We run Sponsy. Our LinkedIn page is small. Not many followers. Not much reach.
But we still find good leads every week. Here is how we do it.
The idea is simple. You don't use your own posts. You use other people's posts.
In every niche there are people who post a lot and get lots of likes and comments. You can call them influencers or creators. It doesn't matter. The point is their posts pull in the exact people you want to talk to.
So instead of waiting for people to find you, you go to where they already are.
Here is the step by step.
Step 1: Pick the right people
Find 2 or 3 people in your space who post often. They should talk about the topics your customers care about. Their audience is your audience.
Step 2: Find a post that fits
Look at their recent posts. Find one that matches what you sell. For us that means posts about newsletters, ads, or growth.
Step 3: Open the likes and comments
Click the people who liked the post. Read the comments too. These people showed they care about the topic. That makes them a warm lead.
Step 4: Check if they fit
Open a few profiles. Do they match your customer? Right job, right company, right size. If yes, keep them. If no, skip them.
Step 5: Reach out
Save the good ones. Find their email or send a connection request. Then start a real conversation. No spam.
That is the whole method. It works. We do it every week.
The only problem is time. By hand it is slow. You click, you copy, you check, you repeat. One post is fine. Fifty posts is painful.
That is why we built Linked Panda.
It does all the steps above for you. You give it a profile. It pulls the people who engaged. It finds their verified emails. It scores them against your ideal customer. Then it gives you a clean list.
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Comment below with a LinkedIn post you want leads from. I will enrich it for you and send you a free list, made just for you. No account needed.
Full disclosure: I sell in this space — Avery Lin (avrlin). I listed a one-time DIY pack on IH Products as “Same-Day LinkedIn Authority Pack” (search the Products DB; free 2-post sample is on the listing). Sold via an AI assistant storefront — also disclosed.
Love the “comment where your buyers already hang out” angle — that’s the highest-ROI LinkedIn move when your own page is tiny. One additive tip from talking to solos: once you’re in those threads, a profile that looks like a peer (specific ICP problem → proof → soft CTA) + a week of editable posts usually beats another outreach SaaS tab. Blank “open to work” shells get skipped even when the comment is gold.
Different job than Sponsy’s lead motion (DIY fill-in kit vs finding buyers in influencer threads). Curious how you track which creator-posts convert to real conversations vs just likes.
Before automating the scraping, the real test is whether a founder can manually get 5 genuine replies in a week using this method. If you can't do it by hand, automation just spams faster.
great , informative and valueable
This is one of those strategies that sounds obvious once you hear it. You're not creating demand—you’re showing up where demand already exists. The manual version is something a lot of founders could start doing today, even before they automate it.
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Exactly.
I actually think that's where the bigger strategic question starts, not where it ends.
I'm curious—when you built Sponsy, did you always think of it as helping founders find buyers, or did that understanding emerge after watching customers use it?
Curious about your approach — did you find cold outreach
worked differently when targeting freelancers vs businesses?
I'm trying to reach independent developers who work
with clients abroad and struggling to not come across
as a seller from the first message.