The LinkedIn profile gives marketers an unparalleled ability to deliver highly relevant, targeted messages to unique audiences. Whether you're seeking finance professionals with graduate degrees or decision-makers in healthcare organizations – targeting on LinkedIn connects your message with your precise audience.
In this March 2013 webinar, we discussed:
• Which components of the LinkedIn profile determine target audiences
•Approaches for targeting your audience on LinkedIn to get the biggest impact
• How the digital agency Vertic used targeting on LinkedIn to reach Fortune 1000 decision makers for their client, Vestas, a wind energy provider
3. “When a company debuts at $9 billion based
on minimal revenues and no projected profit,
is that a sign that their data is incredibly valuable,
or that Wall Street has lost its mind?”
Paul Noglows, Managing Director at Mesa
29. ENERGY TRANSPARENCY
A PERSONALIZED MASS COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN
CLIENT: VESTAS
The world’s largest pure player in wind energy
BRIEF
Vestas wanted to create awareness among Fortune 500
Corporations about the economic and brand benefits
for using wind energy in creating their products and services
30. Unique Content
Vestas comissioned two studies, the Global
Consumer Wind Study in partnership with TNS
Gallup and the Corporate Renewable Energy Index
In partnership with Bloomberg New Energy Finance,
which showed that consumers want products made
with wind energy, and that corporations are eager to
source more renewable energy.
31. Targeting
Using LinkedIn targeting platform, this enabled
Vestas to reach specific individuals within selected
companies with a highly ersonalized and relevant
message.
In total 419.000 employees globally were targeted
32. Messaging
The combination of a compelling business case,
unique content and the opportunity to target a
specific audience, provided Vertic with the ability to
push engaging, customized messages and increase
relevancy.
33. Personalized
Interactive Experience
Upon click through from LinkedIn, the resulting
site experience was dynamically displayed to
provide relevance according to the user’s company,
industry, segment and role.
34. Unique Content
Data and/or content that is compelling and
sparks interest and awareness.
Targeting
An agile platform that enables user segmentation
on multiple parameters and abillity to target
effectively.
Personalization
An opportunity for a subsequently customized
message to each targeted segment.
35. Results
Vestas was able to view a direct ROI from the
campaign
in addition to generating awareness. They have also
been able to reduce time-to-market based on direct
one-to-one messages that have been delivered to the
key C-level executives within the target audiences.
Vertic and Vestas were awarded the ECHO DMA
Gold Award for the campaign in November 2012.
37. Thank You
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