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AJ Wilcox's presentation at Seattle's first Pipeline Marketing Meetup. He gave introduction into the LinkedIn Ads platform, as well as supplied tips and tricks.
Check out AJ's site for more information: www.b2linked.com
To find out more about Pipeline Marketing, visit pipelinemarketing.com.
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We want to enable you to explore new solutions to your current demand generation challenges. Rethink the routine.
In a world governed by leads, conversions, and direct response - you know building and cultivating prospect and customer relationships is ultimately a full-funnel endeavor.
Join Jennifer Agustin, Group Manager, Marketing at LinkedIn and Amanda Halle, Senior Manager, Marketing at LinkedIn as they discuss:
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- Why LinkedIn, with its 400M+ members, is the most effective B2B marketing platform to accomplish all of your demand gen objectives.
- Which products within the LinkedIn portfolio are best suited to your needs.
It’s time to rethink demand generation. Join us by registering for this webcast!
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Agenda
• Why LinkedIn is so good for B2B lead generation
• Organic lead generation
– Connections, posts, events & ads in the Inbox
– Automation tools
• Paid lead generation
– Sponsored posts, Lead Gen ads, Document ads & Inbox Ads
– Building audiences
– Optimising audiences
– KPIs and metrics
• Tips and tricks
• Help from Napier
• Key take-aways
5. 5
Why LinkedIn is So
Good for Lead
Generation
• 900 million accounts
– 180 million in USA
– 58 million organisations
• Support for 26 languages
• 16% of US users log in every day
• LinkedIn private message conversations growing 25%
yr-yr (2022)
• Sponsored content generates 2x the results of email
• 150 million new newsletter subscriptions in 1Q2023
6. 6
Is LinkedIn
Really that
Good?
• Expected to represent 50% of all B2B
display advertising in 2024
– $9.2Bn
– Lots of competition
• Minimum audience size for sponsored
content is 300, but LinkedIn
recommends 50,000+ to allow the
algorithm to work efficiently
• 7 minutes per visit on average
– 54 mins/day for TikTok and 34 for
Instagram
7. 7
But the Targeting
is Amazing
• Location
• Company
• Industry
• Job role
• Seniority
• Job title
• Group membership
• Retargeting
11. 11
Posts
• Route to landing pages
• Use personal
and company
pages
• Get sales to
amplify your
posts
12. 12
Events
• Events on LinkedIn are great
ways to generate leads
• Event doesn’t have to run
on the LinkedIn platform
• You can share or pay for
promotion
13. 13
InMails
• Not just for sales teams
• Great for targeted campaigns
– E.g. ABM
• Premium account required to target
people who are not 1st level contacts
• Need to consider whose account you
will use
20. 20
Conversation Ads
• Questions and sequence of
follow-ups
• Drive recipients to
registration for event,
webinar, white paper, etc.
• Not available in the EU
22. 22
Building an Audience
Your audiences
LinkedIn audiences
e.g. HR professionals
Audience Expansion
Language
(you need adverts
in the language you
target)
Firmographics
& Demographics
Location
(permanent is
usually best)
Saved Audiences
(retargeting,
look-alike)
24. 24
Paid Lead Gen
KPIs
• Setting the right KPIs is essential
– So many variables and so much data
– Huge range of “typical” values
– Metrics very dependent on audiences
• You must define what constitutes a “good” lead
• And you must base all your measurement on these
“good” leads
• Ultimately CPM, CPC, CPL and other vanity metrics
don’t matter
• It can be hard to optimise small campaigns due to
low volumes
26. 26
Audience Network might Increase Performance
• Typically lower cost than
on main platform
• But some of the
placements might not be
ideal….
• Brand safety lets you
control where ads shown
27. 27
Don’t Bid the Recommended Amount
• Three bidding strategies
– Maximum delivery
– Cost cap
– Manual bidding
• Maximum delivery does need a significant amount of data to optimise
• Cost cap and manual bidding might produce worse results
– But can be better, particularly for small campaigns
– Try bidding a different amount to find out minimum bid
28. 28
Job Titles are Flexible…
• Job titles are NOT matched exactly on LinkedIn
– Necessary because of huge range of titles
• But problems exist
– “Engineer” matching people with “Sales Engineer” as their job title
• Use demographics data to spot problems
• Use exclusions to eliminate spurious matches
– Generally job function works well
29. 29
Use Engagement to Build an Audience
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• With reasonable budgets you can use retargeting:
1. Run content ad/document
2. Build a retargeting audience from those who engage
3. Use this audience for lead generation
• Particularly important if you can’t define audience clearly
– Must have people currently in market
– Or can’t specify exactly using LinkedIn data
• Can also retarget based on visits to website, etc.
31. 31
Key Take-Aways
• LinkedIn is a great source for leads
• It can be expensive in terms of CPL
• There are many ways to generate leads on
LinkedIn
– Make sure you test & use the best one
• Building and optimising audiences is critical
– Understand your audience & use
demographics
• Test, test and test again
• Measure what matters, not vanity metrics
Source US B2B Digital Ad Spending Forecast 2022 by eMarketer Insider Intelligence
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Source – Statistica - Average time spent per day on select social media platforms in the United States in 2023
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Example of audience you can’t specify using LinkedIn data