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Get one or two participants posting on LinkedIn first so the rest follow

100+ interns posted a banner and a paragraph within 2 days

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What they did

Students rarely post on LinkedIn, so during the Series Hamptons race Eunice got one or two participants to post first. Once those were up, the others felt comfortable, and 100+ interns posted a campaign banner plus a paragraph on what the journey and entrepreneurship meant to them. She frames it as social proof from decision science.

What happened

Over 100 interns posted within 2 days.

In their words

Eunice Lai - This 20yr old girl is a marketing genius…

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18:11

HostThat's classic, actually. That makes so much sense. I guess that's always been a thing in sales. Like, I feel like a lot of like enterprise sales people like understand this concept, like, "Oh, you've got to give your clients gifts and stuff." But I feel like that whole tactic is amplified by social media.

18:24

Eunice LaiAnd it's like well-documented in like psychology, right? So I study decision science, so something we talk about a lot is social proof, and if one person posts about it, everyone's just going to follow along. For example, when I did the Series Hamptons campaign, I had a bunch of interns race for a spot in the TV show. And, you know, I I don't think students really like to post on LinkedIn, but once I had like one or two people posting about it, everyone became really comfortable posting about it, too. So then, like, 2 days, we had over 100 interns post a banner writing a whole paragraph about um how excited they are to be part of this journey, and like what entrepreneurship means to them.

19:05

HostYeah, LinkedIn is so unsaturated, I feel like. People love to make fun of LinkedIn, but if people are making fun of the content on a platform, that's a good thing. Like, that means that the content is bad, so you can just make good content and stand out [laughter] on the platform.

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Tags: linkedin, social-proof, user-generated-posts, seeding, students