Want to Go Viral on LinkedIn? Create a Poll
Social media polls are often pointless, but they bring your content eyeballs.
Are you a job seeker, entrepreneur, content creator, influencer or just generally an attention seeker?
Great news — LinkedIn still has ginormous potential for organic reach.
That means you can go viral without having to pay a cent!
Videos are so 2019… The latest cool thing on LinkedIn? Polls.
Here’s how I got over half a million views on a poll that took me all of 10 minutes.
A brief history of social media polls
Do you remember when polls were the biggest thing on Facebook?
Facebook polls were introduced as a new feature back in 2011.
I vividly remember my newsfeed being bombarded with polls when Facebook introduced the option.
The polls were interesting for a while and there were some very funny ones. But, it became a bit annoying, at least for me, to see so many pointless polls bombarding my newsfeed.
Twitter introduced polls in 2015 and 2017 saw Instagram bring polls to their stories format.
