The search found nothing, or very little
Empty results almost always come from targeting that is too tight. Here is how to loosen it one notch at a time.
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Try the two one-click fixes first
Under an empty result Allen offers Search the past week and Search without the audience filter. Try the first. If the past week has plenty, your audience is fine and your topic is just quiet today. If even the past week is thin, your targeting is tight.
Loosen one thing at a time
- Keywords. Fewer, broader keywords, or none: choose your audience "talking about anything" so job titles do the work.
- Job titles. Add common variations and more senior and junior versions.
- Country. International finds far more than a single country, because authors without a confirmed location are left out when a country is set.
- People to Skip and Words to Skip. A broad skip word like "sales" can remove most of your results.
If your buyers simply do not post much
That is real for some industries. Switch to finding people instead of posts: use Find leads and Prospecting on the Connections page, add the right people to your watchlist, and let Allen catch them when they do post.
Check what Autopilot found
If Autopilot is on, the morning email tells you how many posts it considered. A pattern of "Nothing to post today" is the same signal: widen the audience.
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