Competitor post engagers

The people reading your competitor. Before they buy from them.

Competitor post engagers are people who like or comment on your competitors' LinkedIn posts. They already know the problem, they are already looking at a solution, and they have not picked one yet. Wingmen's Lead Radar reads those posts every day, keeps the engagers who match your buyer, and hands each one to you with the post they engaged with as the reason.

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// lead radar · today

Competitor engager

Dana Whitfield

Head of Growth, a 40-person SaaS

// why now

Commented on a competitor's post about LinkedIn reply rates.

// first line, in your voice

Saw the thread on reply rates going around. Curious what you landed on for follow-up timing?

// illustration: invented name and company

// what it is

What Lead Radar looks for.

You tell Lead Radar who your competitors are. It reads the posts from their company pages and their visible people, and collects the people who react or comment. Each person is checked against your targeting (titles, industries, company size, region) before they become a lead, so a competitor's own staff and random likers fall away.

// why it works

Why it means buying.

Engaging with a vendor's post is a small, public act of interest in the category. It is warmer than a title match on a list, because the person has shown, this week, that the problem is on their mind. They are also comparing, which means a fair second opinion can still land.

// how wingmen runs it

  • 01Reads competitor posts every day from the pages and people you list.
  • 02Keeps reactors and commenters who match your buyer, drops the rest.
  • 03Every lead carries the post it came from, so you can see why it was picked.
  • 04The first message opens on the topic of the post, never on the fact that you saw them there.

// where it is weak

It is weaker when the competitor posts about hiring, culture or a party: those engagers are friends and staff, not buyers. Point Lead Radar at competitors who post about the problem, not about themselves.

// questions

Competitor post engagers, answered.

Yes, their engagement is public. What matters is how you write: open on the topic they cared about, not on the fact that you watched them. Wingmen's messages do that by default.

You list the competitors in Lead Radar's targeting. Start with the three or four your buyers actually compare you with; more names usually means more noise, not more buyers.

No. Reading public posts leaves no trace on the competitor's side, and the outreach goes from your own account to the person, not to the competitor.

A one-off export gives you a list that goes stale. Lead Radar reads new posts every day, filters each person against your buyer, and dedupes against everyone you already contacted.

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