Edition 01 · 30 Sep 2026

Three posts worth studying

What these authors shared, how they made it interesting, and what you can learn for your own posts.

1. Mirna Bard, M.A.

Marketing executive and AI marketing operations advisor

How this post performed
She has 4,897 followers. This post had 307 likes and 70 comments when we pulled it on 17 Sep 2026. That is engagement equal to 9.13% of her audience, counting a comment as two likes. The average post we track gets 0.47%, so this one did about 19 times better than average, putting it in the top 1% of posts we track.

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What experience / expertise she shared

A client hired her for a $15,000/month engagement, and weeks in she was still waiting for access to the systems and information she needed. She turned that experience into a useful lesson: hiring the right person doesn’t guarantee they can succeed.

How she created it to resonate

She opened with the decision to walk away and the money involved. Then she revealed the ordinary, preventable problem behind it: missing access. Before closing, she listed questions that help anyone hiring senior people avoid the same mistake.

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When did a project expose a problem that other people in your field should know to look for?

Details

Engagement as a share of audience: likes plus two times comments, divided by followers. Posted 13 Aug 2026 (date read from the post’s LinkedIn id). Role from the author’s LinkedIn headline on 30 Sep 2026.

2. Anna Skyfta

CEO of Writefully So, SEO content writer

How this post performed
She has 7,388 followers. This post had 183 likes and 58 comments when we pulled it on 17 Sep 2026. That is engagement equal to 4.05% of her audience, counting a comment as two likes. The average post we track gets 0.47%, so this one did about 9 times better than average.

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What experience / expertise she shared

She spent years as a one-person marketing team before going out on her own, and credits that stretch with what makes her freelance work function now: covering for colleagues, working unclear briefs, defending decisions to people who disagree. The lesson: freelancing only works once you know how businesses actually operate.

How she created it to resonate

She led with an opinion she knew her audience would resist, then asked for a hearing before making her case. She named the skills, then tied each to the situation that builds it, so readers can check them against their own years in a job.

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What did you learn inside someone else’s business that you now rely on in your own?

Details

Engagement as a share of audience: likes plus two times comments, divided by followers. Posted 12 Aug 2026 (date read from the post’s LinkedIn id). Role from the author’s LinkedIn headline on 30 Sep 2026.

3. John Rice

Founder and CTO, SaaS and AI

How this post performed
He has 4,789 followers. This post had 137 likes and 113 comments when we pulled it on 17 Sep 2026. That is engagement equal to 7.58% of his audience, counting a comment as two likes. The average post we track gets 0.47%, so this one did about 16 times better than average, putting it in the top 1% of posts we track.

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What experience / expertise he shared

His first software product failed, and he traces it to spending time on features and polish instead of on whether anyone would pay. The lesson is an order of operations: check the pain, the reach and the willingness to pay before the product feels finished.

How he created it to resonate

He admitted the failure in four words, stated the old belief, then corrected it in two. What he skipped and what he now does are two matching three-item lists, so the fix maps onto the mistake. He ended by asking readers for their own failed first product.

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What did an early failure teach you to check first, before you build or commit?

Details

Engagement as a share of audience: likes plus two times comments, divided by followers. Posted 25 Aug 2026 (date read from the post’s LinkedIn id). Role from the author’s LinkedIn headline on 30 Sep 2026.

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How this was put together. Posts come from a library Mylance keeps of LinkedIn posts by consultants, fractional leaders and business owners. Likes, comments and follower counts are the numbers shown on LinkedIn on each measurement date. We measure engagement as a share of the author’s audience (likes plus two times comments, divided by followers), shown as a percentage, because 300 likes means something different at 5,000 followers than at 50,000. “The average post we track” is the mean of 567 posts by 57 Mylance members with 1,000 to 50,000 followers, published through Mylance or imported from their LinkedIn when they joined, tracked between 10 Jun 2026 and 30 Sep 2026, with like and comment counts pulled from LinkedIn: 0.47% of the author’s audience. Those are ordinary posts, not chosen for performance, which is what makes them a fair comparison. A post above 6.71% is in the top 1% of that set. We hold engagement counts, not the comments themselves, so the commentary is our interpretation of why a post may have resonated, not proof that these choices caused the engagement.