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10Pieces of content
are consumed before
a purchasing decision
is made
90%Before customers
reach out directly
It’s a challenging world
Source: Forrester, “Accelerating Revenue in a Changed Economy”
Source: Zero Moment of Truth Study, Google
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41%
of online ads reach the wrong audience*
60-70%
Content goes unread**
5%
Fill out a form***
*Defining Online Ad Success: How benchmarks are shifting as advertisers take aim,” Nielsen **Inciting a B-to-B Content Revolution,” Sirius Decision
***B2B campaign form conversion rates range from 1-5%, Sirius Decisions Benchmark Survey.
The challenge remains
Reach the right people and convert high quality prospects
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Reach only the right people
Deliver highly relevant
content in the right channel
Acquire new customers
Imagine if the funnel worked like it should
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Network Display
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Sponsored InMail
Lead Accelerator
Full-funnel analytics
& reporting
products that impact
every stage of your
funnel and get results
The only full-funnel professional platform
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Peers
1MM+ posts/wk in Groups
130k/wk Member Posts
News
2MM+ Publishers
LinkedIn Pulse
Brands
7MM+ Company Pages
Company Updates
18MM+ Slideshares
Elevate
Education
270k+ Lynda videos
Professional Publishing Platform
Thought Leaders
500+ Influencers
• Target professionals who live in target
cities along key routes
• Identify members who belong to
LinkedIn groups related to business
travel in Asia
“We knew we needed to advertise where business people – and
especially the business travelers – are going to be. They’re on LinkedIn.”
Dennis Owen, VP Marketing Americas, Cathay Pacific Airways
Raise product
awareness
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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 from IAB
standard formats to highly engaging
native ads such as Spotlight Ads and
Follow Company Ads
Reach and engage more than 300M professionals
LinkedIn Onsite Display
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• Target professionals with accuracy and
scale across the web
• Reach your audience with frequency to
increase awareness and engagement
• Engage prospects on LinkedIn,
business publisher sites, and beyond
• Measure the impact of your programs
with full funnel analytics
Reach the right professionals wherever they travel
LinkedIn Network Display
• Increased brand awareness and
targeted web traffic
• Nearly 5x increase in the number of
daily website visits from legal
professionals
“With LinkedIn Network Display, we’ve become a leading brand in our
space, and LinkedIn has been a key contributor to our success – getting
MyCase visibility with the right people at the right time.”
Sarah Bottorff, Director of Marketing, MyCase
Raise brand
awareness
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After exposure to Adobe’s Sponsored
Updates, marketing decision makers were:
• 50% more likely to agree that “Adobe is
shaping the future of digital marketing”
• 79% more likely to agree that “Adobe can
help me optimize my media spend”
“With the ability to target specific audiences with relevant and contextual
content, Sponsored Updates allowed us to reach the right audience on
the right channel.”
Maria Poveromo, Senior Director, PR, AR, and Social Media, Adobe
Build thought
leadership
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With Direct Sponsored Content, reach your target audience
directly in the feed without publishing on your Company Page
Personalize
Test
Control
Generate leads
• Generated nearly 40% more leads
than other social channels
• 65% lower cost per lead than other
social channels
“LinkedIn Sponsored Updates are a natural fit for us because members
are looking to expand their knowledge base – and because we can
provide each of our target audiences with the content that addresses
their unique business needs.”
Lauren Pedigo, Digital Marketing Manager, Kinvey
• 4x lower cost per lead compared to
search advertising
• 3x lower cost per click compared to
search advertising
• 2.5x growth in Company Page
followers
“With Sponsored Updates, we get the right kind of leads who are not only
interested in the relevant content we’ve created and in learning more
about our product, but also fit our target audience profile perfectly.”
Rick Schultz, Senior VP of Marketing, Alteryx
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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
“With open rates as high as 48 percent, LinkedIn’s Sponsored InMail
knocked the socks off our own email campaigns – and Sponsored
Updates gave us the brand awareness we needed.”
Brett Chester, Vice President of Online Marketing, Replicon
• Open rate of 48% using Sponsored
InMail, with response rate 11x better
than other social channels
• Cost per lead 73% lower than other
social channels
• Clickthrough on Sponsored Updates
4x LinkedIn benchmarks
Generate leads
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 anonymous web visitors
who don’t provide an email addresses
• Engage the 80% of known prospects who
don’t open your 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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“As soon as a prospect engages and shows interest in a particular
program, they start receiving sequenced messaging that’s relevant to the
specific program they’ve shown interest in. You can see the impact of this
in the performance and you can see it in the quality of each lead.”
Andrew Hickey, Director of Digital Marketing, eCornell
• Conversion rates were 2x higher than
traditional campaigns
• Conversion rates from Sponsored
Updates specifically were 4x higher
• Cost per lead was 3x lower than
traditional retargeting
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Measurement for Success:
• Quality Traffic – 72% Manager+
• Engagement – 24X blog visitors YOY
• MQLs – 68% of MQLs from content
• Pipeline – 35% new biz from marketing
Success metrics
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
I’ll first share our perspective on the challenges presented by the evolving buyer behavior, then spend the bulk on 2 other topics:
1) the new keys to success with LinkedIn based on our new product set.
And 2) I’ll share insights into how my marketing team is using LinkedIn
We all know that 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 buyers have no shortage of online destinations they can visit to to find information about products, compare prices, get social recommendations and so on.
Against this backdrop, content is playing a huge role in the buying process, making it easier for buyers to be self-sufficient, and that’s why they’re able to make it through most of this journey on their own. On average, people are consuming 10 of those pieces of content before making a purchase.
So what’s the bottom line? To be successful, marketers need to get their brands and the right message and content in front of the right prospects at every stage of the purchase decision if you want to to be in a strong position to shape the outcome. Said another way, relevant content is the key.
But, no big surprise, getting relevant content in front of prospects where and when they need is far easier said than done. Why is that?
First, marketers are challenged to cost-efficiently get their brands and content in front of their target audiences early in the buy process, a challenge underscored by this Nielsen stat that more than 40% of ads are not reaching the right audiences.
Next, even when we do get in front of our prospects -- and even with the big investment most marketing orgs are making in content marketing -- it seems we’re struggling to be relevant, and helpful, with 60-70% of content we’re creating going unread. In fact, this stat from Sirius Decisions uncovered that the most cited reason as to why B2B content goes unread is that it’s irrelevant to the target audience.
Finally, as we drive prospects lower in our funnels, even when we manage to reach the right audiences and drive them to our websites, 95 of 100 visitors are leaving without filling out a web form. So, in the best case, you’re getting a 5% conversions on your site visitors – the average is more like 2 – 3%
This is a pretty sobering snapshot which implies a lot of potential value slipping through our fingers... but it also presents some pretty big opportunities for upside if we can make progress in these areas.
....but it also presents some pretty big opportunities for upside if we can make progress in these areas.
What if you could be sure to reach only the right people and deliver highly relevant content to them in the channels where they’re engaging. By doing so, you’d be better able to drive them to your site or the right destination based on your campaign.
Then, what if you could establish an ongoing connection with them and provide them the content they want at the exact right times to help them make their purchase decision?
What if you could eliminate all those leaks and realign the funnel, generating significantly more conversions and opportunities?
<Short Version>
This is what we’ve been hard at work solving in LinkedIn Marketing Solutions.
LinkedIn has products that impact every stage of your funnel. We’ve built an end-to-end, full-funnel set of solutions that can help you impact every stage of your funnel. Our platform puts us a unique position to help you
generate awareness and reach more of the right people
engaging those audiences until they’re ready to connect with a Sales rep, by delivering the most appropriate content depending on where they are in their buy process
<Extended Version with some product detail>
- At the top of the funnel, we have our LinkedIn Display Advertising solutions which will give you two powerful ways to make sure you’re reaching new audiences, that you’re on the radar and building brand with the right audiences: LinkedIn Onsite Display and LinkedIn Network Display.
-As prospects start their journey down your funnel, content marketing plays a huge role in driving prospects from one stage to the next. And, here LinkedIn Sponsored Updates lets you get your content directly in the LinkedIn feed, where you’re essentially capturing people’s attention when they’re most engaged – while reviewing information shared by their professional network.
- And, as you move firmly into the 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. You can think about Sponsored InMail as the most direct way to engage your prospects on LinkedIn by delivering targeted, personalized messages right into their LInkedIn inbox.
-Finally, as your other programs have now done their job to reach new prospects and then start driving them down the funnel, LinkedIn Lead Accelerator helps you get to the ultimate goal -- lead conversions, pipeline contribution, customer acquisition by giving you an entirely new way to nurture your prospects….
<This slide highlights how LinkedIn has become a publishing platform, by showing the various Channels through which members engage content>
And, they’re engaging in a ton of content on LinkedIn. LinkedIn has really become, at the core, the definitive professional publishing platform.
A place where members are consuming professional content published on over 7M brand-managed company pages, content shared by over 500 LInkedIn Influencers and 1M publishers, as well as peer to peer sharing through posts to the LinkedIn Feed and Groups. And, with the recent acquisition of Lynda, members are now engaging with professional training content.
Starting with reach, on LinkedIn you’re reaching the world’s professionals. More than ½ of the world’s professionals are on LinkedIn
Very importantly, as you run LinkedIn programs, our rich data ensure that you’re able to focus your investment on exactly the professional audiences you’re looking to reach.
I’ll first share our perspective on the challenges presented by the evolving buyer behavior, then spend the bulk on 2 other topics:
1) the new keys to success with LinkedIn based on our new product set.
And 2) I’ll share insights into how my marketing team is using LinkedIn
Marketing/training notes:
Product: Network Display
MyCase, an AppFolio company, is a web-based practice management software solution for lawyers. Built as a complete legal practice management software, MyCase offers features that seamlessly cover all the daily functions that a modern law firm requires, including contact and case management, calendaring, secure client communication, time tracking, and billing. Because MyCase offers legal practice management in the cloud, lawyers can work from anywhere at any time significantly increasing productivity.“When we first started working with LinkedIn, we were still building our brand,” explains Sarah Bottorff, director of marketing at MyCase.
“We had just started out in a super competitive space and needed to quickly reach our target market. Because our software is cloud based, a strong online presence was important for us to reach the right audience and finding the right platforms was key to enabling that kind of precise targeting.” In addition to raising brand awareness, Borttoff also sought to drive targeted traffic to the MyCase website.
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
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
Marketing/training notes:
Product: Network Display
MyCase, an AppFolio company, is a web-based practice management software solution for lawyers. Built as a complete legal practice management software, MyCase offers features that seamlessly cover all the daily functions that a modern law firm requires, including contact and case management, calendaring, secure client communication, time tracking, and billing. Because MyCase offers legal practice management in the cloud, lawyers can work from anywhere at any time significantly increasing productivity.“When we first started working with LinkedIn, we were still building our brand,” explains Sarah Bottorff, director of marketing at MyCase.
“We had just started out in a super competitive space and needed to quickly reach our target market. Because our software is cloud based, a strong online presence was important for us to reach the right audience and finding the right platforms was key to enabling that kind of precise targeting.” In addition to raising brand awareness, Borttoff also sought to drive targeted traffic to the MyCase website.
Marketing/training notes:
Product: Sponsored Updates
As a global leader in digital marketing and digital media
solutions, Adobe’s tools and services allow customers to
create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media
and devices, and measure and optimize it over time. Using
LinkedIn’s Sponsored Updates, Adobe shared relevant
content in the LinkedIn feed targeted at marketing executives,
significantly increasing their awareness for Adobe’s digital
marketing solutions.
Challenge
Adobe wanted to further establish itself as a leader in digital
marketing and raise awareness for its digital marketing
solutions. To do this, Adobe needed a relevant channel to
share thought leadership content and expertise with its target
audience -- marketing decision makers.
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
Marketing/training notes:
Product: Sponsored Updates
Kinvey, a backend as a service provider that makes building
enterprise-grade mobile apps more efficient, uses content to
attract and nurture high-quality leads across different markets.
LinkedIn Sponsored Updates helps Kinvey reach their specific
audiences with engaging content to generate quality leads.
Challenge
Kinvey sought a new source of high-quality leads to fill its
sales funnel, but its two key audiences – mobile-focused
enterprise IT specialists, and businesses that needed to
quickly deploy mobile apps – were difficult to find. Adding to
the challenge, these two niche audiences would likely not
respond to the same types of content. Kinvey had to be able
to precisely target their e-books, guides, and presentations
to ensure that the right prospects saw the right content.
Marketing/training notes:
Product: Sponsored Updates
Alteryx, headquartered in Irvine, California, creates data
blending and advanced analytics software that empowers data
analysts to deliver deeper business insights in hours, not
weeks. Founded in 2010, the company is focused on reaching
departmental data analysts and analytics decision makers to
educate them on how they can create consumer analytics that
drive better business decisions – and do so using all of the
relevant data, including Big Data and emerging sources of
data such as social media and cloud applications.
LinkedIn Sponsored Updates helped Alteryx generate quality
leads, at a lower cost than search advertising.
“LinkedIn is rapidly becoming one of our best sources of
leads,” says Rick Schultz, Senior Vice President of Marketing at
Alteryx. “With Sponsored Updates, we get the right kind of
leads – primarily data analysts – who are not only interested in
the relevant content we’ve created and in learning more about
our product, but also fit our target audience profile perfectly.”
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
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.
I’ll first share our perspective on the challenges presented by the evolving buyer behavior, then spend the bulk on 2 other topics:
1) the new keys to success with LinkedIn based on our new product set.
And 2) I’ll share insights into how my marketing team is using LinkedIn
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
Food groups – roasts (big stuff), spinach (how to), tabasco (spicy), chocolate cake (sweet treats)
On our blog we try to hit our vertical audiences, our sophisticated marketers, our people new to LI
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