Two speaking invites and a podcast booking, from a few posts
Shreeya Patel, Founder, SmartX Tutoring2 minutes. Shreeya, in her own words.
Who
Runs SmartX Tutoring, helping students get into top UK schools.
Results
Where Shreeya started
Shreeya had about 2,000 followers, built through people she met and networked with. Not through posts.
She only posted at big milestones. Those posts did fine, two or three thousand impressions, because people came to say congratulations.
But that was the problem. The traction had nothing to do with her business.
“It was nothing to do with my service or nothing to do with my brand. I wasn’t putting myself out there.”
What almost stopped her
Two doubts. First, that daily posting would annoy people.
“I thought posting too much will make people feel like I’m flooding their inbox. So I was wary that posting every day could actually be detrimental as opposed to good.”
Second, the one everyone has: would it sound like her?
“What if it doesn’t sound like me? And what if it sounds AI generated? People believe less in your brand if you sound AI generated. People buy from people. So you need to sound like a person at the end of the day.”
Shreeya Patel, Founder, SmartX TutoringWhy Shreeya gave it a shot
She tested us before she paid us. Our emails sent her free post ideas. She picked one and posted it.
“The post actually did ten thousand impressions. I hadn’t even bought into the system at this point.”
The next day she posted a pre-made post from another email. Seven or eight thousand impressions. And something new: people were commenting.
“I was like, wow, okay, this works. So I was like, okay, let me test this out and see where it takes me.”
What we built with Shreeya
From her intake, we pulled the stories and opinions only she could tell.
Her Authority Blueprint: who she needs to reach and what she needs to be known for.
30 posts a month that sound like her, plus a profile rebuild. Her old profile was, in her words, “very generic, basic LinkedIn style.”
What changed
The DMs came first. Then the invitations.
“I’ve had so many more DMs and so many cool opportunities. Not just opportunities related to what I do, but really unique opportunities that I don’t think I would have gotten by staying silent.”
She got invited onto a podcast. The episode is live. She’s booked to speak at a school. She never expected either.
“I didn’t think I’d be on a podcast until I was a lot more famous. It took a few LinkedIn posts and that’s all it was.”
And the posts do her selling before the call starts.
“When I jumped onto calls with people, those posts resonated. When I talk about what I believe in and it reflects on my post, the connection is a lot easier to make.”
“Those sorts of opportunities don’t come by unless you are approached. But how are you going to get approached if you aren’t seen? And this has really got me seen by the right people.”
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