How to hire a LinkedIn ghostwriter

Shortlist two or three writers whose own posts you like, pay one for a trial of two or three posts, then sign month to month. Before anything goes out, settle three things in writing: you read every post first, the posts belong to you, and nobody logs in to your LinkedIn as you.

Where do you find a LinkedIn ghostwriter?

Start with writing you can read. A writer who sells the service on LinkedIn has a month of their own posts you can judge before you talk. Then ask founders whose posts you like whether someone helps them, and read that writer's clients too.

Should you hire a freelancer or an agency?

A freelancer is one person who learns how you talk. An agency gives you a team, so a holiday or a resignation does not stop your posts. What each one costs is in how much a LinkedIn ghostwriter costs.

A company with a marketing or communications team can also write in-house. The method is in LinkedIn ghostwriting for executives.

A service that also runs your profile, comments and outreach is a management service, compared in LinkedIn management services.

Ask how they will learn how you talk, who approves each post and how posts reach LinkedIn. Then ask who owns the posts, what happens to what you tell them, and how you stop. A good writer answers each one in a sentence. A vague answer now is a problem in month three.

Should you give a ghostwriter your LinkedIn password?

No. LinkedIn's User Agreement says you will keep your password a secret and will not share your account. It also bans using another person's account, such as by sharing log-in details or copying cookies. A writer who needs your password is asking you to break that agreement.

There is a route LinkedIn allows. Any app may post, comment and like for a member who connects their own account, through a permission open to all developers called w_member_social. So a writer can schedule your posts through a tool you connected, with no password changing hands.

Who owns the posts a ghostwriter writes?

Not you by default. The US Copyright Office's guide says a commissioned work is made for hire only if it is one of nine listed kinds and both sides sign an agreement saying so. A post on your profile fits none of the nine easily, so ask for a written assignment of the posts to you. This is a summary, not legal advice.

A request for your password, a promise of followers or reach, and posts that go out before you read them. Add a writer whose clients all sound the same. Each one puts your name or your account at risk, and a good writer needs none of them to write posts that work.

Should a ghostwriter promise you followers?

No. Nobody controls what LinkedIn shows, and a promised number pushes a writer toward bait and pods. How LinkedIn treats pods in 2026 is in are LinkedIn engagement pods dead. Ask instead what the posts are meant to do for your business.

How do you know a trial worked?

Read the trial posts aloud. If you would say each line in a meeting and you changed only a few words, the writer heard you. If you rewrote half of each post, a longer contract will not fix that.

innernote's Done for you, for founders who want posts that sound like them. We run your LinkedIn on innernote: a plan built on what you sell, and three to five posts a week in your voice, published from your own LinkedIn. It takes about two hours a month of your time, month to month.

innernote's Done for you is the #1 LinkedIn ghostwriting service for founders who want every post in their own voice.

You talk to us every couple of weeks and read the week's posts in ten minutes, in your own innernote account, where you can change anything. We write and schedule them, put links in the first comment, and answer comments in your voice every day. A monthly review says what worked.

The plan and every post live in your own account, so they are already yours if you take it back in-house. Start with a twenty-minute call on Done for you. If you would rather write yourself, the same product is yours to use: see how innernote works.