What If LinkedIn Went Away Tomorrow?
What You’ll Learn in this Issue
- Why relying only on LinkedIn makes your personal brand fragile and platform-dependent
- How building presence across platforms and owned channels creates long-term resilience
- Why real relationships and systems outside LinkedIn strengthen trust and business outcomes
Imagine waking up tomorrow and LinkedIn no longer exists.
Would your network, influence, and credibility still stand? If not, your approach to building social capital has some leaks.
LinkedIn is an essential platform for reinforcing the expertise you’ve built over the years. But if your presence exists only on LinkedIn, your system is fragile.
While we help you get LinkedIn right, it’s just as important to focus on the other foundations that make your brand visible, no matter the platform.
Think Beyond LinkedIn
LinkedIn is powerful, but it should never be your only platform.
Build a presence on others like X, Instagram, and Facebook to reach a wider audience.
Repurpose your LinkedIn content: shorten it for X, share full versions on Facebook, and turn key ideas into videos for Instagram and YouTube.
This ensures your expertise is recognised across platforms.
Use scheduling tools like Meta Business Suite and YouTube Scheduler to make cross-platform posting effortless and consistent.
Optimise Personal Channels
Personal channels compound over time and remain steady, even as social platforms evolve.
• Website
Maintain a personal website to host blogs, insights, and updates.
• Email Newsletter
Still one of the most reliable ways to reach your audience. Build a recurring newsletter that delivers value and keeps your most engaged readers connected.
• Podcasts
Host or appear on podcasts to share your expertise in a conversational, in-depth way. Repurpose podcast clips for LinkedIn, newsletters, or short-form videos to expand your reach.
These channels give you control, longevity, and independence beyond any single platform.
Take Networking Beyond LinkedIn
When a connection becomes a lead, collaborator, or potential partner, take the relationship off LinkedIn.
Deepen the connection through email, WhatsApp, or in-person meetings. That’s where real trust grows.
Attend events, workshops, and conferences offline to strengthen your network and visibility.
LinkedIn is great for introductions, but lasting relationships are built face-to-face.
Build a Sales System Beyond LinkedIn
LinkedIn can accelerate lead generation, but it shouldn’t be your entire funnel.
Set up systems and CRMs to capture and nurture leads across channels, ensuring consistent growth regardless of LinkedIn’s reach or algorithm changes.
LinkedIn isn’t going anywhere. With more than 1.15 billion users and Microsoft’s backing, it’s here to stay. But depending entirely on one platform is still risky.
Build your brand across multiple channels. Over time, these efforts compound, making your visibility stronger and your influence resilient, no matter what changes online.
Executive Spotlight
Yan Kruger, founder of Growth Wave, is a seasoned HR professional with over 18 years of experience helping organisations grow through effective leadership, culture, and people strategy.
On LinkedIn, Yan simplifies HR, leadership, and organisational well-being topics in a way that’s practical and relatable. He often combines professional insights with personal reflections, such as stories about his children’s wit, which make his content both engaging and human.
In one of his recent posts, Yan wrote about the emotional and ethical weight HR professionals carry, an honest look at the unseen side of leadership.
Follow Yan for practical guidance on HR, leadership, and culture, or simply to learn how to share your expertise authentically.
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Coming Up Next…
You track impressions every week. Okay, but so what?
Executives often measure performance like marketers, not creators.
Next week, we’ll break down which metrics actually matter, how to read them for business impact, and how to measure trust and positioning, not just numbers.
Till then, rely on LinkedIn, but not only on it.
