Content pillars are the small set of topics an account commits to covering in depth over time. A founder might pick three: company-building, sales, and the specific industry they sell into. Every post fits under one of those pillars. The discipline matters because LinkedIn rewards specificity: an account that posts about everything ends up known for nothing, while an account that posts about three things consistently builds an audience that subscribes for those three things. Strong pillars are narrow enough to be ownable ("hiring engineers at seed-stage SaaS" rather than "leadership"), connected to genuine expertise, and aligned with the audience the account is trying to reach.
Examples
- A sales leader: outbound, sales-team building, deal cycles.
- A founder: pricing strategy, hiring, fundraising stories.
- A designer: design critique, design systems, hiring designers.
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