LinkedIn’s Member Group Targeting Is a One-Two Punch to Facebook & Twitter

LinkedIn provides unprecedented targeting for businesses. The ability to create audiences by industry, job description, company size are all terrific yet the hidden gem is the ability to be able to target by Member Group.

What is a LinkedIn Member Group? LinkedIn Groups provide a place for professionals in the same industry or with similar interests to share their insights and experiences, ask for guidance, and build valuable connections. You can find a list of LinkedIN member groups here.

For an outdoor equipment e-commerce merchant, we can find ‘rockclimbing’ member group and target video or single image ads to these people. That’s very focused targeting. LinkedIn allows you to then target those who have seen say 75% or 100% of a video you showed them or engaged by clicking with an ad to recieve an ‘In Mail Message Ads’ (think email marketing campaign). We are seeing 30%+ click through rates on LinkedIn Message Ads to audiences that have previously engaged.

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That playbook is a one two punch to Facebook and Twitter who don’t offer businesses the return on investment when finding new customers.

LinkedIn Optimization & Lead Generation

Since LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion in June 2016, we have not seen a great deal of upgrades to the functionality of how the interface for lead generation works. Summarized below are observations from our team members who are working to increase lead generation from Linkedin for multiple clients on a daily basis.

So what is it really like to optimize content on a platform like LinkedIn? We speak regularly with our LinkedIn Account Managers and as many individual LinkedIn Advertisers do not, we wanted to share some of the insights.

1. Single Static Ads that are 300×250 work better more times that a “Sponsored Post”

2. LinkedIn is expensive and doesn’t always convert as well as Google on a cost per lead basis.

3. LinkedIn Matched Audiences are best when they have a database of 100,000. These are audience custom audience segments you can use as targeting selections in your advertising campaigns. Within Matched Audiences, you can upload a list of companies or email contacts via a csv file and then target advertising to them. You can also create a ‘Lookalike’ audience which will target similar people to those in your Audience List.

4. Lead Gen Forms may be created if your Ads account is associated with a LinkedIn Page. You can create Lead Gen Forms by following these steps @ https://www.linkedin.com/help/lms/answer/a427102/create-lead-gen-forms

Here’s a screenshot of a client lead gen campaign so you can see the reporting of the leads and here’s a useful on-demand webinar on lead generation strategies and best practices. 

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We hope this helps as not everyone gets this information if you’re located outside the United States of America.