My journey from 0 to 18k+ followers on LinkedIn

Recently I hit the 18k milestone (followers/community) on LinkedIn.

Do you know how long it took to achieve this?

Just 11 months.

Yes, this is true.

I started working on my LinkedIn profile back in 2022.

And now, I have built my strong personal brand on LinkedIn.

But you know what, I created my profile in 2018-19. (I’ll check the year and confirm you in the next post 😄)

But then, I was not focusing on my profile and was not working on the same.

Back then, I was a college student and was unaware of the wonders, benefits and things that LinkedIn can do.

I was busy completing the assignments and submissions. (If you’re an engineer, then you know what I am talking about)

And I didn’t have any plan to do a job, instead, I had some other plans to do. (Will share that story soon)

However, after completing my bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, I decided to do a job.

Wait, Aniket, you told me that you didn’t have to do a job, then how come this?

I know I told you the same, but there is a story and I will share it soon.

When I completed my degree, then I started learning the analytics.

The reason I started learning it was that I had to go into the data field.

Then I got to know the benefits of LinkedIn and I started working on it.

I optimised my profile correctly and started building my personal brand.

In the beginning, I was not aware of the algorithm and how exactly LinkedIn works.

I was only sending connection requests to increase my followers.

I had no proper strategy and path to go ahead with this.

But then I researched a lot on the same and then I got to know about the algorithm and how I should go ahead to build my personal brand.

After this:

• I optimised my profile accordingly

• I followed the strategies

• Built quality connections

• Started connection loop

• Started working on my content loop

And after following all these steps, I hit my first 1k followers.

Then 2k, 3k, 5k and just after 6-7 months, I crossed the 10k+ milestone on LinkedIn.

To be honest, this was the biggest number that I had achieved so far on any social media platform.

I was happy by looking into the results and the journey was so great.

And to go from 10k followers to 18k followers was not so hard.

It took only 3 months to achieve this goal.

In this journey of building a personal brand and when I built it.

I got:

• Collaboration opportunities

• Creators event invitations

• Multiple inbound leads

• First LinkedIn client

• Sponsorship deals

• Interview calls

• Job referrals

• And more.

Then I decided to help people achieve the same so that they can fulfil their dreams.

To test my strategies and see if I can help them build their personal brand and increase visibility on LinkedIn.

I onboarded 2 students (clients) and started coaching them about LinkedIn personal branding.

Within 90 days, one of the clients crossed 10k+ followers on LinkedIn and got inbound leads and built a personal brand on the same.

Another client crossed 3.5k+ followers, got more visibility on LinkedIn and increased his views.

More than this, I'm happy to see their results and how well my strategies are working.

It's great to know that I'm helping them achieve their goals.

Starting from 0 to achieving 18k+ followers on my LinkedIn account was not easy and at the same time, was not hard too.

You just have to be on track and follow the right path for the same.

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