and eight reasons why we feel

it's the number one advertising channel

for B2B, for lead generation and advertising.

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So first off, why do we feel that LinkedIn

is such a powerful channel for B2B

with regards to lead generation and advertising?

And we're not talking about using LinkedIn

to basically find new applicants

and look for hiring channels to open up.

What we're really talking about is B2B businesses

using LinkedIn to acquire more customers

and leads through that channel.

And so let's talk about these eight different reasons

and why we feel that it is so powerful in that space.

Reason number one why we feel LinkedIn

is so powerful from a B2B advertising perspective

is that there is 500 million professionals

listed on LinkedIn.

That's massive.

Basically every legitimate business that there is,

the key players of that business are at least

listed on LinkedIn if not most or all

of the employees of their company.

So it's a huge channel where you have direct access

to this professional audience in one platform.

Reason number two LinkedIn allows you

to pin point target the exact professional

that you want to get out in front of.

So there's a huge list of ways that you can target,

and actually gonna just read 'em off for you

'cause there's so many.

You can target people by industry,

company size, company name, job title,

job function, job seniority, years experience,

schooling, degrees, fields of study,

skills, age, gender and location and geotargeting,

and you can even target LinkedIn Groups

which are groups of people on LinkedIn

that are following a particular topic or industry.

So if you just think about that, that's crazy right?

You have all of these professionals listed

500 million, and you have all these different ways

to target those people, based on that,

you can really get in front of the perfect person

at the perfect time.

Reason number three, I'm just gonna extend

this targeting talk a little bit further

and walk you through an example.

This is a reason why it's so powerful.

If you were selling a product,

let's just say to contracting companies, okay.

And let's say that you were selling that product or service

to contracting companies that are only in Colorado,

and you wanted to get in front of the decision maker,

which would be maybe the business owner.

If you could literally target exactly that way on LinkedIn,

so you could target the industry of contracting,

which would give you a certain number of professionals,

then you could say show me the business owners

in that industry, which would drop that down further.

You could then say show me those folks in Colorado,

that would drop it down even more targeted,

and I could even go a step further and say

I want businesses that have more than 20 employees

that are contracting businesses in Colorado,

and you could get in front of those particular people,

and that will really segment it down

to a very very targeted list of people

that you can run ads towards

which is gonna be very very accurate,

and you're gonna see great results

with regards to marketing.

Reason number four, LinkedIn lets you run

sponsored ads that show up in people's feeds.

So a lot of people are using LinkedIn every day

to follow content, to follow groups of content

and those sorts of things.

You could run sponsored content within those feeds

which can be ads for your business.

These can be articles or videos or images

that you put into the feed with a call to action

and one of those call to actions can be to

basically get a free quote or something along those lines

that submits the lead instantly to you.

This is pretty powerful because

yes you can lead them to a landing page of course,

but this can skip that step even

and you can click this button,

LinkedIn already knows their name, their phone number,

their email, this information is accurate right?

Because they're active users on the platform.

When they click that button,

that lead goes straight to you,

so there's no bottlenecks

and the lead information is accurate.

This is hugely effective.

Cost we're seeing there range from five dollars

to 10 dollars a click, which is super affordable,

conversion rates are pretty high.

We're talking 10, 15, 20% conversion rates

which means the cost per quality lead for you

is generally gonna be in that 50 to 100 dollar

per lead range with high quality,

so this is a really strong channel that should consider

for running sponsored content on LinkedIn.

Reason five is LinkedIn let's you run

InMail email campaigns,

and so through LinkedIn, basically what happens is

you can send people and professionals that you're targeting

an InMail message which is much like email,

and actually it sends you an email notification as well,

so these people are going to see that.

Basically you pay per send,

but it's very very targeted.

The pay per send is usually five to 10 maybe 15 dollars

per send, but you're getting in front of

that perfect person at the perfect time.

All's they need to do is reply to you

to carry the conversation forward,

or you could even put a call to action

in that InMail message

where they can convert right there,

maybe submit a lead to you directly

right at that moment.

So this is hugely effective because it's hard

to maybe build and even know who to contact

maybe but you know the demographics,

and you know the targeting and you know the types

of professionals, LinkedIn knows the rest,

so if you can set that up,

you can send them a pin point message

at just the right time, probably start that conversation

with somebody you've been wanting to talk to for a while.

Reason six LinkedIn let's you run display ads

and text ads which is traditional digital advertising

on the LinkedIn platform,

so you can target those particular professionals

that you want to get your ads in front of,

and then as they're using the LinkedIn platform

in various places, they're gonna see your ad,

your banners, your text ads throughout the platform.

This is much like advertising with a display

across other platforms and channels also,

this just happens to be on LinkedIn

where your ads are showing in front of that

perfect professional at that perfect time.

Reason seven why LinkedIn's powerful

from a B2B perspective is you can do retargeting

on LinkedIn.

What this means is you can put a pixel code on your website,

so when these professionals are visiting your website,

however they may get there from other channels

you may be advertising on,

they're gonna land on your site,

and now afterwards, as they're using LinkedIn

for other things, they're gonna then see

your retargeting ads on LinkedIn.

This is powerful because it just keeps you

top of mind, so as they're using tools like LinkedIn,

they're seeing you which is building trust in their mind,

that connection should occur,

they'll eventually move to doing business with you.

Reason eight why LinkedIn's effective,

you can set daily budgets, and you can set lifetime budgets

to keep you within your overall budget.

So you can set that ahead of time,

you can say for this campaign I want to spend

maybe a thousand dollars and see how this performs,

and then I'm gonna analyze it,

but I don't want to spend more than that.

You can go in there and you can set a lifetime budget

like that if you want to.

Run that test, do some analysis,

optimize and move forward.

So those are my eight reasons why I think LinkedIn

is super powerful from a B2B advertising perspective,

but I did want to jump into some basically

some bonus tips when you start this advertising,

some things you can think about ahead of time

that I think will help you drive some better results.

Tip number one is to give it some time.

Don't just give up right away,

let your campaign run for a while.

Studies show on LinkedIn, after somebody sees

a piece of content or an ad 10 times,

the chance of them converting is significantly higher.

So if you're not running your campaign long enough

for your professionals to see you at least 10 times,

then you really haven't given them

enough time to soak up your branding

and your message to turn to a conversion,

so just don't stop too early.

Tip number two is to optimize

based on the results and project that forward.

So run a test, run a small test,

see how it performs with your ad copy,

with your call to action, with who you're targeting,

what do those results look like?

Are there some good things you can carry forward,

and maybe some bad things you can take out?

Marketing's really just about doing

more of what's working, and less of what's not,

so if you can make these iterations

every time you run these campaigns,

you'll eventually end up with a super dialed

campaign on LinkedIn driving some killer results.

Tip number three is to do some A/B testing

of different ads and different content pieces

to see what's effective.

Come up with maybe two or three concepts up front,

that you think will be good,

just go ahead and run all three,

and then you'll look at the analysis,

and you'll see which one really performed best,

then on that second campaign,

be just focused on that particular ad,

call to action or piece of content.

Tip number four is that while you are marketing

and investing heavily in LinkedIn advertising,

also invest in multichannel outside of LinkedIn.

Run some ads on Google, run some ads on YouTube,

run some ads on Facebook.

If somebody comes to your site and gets retargeted

on LinkedIn, they should also see your retargeting ads

on those other channels as well,

because they're not always on LinkedIn.

That's very important to B2B,

but they're also in these other channels like Facebook

so make sure you invest in marketing on those as well.

Tip number five is integrate your ad campaign on LinkedIn

with your CRM, so when somebody fills out

a lead form and converts, or even goes to a landing page,

make sure that they're going directly into your CRM

so that you can work the lead.

You could maybe even set up email automation