Interested in fueling even better results with marketing on LinkedIn? Here’s your chance to hear firsthand how the LinkedIn marketing team achieves success. I’ll share our secrets and best practices that you can implement immediately.
-Join me to enhance your marketing as you learn how we harness the power of LinkedIn to:
- Build awareness and shift perception among the right target audiences
- Demonstrate thought leadership
- Nurture prospects with content until they are ready to buy
- Drive more qualified leads faster than ever before
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How to Engage with Us
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Agenda for Today’s Webinar
The marketing challenge
Our content marketing approach
Our best practices on LinkedIn
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It’s a challenging world
Before customers
reach out directly
Source: Forrester, “Buyer Behavior Helps B2B Marketers Guide the
Buyer’s Journey”
Pieces of content
are consumed before
a purchasing decision
is made
Source: Zero Moment of Truth Study, Google
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• Target LinkedIn members with
accuracy to drive brand objectives
• Engage your audience in a high
quality professional context
• Deploy a variety of formats
Reach and engage more than 300M professionals
LinkedIn Onsite Display
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• Reach quality new
audiences
• Drive them to our site
• Distribute top funnel content
Example – Brand Awareness
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Example – Share of Voice
Sponsored Updates + Onsite Display = more leads
Running Onsite Display together with Sponsored Updates allows us to have a
greater share of voice, increasing the performance across channels.
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• Target professionals with accuracy
and scale across the web
• Reach your audience with frequency
• Engage prospects on LinkedIn and
beyond
• Measure the impact of your programs
Reach the right professionals wherever they travel
LinkedIn Network Display
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Sponsored Updates best practices
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• Visual is the new headline
• Keep it short & sweet
• Snackable stats work wonders
• Variety is the spice of life
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Drive more leads and get the attention of your highest-value audiences
on LinkedIn with targeted messages delivered right to their inboxes
LinkedIn Sponsored InMail
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Sponsored InMail: Targeted and personalized message
delivered to the most engaged professional audience
Raise brand awareness
Drive Quality Leads
Build Customer
Relationships
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Sponsored InMail is a great way to expand the
reach of your campaigns
• Campaign:
o FinanceConnect Live Event – May 7, 2015
o Promoting the streaming version of event
o Email was the primary channel for promotion
• Solution: Sponsored InMail to new prospects not in our email database
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Sponsored InMail is great tool for A/B Testing
• Campaign:
o Webinar “Harnessing the Power of the Full Funnel” in April 2015
o Promoted via email, Sponsored updates, blog and social media
• Sponsored InMail Campaign
o A/B Test the sender of the email
o Hypothesis: Sends from a person will drive more registrations
then from a company
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Sponsored InMail best practices
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• Use targeting on LinkedIn to deliver the right message to the right
person at the right time
• Create a compelling inbox preview to drive opens
• Develop personalized content that helps, vs strictly sells
• Optimize your content for mobile engagement
• Create a simple landing page with clear conversion path
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• Convert the 95% of web visitors
who don’t provide email
• Engage the 80% of known
prospects who don’t open email
• Evaluate the impact of your nurture
programs
Deliver more high quality leads to your sales teams by engaging
prospects anywhere online with relevant ads and content
LinkedIn Lead Accelerator
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John Smith
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I’m Keith
Nice to be with you today, thanks for joining
I’m going to share what’s new with LinkedIn that’s going to help you succeed with marketing
I’ll take questions at the end
Let’s get started
A little about us… a lot about you
We’ll use examples from customers as well as our own campaigns
As a marketer, you know it’s becoming increasingly difficult to influence purchase decisions. The buyers journey is non-linear and people are making it through 90% of it before they reach out directly. Today’s empowered consumers have multiple tools in hand to find information about products, compare prices, get social recommendations and so on.
And content is playing a huge role in the decision journey, making it easier for people to go through 90% of the journey.
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But brands do have an ‘in’ here. On average, people are consuming 10 of those pieces of content before making a purchase.
So once you view the journey from the perspective of sharing content, it actually simplifies: you’re trying to reach the right people, and then nurture them, largely with content, until you acquire them
Our blog is the centerpiece
Blog gets leveraged in these channels, and we use it to feed a lot of the content in our sponsored updates
Our Average Attention Span Is Now 8 Seconds – 1 Second Less Than A Goldfish
According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the average attention span of a human being has dropped from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8 seconds in 2013. This is one second less than the attention span of a goldfish. That’s right, goldfish have an attention span of 9 seconds – 1 second more than you and I.
We aim to develop on ‘big rock’ per quarter, that will drive a lot of lead gen and can be carved up into smaller, snackable pieces to extend the shelf life.
This was the dream of Jason Miller our content marketer who we hired last year, and it drove 40% of all leads in Q1, Q2 and Q3.
I mentioned turkey slices on the previous slide, here’s how we carved up the Sophisticated Guide
There are 3 keys to success with content marketing on LinkedIn: have an effective messaging strategy, get it in front of the right people, and understand the business problem you are trying to solve so you can put the right metrics into place. We’ve talked about effective messaging. Let’s talk targeting because that has been LinkedIn’s sweet spot since day one. Whether choosing to distribute content through sponsored updates, sponsored InMail, or good old banner campaigns, here’s a great place to start to understand LinkedIn’s targeting. It’s the self-serve ads platform available at LinkedIn.com/ads and you don’t have to put down a credit card to explore the targeting tool.
How we drive content
Stay on radar early in the purchase cycle
If context is king, professional context of LI Onsite Display
Put your brand in front of 340M professionals in the premium, high quality context of LinkedIn
IAB-standard ads, and ad formats unique to LinkedIn like including Company Ads, Spotlight Ads
What we use it for
Brand Awareness
Share of voice
How we measure
CTR
CVR
If you care about context + frequency, getting in front of the right audiences
Reach prospects with accuracy & scale
On LinkedIn, across LInkedIn’s network of 2500+ business publisher sites -- by targeting them through the Ad Exchanges
but always in a brand safe environment.
Access to reporting
What we use it for
Reach new audiences
Brand Awareness
How we measure it
CTR
New Visitors
Cost Per New Visitor
Down the funnel
Great for sharing content, in the feed, where people are most engaged
Across desktop, tablet and smartphone.
Upper funnel and lower funnel objectives
Showcase pages are extensions of the Company Page designed for spotlighting a brand, business unit, or initiative
Lower half of the funnel where direct response goals reign supreme,
Sponsored InMail is a game changer in terms of taking email marketing effectiveness to the next level.
Sponsored InMail is the most direct way to engage your prospects on LinkedIn.
Dynamic delivery
Optimized for mobile
60 day exclusive
40% Open rate
Sponsored InMail is a game changer in terms of taking email marketing effectiveness to the next level. Sponsored InMail is the most direct way to engage your prospects on LinkedIn. Our customers use Sponsored InMail to drive tangible DR metrics – leads, CPL, pipeline. And, they do that by getting the attention of the audiences they care about on by delivering targeted, personalized messages right into their LInkedIn inbox.
It’s an establish product we’ve made even better including launching mobile in 2012
Facilitator Notes:
Targeting with InMail: Educate customers on value of our audience
Targeting best practices
Ideal target audience size
LinkedIn Lead Accelerator helps you get to the ultimate goal -- lead conversions, pipeline contribution, customer acquisition
an entirely new way to nurture your prospects.
In fact, the very simple way to think about Lead Accelerator is that it is a marketing automation for digital media.
Use Lead Accelerator to deliver more high-quality leads by engaging prospects anywhere online with relevant ads and content.
Reach the 95% who don’t fill in a form
The 80% who don’t open email
Here are the 5 steps to deploying Lead Accelerator.