Amplify your voice. Make something new. Grow together.
SocialAmp is a private, human-only, white-hat community of like-minded professionals. Your circle amplifies each other's voices, creates new content together in Amp Sessions, and grows each other's networks and visibility. It started with a pod that spiked and stalled. What came next is something much better.
A client added me to a pod of 30+ executives.
I had been working with an influencer as a client. As a thank-you, he added me to a private LinkedIn pod — about 30 executives, all agreeing to engage with each other's posts. I'd been posting consistently for years and watching the engagement plateau like everyone else does.
Then I posted into the pod. Within days, followers, engagement and impressions all jumped.
For the first time in years, the content was moving. New networks. New conversations. DMs from people I'd actually wanted to meet.
Then it stalled.
The spike flattened. Then it dipped. The pod started feeling like an obligation more than an asset — engagement traded among the same 30 people, on posts half of us weren't really qualified to comment on, with comments getting shorter and emptier every week. A handful of us were the only ones still showing up. By the time I left, reach was worse than before I'd joined.
That's when I went looking for what had actually happened. The best part of those weeks was never the likes. It was the people, the real conversations, and the new connections. That's what SocialAmp was built to keep.
Trading likes isn't the same as being heard. Here's what goes wrong.
The same faces on every post
Your audience sees the same names on your content for months. It stops looking like interest and starts looking like a deal.
AI-generated comments
Newer pods bolted on AI to "scale." Generic comments landing seconds after you post don't start a conversation. Real readers can tell.
Like-for-like quotas
Everyone is told to engage with everything, right away. It turns into a chore, and nobody is reading closely anymore.
No accountability
Half the pod just collects the credit. The rest burn out. Comments get shorter and emptier every week.
Pods can give you a burst. They can't give you a community: people who actually read your work, make things with you, and introduce you to their own audiences.
Not a pod. One product, three parts, from day one.
SocialAmp was always meant to be more than a place to swap posts. Your circle connects you. Amp Chat amplifies your voice. Amp Sessions create new content with real people and put you in front of each other's audiences. Amplify, create, connect. That's the whole idea.
Your circle: connect
A curated group of up to 48 like-minded professionals. We rotate a few members at a time, so the core stays stable and new connections keep arriving.
Amp Chat: amplify
Your circle shares the LinkedIn posts they just published. The conversation happens on LinkedIn, in the comments, as yourself. You get a heads-up when someone in your circle opens your post.
Amp Sessions: create
Scheduled, recorded video conversations with people from your circle, podcast or panel style. Everyone who speaks gets the full video to promote on their own channels, with credit. New content, made with real people.
White hat, always
Real people, real accounts, real opinions. No bots, no automation, no fake engagement. We never post, like or comment on your behalf, and we never ask for your LinkedIn login.
Moderated by people
Automated detection surfaces issues; a human team reviews and enforces against published community rules. Members who freeload or post off-topic are warned and removed.
Follow along your way
Keep up with your circle in the app, or by email, text or Slack. Pick what works for you and switch any time.
What we believe.
Real people, real conversation
Every comment, like and reshare comes from a real person on their own account. No bots, no automation, no fake engagement. SocialAmp installs nothing in your LinkedIn account and never posts for you. We don't game the algorithm. We earn attention with good work and real conversation.
Not a pod
No like-for-like quotas. No tit-for-tat. Engage with what genuinely moves you, and the people who show up for you will mean it.
Make something together
Amplifying each other is only half of it. In Amp Sessions you sit down on camera with people from your circle and make something new. Everyone who speaks walks away with the full video to share, and each conversation puts you in front of each other's audiences. Real conversation tends to travel further than a lone post.
Small is durable
We're not chasing a giant member count. We're chasing the right people, with the curation and moderation that make every circle worth showing up for.
Honest pricing
Basic is $49 a month: your circle, Amp Chat, and up to 3 Amp Sessions a month. Premium is $99 a month: host an Amp Session every month and join as many as you like. Our founding cohort gets the first 90 days free on either plan.
Not a spike. A line that keeps going up.
The pod stall pushed me to build SocialAmp, and to put the same principles into practice on my own LinkedIn. No automation. No extension. No paid engagement schemes. Just consistent posting, real conversations, and the manual, human work of showing up for people.
The result over the year that followed isn't a spike. It's a line that keeps going up. Quietly. Post by post. Conversation by conversation.
That's the thing about pods: they can give you one good month. They can't give you a year. SocialAmp is built for the year: people in your corner, content you make together, and a network that keeps growing.
About the founder.
Russ Fordyce
🏆25+ years in B2B marketing leadership — Comcast, ITXC, Broadview Networks, Coriant, and Infinera, where I ran go-to-market for fiber and optical networking portfolios. Started in newspaper design at the Dallas and Philadelphia Business Journals.
Founded Business Intelligence Group in 2012. BIG now runs 12+ award programs spanning innovation, sustainability, cloud computing, sales & marketing — plus custom recognition programs we design and run for customers' own industries and communities.
SocialAmp is the latest: built from the pod experience above as a place to amplify, create and connect, and shipped solo with Claude Code because the cost of building software just collapsed. That story is here.
People in your corner. Content you make together.
SocialAmp is in private beta, invite only. Our founding cohort gets the first 90 days free on either plan.