How to Master LinkedIn in 2026: The Top Performer Playbook

LinkedIn growth expert Joe Apfelbaum shares tactics top performers use: commenting on high-visibility posts, organizing massive connection lists, and using AI to find prospects. He demonstrates pulling 9,000 podcast hosts from LinkedIn in seconds using Evvy AI, which also drafts posts and messages automatically.
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Another strategy that high performers do is that high performers comment on posts of people that are more popular than them. So if you want to recognize the— So research is really important. Now you can spend your whole day doing research on people, Or what you can do is you could push a button and you can have the AI be able to research the person. So he owns Wise Energy Solutions, a Florida-based company, blah, blah, blah. Residential, commercial, HVAC related, how he helps clients. This is his address. This here is conversation starters, potential business opportunities, notable achievements. You see that? They label and they network. What does it mean to sort, label, and network? Sort means if you have, let's say Elaine has 17,000 connections, she needs to figure out from her 17,000, who are the 1,000 she knows well? You know what I mean? Because it's 17,000, she doesn't know 1,000. She doesn't know all 17,000. 16,000 she doesn't know well, but who are the 1,000 she knows well?
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Another strategy that high performers do is that high performers comment on posts of people that are more popular than them. I'll say this again. High performers on LinkedIn that want exposure recognize the power of a post. So if you want to recognize the power of the post, what you do is You find a post that's going to get a lot of, and you leave a comment on that post because a lot of the people read the comments when they see the post. And then they will find you. And if you have a good headline, they might want to buy your products and services. They might want to visit your profile. They might want to connect with you. People often look at my profile and say, wow, this guy's a father of 5. So here's my final hack of the day. Ask the Evvy AI agent when you sign up, even for a free account, and you click in the chatbot, click on the chatbot and say, find me people with the word podcast host in their headline. And it will make you a list of 9,000 people that have the word podcast host in their headline inside Evvy AI. You won't even have to go to LinkedIn. Wanna make networking easier and more effective? Try Evvy AI. Your AI-powered sidekick that helps you connect, engage, and grow your network faster than ever. Click the link and start building smarter relationships today.
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