Using LinkedIn Paid Ads to support a lead generation campaign
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Jake Potter discusses Colt's approach to using LinkedIn paid ads to generate leads. Colt focuses on LinkedIn due to its large audience and targeting capabilities. It runs four key campaigns per year across six languages, targeting audiences and demographics. Colt tests different calls to action, assets, and optimizations using data to improve performance. The goal is to generate leads while integrating paid social into a joined-up approach with other marketing channels for maximum impact.
Using LinkedIn Paid Ads to support a lead generation campaign
- 1. Using LinkedIn Paid Ads to support a lead generation campaign Jake Potter // Colt Technology Services @jake.potter4
- 2. Our channels of focus Colt has almost 130k followers across social media: LinkedIn: 116k Twitter: 8k Facebook: 2.5k Youtube: 1k Instagram: 1.5k. Colt: The current state of social
- 3. The social engine: Video content Organic Social Paid social media Social selling Tools for salespeople Paid social media Form fills Social Remarketing Hot topics Social selling hub Awareness Influence Insights Leads Nurture
- 4. 4 How does Colt generate leads from LinkedIn paid ads?
- 5. Who’s been doing paid social this year? Who has done paid social activity on LinkedIn this year? Who has done paid social activity this year?
- 6. In 2018, Colt started an always on Paid Social approach, focussing on LinkedIn At a high level: Four key campaigns per year 6 languages Target audience list Demographic targeting Lots & lots of testing Paid social: Always on
- 7. Taking a more considered approach Hot leads Deliver gated content Use LinkedIn IP Tracking Branded content Strengthen your brand for more downloads later Add LinkedIn IP tracking code to webpages to prepare for later Serve up super gated content based on list targeting
- 8. 8 Paid social approach, where to start?
- 9. 9 Paid social approach, where to start? LinkedIn is our largest audience The targeting features Support our key languages
- 10. You’ve got your high-level strategy, what next? Testing!
- 11. 11 Test #1 What call to action do you prefer? Learn more Get the guide
- 12. 12 Test #2 Which asset do you prefer? Now you need to do this across all your target languages
- 13. 13 Optimisation
- 14. At Colt, we measure our results based off of CTR that are inline with technology benchmarks If posts perform above the benchmark, great! If not, then it must be optimised Here are some of the conclusions we’ve drawn from data: Posts that include a stat perform better Interactive assets such carousel images and videos work best Every language has different preferences 14 How to optimise: drawing conclusions from data Some optimisations we’ve made at Colt include: Removing a post that proves to be controversial Editing assets to have a different CTA Swapping dark images to light
- 15. 15 Other conclusions we can draw from our paid activity Our UK audience likes short videos Our DE audience likes Berlin Our JP audience likes bright images
- 17. At the end of the day, we want to generate leads for the company, and paid social alone will not do that Share your strategy with everyone in your team and beyond, this way you can create a joined- up approach that helps you all get to your goals Be accountable for your KPIs but help others reach theirs When thrown into the mix with SEO, landing pages, PPC and global campaigns, this is when the power house works well Conversion from paid social may not be clear, so with good SEO, our site is easily found on search engines, and an optimised websites means a great user experience 17 Say goodbye to the silo
- 18. 18 Planning for the future – keeping it data-driven
- 19. When building your 2020 lead generation strategy: Create actionable insights from the results of your paid social Add KPIs based off of industry benchmarks Work with teams to deliver your KPIs together 19 You’ve got the data, now what?
- 21. 21 #1 Always use data available
- 22. 22 #2 Test everything for all languages
- 24. Thank you
Editor's Notes
- #4: The social engine surrounds all points for the sales process Paid is on there twice as it really has the opportunity to bring awareness and influence the sales process