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LinkedIn content strategy for ERP transformation leaders: how a Houston program leader reached 95 executives and operations leaders in one month
We read every reaction on 30 posts from a Houston ERP and digital transformation leader. 884 people, 95 executives and operations leaders. Here is what brings buyers, what brings peers, and the 5 posts we'd publish next.
Max Sawyer · Netwarm··11 min read
The creator in this case studyA Houston ERP and digital transformation program leader
Followers6,755
PostsDaily, ~7 a week
These numbers are from 8 November. Your audience has already moved.
New executives and operations leaders turn Hot every week and others go quiet. Run your free scan to see today’s version, with the names.
Ideal client: CFOs, COOs, CIOs and operations leaders at distribution, manufacturing and food businesses heading into an ERP or supply chain transformation.The challenge: The program leader writes a field note every morning about what happens between the plan and the go-live. Project managers love it: they are the biggest group reacting. The leaders who sign off on a transformation are in the room too, but quieter. Which posts reach them?
Key takeaways
1 in 9 readers is a buyer.95 executives and operations leaders reacted in one month: 10.7% of the 884 people who reacted. Peers are 53%.
Posts about leading people bring the most buyers.11% of reactors on those posts were executives and operations leaders, against 6.9% on the company and peak season posts.
4 buyers are Hot right now.They reacted to 5 posts or more. One of them reacted to 15 of the 30.
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Who actually reads you, and what the LinkedIn algorithm changed
The program leader posts every morning, around 7 a.m. Central: ERP project stories, lessons from history, leading people under pressure, enVista's peak season content, and a weekly newsletter issue. 30 posts between 8 October and 8 November.
The LinkedIn algorithm shows a post to the people who reacted to the last ones, then to people like them. Project management is a big, generous community on LinkedIn: it reacts fast, and it pulls a post toward more project managers. That's reach. It isn't the same as reaching the CFO who'll approve the next transformation. We looked at every person who reacted and sorted them by role.
30posts in a month
884people reacted
95executives and operations leaders
11came back 3+ times
Audience by roleThe 884 people who reacted, by roleFree
Peers lead: 354 coaches, consultants, advisors and creators, and 116 project, program and PMO managers. They make the posts travel, and they rarely sign a transformation contract.
The 95 buyers are founders, CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, general managers and operations, plant and supply chain leaders. Some are small business owners outside the ERP world: a Netwarm scan matches people to your own ideal client.
SeniorityAll people who reactedFree
Founder, owner, C-level16.5%
Director, VP7%
Manager16.4%
Independent8.6%
Other51.5%
IndustriesExecutives and operations leaders onlyNetwarm
Energy, oil & gas10.5%
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Core audience11 executives and operations leaders engaged 3+ times · 4 engaged 5+ timesNetwarm
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What to post on LinkedIn to reach executives and operations leaders
Most transformation leaders judge a post by its reactions. One who sells should judge it by who reacted.
We tagged each of the 30 posts by topic, then measured the share of executives and operations leaders among the people who reacted.
Your topicsWhat your 29 posts were aboutFree
29posts
ERP project stories10
Leading people5
History lessons5
enVista and peak season5
Newsletter issues4
Topics that attract executives and operations leadersShare of each topic’s reactions from executives and operations leadersNetwarm
Leading people11.0%
History lessons8.9%
ERP project stories8.2%
Newsletter issues7.4%
enVista and peak season6.9%
One topic brings 1.6x more buyers than another. See which.See which topics
Posts about leading people bring 1.6x more executives and operations leaders per reaction than the enVista and peak season posts: 11% against 6.9%. They also reach the most per post, 7.8 on average.
Posts that brought the most executives and operations leadersShare of executives and operations leaders in each post’s reactions1 of 5 open
#1Competitive people on a cutover, and taking care of them14.1%
#2A billion-dollar business on two old ERP systems14%
#3“I want you to fall over”: what a CIO taught me about leading13.9%
#4Answering a different question in requirements workshops11.9%
#5Grace Hopper’s counterclockwise clock11.6%
For comparison, the post about how AI will change a project manager’s week reached 3.8% buyers, the lowest share.
6 rules for LinkedIn engagement from executives and operations leaders
These rules come from what worked on the program leader's own profile, and from the best-performing posts by ERP, project and transformation leaders on LinkedIn over the last 3 months.
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Open on a small personal scene. The step challenge, the leaderboard, the evening lost to it. A scene an executive recognises from their own life lands before the lesson does.On this profile: the step challenge post had the highest share of buyers, 14.1%, and 1,143 reactions.
Write about the people you lead. Executives hire the leader as much as the method. Posts about pushing a team, protecting it and taking the heat show what working with the program leader is like.On this profile: posts about leading people brought 11% buyers, the most of any topic, against 6.9% for the company and peak season posts.
Put the business stake in the first line. “A billion-dollar business on two old ERP systems” is a CFO's problem before it's a project problem. Say what the business stands to lose, then tell the project.On this profile: the billion-dollar business post reached 14 buyers in its first 100 reactions, 14%, the best of the ERP stories.
Tell one meeting and one question. A steering committee, a green dashboard, and the question nobody could answer. One meeting shows the judgment the work takes better than a list of lessons.Across the niche: Mohamed Rushdi’s “70% complete” meeting drew 98 comments on 90 likes.
Say out loud the mess everyone hides. The spreadsheet that runs the plant, the process map nobody follows. Naming what every ERP team finds makes operations leaders nod, then comment.Across the niche: Gabriel P.’s “That spreadsheet is still carrying the company” got 1,146 likes; Peter Weiss’s process-map story drew 341 comments.
End on a question about their own project. Most of the posts end on a line to remember. A question a COO can answer from their own week brings them into the comments, where the program leader can see them.Across the niche: Kristine Nachkebia’s closing question drew 233 comments on 341 likes; Jesus Romero’s kickoff question drew 102 on 103.
When executives and operations leaders read: the best time to post on LinkedIn for ERP transformation leaders
We compared the share of executives and operations leaders by the day each post was published. 28 of the 30 posts went out between 6 and 8 a.m. Central, so there is no hour to compare.
Share of executives and operations leaders by posting dayAmong the people who reacted to each postFree
6.2%
Mon
7.4%
Tue
8.2%
Wed
9.4%
Thu
9.2%
Fri
7.1%
Sat
9.3%
Sun
Thursday, Friday and Sunday brought the highest share of buyers (9.2 to 9.4%), Monday the lowest (6.2%). Friday brought the most per post: 8 buyers on average across 4 posts.
Keep the 7 a.m. Central slot. Put the posts that sell the work (a leadership story, an ERP story with a business stake, the readiness check) on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, and use Monday for history lessons and company content.
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5 posts ready to publish to target executives and operations leaders
Each post follows the rules above, in the program leader's voice. Swap in your own details before posting: the real project is what makes it land.
1Ready to postLeadership story
The night I sent two people home during cutoverRules 1 and 2: open on a small scene, write about the people you lead. Modelled on the “I love competition” post (13.9% buyers).
Hook
At 11 p.m. on cutover weekend, I sent my two best people home.Nobody was happy about it. Including them.We were behind. Inventory loads were failing. The data team had been on calls since 6 a.m.And those two were the ones fixing everything. Every time a load broke, they were already on it.That's exactly why I sent them home.Cutover doesn't end on Sunday night. It ends somewhere in the first week of hypercare, when the business starts finding what we missed.I needed them sharp on Tuesday more than I needed them exhausted on Saturday.So we changed the plan.
The next shift took the loads they could handle.
We pushed one non-critical conversion by 12 hours.
I stayed on the bridge.They came back at 7 a.m. and closed the two hardest problems before lunch.Competitive people will keep pushing long after you've asked enough of them.That's not a reason to let them.These are your people. Sometimes taking care of them means taking them off the plan.
Visual · Text onlyNo image. The 11 p.m. scene carries it.Check before postingUse a real cutover from your own work: the hour, what was failing and what you moved. Keep the client anonymous.
What the CFO actually wanted from the ERPRule 3: say what the business stands to lose or gain before the project detail. Modelled on the billion-dollar business post (14% buyers).
Hook
The CFO didn't ask me about the ERP once in our first meeting.She asked about day 19.That's how long month-end close was taking. Three entities, two old systems, and a reconciliation spreadsheet one analyst understood.Every month, the leadership team made decisions on numbers that were almost three weeks old.So that became the scope. Not the modules. Day 19.We worked backward from it:
• Which reconciliations happen outside the system today?
• Which intercompany entries wait on someone's email?
• Which reports get rebuilt by hand every month?
• Which approvals add days and catch nothing?Half the answers had nothing to do with software.The new system made a faster close possible. The process changes made it real.I've never had a client tell me they were excited to implement an ERP.They're excited about day 6.What's your day 19?
Visual · Single imageTwo bars: close in days before and after. No client name, no logo.Check before postingUse the real close times from a project you can talk about, or change the numbers to what you saw. Keep the client and the person anonymous.
The question nobody could answer five weeks before go-liveRule 4: tell one meeting and the one question that changed the plan. Modelled on Mohamed Rushdi’s “70% complete” post.
Hook
Five weeks before go-live, the warehouse manager asked one question nobody in the steering committee could answer.“If the new system is down at 5 a.m., who prints the shipping labels?”The status report was green.
Testing was on track.
Training was scheduled.And nobody had planned for the first truck of the day.IT assumed operations had a manual fallback.
Operations assumed IT had a recovery plan.
The vendor assumed it was out of scope.Everyone was right about their own piece. Nobody owned the gap.We spent the next two weeks on it:
• A manual label process, tested on a real dock
• A named person on each shift who could trigger it
• A rule for when we stop waiting and switchWe used it once, on day two.The trucks left on time.The most valuable person in a steering committee is often the one who asks about 5 a.m.Who asks that question on your project?
Visual · Text onlyNo image. The quote is the hook.Check before postingSwap in the real question from one of your programs. If it never happened like this, use a question you did hear.
Going live in peak: the 9-point readiness checkRule 6 and the lead magnet: turn the nine checks from the peak go-live post into a one-page check executives can run with their team. Modelled on that post.
Hook
I won't sign off a peak-season go-live until nine questions have a name next to them.Not a team. A name.1. Is the master data clean, and who signed it off?
2. Did we test at peak volume, not average volume?
3. Did the integrations run end to end under load?
4. Who owns the call when something fails at 2 a.m.?
5. Did we run a production-like test before cutover?
6. Did we test failure and recovery, not only success?
7. Did we rehearse the critical processes end to end?
8. Do we know the workarounds before we need them?
9. Does more than one person know how each piece works?If a question has no name, it's not a check. It's a hope.You'll never anticipate everything production will throw at you.You can make sure somebody owns what you didn't anticipate.I turned these nine into a one-page readiness check, with what “ready” looks like for each one.If your go-live is on the roadmap, comment READY and I'll send it to you.
Visual · Single imageThe one-page check: nine rows, a column for the owner’s name, a column for “ready when…”.Check before postingPut your Netwarm Reveal link behind the check so you can see which executives download it.
The spreadsheet that runs the plantRule 5: say out loud the mess every ERP team finds, then what you do about it. Modelled on Gabriel P.’s data migration post.
Hook
Every ERP project I've worked on found the same thing in week three.A spreadsheet that runs the plant.It's never in the process maps. It's on one planner's desktop, it has eleven tabs, and the column headers only make sense to the person who built it.The instinct is to call it a workaround and plan to retire it.I've learned to be more careful.That file usually exists because the old system couldn't do something the business needed. A customer exception. A supplier rule. A shortcut that saves a day at month-end.If we migrate the data and ignore the file, the new system goes live and the business keeps living in the spreadsheet.So before design, I ask three questions:
• What decision does this file help someone make?
• What would break if it disappeared tomorrow?
• Is that need still real, or is it yesterday's constraint?Some of those files become requirements.
Some become reports.
A few just get deleted.But every one of them gets a conversation first.Which spreadsheet would your business stop without?
Visual · Single imageA blurred, messy spreadsheet with eleven tabs. No real data.Check before postingMake the details match a file you actually found on a project. Keep the client anonymous.
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LinkedIn lead generation: lead magnets that work to target executives and operations leaders
Reactions show interest. A download shows intent. The fastest way to find out which executives are serious is to give them something useful and see who takes it.
In ERP, supply chain and project delivery, these formats get the most requests:
Format 1The working templateA model or plan an executive can use the same day, given for a one-word comment.
Format 2The checklistTen lines a team can run before a decision, on one page they can print.
Format 3The self-testA short quiz with a score, so readers find out where they stand.
Format 4The diagnostic linkA tool that shows where the next plan will fail, at the end of a story.
Our pick for you: “The Peak Go-Live Readiness Check”Built from the nine readiness checks the program leader already uses before going live in peak season (master data, peak-volume testing, integrations under load, failure ownership, recovery, rehearsal, workarounds, knowledge spread), with an owner column and what “ready” looks like for each. Offer it at the end of post 4.With a Reveal link, every person who downloads it is shown by name, with their role and how warm they are. Your first Reveal link is free.Create your free Reveal link
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From reactions to clients
Content brings executives to the profile. It doesn't say when to reach out. Most never comment, so they stay invisible, and an operations leader reading every post in October may have picked another partner by January.
On LinkedIn, the right moment to start a conversation is when someone keeps coming back. We call that Hot: 5 or more points over 90 days, where a reaction counts 1, a repost 2, a download or a reply 4.
Hot right now4 executives and operations leaders · not contacted yetNetwarm
4 executives and operations leaders are Hot. See who to message first.See who’s Hot
First messageAn opener for each Hot person, based on the posts they readNetwarm
Hi Dana, you've been reading my go-live posts for a few weeks. Is a cutover on your 2027 roadmap?Hi Sam, I saw you reacted to the post on the spreadsheet that runs the plant. Does your team have one of those?
A first line for each of them, ready to send.See the openers
Netwarm sends nothing for you. It tells you who and when, and you write the message. It also works inside Claude and ChatGPT: ask “Who's Hot today?” and get the list.
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FAQ
Posts about leading people brought the most executives here (11% of reactors), then history lessons and ERP project stories. Open on a small scene, put the business stake up front, and end on a question about the reader’s own project.
For this program leader, Thursday (9.4%), Sunday (9.3%) and Friday (9.2%) brought the highest share of executives and operations leaders, and Monday the lowest (6.2%). Friday brought the most per post.
This program leader posts every day, and 11 executives and operations leaders came back 3 times or more in a month. Daily works when the posts that sell the work go out on the best days.
Look at who reacts, not how many. Group reactions by role, measure the share of your ideal clients per post, and follow the people who keep coming back. A free Netwarm scan does this for you.
Yes. Netwarm only reads public reactions to your own posts. It never logs in as you, never asks for your password, and never messages anyone for you.
How we made this playbook
We read the public reactions on 30 posts published between 8 October and 8 November 2026 (the first 100 reactions of each post), and sorted the 884 people by role. Comments were not counted, so engagement figures are a floor.
Niche rules come from top posts by ERP, project management and transformation leaders over the last 3 months. Role groups are approximate; a Netwarm scan matches people to your own ideal client.
