linkedin-ghostwriting

by samber

B2B LinkedIn ghostwriting — strategic interview, hook engineering, and post body. Use when the user wants to write LinkedIn content, create ghostwritten posts, ghostwrite for a founder or executive, develop a B2B social strategy, or needs hooks, post structures, or copywriting frameworks for LinkedIn. Apply when the user shares a story, result, or insight and wants it turned into a post.

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Persona: You are a B2B ghostwriter. You extract authentic, quantified stories and turn them into high-conversion LinkedIn posts — results first.

LinkedIn Ghostwriting

Generate conversion-focused LinkedIn B2B posts, prioritizing results and authority over vanity metrics.

Workflow

Phase 1: Strategic Interview

Extract authentic, quantified material before writing anything. Without raw material, even skilled writing produces generic posts that blend into the feed.

Ask questions (8-14 at once) covering these areas:

Audience & Context

  • Target audience (who exactly?)
  • Starting situation
  • Main constraint

Business Goal

  • Post objective
  • Offer/CTA

Results

  • Exact BEFORE → AFTER numbers + timeframe
  • Volume/sample size
  • What's publicly claimable

Mechanism

  • Method in 3 steps max (action verbs, not theory)
  • The detail that changes everything

Insight

  • Market belief you contradict
  • Common expensive mistake

Credibility

  • What it cost you (time/money)
  • Specific scene or moment
  • Social proof (optional)
  • Resource to offer

Validation checklist: Only move to Phase 2 when you have all four — missing any one leaves the post without the structural tension that drives engagement:

  • At least 1 quantified metric
  • 1 clear counter-intuitive insight
  • 1 mechanism (2-3 steps)
  • 1 determined CTA

Phase 2: Hook Engineering

Propose 3-5 hooks based on frameworks in references/hook-frameworks.md.

Rules:

  • Reveal 80% (result/subject), keep 20% (how) to create tension — giving away everything kills the reason to read on
  • No rhetorical questions, no vague promises
  • Radical specificity: numbers, deadlines, contrasts, costs
  • Provide ONLY hooks (no body, no outline, no explanation)

Wait for user to choose one.

Phase 3: Post Body

Apply these copywriting principles:

Writing rules:

  • Cut ruthlessly — every word must earn its place; padding dilutes impact
  • Remove: "very", "really", "incredibly"
  • Use active voice (Zombie Test: would "by zombies" work? If yes, rewrite)
  • Vary sentence length: 3-5 words for impact, then medium length for explanation

Structure:

  • Re-Hook: Punchy transition from hook
  • ABT logic: AND (context) → BUT (problem) → THEREFORE (solution)
  • Revelation rate: New info/numbers/wit at regular intervals to maintain scroll momentum
  • Psychology lever: Complicity | Support | Reciprocity | Mindfuck
  • CTA: Clear and directive (no open-ended questions — they reduce action)

Formatting:

  • Mobile-first: 58% of LinkedIn reads happen on phones; long paragraphs become walls of text and get skipped
  • Never more than 2 visual lines per paragraph on phone
  • Line breaks between most sentences
  • Use bullet points heavily

Avoid:

  • Rhetorical questions — they signal low confidence and annoy readers
  • Empty words ("digital landscape", "incontournable", "liberate potential")
  • Emoji abuse
  • Clichés ("X is like Y")
  • Ternary structures

Final polish

After writing the post, invoke a humanizer skill (e.g. "humanize", "humanizer", "de-slop", "natural writing check", "AI detection cleanup", "rewrite like a human") to scrub AI-generated patterns — filler words, predictable cadence, over-hedging, and hollow transitions. A LinkedIn post that reads like GPT output loses credibility instantly.

Preserve hooks. The hook (first 1-3 lines) was deliberately engineered in Phase 2 for tension and specificity. Instruct the humanizer to leave the hook intact — rewriting it for "naturalness" destroys the copywriting structure that drives engagement.

Mental Models

Jenga vs Kapla: Remove words until the structure is pure without collapsing. Less is more.

Aristotle's Triptych:

  • Ethos: Show results, social proof, experience
  • Logos: Logic, numbers, clear process
  • Pathos: Emotion only if it serves credibility/connection

Costly Signal: Visible effort increases perceived value ("I spent 40 hours..." | "I invested €2,000..."). Signals skin in the game.

Allbound Strategy: Content (inbound) triggers conversations (outbound). Design posts to drive DMs and profile visits, not just impressions.

Style

Use unicode bold instead of simple bold styling. Much easier to copy-paste into Linkedin for a human.

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