Charlie Bennett

Helping entrepreneurs build high-income personal brands. Sharing tips on turning your audience into income.

Most B2B founders post on LinkedIn but nobody knows what they stand for.

They get engagement from peers, not recognition from their ideal clients. 

I help experienced founders build thought leadership that makes them known, not just visible.

Not followers for vanity. Not viral posts that attract the wrong people.

Real authority that positions you as the voice in your space, so opportunities come to you instead of you chasing them.


How it works:

I reverse-engineer your expertise and build a LinkedIn personal brand around what makes you different.

The content filters out noise and establishes you as a thought leader. Someone people want to hear from, work with, and put on stage.

Your LinkedIn presence becomes a reputation tool. Wrong-fit people scroll past. Right-fit people pay attention.


What you get:

Personal brand positioning that makes you the recognised expert in your field.

Content pillars built around your lived experience, insights, and philosophy. Not generic business advice.

Consistent thought leadership content that builds authority and attracts speaking opportunities, partnerships, and high-value inbound.


The process:

You show up for 30-minute strategy calls every two weeks.

I handle the research, content creation, posting, and turning your expertise into a reputation engine.

LinkedIn works as an authority-building platform without you becoming a full-time content creator.


Results:

I've worked with 90+ founders and helped generate over $10M in pipeline.

Clients include founders who've raised $500M+, exited for $2.5B, and run NYSE-listed companies.

I only work with 4 clients at a time because building real thought leadership requires deep understanding of your market, your philosophy, and what actually makes you worth listening to.

If you're ready to be known as a leader in your industry, let's talk.

📩 DM me or visit charliebennett.com

Founder

We grow loyal audiences for top entrepreneurs, founders, and business leaders through industry leading content strategy, creation, and distribution. 

Achieve your business goals faster by letting us take the hassle out of building your personal brand on X
and Linkedin.

2025 was probably the toughest year I've had as an entrepreneur.
 
Me and a co-founder scaled two businesses to $30k/mo.
 
Then it we wen't separate ways because we became misaligned.
 
Here's what I learned:
 
I built business around cold email because it seemed like the smart move, big demand and a relatively high barrier to entry.
 
But I've always been best at relationship-driven work.
 
That's why I was attracted to ghostwriting and personal branding in the first place.
 
It's how I generate most of my revenue.

I'm best when working closely with a handful of clients - and frankly, it's way more fun. 
 
Some things don't come naturally to me, and that's fine.
 
Helping entrepreneurs sign more clients from LinkedIn by ghostwriting and converting warm conversations to leads however... 

Well, that does.
 
So the biggest lesson I've taken from this whole saga?
 
Do what you're actually best at.
 
Stay within your circle of genius.
 
Because when you build a business around something you don't enjoy, you're fighting an uphill battle every single day.
 
And eventually, it catches up with you.

So cheers to 2026

And the next evolution on my entrepreneurial journey.

LinkedIn Personal Branding for Founders Who Want to Be Known, Not Just Visible. 90+ clients helped. $10M in attributed revenue.

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"We already know who you are."

That's what the prospect said 

When my client Adam joined the discovery call.

This wasn't from a referral. 

They found him from his LinkedIn content.

Here's how I made that happen:

Adam runs an AI company in a super-niche B2B sector.

When he came to me, his content was generic founder-led marketing stuff.

• Features
• Benefits
• Boring

When I write content for my clients, I take a very different approach. 

I don't ask "what problems do your dream clients have?"

Instead I want to know "what keeps them awake at 3am?"

The stuff that has them sweating bullets in the middle of the night because they don't know how they're going to solve it. 

Real nightmare scenarios. 

So I pulled Adam's sales call transcripts.

Found online forums and WhatsApp groups where his ICP went to share ideas.

Went full Matrix mode, plugging myself in to learn as much as I could about these people. 

Then reverse-engineered their nightmare scenarios.

Not surface-level pain points.

The exact thoughts running through their heads when they're stuck, scared, and don't know how to fix it.

We built his entire content strategy around those scenarios.

And what happened?

Prospects walked into tender calls already half-sold.

They'd read his posts and felt: "This person gets me."

His sales cycle shortened significantly - which when you're talking about $250k/year deals, is big. 

The content did the heavy lifting before he even opened his mouth.

So here's the takeaway for you:

Stop just "adding value" with your content.

Start showing buyers you understand how they think.

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If you're a founder or business leader and want to turn your LinkedIn into your most reliable source of leads...

Book a strategy call, and I'll show you how we can do exactly that

(Link on my profile)

I'm 32 today.

And I've decided to do the most insufferable thing possible: 

Write a birthday wisdom post.

(I promise it's actually useful.)

After three years of entrepreneurship, here are the three lessons that I believe are the most valuable things to understand:


1. Distribution is everything

The world's richest people aren't buying factories.

They're buying media companies, social platforms, news outlets.

For one simple reason...

Because if you control the narrative, you control the outcome.

An audience gives you that power.

And although a LinkedIn audience might pale in comparison to buying a news outlet for example - within you own category, you can be THE person people turn to. 

And don't underestimate how powerful that actually is. 


2. Great offers don't sell themselves

I've had brilliant products that got no sales. 

And I've had 'meh' products that have made me quite a bit of money. 

Why? 

Because I was too scared to send the DM or pick up the phone.

The best clients I've ever worked with were hard to reach.

They guarded their time, needed multiple follow-ups, and rarely came inbound.

If you're waiting for demand to find you, you'll starve on scraps.


3. Authenticity isn't a content tactic

I've built a cold email agency, a coaching community, and a personal branding business.

Only one felt like me.

The one where I get to talk to top entrepreneurs, learn from them, and share their ideas.

It's my passion, my hobby, and the thing I'm lucky enough to get paid well for.

That's authenticity.

Not chasing the bag, but being true to yourself, and staying aligned with that. 


What's the best 'real' lesson you've learned in business?

Most people automate their LinkedIn DMs in 2026.

Here's why that's 100% the wrong approach:

I'm watching founders rush to automation tools that blast the same copy-paste message to hundreds of people.

They think they're being efficient.

But what they're actually doing is training their dream clients to ignore them.

Because when you automate, you lose three things:

• Correct targeting.
• Your actual personality.
• The personalisation that makes someone reply.

Here's what I've found works best:

1. Post content that attracts your dream clients and actively repels everyone else. (This is VERY important)

2. Then manually send thoughtful, targeted DMs to the 20-40 people every day who engage or match your dream client ICP.

Not to your entire connection list.

Just to the people who actually fit your client profile and are showing interest.

Combine those two things and you can easily sign 3-5 new clients every month.

While everyone is spamming the same message to 500 people a week and wondering why they're getting no replies. 

I'm sending targeted and personalised messages and booking discovery calls every day for my clients. 

That what makes it powerful. 

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I help B2B founders turn LinkedIn into qualified pipeline without becoming full-time influencers through content that filters your audience and outreach that actually converts. DM me "pipeline" and I'll send you a breakdown of how it works.

How to ensure you never grow on LinkedIn: Don't comment. Don't send any DMs. Be a ghost and expect everyone to come to you.

Posting and attracting people to want to get to know you is important, we all know that.

But there's power in being the first person to say hi.

Don't be like the 'mysterious' person all alone in the corner of the club when everyone else is chatting and having fun on the dance floor.

Being someone that people want to connect (and work with) comes down to more than just posting.

It's being open, willing to look silly, willing to take the risk of being ignored.

That doesn't make you a lower-status person.

If anything it's the opposite.

It makes you REAL.

And in my experience the people who drop the mysterious BS and are fun to talk to and be around?

They're the ones who do best in business.

My client did something most founders think is impossible:


He became the most popular person at a 600-person conference.

Without speaking on stage.
Without a booth.
Without introducing himself to anyone.

Well, maybe not THE most popular... 

But he said it sure felt like it.

And it didn't happen by accident.

3 months earlier, I got to work building his authority on LinkedIn.

So when he got around to the conference, something awesome happened...

All day, people kept walking up: "I saw you on LinkedIn, love your content."

He just had conversations.

He didn't need to pitch, he didn't need to go around the place introducing himself. 

People already knew who he was. 

That's the real power of LinkedIn.

It builds your authority publicly so when you walk into a room, people already recognise you. 

There's no better place where you can display your expertise before you ever pitch in my opinion. 

But here's where people mess it up:

They post generic, safe content trying to sound like everyone else.

Or they copy viral posts hoping it'll translate into authority.

Hint: it won't...

You can't fake authority - it comes from sharing YOUR lived experiences.

Things you've done that no one else can talk about.

When you do that, people see the world the same way you do.

And that makes networking & opportunity generation child's play. 

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If you're a founder or business leader who wants to unleash the full benefits of being a respected authority on LinkedIn.

Book a free strategy call using the link on my profile and I'll show you how.

Most LinkedIn content is becoming slop.
 
And it's killing people's ability to generate leads.
 
Here's what's happening:
 
Founders and entrepreneurs are writing their own content, but heavily leaning on AI with zero personalisation.
 
And the result of that?
 
Content that adds no value to the reader.
 
But the real problem runs deeper than that.
 
Most people write about themselves more than they write about their potential clients.
 
So the only people who see their content are their peers.
 
Not the people they actually want to work with.
 
You end up in an echo chamber where no one generates any beneficial outcomes.
 
Because you're not speaking to the right people.
 
If you want to build authority and generate warm inbound leads, your content needs to speak directly to your ICP.
 
Not to other founders trying to grow their brands.
 
I help B2B founders turn LinkedIn into qualified pipeline by building content around proven buyer psychology & opening up warm conversations in the DMs with your dream clients. DM me 'pipeline' and I'll send you a breakdown of how it works.

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I help founders & execs turn LinkedIn into their unfair advantage by ghostwriting content that attracts your dream clients, and creating warm opportunities with outreach without needing to lift a finger - charliebennett.com

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I Help B2B Founders Turn LinkedIn Into Their Most Reliable Source Of High-Value Leads. $10M+ Generated For Clients. Make LinkedIn Your Unfair Advantage.

LinkedIn Personal Branding + Pipeline Growth For Founders & Execs

Most founders don't have writer's block.

They have audience block.

You know your subject inside out.
You could talk about it for hours.

But when you sit down to write?

Nothing.

The problem isn't that you don't know what to write.

It's that you're writing for ghosts instead of real people.

Your dream clients are already telling you what they want to read about.

On every discovery call.

Every sales conversation is a goldmine:

•What they've already tried (and why it failed).
•The real objections hiding under the surface.
•Why they finally decided to reach out.

I review every transcript and pull out those patterns.

Then I turn them into content.

Because who better to tell you what to write than the exact people you're trying to work with?

A few questions to unlock it:

What are your clients overthinking?
What mistakes do they keep making?
What question do you answer on every call?

The new LinkedIn algorithm will match your posts to the right prospects.

But only if what you write comes from real experience.

Not regurgitated advice you've seen 1M times on the timeline.

Real stories. 
Real insights. 
Real conversations.

Do that, and your inbound leads will start to tick up week on week.

Because reach without revenue is pointless on a business platform.

AI dropped the cost of creating content to almost zero.

Many founders think that's a good thing.

It’s not. 

What it's done is flood LinkedIn with generic content, which makes authenticity exponentially more valuable.

And I say that because I can see many founders are outsourcing their thinking to AI. 

They post just to stay "consistent". 

And the result is content that sounds like everyone else. 

Bland, generic, forgettable.

It actively hurts your authority.

As a founder, your value isn't just what you know. 

It's knowing how to communicate it in a way people can actually use.

That depth and nuance only comes from your lived experience.

The stories only you can tell. 

The perspectives shaped by the specific problems you've solved.

When you let AI do the thinking, you're not building a brand.

I’d argue you’re actually doing the complete opposite - destroying it. 

One post at a time. 

My prediction for where personal branding will move towards in 2026: 

People will post less, but what they post will be sharper. 

Less quantity, more substance coming from real experience.

That's how you stand out when everyone else is posting five times a week with nothing to say.

I spent this morning vibe coding a LinkedIn plugin to hide AI slop comments.

Probably not the most productive use of my time.

But the flood of robotic "great insights!" and "thanks for sharing!" comments was driving me mad.

So I built something to filter them out.

And the success rate is surprisingly good, and it'll be even more accurate once I've fed it more data. 

But it works well enough that my feed actually feels human again.

Here's why I did it:

When half the comments are AI-generated crap, real conversations get buried.

It's getting harder to spot the people who actually give a damn enough to write something themselves. 

And if you're serious about building genuine relationships with potential clients, you can't have your feed clogged with bots.

So yeah, I built a plugin to fix it.

Is it perfect? No.

But it's better than drowning in fake engagement.

Think I should release it to the public?

Also, isn't Tanmay such a cutie <3

Personal branding for Founders who want to be known, not just visible. 90+ clients. $10M attributed revenue.

Luke Shalom

CEO @ Grow Solo I help the C-suite turn industry expertise into predictable pipeline

There are two ways agency founders try to turn LinkedIn into a reliable source of clients.

One is by guessing. Posting when there is time. Relying on referrals and hoping the next month is a good one.

The other is by building a system that creates steady conversations, even when client work gets busy.

Our clients choose the second.

→ Joya Dass (Founder, Women’s Leadership Lab)

The problem:

- She spent hours in the DMs to book a few calls.
- Content happened on weekends.
- When delivery picked up, sales stopped.

Some months were strong. Others were quiet.

Even in good months, there was stress about where the next client would come from.

What we did:

We built a simple LinkedIn content system she could run in house. No ghostwriter or agency retainer dependency.

We shifted her content from generic how to posts to insight driven thinking.

That changed the conversations. People in her network showed up aligned and ready to buy.

We added a content led outbound system powered by a setter we hited and trained. The system kept working while she focused on delivery.

Results:

- Revenue grew from $150k to $300k.
- Sales became predictable.
- The pressure eased.

→ Jonathan Crowder (Founder, Founders Ally)

The problem:

- No time for content.
- Unpredictable sales calls.
- Leads with no budget.
- No sales background. A 10 percent close rate.

What we did:

We removed Jonathan as the bottleneck. 

We built a content system using AI supported by his real thinking. It sounded like him, not software.

Trust was built before the call. Outbound went from 10% to 40% response rates.

We focused prospecting on real buying moments, like recent funding to catch buyers at the right time.

We simplified his sales process. Clear outcomes. Clear cost of inaction was communicated to his buyers.

Results:

- Meetings went from 3-5 a month to 10-15 sales qualifed leads a month.
- A visible pipeline. Increase to a 25 percent close rate.
- $300k in pipeline in 60 days.
- $30k in new revenue closed.

→ Brian Dukes (COO, Exit Wise)

The problem

- Ovelry dependent on referrals.
- No LinkedIn playbook.
- No time to write.

What we did

- We clarified positioning.
- Simplified the offer.
- Built a content engine.

Then we added outbound from the founder profile.

Everything was owned and run internally.

Results:

- Consistent posting machine.
- 500 to 6500 ICP followers.
- $740,000 in LinkedIn-driven revenue over two years.

We have helped 100+ founder led agencies replace unpredictable growth with systems they understand and control.

If this feels familiar, we should talk.

We help executives to build and monetize their brand on linkedin by scaling your content and turning it into leads, authority and thought leadership.

How?

Engagement + DM flows = Qualified meetings. 

Done with you. Done for you.

2022: I wanted 100,000 LinkedIn followers.

2026: Now I want 10 people who trust me enough to wire me $100,000.

This shift didn’t happen because I stopped wanting influence.

It happened because after 4 years on LinkedIn, I learned one simple truth.

It’s the difference between creators with under 5,000 followers making 7 figures a year from agencies or coaching…

And creators with 100,000 followers who struggle to break $100k.

I call it being "Known Well".

On LinkedIn, there are two paths.

First, the "Well Known" crowd.

Think Justin Welsh.
Broad content.
Viral posts.
Big complex funnels.

Courses for everyone.

Nothing wrong with that.

They are playing their game.

But that game only works with massive distribution.
Most creators chase this path.

They chase 100,000 followers.
They think it will change everything.

It won’t.

The real leverage is being "Known Well" by the right people.

You become niche-famous.

A small group knows you for one thing.
They trust you deeply.
Even 10-30 people like that will pay you well.

That’s how small accounts make $100k a month on LinkedIn.

They play the Known Well Game.

And it’s simpler than you think:


1) Comments

They build a list of the right accounts... people they want to be known well to (ICPs, influencers with their buyers).

They show up every day, pay attention to posting times, and leave insightful comments.

These look like mini-posts, because their aim is to make impact and become known to the right people.

2) They have an indoctrination content ladder

They don’t create for mass appeal.

They understand what’s required to take their specific ICP from skeptic to ready-to-buy ... and they focus on that ruthlessly.

These posts might get less than 10 likes… but the DMs are on fire.

3) They have an outbound motion that feels like inbound

They may not get the turbo reach of big accounts, but dialled-in content lets LinkedIn bring the right people to them.

They leverage profile views, engagement, and followers to start conversations with members of their small but mighty Known Well audience.

Using AI tools, they automate the top of this conversation and only jump in when people are interested and responding.

That’s how you get 10 people to wire you $100k.

That’s the game I want to play.

Build deep trust with people you can truly help.

Everything else on LinkedIn is noise.

Remember that.

I share weekly strategies on how to become known well in your niche and get clients from LinkedIn for your agency. Go read it here: https://lnkd.in/ezZpkchD

CEO @ Atticus | AI sales systems for founders | 5–10 deals/month from LinkedIn in <​ 30 mins/day I $125M+ pipeline generated for 100+ clients

There’s a new breed of agency founder emerging in 2026.

They don’t chase likes.
They don’t live in the DMs.
They don’t grind comments.

They’re called Leveraged Operators.

I’ve spent the last 4 years building LinkedIn sales systems for 100+ lean founders, and the pattern is clear: most are stuck in the activity trap.

AI didn’t just “help.”
It rewired the entire game.

That same ChatGPT agent everyone’s playing with can now map a full demand gen strategy in minutes. 

Meanwhile, founders still hope referrals and a “good name in the space” will carry them.

It won’t.

LinkedIn reach is down ~70%.
Referrals are lumpy.
Cold outbound without trust feels pointless and never leads to clients.

The symptoms are familiar:

- No time to sell
- Prospects treat you like a vendor
- Pipeline dies when you stop posting

I’ve lived it. It’s exhausting.

The founders pulling ahead are doing something different.

Leveraged Operators use AI, assets, and workflows so effort compounds.
They build 80–90% margin consulting layers on top of services using:

- Founder-led demand gen on LinkedIn
- AI agents that create and distribute content
- Content-led outbound that feels like inbound

Two years ago, I hit $60k in revenue in a month.

Profit? $4k.

More revenue. Less freedom.

Thats what building your business the old way gets you. 
Bigger numbers and little take home.

I burned that model down.

In 2025:

$250k profit
21,000 new LinkedIn followers
30–50 leads a month with AI doing the heavy lifting

Founder results mirrored it:

- Joya (Women’s Leadership Lab) doubled ARR to $350k and generates ~$540k in pipeline monthly.

- Jonathan (Founders Ally) went from 5–6 meetings a month to one a day in 60 days.

- Brian (M&A firm) closed $750k in pipeline with inbound-driven positioning.
That’s the Leveraged Operator model.

Not more content.
Not more DMs.
Not more headcount.

System > activity.

Want the exact strategy I’m using in 2026 to add 5–10 deals a month from LinkedIn in under 30 minutes a day?

DM me “Leverage.”

(Or you know you could spend another year on the struggle bus and watch your competitors apply the above model and eat your lunch...)

P.S I took these photos on my 4th holiday of last year with my Colombiana. It was the 3rd time I went to the Carribean. And it was only made possible by having a agency with the right systems to replace me as the bottle neck. You can do it too.

My client Joya Dass fired us after we doubled her business.

Then rehired us to build her in-house Atticus Predictable LinkedIn Sales system.

Phase 1 - October 2024 - August 2025

When we started with Joya Dass, Women’s Leadership Lab sat at 5 sales calls a week.

We took her to 10-20 qualified calls a week.

All from people who had already seen or engaged with her content.

Over that year:

→ Her rates went up by $10,000 from better fit prospects
→ She closed $130,000 from the Atticus Done-for-you system
→ ROI was 4.5x on what she paid us

We did not flood her calendar.

We filtered hard so she only spoke with senior women leaders from places like Harvard, Berkeley, high level firms.

Then we paused the done-for-you work after we sunsetted the done for you SDR service.

I counted that as fired.

Phase 2 - September 2025 - December 2025)

On a later call, I was about to refer her to another vendor.

Then I walked her through our new Atticus Predictable LinkedIn Sales system.

How she could bring all her client acquisition in-house in under 30 minutes a day...

We started again.

Different model. 

First 10 days:

→ Built a content bank in her exact voice with our content engineer 
→ Structured posts to shift beliefs and drive demand
→ Trained an agent in ChatGPT so she could write expert content herself
→ Mapped a 6 month content calendar tied to real sales conversations

Next 20 days, we built outbound:

→ Deep GTM research on her ideal client
→ Lead list playbook so she could find the right people on demand
→ AI sales rep trained on her offer, her tone, her dos and donts
→ Workflows triggered by real intent signals like job changes and thought leadership pushes
→ A/B tests on talk tracks until we hit message market fit (what she needed to send to get responses)
→ Plugged in and trained a setter once the machine booked meetings on repeat

Result in the last 2 months of the year:

→ $70,000 closed
→ Women’s Leadership Lab went from $150,000 to $300,000
→ Agency spend dropped from $4,000 a month to $400 a month
→ Her LinkedIn system now drives $510,000 in qualified pipeline every month

What you do not see:

We blew up campaigns that stopped working.
We rebuilt whole flows from scratch.
We had dead weeks where nothing landed.

Joya did not blame the system.
She co-created the result.

That is what my best clients understand.

You are not buying magic.

You are building a machine together. 

I recorded a step by step video on Joya’s whole strategy that doubled her business using LinkedIn, showing:

→ Why we did not fix her problem with content or outbound first
→ Why her content never generated inbound before, but did in 10 days with the new system
→ How we took her from 2–6 hours in the DMs a day to 30 minutes then to zero
→ Why she now only talks to people who already like, know and trust her

Comment "System" below and DM me “System” if you want the video.

P.S Proud of you Joya Dass and can't wait to see your growth this year.

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