Hello, my friend,
How are things going? Does it feel like you wish you had more consistency when it comes to generating leads for your business?
I find that’s the case for about 99% of those I talk to.
But you know what I’m finding?
The fractional leaders and consultants I typically work with don’t actually have a lead problem (even though it can feel like they do). What they really have is a visibility gap inside their own network.
And maybe this is really your issue as well.
Because I’m willing to bet…
You have strong experience.
You’re doing meaningful client work.
You’ve even built a pretty solid network over the years.
But when it comes to new opportunities?
It’s just feeling inconsistent and harder to predict.
Sound familiar? Or maybe you’re going through that now?
What closing that gap actually looks like
I saw this play out in real time last week with one of the fractional CMOs I work with as his personal brand marketer.
He sent out a 6-figure proposal for a 9–12 month engagement. It’s exactly the kind of opportunity you’d want in your pipeline.
So I asked where it came from.
And it turns out it wasn’t from a new connection or even a recent conversation he had.
It’s someone he’s been connected to for years, but hadn’t really talked to in a long time.
And while it wasn’t said outright, he had a pretty strong sense of why now…
👉 They’ve been seeing him more online, and specifically…LinkedIn.
What “visibility” actually looked like
Over the past few months, I’ve been working with him closely.
It started with 1 post/week.
Now it’s 2.
And honestly, with how much material he has… we could easily go to 3 posts/week.
But it’s none of this “hot takes” content or trying to jump on the viral bandwagons.
It’s about generating real visibility around the work he’s already doing…
- Sharing what’s happening inside client projects
- Talking through how he’s thinking about problems
- Highlighting results where it makes sense
- Mixing in personal moments (family, behind-the-scenes, real life)
- Longer-form articles breaking down his approach
And injecting his personality. I even created a custom GIF that looks just like him talking about leaky marketing funnels. He loved it!
Everything is pulled directly from what’s already happening in his business, and content is going live when he realistically has time to show up on the platform and engage.
What he’s gone from in the last few months is occasional presence when he felt like it to consistent relevance…and the conversations are starting to reflect this effort.
Where most people get this wrong
What I continue to witness is that opportunities like this 9-12 month engagement don’t usually come from strangers.
They come from people who already…
- Know you
- Trust you
- Have context of the work that you do
But for those opportunities to surface…you have to be visible when the moment is right. And building a personal brand does that.
It eliminates your best insights from being witnessed only by the few people you’re talking with in person and instead gets read by thousands on the biggest professional networking platform online.
If you want to address this visibility gap problem, start here…
I want to caution you against spending hours on the perfect content calendar. That kind of pre-planning can derail the actual work in reflecting and writing.
Instead, to get started, pause long enough to look at what’s already happening in your week.
Look for:
- A question a client asked that made you pause
- A problem you solved that felt second nature to you, but wouldn’t to someone else
- A pattern you’re noticing across multiple clients
- A moment where you thought, “people don’t talk about this enough”
That’s your content.
Capture it when it happens, even if it’s just a few notes in your phone or in a Word doc you can come back to later. Because the goal isn’t to create gobs of content. It's about taking what’s already happening today and making you visible.
Final Thoughts
If you’ve been in your field for years, chances are the opportunities you want are already sitting inside your network.
That's the reality.
You have connections...people who have been quietly watching.
The majority of them don't always like or comment. But they're reading, paying attention, and taking note.
So when you’re not showing your work consistently, the risk isn’t that you’re not good at what you do.
It’s that you fade into the background when the moment actually matters.
The way to combat that isn’t to post more randomly. Instead, it's to be intentional.
To build a simple, steady system around sharing what you’re already doing, so you stay visible to all the people who know you on LinkedIn.
P.S. This is the work I step into with clients. I sit inside your business with you, pulling out what’s already happening, shaping it into content in your voice, and executing consistently to make you visible to the right audience. So when someone is ready to move…you’re already top of mind.
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