | Editions are scattered through your main activity feed. |
| Discoverability / SEO | Editions are indexable by search engines. | Primarily fleeting; difficult to discover via external search. |
| Audience ownership | High (within LinkedIn). A dedicated, opted-in audience. | Low. You depend on the platform’s algorithm to reach followers. |
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The name “12touches” called for twelve. Seven more turned out to be worth writing. Each one takes a single argument from the session and makes it properly — start with the two or three that describe your own situation.
Most enterprise deals aren't lost in a competitive bake-off — they're lost to drift during the long quiet stretches between meetings, when priorities shift and the rep who stays visible becomes the name that surfaces first. The obstacle is that staying present normally means reaching out, and reaching out without news reads as nagging. A weekly newsletter inverts that: you appear because the buyer gets something, not because you need something. It reaches every prospect, stalled deal, and dormant account simultaneously — roughly fifty deliberate touchpoints a year without a single "just following up."
Read on LinkedInBuyers discount everything said inside a pitch, because they know how the rep is compensated — which means authority cannot be built there. It has to be established earlier, in a context where you're plainly not selling. Curation is the fastest route: you don't need original research to be seen as the informed person in your category, only the judgment to filter what matters from the noise. Do that consistently and you stop being "the rep from [vendor]" and become the person who always knows what's happening in the space.
Read on LinkedInInbound leads start warmer, move faster, and close better than anything dug out of a cold list — but generating them has always been marketing's job, leaving individual reps to hunt. A LinkedIn newsletter changes that by giving a rep their own discoverable, subscribable asset: LinkedIn invites your network at launch, notifies subscribers at every issue, and indexes issues in search. A feed post is a firework; a newsletter issue is a streetlight that keeps pulling people in. And nobody subscribes to enterprise IT news casually, so the list self-qualifies.
Read on LinkedInReps like to differentiate on product, but buyers rarely experience that differentiation — features blur, and every platform claims to be AI-powered and enterprise-grade. What buyers remember is behavior: who was useful when there was nothing in it for them. In a market where every rep appears only to extract, consistently showing up to contribute is a contrast play that captures disproportionate attention. It stays effective precisely because it's rare — anyone can publish once, almost nobody publishes usefully every week for a year.
Read on LinkedInCold outreach fails because the recipient has no reason to believe you're worth their time, and no amount of subject-line optimization fixes a missing relationship. The durable answer is to stop being cold: "you may have seen my weekly newsletter" reframes you from stranger to known quantity, even for prospects who never read an issue. A visible, ongoing body of work answers the buyer's instinctive credibility check before you've said anything. Because the newsletter reaches your whole network continuously, that warming is ambient rather than engineered one prospect at a time.
Read on LinkedInBusiness cards, badge scans, purchased lists, and paid advertising share one flaw: none of them compound. Contacts decay the moment they're filed, and ad reach vanishes when the spend stops — you rented the audience and own nothing afterward. A newsletter audience behaves in the opposite way, accumulating subscribers who persist and deepen their relationship with you issue after issue. For an individual seller this is close to career-defining, because it replaces total dependence on channels you don't control with owned, permission-based distribution that appreciates the longer you hold it.
Read on LinkedInSales culture fixates on new logos while the most efficient pipeline sits inside the existing book — customers who already trust you, pay you, and have validated that your solution works. Accounts are rarely lost to dramatic failure; they're lost to silence, as the rep moves on to the next hunt and a more present competitor fills the gap. A weekly newsletter keeps the entire installed base warm with no upsell attached, surfaces expansion signals through what customers engage with, and insures against champion turnover by reaching the whole account rather than one contact.
Read on LinkedInThe reason "just checking in" fails isn't the wording — it's that the message offers the buyer nothing and openly signals you're chasing your own pipeline. The fix is having something real to say, and a weekly newsletter manufactures exactly that: a fresh, legitimate, value-first reason to make contact every seven days. It also tells you when and whom to approach, since a prospect who clicks or comments has handed you both a signal and an opening. Same contact frequency, opposite impression — one erodes your standing, the other builds it.
Read on LinkedInBuyers choosing a vendor are betting on a multi-year relationship, and the trait they most want to verify is reliability — so they read your present behavior as a preview of how you'll act once they've signed. Most of a rep's diligence is invisible, but a newsletter arriving every week is consistency made public and timestamped, demonstrating follow-through rather than claiming it. The trap is symmetrical: a newsletter that launches loudly and fades proves the opposite. The answer is making consistency structural instead of dependent on willpower that a brutal quarter will beat.
Read on LinkedInMost reps depend on company marketing for the top of their funnel — lead flow, campaigns, and content built to priorities they didn't set and can't influence. When that engine stutters, they have no lever to pull. A personal newsletter is the most accessible independent channel a rep can build: your voice, your audience, your cadence, aimed precisely at your territory rather than the company's broad market. It complements marketing rather than competing with it, and self-sourced pipeline carries real internal credibility — the reputation of someone who makes their own weather.
Read on LinkedInEvery time a rep changes companies they forfeit most of what they built — CRM relationships, market visibility, and standing that was borrowed from the employer's brand — and arrive at the next role rebuilding from a base far below their actual experience. That happens because the equity was built on rented land. A newsletter accrues to your name and personal profile instead, so subscribers and reputation travel with you and each year compounds on the last rather than resetting. That accumulated standing becomes leverage in comp conversations, interviews, and territory discussions.
Read on LinkedInSales cycles stretch when buyers don't fully understand their own problem, the trade-offs between approaches, or what "good" looks like — and that education has to happen somewhere. The only question is whether it happens laboriously inside your cycle or before it. A newsletter continuously raises your market's fluency so prospects arrive already informed, skipping the remedial groundwork and never raising objections rooted in misunderstanding. Because you did the educating, they're primed to see value in the frame you shaped, and they're equipped to argue the case internally to the rest of the buying committee.
Read on LinkedInLayoffs across enterprise technology have repeatedly had nothing to do with performance, which makes an owned professional audience a hedge worth building while you don't need it — because it's a slow asset that can't be assembled in the thirty days after a badge stops working. LinkedIn is the right place to start but isn't sufficient: it never hands you your subscriber list, so a parallel email list on Substack or Mailchimp is what makes the audience genuinely portable. Publishing one issue to both takes about ninety seconds, and every benefit lands in your current job first.
Read on LinkedInMany reps abandon the idea of an industry newsletter once they picture the week their biggest competitor announces something great — publish it and you've advertised a rival to your whole prospect list; omit it and you're the biased vendor mouthpiece you were trying not to be. Filtering by hand fails under volume and produces a feed that reads as a brochure. The fix is taxonomy rather than vigilance: because vendor news is filed under vendor names, category sections are neutral by construction, while your own company's section is held to the same usefulness standard as everything else.
Read on LinkedInIn most enterprise deals the most trusted person isn't the account executive but the sales engineer, precisely because they'll say what won't work — yet that credibility is invisible outside the few accounts they're staffed on, living in the memories of a few dozen people and a CRM someone else owns. Enterprise IT is a small, circulating world: vendor people become customers, skilled customers get recruited into field roles by the engineers who worked with them, and the boundary between customers and network dissolves over a career. Publishing isn't self-promotion — it's the filtering you already do, done in public.
Read on LinkedInAlan Shimel's argument that Google's AI Overviews are engineered to make the click unnecessary — his "Google Zero" — lands as hard on technology vendors as on publishers, because organic search was always rented distribution that merely felt owned. The largest untapped alternative is already on staff: a few hundred customer-facing employees, each publishing a weekly newsletter carrying the company's news section, is hundreds of trusted channels reaching the market with no algorithm in between. It succeeds where employee advocacy usually fails because the employee owns the asset, and the resulting traffic is attributable and rewardable per person.
Read on LinkedInTop sellers are the hardest people in the company to reward — cash is already maxed, the incentive trip ends, and promotion into management is often unwanted — while the independent streak that makes them outperform is exactly what makes corporate advocacy mandates slide off them. Sponsoring a personal newsletter inverts the offer: the firm pays, the rep owns it outright and marketing doesn't edit it, and the only ask is that the company news section rides along at the same usefulness bar. Kept scarce it becomes visible status rather than a program, and it buys marketing leadership a standing relationship with the best sellers in the building — plus weekly reach into the highest-trust networks the company has.
Read on LinkedInEnterprise IT is a few thousand people per specialty, and a dozen professions orbit them with the same dependency and the same structural problem: the only contact their job naturally supplies is the contact that asks for something. The article groups them by why they need presence rather than by job title — those who sell but would be damaged by looking like it (resellers, IT consultancies, inside sales into existing accounts); those whose business is the list and watch it decay between paydays (list brokers, virtual and in-person event firms, recruiters working two-year lead times); those whose name is the product; and those whose problem is pure reach (vendor field and product marketing, and CIOs trying to reach a few thousand distributed staff). A short note addresses bizdev and marketing consultants who would rather provide it to clients than run it themselves.
Read on LinkedInAdvisors, speakers and fractional CIOs don't have a lead generation problem, they have a recall problem — and their visibility is event-shaped, producing four tall spikes and forty-eight flat weeks, with the moment that mattered almost certainly landing in the flat part. The usual correction is bigger spikes; the real failure is duration. Being interesting and being present are separate jobs: original insight is expensive and should stay rare, while presence must be weekly and needs no original insight at all. Curation isn't dilution — a recognized expert's selection is an argument, and the click data doubles as a keynote topic generator. For fractional practices one asset covers both the retainer gap and the next-client pipeline; for IT leaders the internal version reaches thousands of staff a town hall never will.
Read on LinkedInQuestions from the session
Category sections are neutral by construction, because vendor news is filed under vendor names. Your own company’s section is held to the same usefulness bar as everything else. See article 14.
It’s your personal account, and the pipeline it generates lands in your current job first. Most marketing teams are glad of it; some companies sponsor it. See article 17.
Subscribers arrive immediately from your existing followers. Pipeline effects show up over a quarter or two, not a month.
Then the newsletter and the follower growth compound together. Starting small is still starting.
Yes — and it’s the most under-used application: the installed base stays warm with no upsell attached. See article 7.
One thing this week
Even if you never buy anything, starting is the right move — the asset takes months to build and belongs to you rather than to your employer. If you would like to see what a weekly issue would look like for your accounts, email us and we will put together a sample issue built on your sections.
