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Brandneu: So performen Content Formate aktuell auf LinkedIn 🔥

Shield hat die aktuellsten Zahlen aus 50.000 analysierten Posts veröffentlicht. Hier im Fokus: wie hoch ist die Reichweite von Beitragsformaten im Verhältnis zur Followerzahl (hier gemessen als Median).

Der Gewinner: Bild-Posts. Allerdings eher überraschend gefolgt von Text-Posts, Carousel-Posts und Umfragen gleichauf dahinter.

Deutlich abgeschlagen: Artikel, Videos und Reposts.

Bei der Engagement Rate liegen allerdings die Umfragen vorn, gefolgt von Bild und Video (gleichauf). Text-Posts verlieren deutlich.

Schreib Umfragen also nicht ab, sie sind immer noch eine gute Beimischung für deinen Content-Mix. Ansonsten setze vor allem auf Bilder, Carousels und gern auch mal einen reinen Text-Post oder ein Video.

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Stop using ChatGPT for everything.

These are the only 7 tools I (actually) swear by:

1. Grok.com → for search

ChatGPT doesn't know what happened 20 mins ago
Grok does. Real-time tweets pulled straight from X.
Ask a question. Get facts. Not guesses and links.

2. Gemini (google.com) → for images & multilingual

Generates text inside images flawlessly.
In any language. Clean. Believable. Editable.
Hindi, Spanish, anything. No more 5th try.

3. Gamma.app → for slides

You can't upload your brand kit to ChatGPT.
Gamma actually builds the deck in your branding.
The best PowerPoint killer. Period.

4. Wispr.ai → for voice-to-text

You type your prompts into ChatGPT like it's 2024.
I just talk. Wispr types. And it learns my edits.
80 WPM → 200+. Never going back.

5. Ask.dig.ai → for TikTok & social trends

ChatGPT guesses what's trending. From stale data.
Dig scans 100+ real TikToks. Shows what's trending
Real videos & reaction. Zero hallucination. Just ask.

6. Granola.ai → for meeting notes

You paste transcripts into ChatGPT after the call.
Granola takes notes during the call. Silently.
Does NOT join like a bot. Just works.

7. Claude.ai → for serious tasks

You rewrite ChatGPT outputs 5x to sound human.
Claude gets it right on the first try.
Teach it with your voice. Upload .md files. Done.

ChatGPT made you work in 2025.
These 7 tools work for you in 2026.

Save this. Try one tool this week. Thank me later.

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The continuing gap between the capabilities of Gemini Pro 3.1 (a very good model) and the capabilities of the Gemini app/website is odd. The model can do what Claude/GPT can do, but there is a minimal harness for tools (file creation, research etc), no auditable thinking trace/actions, manual canvas, etc.

The reason this is odd is that Google is trusted by enterprises & has the compute to burn, so a good harness would solve so many of Gemini’s gaps and make it an easier sell to companies. Gemini can make Office documents, for example, but the harness doesn’t allow it to do so on the website or app. It could also decide when to use other Google tools (and Google has a lot of very good AI tools) and apply them, taking advantage of the ecosystem, but it doesn’t consistently.

I assume something will be coming out here eventually, but the gap with Claude and ChatGPT has only been growing.

agree?

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I'm convinced most people are performative.

Constantly seeking the approval of others.

They fake their personality, behave worse than they normally would, do things they don't want to do, and build things they don't want to build.

All because of some weird addiction to the approval of random strangers.

Some people do it in person, others online, and I've found it doesn't really matter which one it is.

If you're not being true to yourself, you're simply wasting your time.

Because nobody is paying attention to you the way you think they are, anyway.

And once you realize that, you can finally be 100%, completely free.

Free to be who you are.
Free to do what you wish.
Free to love what you work on.

So, take a good look around and remember that none of these random folks are who you need to impress.

Never build someone else's idea of a great life.

Build your own.

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Remember:

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