LinkedIn's Jason Miller presents The Sophisticated Marketer’s Guide to LinkedIn, a one-stop shop for everything a marketer needs to know about getting the most value from LinkedIn.
The first webinar was such a smashing success; we did it again! You may have heard about this Sophisticated Guide, you may have even read it yourself, but I promise if you haven’t seen the presentation – you’re in for a treat.
6. RAGE AGAINST
IRRELEVANCE….
41%
41%44%
of overall respondents say they would consider
ending a brand relationship because of irrelevant
promotions, and an additional 22% say they would
definitely defect from the brand.
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The “Hugh MacLeod”
Strategy—Write 5
relevant blogs then
roll them all together
Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Raisin Bran
Spinach
Roast
Raisin Bran
Spinach
15. The blog is the social media rug
that ties the room together.
16. The Blogging Food Groups
A steady diet of quality content for your blog
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Raisin Bran
Spinach
Roast
Raisin Bran
Spinach
Raisin Bran
Chocolate
Cake
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3
Flip your case studies
on their heads—Turn
your bottom funnel case
studies into a collection
of “success stories”
19. Your audience should always be at the center
of your content. This is about THEM, not YOU.
01 Call out your audience
02 Use the word “you”
03 Explain what’s in it for them
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20. Company Updates Content Best Practice Cheat Sheet
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Optimizing Content
• Always ask, “why would my audience read
this?”
• Use concise and compelling
intros and headlines
• Ask compelling questions to involve the
target audience
• Include a clear call to action, regardless of
the objective
• Make sure your landing pages are
optimized for mobile traffic
Managing updates
• Plan your editorial calendar, but also react
to timely events
• Respond to comments regularly
• Consider keeping updates running through
the weekend
• Test to see what works with your audience
and then refine
Optimizing visuals
• Always include an image, presentation, or video
• Ensure the thumbnail is relevant for external links
22. Sponsored Updates To Achieve Business Goals
• Driving Brand Awareness
• Generating Quality Leads
• Driving Event Registration
• Expanding Thought Leadership
23. Set up a test of different updates to reach different audiences.
Sponsored Update 1:
Targeted to CMOs
These insights can help you drive
transformational change to your business.
[link to white paper landing page with tracking tag 1]
Sponsored Update 2:
Targeted to Marketing Directors
Need to demonstrate the ROI of your
marketing efforts? These insights can help.
[link to white paper landing page with tracking tag 2]
Sponsored Update 3:
Targeted to Social Media Managers
Social media managers: Get the insights you
need to drive the engagement you want.
[link to white paper landing page with tracking tag 3]
Example: B2B Marketing company XYZ has
recently launched a new piece of research
and is publishing updates to LinkedIn to drive
marketers to download it.
Big Rock
Content
24. Use targeting on LinkedIn to deliver the right
message to the right person at the right time.
But be careful NOT
to over-target.
It’s important to reach everyone
who could influence a buying
decision, so cast a wide net and
then refine your
targeting preferences.
25. Sponsored Updates
Who’s Doing it Right?
• LinkedIn drove 400% more qualified leads than
any other paid lead generation platform during
the campaign period.
26. Sponsored Updates:
Who’s Doing it Right?
38% more leads than other social channels
65% lower cost per lead than other social channels
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Sponsored Updates:
Who’s Doing it Right?
• As a result of the brand exposure in the LinkedIn feed,
research confirmed that U.S. marketing executives
were 50% more likely to agree that Adobe can “shape
the future of digital marketing.”
28. Sponsored Updates:
Who’s Doing it Right?
Don’t bury the lead.
Concise intros (90-140 characters) are
more likely to result in higher
engagement.
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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
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Personalize your message and offers to your target
audience to boost your performance
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Test and optimize your reach to the right audience
with the right message
66%
higher CTR
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Sponsored InMails now reach members on mobile where
they most often check their messages
Reach mobile users
>50% of inbox views on mobile
80% higher open rate on mobile
34. Most important, make sure your landing page is mobile responsive—
otherwise you are wasting leads.
70% of clicks from Sponsored
Updates will come from mobile.
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35. Only capture the information you absolutely need – this will help
with conversions, especially on mobile
Marketo reports a $10 drop in CPL when
shortening a form from 9 fields to 5.
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49. Email
Blog
InMail
Company Page
Sponsored Updates
SlideShare
Display
PPC
Twitter
For those about
to Launch…..
FIRE!
50. 50
Turkey Slices (Non Gated)
Lead Capture
No Yes
MQL
SDR
Sales Qualified?
Sales Revenue
BIG ROCK
(Gated)
Nurture
No
Yes
51. The Results Out of the Gate
34%
32%
9%
15%
6%
4%
2%
Email
Blog
7%
InMail
Direct/ SEO
Other
7%
Display
AdWords 7% 64%
6%
4%
1%
1%
United States
Netherlands
India
Canada
Australia
UK
Germany
New Zealand
Singapore
France
56. 56
Content Marketing Score
Measure your brand’s influence
Score Benchmarking Recommendations
Measure your influence Compare to your peers How to improve
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How Do You Organize Your
Marketing Team to Deliver
Content Marketing ROI?
There is a famous quote from the father of advertising, David Ogilvy that says, “On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.” I think this statement holds true today, but with the insertion of a visual element as the new headline
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.
The adage "A picture is worth a thousand words" refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image. It also aptly characterizes one of the main goals of visualization, namely making it possible to absorb large amounts of data quickly.