Most businesses view LinkedIn as a B2B platform or resume site. It has evolved into a social network with massive organic reach where users often scroll during work hours to avoid their tasks, making them a captive audience for all types of content, not just professional topics.

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Businesses like jewelers mistakenly dismiss LinkedIn as purely for B2B. This is a flawed view because every professional on the platform is also a consumer ('a C'). This creates a significant, overlooked opportunity for direct-to-consumer sales in a less saturated environment.

While many marketers focus on TikTok and Instagram, Facebook Reels is currently "crushing" organic reach, even among younger demographics. Similarly, LinkedIn is a massive, untapped opportunity for both B2B and consumer brands to gain attention.

Don't dismiss LinkedIn as just for B2B. Its organic reach is powerful and underleveraged. Users are in a business-focused mindset, making them receptive to a different style of content than on entertainment-driven platforms, creating a unique opportunity for brand distribution.

To stand out in a crowded feed like LinkedIn, frame business insights through a personal hobby. A post about 'What Fly Fishing Taught Me About Business' acts as a pattern interrupt, creating a human connection that is more likely to be read than another generic business article.

B2B marketing often assumes a sterile, professional-only mindset. This is flawed. The same person scrolling LinkedIn during the day also binges consumer entertainment at night. B2B content should embrace humor and personality, recognizing that you're always marketing to the same multifaceted human being.

LinkedIn currently has more user attention than available content, creating an arbitrage opportunity for B2B marketers. This imbalance makes organic reach incredibly high, mirroring the early, highly-effective days of Facebook's business platform.

Unlike typical B2B marketing which targets corporate domains, LinkedIn newsletters are delivered to the primary email address on a user's profile. This is often a long-held personal email, providing marketers a rare opportunity to access a highly-guarded inbox that is difficult to reach through other channels.

B2B SaaS companies selling to specific verticals (like car dealerships) should stop broadcasting on all channels. Instead, they must focus on LinkedIn, creating native content as if for TikTok and then using targeted ads to amplify winning posts to their ideal customer profile.

The TBPN hosts view LinkedIn not as a stuffy professional network, but as a frontier for engaging tech news content. They're actively hiring to understand and optimize for its unique algorithm and culture, seeing it as an "unwashed mass" ripe for education.

The context in which content is consumed matters. Users browse LinkedIn with a professional and business-oriented mindset, making them far more receptive to listings, deals, and industry insights than when they are on entertainment- or family-focused platforms.