You already know how to make the carousel.
The hard part is getting it onto the client's LinkedIn.
Right now that takes a design tool to make the deck and a scheduler to push it out, once per client, every week. Blendin generates the carousel in your client's brand and publishes it: the native LinkedIn PDF document, the Instagram carousel, and the first comment in the same act. Your client authorises their own LinkedIn, so nobody shares a password.
Is Blendin built for freelancers?
Not primarily, and it is worth saying up front. Blendin is built first for B2B services companies that have to look established to win contracts: the managed IT provider, the distributor, the logistics firm, the commercial cleaning company, the staffing agency. The overlap is real, because producing a piece in somebody else's brand and publishing it is the same job either way, so if you make content for one or two clients, most of this page applies to you unchanged.
- Built first for
- B2B services companies
- This page fits
- One or two clients
- Ten clients or more
- A different tool serves you better
- What stays the same
- The publishing job itself
The primary fit is described in full on the page built for it. And if your real business runs ten clients with a roster of approvals and a monthly reporting pack for each, a tool built for that will serve you better than this one, and we name a few.
Three things a design tool does not do
Not because it is worse. Because a content planner bolted onto a design tool is built for the lowest common denominator of every network: one image, one caption.
The native LinkedIn PDF carousel
LinkedIn treats a swipeable PDF as a Document post, on a different upload endpoint from an image. A design tool exports the file and stops. Blendin makes the deck in your client's brand and uploads it as a document, so the format with the highest engagement on the platform stops being the one you post by hand, on the day, from your phone.
The Instagram carousel, 2 to 10 images
The same set of slides, a second network, without a second tool and without re-exporting anything. It is also the format a client asks for most, and it goes out as one carousel post rather than a folder you upload by hand.
The first comment, in the same act
LinkedIn suppresses links in the post body, so the link belongs in the first comment, posted immediately. Doing that by hand means being at your desk at the moment a scheduled post goes out, which defeats scheduling it.
See it on one real client before you decide
Paste your client's website and Blendin builds the first carousel in their real colours and fonts, ready to publish to their LinkedIn or yours.
Free for 14 days on the full Starter plan, card required, no charge today, then $59 a month, cancel anytime.
The way most people do this breaks LinkedIn's rules
Logging in to a client's LinkedIn with a password they emailed you is the normal way freelancers work, and it is a breach of LinkedIn's User Agreement, which prohibits using another person's account including by sharing log-in credentials. Most people find that out at the worst possible moment.
| Feature | An emailed password | A delegated connect link |
|---|---|---|
| Compliant with LinkedIn's User Agreement | No | Yes |
| You never see a password | No | Yes |
| The two factor code reaches the right deviceWith a shared password, their code still goes to their own phone | No | Yes |
| They can revoke access themselves, any time | No | Yes |
LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits using another member's account, including by sharing log-in credentials.
The carousel comes out in their colours, not a template
Colours, fonts, voice and connected accounts, kept apart per client. One connected account can belong to several brands at once, which matters when the same person is a founder in one brand and a company page in another.
Worth checking the real cost of a second or third client against how many you actually run, before it decides the plan for you.
1
brand kit included on the Starter plan
Starter plan
5
brand kits included on the Pro plan
Pro plan
$10
a month for each brand kit past the included count
Starter and Pro plans
Business includes unlimited brand kits, the one field on any plan that genuinely is.
Hand over a pack, not a link
One download with the images, the LinkedIn-ready PDF, a caption written for each network, the hashtags as their own file, and the alt text. For the clients who publish it themselves.
What Blendin does not do for a freelancer
Cheaper to say now than to find out in week two.
- It is not a design tool. If you want to lay out a poster by hand, use one.
- No ad manager, and no ads or boost feature of any kind.
- It does not publish to X or to YouTube.
- TikTok is on Pro and Business, not the entry Starter plan.
- The Facebook first comment is not supported, because it needs two Meta permissions Blendin deliberately does not request.
Questions
Can I publish to a client's LinkedIn without their password?
Yes, and it is the only compliant way to do it. For LinkedIn you send a one-time connect link, your client authorises their own account on LinkedIn's own screen, and the account attaches to your workspace. You never see a password. Signing in with credentials a client gave you breaches LinkedIn's User Agreement, which prohibits using another person's account including by sharing log-in credentials, so the delegated link is not merely more convenient, it is the difference between compliant and not.
Does it actually post a swipeable PDF carousel to LinkedIn?
Yes. LinkedIn treats a swipeable PDF as a Document post, which goes through a different upload endpoint from an image, and Blendin uploads the document itself, so a carousel is scheduled like any other post. To be straight with you, Blendin is not the only tool that can publish a LinkedIn PDF: Buffer does it, and so does Hootsuite. What they do not do is make the carousel in your client's brand first. Blendin puts both halves in one place.
How is this different from a design tool plus a scheduler?
That is the honest comparison, and today it is two subscriptions and two tools. The design tool makes the slides, the scheduler pushes them out, and you carry the file between them for every client, every week. Blendin generates the deck in the client's brand and publishes it, and the first comment goes out with the post. The saving is the handoff, not a feature nobody else has.
Can it schedule an Instagram carousel?
Yes, 2 to 10 images as one carousel post, made in the client's brand and published from the same place. No exporting the set and uploading it somewhere else.
What about the first comment?
It goes out in the same act as the post, natively on LinkedIn Company Pages, Instagram, and Threads. That matters because the first comment is where a link belongs: LinkedIn suppresses links in the post body. Not on Facebook, and not on TikTok, which has no comments API at all.
How many clients can I run from one account?
Each client is a brand with its own colours, fonts, voice and connected accounts, and one connected account can belong to several brands, which matters when the same person is a founder in one brand and a company page in another. One brand kit is included on Starter and five on Pro, each extra kit a flat $10 a month, and Business includes unlimited kits. Connected accounts are an included count per plan with a $9 per account fee above it, and no plan claims unlimited accounts.
Try it on one real client
Fourteen days of the full Starter plan, card required, no charge today, then 59 dollars per month, cancel anytime. Long enough to publish something real to a client's LinkedIn and see whether the part that annoys you actually goes away.
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