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Sovereign #8: Turn Your Company Page Into a Lead Capture MachineWelcome to Issue #8 of The Sovereign Seller. Sunday, October 26th 7:11 AM — Indianapolis, IN Last week I showed you how to optimize your personal LinkedIn profile to help generate leads passively. Today I’m showing how your Company Page can work alongside your personal profile — and how to activate your team to multiply your reach. Here’s what I’ve learned: Your personal profile attracts attention. Your company page captures it. And when these work together — with your team amplifying both — you create a system capable of generating leads passively. WHY YOU NEED BOTHI admit, even having — then optimizing a company page — was not on my radar. When I left my job I needed a company page for my agency (Nichols & Associates). I also created pages for my book (White Collar Prospecting) and for this newsletter (The Sovereign Seller). Why? Because when I added these career milestones to my personal profile, I could then add their corresponding logos under my experience section instead of leaving it blank. If the company you work for (or own) doesn’t have a company page, then you (and your employees) can’t use your logo in their experience section. That is one small part to this passive marketing opportunity. I find most B2B companies treat their Company Page like a forgotten billboard. It’s gathering dust, used for job postings and HR updates. This is what every one of my previous employers did — they used it for HR instead of marketing and sales. And that’s leaving money on the table. Here’s the reality: Your personal LinkedIn profile gets 10X more organic reach than your Company Page. But your Company Page has conversion tools (lead forms, newsletters, product pages) that your personal profile doesn’t. Company pages are also better at generating organic search traffic both on LinkedIn and search engines. The winning strategy: Use personal profiles to attract attention and spark conversations. Use your Company Page to capture and convert that attention into leads. Then activate your team to multiply the whole thing. Let me show you exactly how. PART 1: OPTIMIZE YOUR COMPANY PAGE FOUNDATIONLinkedIn tells me that completed Company Pages get 30% more weekly views. And growth accelerates once you cross 150 followers. So fill out EVERY field. This isn’t optional. MAKE YOUR PAGE OPTIMIZED FOR CONVERSIONS: TAGLINE & ABOUTLead with outcome keywords that help with search. LinkedIn’s SEO favors keyword-forward taglines and About copy. Bad tagline: “Leaders in innovative solutions” Your About section should mirror your personal profile structure:
CUSTOM PAGE BUTTONSet your custom Call To Action button to your primary conversion action:
ADD A LEAD GENERATION FORMLinkedIn lets you add a lead capture form to your Company Page. When someone clicks, the form auto-fills with their LinkedIn data — name, email, company, job title. This makes it frictionless for prospects to convert without leaving LinkedIn. CRITICAL INSIGHT: Keep your form to 3–4 fields maximum. LinkedIn’s data shows forms with fewer fields convert at 2X+ higher rates than long forms. Resist the urge to ask for everything. Ask for:
COMPANY NEWSLETTER OR WEEKLY ARTICLESThis is your always-on lead capture asset. When you publish a Company Page newsletter (or article), all your followers get notified of the first issue. After that, subscribers get notified of every new edition. Think about that: Every follower gets a notification. Every subscriber gets notified of each new issue. This is permission-based reach you control. How to use it:
Example post: PART 2: ACTIVATE YOUR TEAM TO MULTIPLY REACHHere’s where most companies completely miss out. Make sure every employee links their profile to your Company Page. When they post or engage, it amplifies your Page’s reach exponentially. Think about it: If you have 10 employees each with 500 connections, that’s 5,000 potential impressions every time someone engages with your content. That’s FREE distribution. THE COMPANY PAGE INVITE: A LESS AGGRESSIVE TOUCHPOINTHere’s something most companies also don’t do: actively invite prospects to follow your company page. LinkedIn gives you a monthly pool of invites. Your page admins can invite connections to follow the page. Non-admin employees can each send about 30 invites per month. Think of it this way: Your personal profile is the hook. The company page invite is the follow-up that says “here’s valuable content from our team” (not “buy from us”). It’s less pushy than a sales email, more powerful than hoping they discover your page on their own. Here’s the play: For Page Admins (you, or the people in charge of your page): For Employees: It’s a warm ask after a personal connection — not cold outreach. WHY THIS MATTERSProspects who accept your personal LinkedIn connection but aren’t ready for a sales call can still follow your company page passively. They see your content, your wins, your team’s expertise. You stay top-of-mind without being pushy. Then when you do follow up with a call or email weeks later — they already know who you are. This is how you move from “cold” to “warm” without burning yourself out. INCENTIVIZE YOUR TEAM TO CREATE MOMENTUMBeyond page invites, incentivize your sales and marketing teams to:
How to Make This Easy for Your Team: PART 3: A REAL-WORLD EXAMPLEOne of my clients (Bearstone LLC) helps companies find over-billing from telecom carriers. Imagine if you’re Eli Lilly, spending hundreds of thousands monthly on telecom. Bearstone always finds over-billing because when your big, things get complicated, and nobody has time to sort through 20-page telecom bills each month. They find hundreds of thousands of dollars of savings each year for their clients. They are the best at what they do, but struggled getting their message out to new clients. So we created an outbound system (see Sovereign #3, #4, #6), and then began optimizing their inbound efforts — their website, and their LinkedIn presence. Prior to this Bearstone LLC had a company page, but their employees weren’t connected, and there was no content or posting strategy. First we optimized each employee’s personal profile with value-driven lead-generating copy. Exactly what I laid out in last week’s Sovereign email #7. And we made sure all of their employees connected to the page. Next I optimized the content on their company page — instead of boring corporate speak with no value propositions, every outward-facing word explains how our ideal customer can measurably benefit from their services. Then I implemented a weekly posting strategy — 3 posts per week based on case-study savings from actual clients. And 1 weekly in-depth article about trends in their industry. And finally, their salespeople are actively inviting their best prospects to follow the page. In our first month, here are the metrics:
Key takeaway: Doing this you will get more attention, likes, positioning, and leads than not doing it. PART 4: POSTING STRATEGY THAT EARNS DISTRIBUTIONLinkedIn’s algorithm emphasizes expertise and meaningful conversation. It rewards substantive comments, not just clicks. Your strategy: Post for comments, not vanity clicks. The Cadence That Works:
This mix maximizes reach (personal profiles) while building Page credibility and list growth (newsletter, lead gen, page followers). THE BOTTOM LINELinkedIn isn’t just a place to post motivational quotes and celebrate accomplishments. For B2B companies, it’s the single best channel to:
But only if you treat it like a business asset instead of a digital resume or HR tool. Optimize your personal profile like a landing page. Do this consistently for 90 days and you’ll have a system that feeds your pipeline while you sleep. That’s sovereignty. Thank you for reading Sovereign #8. P.S. Based on the research I did on LinkedIn for these past two weeks, I am applying these tactics to my personal profile and company page. You can follow and see me make these changes here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nicholsandassoc/ |
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A note before the story starts. I’m writing my next book in this newsletter, one chapter every Sunday. It’s called Stop Selling Cold, and it teaches my Cold 2 Warm system the way I’d want to learn it … through a story. The story follows a Division I mid-major athletics department in a rust-belt town that lost its factories, trying to sell sponsorships to the businesses still standing. Last Sunday, in Chapter 2, Kasey decided who was worth the money. If you missed it, it’s in the archive,...
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