Case studies

Reach is cheap.
Here’s who actually engaged.

Real fees, real job titles, real calls booked. Three programmes, reported in full.

Three programmes · every number from the client’s report

Case 1 · Our own account · everything switched onEMV $470 + ICP $9.8K

One ranking post. 65 buyers engaged. 14 calls booked.

Our CEO ranked 340 CMOs by their comments. The right people came on their own, warm conversations started, and 14 calls are in the calendar.

14

Calls booked

65/117

Engagers who were the right people

1

CMO who DM’d first · no outreach sent

See who engaged

65 of the 117 people who engaged were ICP-grade and 52 of those were senior. The CMOs of Zensai, Nerdio, Wand AI, Orbit Media, Zero Hash, Clari, Appriss Retail and The 20 MSP came on their own, with the CMOs of Vultr and Limble also in the list and 42 more ICP-grade engagers captured and scored.

The person who topped the ranking - the CMO at a NASDAQ-listed analytics company - opened a direct message himself. No outreach was sent to him.

65 ICP-grade engagers at a $150 qualified-contact floor is roughly $9.8K. Earned media value is impressions / 1,000 × $31 CPM. Both are reported weekly. The CMOs named here are identified by company and role only.

Case 2 · One post · Systems integrator, Salesforce ecosystem21× the pilot’s per-post average

One post put 25 Salesforce sellers in the room.

One post, written with Co.Actor and approved by the executive. The audience was pulled and scored four days later. Not one person was contacted.

25

Salesforce sellers · 18 client-facing

103

Unique engagers, scored by employer and role

16

Enterprise & platform leaders

UpsideOutreach was off. Those 25 sellers never got a message. With the full programme they get one from you, the week they raise a hand.
Blurred photo of the post’s author, published without a name
Managing PartnerSystems integrator, Salesforce ecosystem · name published once the client approves
See who engaged

Of the 103 people who engaged, 25 work at Salesforce - 18 of them client-facing: an RVP, a sales director, 14 account executives and BDRs, a lead solution engineer, plus a VP of Corporate Communications and a senior product marketing lead.

Another 16 are enterprise and platform leaders - JP Morgan Chase, Adobe, IBM, SAP, ServiceNow, Appian, Zscaler, Gartner and ex-UiPath among them. Ten are founders and CEOs of software companies, the partner and alliance surface. Four were the client’s own employees, including the CEO; the rest is reach, not signal.

For an integrator, that list is the pipeline. The post did the qualifying - what was missing was anyone to follow up.

Names and photos of the people who engaged are not published; companies and roles are.

Case 3 · Three months · NASDAQ-listed commerce tech$6,000 paid · 3.6× back

Two executives, three months, $6,000. Posts only.

2 seats × $2,000 × 3 months, writing only. Everything below came from the posts themselves.

55

Buyers engaged · from posts alone

3.6×

The fee, back in value · $21,738 on $6,000

212,681

Impressions · $28.21 per 1,000 vs $31 LinkedIn CPM

+1,029

New followers

2,454

Reactions · 170 comments

56

Posts · 42 reposts · 2 voices

Blurred photo of the executive, published without a name
CTO & PresidentExecutive voice · name and company withheld at the client’s request
See who engaged

Two voices carried the programme: a CTO & President and a Chief Scientist. 56 posts and 42 reposts drew 2,454 reactions and 170 comments. One voice accounted for 151.4K of the impressions - 71% of the team’s total - and +205 followers on its own.

The strongest post of the pilot took 4,503 impressions, 160 reactions and 12 comments, worth $140 in earned media plus $3.2K of ICP value, with 21 ICP and C-suite people engaging on that single post.

Three parts of the machine were deliberately left off: employee amplification, so not one colleague was wired to the posts; re-engagement, so the scoring ran but nothing was routed anywhere; and outreach, so the 55 curated ICP names were never contacted. 2,000 engagers were captured across the pilot, 322 of them notable, and 49 of the 55 ICP matches came from one executive’s audience.

Figures come from official LinkedIn exports plus an independent scrape of activity outside the pilot’s scope, matched post by post. Earned media value is calculated at a $31 CPM; audience value sits at the upper band of LinkedIn’s $5–15 follower pricing.

Every figure comes from the client’s own report. Earned media value = impressions / 1,000 × $31 LinkedIn CPM. Faces and names of third parties are not published.

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