“This post is called 'I paid five influencers on LinkedIn to promote my SaaS, here's what $1,250 got me.' And it got 160K views, 543 upvotes. In terms of visitors it got us something like 2,000 visitors, and out of 2,000 visitors we probably got something like 10 or 15 clients.”

Headline a $1,250 influencer experiment to pull 160K views and 15 clients

A specific dollar figure in the headline plus screenshots of the actual influencer posts created irresistible curiosity and credibility. The post pulled 160K views and converted around 2,000 visitors into 10-15 paying customers because the story carried verifiable proof.