- The LinkedIn algorithm suppresses corporate content. Your company page is shouting into a void.
- The "please share" email is mega cringe, and it doesn't work because your team is busy, lazy, or afraid.
- The fix: Orchestrate a ThunderClap—coordinated, authentic posts from your team that flood the feed without looking like spam.
You’re in a meeting room. The whiteboard is covered in excited squiggles. The Product team has spent six months building something they assure you is a “game changer.” The Marketing VP has a slide deck that looks like it cost more than your first car. The Sales leader is nodding, calculating the commission on the millions about to roll in, wondering if it’s gonna be a Porsche or a Lambo kind of month.
The launch date is set. The press release is polished. The LinkedIn Company Page post is scheduled.
Launch day arrives.
You wait.
You refresh the page.
You wait some more.
A few hours later there’s three likes. One is from the social media manager. One is from the head of HR. And one is from an AI bot trying to sell you lead generation services in the comments.
Where is the market-shifting noise? Where are the inbound leads? Where is the fame?
We hate to be the ones to tell you this, but, well, there’s no easy way to put it: Nobody cares about your company news as much as you do.
The “Field of Dreams” Fallacy in B2B
If you build it, they will come.
That might work for ghostly baseball players in Iowa cornfields. In B2B sales and marketing, it is a lie.
We operate under this delusion that because we are excited, the market will be excited. We assume that posting to the official channels is enough to ignite a fire.
But the algorithm is a cruel mistress.
LinkedIn doesn’t care about your corporate entity. It cares about engagement. It cares about dwell time. It cares about “human” interaction.
When you post a press release or a shiny product video to your Company Page, you are effectively shouting into a void. The algorithm looks at it, sees a logo, and suppresses it.
This is a nightmare for sales leaders. You need air cover. You need your prospects to see the new messaging so that when your reps call, the prospect already knows you exist.
Instead, you get silence. It’s The Great Disconnect playing out in real time.
So what do we usually do? We panic. We go to the “begging bowl” strategy.
The “Please Share” Email of Shame
If you run a sales or marketing team, you have sent this email. Or this Slack message.
“Hey team! Big launch today. Please go to the company page and like/share the post! Let’s make this go viral!”
It’s mega cringe. But, I’ve done it. You’ve done it. We’re all guilty.
And what happens?
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The “Busy” Rep: They are trying to close deals. They see the message, think “I’ll do that later,” and never do.
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The “Lazy” Clicker: They click “Repost” instantly. No caption. No context. Just a naked share. This is actually worse than doing nothing because the algorithm hates it and it makes your reps look like bots.
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The “Fearful” Silence: This is the big one. Your team wants to help. But they don’t know what to write. They are terrified of saying the wrong thing, looking stupid, or violating some unwritten compliance rule. So they freeze.
The result is a trickle of activity when you needed a flood.
You have a team of 50, 100, or 500 people. They are your biggest asset. They are your distribution network.
And they are sitting on the bench because you are making it too hard for them to play. It’s the same problem that killed the old employee advocacy model.
You need a ThunderClap.
Why Orchestration Beats Begging
At Drumbeat, we got tired of the “begging bowl.”
We realized that if you want to amplify a message, relying on the goodwill and spare time of your busy, silent team is a losing strategy.
You need orchestration.
You need to take that one “Anchor Post” from the company and turn it into a wall of sound.
We call this a ThunderClap.
A ThunderClap is not just asking people to share. It is a fully automated, coordinated campaign that mobilizes your team’s voices at the exact same moment.
Think of it like a choir. One person singing is nice. A hundred people singing the same note at the same time? That shakes the windows.
Here is why this matters for sales and marketing leaders.
1. You Control the Narrative (Without Killing the Vibe)
The biggest fear in B2B is going “off-piste.” You want your team to post, but you are worried they will promise features that don’t exist or use the wrong logo.
With a ThunderClap, you set the parameters.
You choose the Anchor Post. You choose the talking points.
But here is the clever part.
If everyone posts the exact same corporate copy, you look like a North Korean press release. It is creepy.
Drumbeat uses AuthorDNA™ to rewrite the core message in the unique voice of each employee.
So when your top Sales Rep posts, it sounds like them. Punchy. Direct. A bit aggressive.
When your CTO posts, it sounds like them. Technical. Measured. Smart.
The message is consistent. The delivery is authentic.
No AI slop. No robotic uniformity. Just amplified humanity.
2. Context Beats “Reposting”
I mentioned earlier that naked reposts are ok… but not optimal.
The LinkedIn algorithm treats a “Repost” without a caption as mid content.
A ThunderClap doesn’t just repost. It gives you options.
You can do a “Contextual Post.” This is where your team member writes a fresh, original post about the news. They might link to the press release in the comments. They might tag the CEO.
This is powerful.
Instead of 50 people sharing one link, you have 50 people starting 50 different conversations about the same topic.
The CFO talks about the ROI of the new feature. The Product Lead talks about the build process. The Sales Rep talks about the problem it solves for the customer.
You are surrounding the buyer. Wherever they look in their feed, someone is talking about your launch.
That is the “Baader-Meinhof phenomenon” in action. Suddenly, you are everywhere.
3. Speed Matters
In sales, time is money. In marketing, timing is everything.
You cannot afford to wait three days for the team to “get around to it.”
With a ThunderClap, the campaign is queued up. The team gets a notification. They review the post (which is already written in their voice). They hit approve.
The whole company is live in minutes.
You get the maximum Share of Voice right when you need it.
When to Use a ThunderClap (And When to Shut Up)
Do not use this for everything.
If you create a ThunderClap for “International Pancake Day” or for a minor bug fix, your team will revolt.
You need to save the big guns for the big moments.
The Product Launch
This is the classic use case. You have something new to sell. You need the market to know.
Trigger a ThunderClap. Get every sales rep posting about the pain point this product solves.
The result? Inbound interest. Your reps aren’t cold calling; they are responding to comments on their own posts.
The “Event” Domination
You are spending a fortune to attend a trade show.
Most companies post a picture of their booth on the corporate page. 12 people see it.
Instead, orchestrate a ThunderClap for the morning the expo floor opens.
Have 20 people on the ground posting about the energy, the booth, the swag, the meetings.
You create a “Fear Of Missing Out” (FOMO) effect. People come to your booth because they feel like that is where the action is.
The Crisis (or the Correction)
Sometimes you need to control a narrative fast. Maybe a competitor has spread a rumour. Maybe the market is shifting.
You can deploy a ThunderClap to set the record straight across all channels instantly.
You turn your team into a unified media house.
The Math of Reach
Let’s look at the numbers. I love data. I built my career on it.
Let’s say your Company Page has 20,000 followers.
Organic reach on pages is terrible. Maybe 5% see it if you are lucky. That is 1,000 eyeballs.
Now look at your team.
You have 50 employees.
The average B2B professional has around 1,000 connections.
That is a total network of 50,000 people.
But personal profiles get much better reach than pages.
If you get those 50 people to post via a ThunderClap, you are potentially reaching tens of thousands of highly relevant prospects.
And because of the way network effects work, when a prospect sees three different people they trust talking about your company on the same day, their brain signals “Importance.”
This is social proof at scale.
Stop Shouting Into the Wind
We operate in a noisy world.
Digital noise is at an all-time high. AI is flooding the internet with garbage content.
To break through, you cannot rely on a corporate logo.
People trust people.
Your sales team, your engineers, your customer success managers… they are the people your market trusts.
If you leave them to their own devices, they will stay silent. Not because they don’t care, but because it is hard.
Your job as a leader is to remove the friction.
Stop begging them to share. Stop hoping the algorithm will save you.
Orchestrate your success.
Use a ThunderClap. Amplify your best content.
Make the market listen.
Because if you have a “game changing” announcement and nobody hears it, you haven’t changed the game. You have just wasted a lot of money on a press release.
And nobody gets a bonus for that.
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