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LinkedIn Authority Program · MSPs & MSSPs

Become the obvious choice
on the platform your buyers live on.
We turn MSP & MSSP owners into the recognized authority in their B2B niche on LinkedIn — optimizing your profile, running your content engine, and warming up your ideal prospects until they're booking calls with you, not asking for quotes.

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Activity Posts per month · in your voice
14.2KFollowers
8.4%Engagement
~1,800Profile views/wk
After 90 days Optimized for authority. The obvious choice in their niche.
90 DaysTo Warm Up Your Network
2–4 / WkQualified Appointments
Done For YouContent · Outreach · Nurture

Cold outbound is dying.
Authority is the new pipeline.

Your buyers — plant managers, managing partners, CFOs, ops directors — aren't answering cold calls or replying to spray-and-pray email. But they are on LinkedIn. And they're watching. The MSPs winning right now aren't the ones with the loudest outbound. They're the ones whose name keeps showing up in the feed, sharing things that make their buyer feel understood.

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Your buyers scroll before they search.
By the time a manufacturer, law firm, or medical practice goes looking for an MSP, they've already half-decided who to call. That decision happens in the feed — not on Google. If you're invisible there, you're invisible at the moment of choice.
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Trust beats every other CAC.
A warm inbound from someone who's followed you for two months and downloaded your lead magnet converts at 5–10x the rate of a cold list. Same buyer. Different temperature. The whole game is temperature.
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Authority compounds. Ads don't.
Every paid lead evaporates the moment you stop spending. Every post, comment, and connection you make on LinkedIn stacks — building a reputation asset that keeps generating meetings long after the work is done. This is the only channel where the curve goes up forever.

How we take you from
invisible to inbound-driven.

This isn't a lead-gen program. It's an authority build. The first 4 weeks lay the foundation. The next 8 weeks warm up the network. By month three, the inbound starts — and it doesn't stop.

Phase 01 · Weeks 1–2

We rebuild your profile
so the algorithm loves it.

Most MSP owners' LinkedIn profiles read like job résumés. We turn yours into a buyer-facing authority asset — banner, headline, About, featured section, services — every pixel optimized for both the algorithm and the prospect who lands there.

Custom banner positioning you for your exact ICP — not generic "we do IT"
Keyword-optimized headline + About section tuned to LinkedIn search
Featured section with lead magnet, case studies, and proof assets
SSI (Social Selling Index) baseline measured + improvement roadmap
9.2 / 10 Avg Profile Score
After Optimization
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Profile Audit
Real-time scoring
Banner — ICP Alignment10/10
Headline Keywords9/10
About Section Hook10/10
Featured Lead Magnet10/10
Services Section8/10
Recommendations7/10
Activity Cadence10/10
Phase 02 · Weeks 3–6

We turn on the
content engine.

4–5 posts per week, in your voice, written from interviews with you and your team — case studies, "behind the scenes" client wins, technical breakdowns, opinion takes, and ICP-specific insights. Plus a lead magnet that captures every prospect who lands on your profile.

4–5 posts/week — text, carousels, native video — fully ghostwritten
Lead magnet creation: buyer's checklist, risk assessment, or industry guide
Comment strategy on target accounts to build algorithmic visibility
Bi-weekly content syncs — we write, you approve, we publish
3–8x Profile Views
By End Of Month 2
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Adam Stone
Last week a $40M manufacturer called us at 6:47 AM. Ransomware. Their MSP had told them they were "fully protected" for 3 years. Here's the audit gap we found in 12 minutes...
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Adam Stone
Plant managers: the 7 questions to ask your MSP this quarter.
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Phase 03 · Weeks 5–10

We start warming up
your ideal prospects.

While your content is building authority, we're quietly connecting with the exact prospects you want — by job title, industry, geography, and company size. Personalized invitations. Soft nurture sequences. Engagement on their posts. By month two, your name is everywhere they look.

80–100 personalized connection requests per week (your ICP, filtered tight)
Multi-touch nurture sequence — no pitch-slap, all relationship
Engagement on prospect posts so you stay top-of-feed for them
CRM-style tracking of every warm prospect + their engagement level
150–250 New Targeted Connections
Added Per Month
Live Warm Network
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Janet Morales
COO · MidCoast Manufacturing
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David Reyes
Plant Mgr · Precision Components
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Sarah Kapoor
VP Ops · Stratton Industries
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Mark Thompson
CFO · Northgate Logistics
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Linda Park
Ops Dir · Hartwell Foods
Engaging
Phase 04 · Weeks 9–12+

The inbound starts —
and compounds.

By month three, the system is fully warm. Connections are commenting on your posts. Prospects are DMing you instead of you chasing them. Lead magnet downloads turn into discovery calls. 2–4 qualified appointments per week — with people who already know who you are, trust your authority, and want to talk.

Inbound DMs and connection messages from warmed-up prospects
Lead magnet downloads triggering automated follow-up sequences
Discovery calls booked directly through your profile CTA
Monthly performance reporting + iteration on what's winning
2–4 / wk Qualified Appointments
From Warmed Prospects
This Week · Discovery Calls
All Inbound
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Janet Morales
COO · MidCoast Manufacturing · 84 employees
↗ Downloaded lead magnet
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2:30p
David Reyes
Plant Mgr · Precision Components · $24M ARR
↗ Replied to nurture post
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11:00a
Mark Thompson
CFO · Northgate Logistics · 140 employees
↗ DM'd after carousel post
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9:00a
Sarah Kapoor
VP Ops · Stratton Industries · $60M ARR
↗ Profile CTA → Calendly
Day 0 · Foundation Day 30 · Content Live Day 60 · Network Warmed Day 90+ · Inbound Flowing

Two engines.
One reputation asset.

Profile foundation + ongoing content and outreach. They work as one system — and they have to, because authority isn't a sprint.

I. Phase One · Weeks 1–2

The Foundation

We rebuild your LinkedIn presence from the ground up — banner, headline, About, featured section, services, and lead magnet. The asset that every future post and connection sends prospects back to.

  • ICP positioning workshop
  • Banner + headline + About copywriting
  • Custom lead magnet (PDF, checklist, or guide)
  • Featured section build with proof assets
  • Connection acceptance + intro message sequences
  • SSI baseline + algorithmic readiness audit
II. Phase Two · Monthly

The Engine

Once the foundation is built, we run it. Content production, targeted outreach, nurture sequences, engagement, and reporting — fully managed. You show up for one 30-min interview per week. We handle everything else.

  • 4–5 ghostwritten posts per week (in your voice)
  • 80–100 personalized connection requests / week
  • Multi-touch nurture sequences with warm prospects
  • Comment strategy on target-account posts
  • Lead magnet delivery + inbound follow-up automation
  • Monthly reporting + quarterly strategy review
Trusted by operators.

Hear it
from them.

We've embedded ourselves with MSP & MSSP operators for years — building positioning, running content, and removing owners from cold-outbound dependency. The Authority Engine is that same discipline, productized.

Testimonial 01
★★★★★
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Cory Russell CEO · Layer7 Systems (MSP)
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Way better than what I expected. They underpromised and over-performed at every level.

Why This Matters For You When we say we'll build your authority on LinkedIn and run the engine for you, we go beyond the scope every time. Same discipline. Same standards.
Testimonial 02
★★★★★
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David Rauschendorfer CEO · Cybersecurity Resource (MSSP)
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The offer creation was unique — going to be a great opportunity to lead with.

Why This Matters For You Most MSPs & MSSPs sound identical on LinkedIn. We build the positioning and offer language that actually separates you in the feed.
Testimonial 03
★★★★★
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Peter Prieto CEO · NdataStor (Cybersecurity)
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Your team understands systems really well. They're delivering everything they said they would.

Why This Matters For You Authority compounds when the system runs without you. We build the content engine, the outreach cadence, and the nurture flow — and we deliver every part.

Operators we've served across MSP, MSSP, and cybersecurity. The Authority Engine productizes the LinkedIn discipline we've built across these engagements — for MSPs & MSSPs ready to stop chasing cold leads.

Most MSPs are
doing it backwards.

There are four common ways MSPs try to grow on LinkedIn. Three of them don't work.

Option 01

Post when you remember.

You post twice a month, the algorithm forgets you, you decide LinkedIn doesn't work, and quit. Six months later you start over. The graveyard is full of these accounts.

Option 02

Hire an in-house marketer.

$70K–$90K/yr for someone who's never owned an MSP, never sat across from a plant manager, and writes content that sounds like nobody. You become their thought-leadership ghost.

Option 03

Buy LinkedIn lead-gen software.

Spammy auto-DMs. Connection requests that get you reported. Zero authority built. Maybe a couple of bad-fit calls. Mostly you damage your reputation on the platform that matters most.

Option 04 — Us

The Authority Engine.

Profile optimized for the algorithm. Content in your voice from your real expertise. Outreach that doesn't burn the network. Done for you. Built to compound. The asset keeps generating long after we're done.

A reputation asset
that pays you forever.

By the end of 90 days, here's what your business actually looks like.

Outcome 01

You stop being unknown.

When your ideal buyer searches their problem on LinkedIn, you're one of the first names that surfaces. When they ask a peer for an MSP recommendation, someone in their network has seen your content.

Outcome 02

Prospects come pre-sold.

By the time they book a call, they've read your About, watched your videos, downloaded your lead magnet, and decided you're the expert. Discovery calls turn into proposal conversations.

Outcome 03

Your sales cycle collapses.

Warm inbound closes 3–5x faster than cold. Less convincing, less proving, less price-shopping. They already trust you — they just need to confirm fit and move forward.

Outcome 04

CAC drops. Margins expand.

Every paid lead you stop buying. Every cold call you stop making. Every referral that closes because you were already top-of-mind. Authority is the highest-margin growth channel an MSP can own.

From here
to there.

Stage 01Discovery30-min call. We learn your business and confirm ICP fit.
Stage 02ICP & PositioningWorkshop to nail down your niche, voice, and lead magnet angle.
Stage 03Foundation BuildWeeks 1–2. Profile, lead magnet, and infrastructure live.
Stage 04Engine RunningOngoing. Content, outreach, nurture, inbound — compounding.

FAQ

Questions. Answered.

This is an authority-building program, not a lead-gen sprint. We want to set that expectation up front because it changes everything about how the program is run. Authority compounds — and that takes about 90 days to warm up. Most clients see their first inbound DMs and lead magnet downloads in weeks 4–6, their first warm discovery calls in weeks 8–10, and a steady 2–4 qualified appointments per week by month three and beyond. If you need 20 leads next Tuesday, this isn't the right program. If you want a reputation asset that pays you for years, it is.

About 60–90 minutes per week. One 30-minute content interview (we extract stories, opinions, and case studies from you and turn them into a week of content). A 15-minute weekly review of what we're posting. And maybe 15 minutes responding to DMs from prospects who want to talk. That's it. Everything else — writing, posting, outreach, nurture, reporting — is on us. You're the expert. We're the operators.

No — and this is the part most agencies get wrong. We don't write generic LinkedIn content. Every post starts from a real conversation with you: a client story, a technical opinion, a war story from the field, a take you have on the industry. We capture your voice, your phrasing, and your specific worldview, and we write from that. If you read a draft and don't sound like yourself, we redo it. The whole authority play breaks if the content sounds like nobody — and we're not going to break it.

No. We run human-paced, ICP-targeted outreach — 80–100 personalized connection requests per week is well inside LinkedIn's invite limits when done right. We're not blasting auto-DMs, we're not using bot software that LinkedIn flags. Personalized invitations to relevant people, followed by genuine relationship-building messages over time. Done correctly, this is exactly what LinkedIn wants you to do on the platform.

MSP and MSSP owners doing $500K–$10M ARR with a defined B2B niche — manufacturing, legal, healthcare, financial services, professional services. You should have at least some delivery capability (a team, a process) because this program will fill your top of funnel and you need to be able to close and serve what comes through. If you're a brand-new MSP still figuring out who you serve, this is premature. If you have a niche and you're tired of cold outbound, this is built for you.

A one-time foundation investment for the Phase 1 build, then a monthly retainer for the ongoing engine. We walk through exact pricing on the discovery call once we understand your business and confirm ICP fit. The minimum commitment is 6 months because anything shorter doesn't give the authority enough time to compound — but most clients stay on year over year because the asset keeps producing. Across every tier, you're paying significantly less than a single mid-level marketing hire, with none of the management overhead or ramp risk.

Let's build the
asset that pays you forever.

Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll walk through your business, your ICP, and exactly what the first 90 days would look like. If it's a fit, we move forward. If not, you'll leave with at least one positioning idea you can use this week.

We only onboard 3–5 new MSPs per quarter. Spots are limited so we can give every client the attention this work requires.

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