Pain-language posts

They wrote down the problem. In their own words.

Pain-language posts are LinkedIn posts where someone describes the problem you solve in their own words: a slow process, a tool that broke, a target they keep missing. It is social listening aimed at sales instead of brand mentions. Wingmen's Lead Radar reads LinkedIn for those posts every day, keeps the authors who match your buyer, and gives you each one with the post as the reason to write.

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// lead radar · today

Pain post

Marco Lindqvist

Founder, a 12-person design agency

// why now

Posted that referrals dried up and outbound feels like spam.

// first line, in your voice

Your post on referrals drying up hit home. The agencies I see doing well swapped volume for timing. Want the short version?

// illustration: invented name and company

// what it is

What Lead Radar looks for.

Lead Radar works from the problems your website and your targeting describe, and looks for posts that talk about them in plain, frustrated language. The author becomes the lead. Anyone who does not match your buyer is dropped before you see them.

// why it works

Why it means buying.

Intent is lower than a competitor's comment section, because the person may not be shopping yet. But the message writes itself: you already know the problem, in their words, and you can answer it rather than pitch.

// how wingmen runs it

  • 01Listens for posts describing the problems you solve, every day.
  • 02Keeps the authors who match your titles, industries and company size.
  • 03Each lead carries the post, so the opener can answer what they said.
  • 04Messages lead with a useful thought on the problem, not a product pitch.

// where it is weak

Pain posts are noisy: people vent, joke and rant about things they will never buy a fix for. Tight targeting matters more here than on any other signal, so keep your buyer definition narrow.

// questions

Pain-language posts, answered.

Social listening usually means tracking brand mentions for marketing. For sales it means watching for people who describe a problem you solve, then starting a conversation about it. Pain-language posts are that, done every day on LinkedIn.

No. It works from your website and your targeting to understand the problems you solve. You can tighten it later if the leads drift.

It is if you pitch. It works when you answer the problem first and offer something useful. Wingmen writes the first message that way.

Pain-language posts are read on LinkedIn, where your buyers post about work.

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Pain-language posts, found for you every day.