5. @LinkedInMktg
10Pieces of content
are consumed before
a purchasing decision
is made
90%Before customers
reach out directly
It’s a challenging world
Source: Forrester, “Accelerating Revenue in a Changed Economy”
Source: Zero Moment of Truth Study, Google
7. 41%
of online ads reach the wrong audience*
60-70%
Content goes unread**
*Defining Online Ad Success: How benchmarks are shifting as advertisers take aim,” Nielsen **Inciting a B-to-B Content Revolution,” Sirius Decision
***B2B campaign form conversion rates range from 1-5%, Sirius Decisions Benchmark Survey.
The challenge remains
Reach the right people and convert high quality prospects
9. 9
Missed Opportunities
4. 95% of website visitors don’t fill
out a form.
3. 61% of B2B marketers aren’t
using mobile marketing.
1. No less than 17 people are
involved in influencing major
enterprise tech purchases.
2. Forty-four percent of B2B
buyers researched company
products on a smartphone or
tablet in 2014
5. 80% aren’t opening emails.
6. Half of business decisions are
made outside of the office.1. InformationWeek, 2. Acquity Group LLC 3. SiriusDecisions 4. eMarketer
5. MarketingProfs 6. B2B Marketing
10. Reach only the right people
Deliver highly relevant
content in the right channel
Acquire new customers
Imagine if the funnel worked like it should
11. 11
The only full-funnel professional platform
Display Advertising
Sponsored Updates
Sponsored InMail
Lead Accelerator
Full-funnel analytics
& reporting
products that impact
every stage of your
funnel and get results
12.
13. Rethinking Demand Generation with LinkedIn
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2. Tap into the value of
anonymous website visitors
1. Investing in the top of funnel to
drive bottom-funnel conversions
4. Reach prospects where they’re
most engaged
3. Tailor messages based on
people and interests
14. Let Top-Funnel Programs Drive Bottom-Funnel
Conversions
14
• Longer buying cycles in B2B/high-
consideration B2C
• Need to get your brand in front of
prospects early and often to seed
demand
• The more interest you drive at the
top, the more conversions at the
bottom of the funnel
15. LinkedIn Onsite Display
Reach a professional audience in a premium context
Target LinkedIn members with accuracy based on the
professional member profile, including audience segments
unique to LinkedIn.
Reach your audience in the high-quality context of the
LinkedIn desktop experience
Deploy a variety of formats from IAB standard ads to highly
engaging native formats
16. “LinkedIn’s ability to target our campaign helped us
find the quality leads we needed for the sales funnel.
We’re starting conversations with the right people,
which means increased conversions down the line.”
Andrew Hahn
Senior Manager of Online Marketing, MarketShare
Sharing content to raise awareness
Average clickthrough rates of 0.10% - double
MarketShare’s expectations
Campaign acquires leads in new verticals
High-quality leads are engaged and move further down the
sales funnel
17. Turn Anonymous Visitors into Customers
17
• Website visitors are valuable and
are interested in your brand
• 95% aren’t converting right
away—how can you keep your
brand in front of them?
19. “Lead Accelerator gives us a chance to re-engage prospects and educate
them on our value.”
Jennifer Madrid, Senior Director, Digital Marketing and Social Media, Broadridge
• Conversion rate 3X higher than
benchmarks
• Cost per lead lower than customer
benchmarks
Generate leads
FINANCIAL SERVICES
20. Tailor Messages Based on People and Interests
20
• Prospects are at different
stages of their purchase
decision.
• The content you provide must
be both educational and
relevant to what their needs
are.
22. • Nurtured IT professionals, marketers,
and other enterprise decision makers
with display and social ads
• Generated 640+ leads in just three
months
• Achieved a cost per lead well below
target
“Multi-channel nurturing makes sense – the sequencing and personalization
of ads aligns well with the B2B sales cycle.”
Director, Digital Marketing, Workfront
TECHNOLOGY
Lead generation
23. Reach Prospects Where They’re Most Engaged
23
• Be where your prospects are
• Engage them with content that is
useful and relevant, and when
they are most receptive to your
message
24. Deliver rich content in the LinkedIn feed across all devices
LinkedIn Sponsored Updates
25. “We’ve engaged valuable prospects who otherwise could have remained
out of reach.”
Heather Hildebrand, Senior Marketing Manager, Spredfast
• Drove qualified responses by 7x
• Increased lead production by more
than 500%
• Generated clickthrough rates 4x
above average
• Reduced cost-per-response to 83%
below average
Lead generation
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
26. Get the attention of your highest-value audiences with personalized
targeted messages on LinkedIn
LinkedIn Sponsored InMail
27. Generate leads
• Open rate of 48% using Sponsored
InMail, with response rate 11x better
than other social channels
• Cost per lead 73% lower than other
social channels
• Clickthrough on Sponsored Updates
4x LinkedIn benchmarks
“With open rates as high as 48 percent, LinkedIn’s Sponsored InMail
knocked the socks off our own email campaigns – and Sponsored
Updates gave us the brand awareness we needed.”
Brett Chester, Vice President of Online Marketing, Replicon
30. Case study 1: launching an ebook with a
multi-channel campaign
• Objective: Drive Marketing Qualified leads through eBook downloads
• Targeting criteria:
• Propensity Model: 0.9 or higher OR Titles: Marketing Manager +
• Company Size: 50 employees +
• Geography: NAMER only
31. 31
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions uses a multi-Channel
approach to launching new assets
Sales Dev
Email
Lead Accelerator
SEM
Sponsored
Updates
Off platform paid
promotion
Social feeds
LinkedIn Display Webcasts
Asset Landing Page
Channels
Landing page
Sponsored InMail
Blog
LinkedIn Network
Display
40. LinkedIn Channels Drove 52% of all Leads
for the Crash Course campaign YTD
Email
21%
Sponsored Updates
21%
LinkedIn Display Ads
21%
3rd Party Display
10%
Lead Accelerator
10%
Facebook
5%
Blog
7%
Nurture
3%
Other
2%
41. 41
Case Study 2: Driving webcast registration
• Objective: Drive registration for partner webcast with Dell – “Dell’s Secret
to Successful Sponsored Updates”
• Email registrations were low – 361 registrations were generated using
email, we usually see 700-1000 registrants
• Targeting criteria:
• Title: Marketing Manager +
• Vertical: Technology
• Company Size: 200 employees +
44. A Few Final Thoughts
• Don’t underestimate the value of the top of the funnel for demand
generation
• Tap into the value of anonymous website visitors
• Tailor your messages and content to both unknown and known
prospects
• Engage with people when they’re most receptive
45. • Case Study Hub:
http://lnkd.in/marketingcasestudies
• LinkedIn Marketing Blog:
http://marketing.linkedin.com/blog/category/linkedin-sponsored-updates/
• eBook: The Demand Generation Marketer’s Guide to LMS
More helpful examples of what works on LinkedIn:
But before we get started, a few housekeeping items. Please do submit any questions you may have in the Q&A box, and we’ll save some time at the end to address them. You can join the conversation on Twitter using #LinkedInDemandGen, and follow us as well.
So what are we going to be talking about today? The topic of demand gen is a big one, but for today’s webinar, our goal is to focus on how you can use LinkedIn to support your demand generation objectives. A discussion of the buyer’s journey is key, here, specifically how it’s unpredictability requires today’s marketers to be ready whenever and wherever their prospects are ready to engage. And after we identify where the key gaps are in how we marketers approach the buyer’s journey, we’ll show you can take that same journey and turn those gaps into opportunities with specific LinkedIn solutions. And finally, my colleague Amanda who manages LinkedIn’s own demand gen efforts will walk us through some sample campaigns, and let us in on her own secrets to using LinkedIn for demand gen.
Today’s buyer’s journey is at its very core—unpredictable. There are often multiple people involved in the buying decision. And those people are using multiple devices to consume information, and at different parts of the day, inside the office and frequently outside of office hours. All of this complicates the buyer’s journey, and marketing’s role in it.
We all know that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to influence purchase decisions. The buyers journey is non-linear and people are making it through 90% of it before they reach out directly. Today’s buyers have no shortage of online destinations they can visit to to find information about products, compare prices, get social recommendations and so on.
Against this backdrop, content is playing a huge role in the buying process, making it easier for buyers to be self-sufficient, and that’s why they’re able to make it through most of this journey on their own. On average, people are consuming 10 of those pieces of content before making a purchase.
So with all this in mind, what are we as demand gen marketers currently using to help educate and engage with prospects during their buyer’s journeys? Demand generation strategies have evolved tremendously, even in just the past few years, so we have a lot of tools at our disposal. Display advertising has done much to help build our brands, as has our presence on social media. Content marketing continues to play a massive role throughout the marketing funnel, from brand-building and thought leadership to driving leads. And finally, we can’t forget our “tried and true” channels of email and search, which continue to be marketing workhorses for us.
But, no big surprise, getting relevant content in front of prospects where and when they need is far easier said than done. Why is that?
First, marketers are challenged to cost-efficiently get their brands and content in front of their target audiences early in the buy process, a challenge underscored by this Nielsen stat that more than 40% of ads are not reaching the right audiences.
Next, even when we do get in front of our prospects -- and even with the big investment most marketing orgs are making in content marketing -- it seems we’re struggling to be relevant, and helpful, with 60-70% of content we’re creating going unread. In fact, this stat from Sirius Decisions uncovered that the most cited reason as to why B2B content goes unread is that it’s irrelevant to the target audience.
Finally, as we drive prospects lower in our funnels, even when we manage to reach the right audiences and drive them to our websites, 95 of 100 visitors are leaving without filling out a web form. So, in the best case, you’re getting a 5% conversions on your site visitors – the average is more like 2 – 3%
This is a pretty sobering snapshot which implies a lot of potential value slipping through our fingers... but it also presents some pretty big opportunities for upside if we can make progress in these areas.
So what’s the bottom line? To be successful, marketers need to get their brands and the right message and content in front of the right prospects at every stage of the purchase decision if you want to to be in a strong position to shape the outcome. Said another way, relevant content is the key.
Let’s go back to the real-world buyer’s journey we looked at earlier. And this time, let’s dig deeper into the opportunities we’re missing.
No less than 17 people stat: http://www.insurancetech.com/is-the-cio-losing-control-of-tech-decision-making/d/d-id/1315218?
44% stat – “2014 State of B2B Procurement Study: Uncovering the Shifting Landscape in B2B Commerce,” Acquity Group, LLC
Half of business decisions made outside of the office - http://www.b2bmarketing.net/news/archive/research-news-half-business-decisions-are-made-outside-office
....but it also presents some pretty big opportunities for upside if we can make progress in these areas.
What if you could be sure to reach only the right people and deliver highly relevant content to them in the channels where they’re engaging. By doing so, you’d be better able to drive them to your site or the right destination based on your campaign.
Then, what if you could establish an ongoing connection with them and provide them the content they want at the exact right times to help them make their purchase decision?
What if you could eliminate all those leaks and realign the funnel, generating significantly more conversions and opportunities?
And this is where LinkedIn Marketing Solutions comes into play, by giving you the ability to reach impact your prospects anywhere along the buying process. We are in a unique position to help you a) generate awareness and reach more of the right people to send to your marketing channels b) nurture those audiences by delivering the most appropriate content depending on where they are in their purchase cycle.
Let’s see how we can use LinkedIn to start to rethink demand generation as we know it.
First let’s start with letting go of the bottom funnel for a bit, and focusing on how reaching more of the right people at the top of the funnel can really set our demand gen efforts up for success.
Next, let’s talk about that 95% of website visitors who aren’t converting on your website. LinkedIn can help you tap into the value of your anonymous website visitors.
Third, we all know the importance of being relevant in the way we communicate with our prospects. LinkedIn can help you customize your messages based on who people are and what their interests are.
And finally, let’s take a look at how LinkedIn can help you conquer the unpredictability of the buying process that we looked at earlier by helping you reach prospects when they’re most engaged, regardless of device.
Demand gen marketers need to start embracing the top of the funnel. Email and search are reliable channels and will always have value, but if you just rely solely on these traditional “bottom funnel” channels, you’re going to encounter challenges when it comes to reaching more of that right audience you’re looking for.
Next, let’s focus on all of those anonymous website visitors who aren’t converting when they come to your site. If you think about it, it’s not unreasonable for someone not to want to fill out a form right away – B2B and high-consideration B2C purchase decisions are generally long and complex. Historically, demand gen marketers would sit back and hope that people would come back to their site and eventually convert, but with LinkedIn, this no longer has to be the case.
LinkedIn Lead Accelerator enables marketers to deliver more high-quality leads to their sales teams by uniquely retargeting prospects anywhere online with relevant ads and content. The solution builds on the success brands have had using retargeting tactics but takes an approach purpose-built for B2B by enabling marketers to deliver ads based on the demographic profile of a prospect or customer, their online behavior, and how they may have engaged with your brand on LinkedIn – and then to sequence the most appropriate ads across the web based on where a prospect likely is in the buy process based on this behavior.
Marketing/training notes:
Product: Sponsored Updates
Bislr, a provider of marketing automation solutions based in
San Francisco, seeks to fill its sales pipeline with high-quality
leads that convert well, while also spreading the word about
the Bislr brand and products. LinkedIn Sponsored Updates
support Bislr’s goals of a favorable cost-value ratio and
high-quality lead generation and conversion, while also
growing brand awareness and lead volume.
Challenge
Bislr’s team of marketing experts is continually on the lookout
for new and effective ways to drive leads for Bislr’s own
marketing automation solutions. “We’re always testing new
channels, and LinkedIn consistently performs well against
search and other social networks,” says Gonzalo Mannucci,
Demand Generation Leader for Bislr. The next step was to
identify ways to combine paid demand generation campaigns
with social sharing
We all know the importance of relevant content. But to what extent have we been able to do this to both the prospects we know and have in our database AND all of the anonymous website visitors?
Again, this is where Lead Accelerator really shines.
Suppose you have two different audiences visiting your site:
One audience visits your home page, and bounces
The other audience dives deeper into the product section of your site
BOTH of those audiences are valuable – they have both raised their hand and indicated that they’re interested in what you have to say
SO, you want to nurture both of those audiences
BUT, you want to nurture them differently
For the Home Page Bouncers:
You probably want a relatively short nurture stream that focuses on higher level messaging and overall brand positioning.
For the Product Page Visitors:
You want to nurture them more aggressively with a longer nurture stream that tells your story the way you want to tell it.
You wan to leas the prospect through a series of messaging and content that ultimately drives directly to a conversion event
Marketing/training notes:
Product: Multi-Channel Nurturing
AtTask appreciates our technology, but ultimately it just wants high quality leads and lots of them. Its use of Multi-Channel Nurturing is textbook: it uses both website navigation and business demographic data to segment and nurture its anonymous website visitors. This has led it to drop other retargeting vendors who just weren’t hitting CPL goals, and this has been a huge lead generation engine for the company.
Text (highlights) of the case study:
AtTask is a cloud-based Enterprise Work Management solution that helps marketing, IT, and other enterprise teams conquer the chaos of excessive email, redundant status meetings, and disconnected tools. Unlike other tools, AtTask is a centralized, easy-to-adopt solution for managing and collaborating on all types of work through the entire work lifecycle, which improves team productivity and executive visibility.
On average more than 96 percent of the visitors to AtTask’s website leave without converting—a challenge shared by most B2B marketers with savvy products and long sales cycles. Micah Beals, Director of Digital Marketing at AtTask saw this as a huge opportunity. “In B2B you can’t expect most of your anonymous visitors to convert on their first visit to the website,” he explained. “To combat this we’ve tested website retargeting with various vendors in the past, but they’ve always missed our cost per lead targets.”
Segmentation and nurturing
AtTask began using Bizo Multi-Channel Nurturing, which provided a retargeting-like solution but was more catered to AtTask’s B2B sales cycles and enabled it to better speak to the unique needs and interests of different website visitors.
Using website navigation, anonymous visitors’ business demographic data and more, AtTask developed a variety of nurture paths that were customized for different audience segments. For example after visiting (then leaving) the solutions page on AtTask’s website, IT professionals would see sequenced waves of display and social ads over a several week period that were very specific to IT and related to its solutions, while other (non-IT) visitors would see different sets of ad creative and calls to action.
Finally, we can rethink demand generation by rethinking engagement. As we saw earlier, this goes back to the unpredictability of the buyer’s journey – because buyers are in control, marketers need to engage them with great content that is presented to them when they’re most receptive to receiving this content.
Down the funnel
Great for sharing content, in the feed, where people are most engaged
Across desktop, tablet and smartphone.
Upper funnel and lower funnel objectives
Marketing/training notes:
Product: Sponsored Updates
As a social media marketing company, Spredfast’s own marketers are keenly aware of the value of social for generating new, high-quality leads. However, finding social media decision makers, and using content marketing to attract their attention, proved challenging. “The titles of people who work in social media vary greatly – they might work in digital marketing, branding, or community relations,” says Heather Hildebrand, Senior Marketing Manager for Spredfast. “That made it difficult to pinpoint the right people for our campaigns.”
As we now move firmly into the lower half of the funnel where direct response goals reign supreme, Sponsored InMail is a game changer in terms of taking email marketing effectiveness to the next level.
With the new messaging experience on LinkedIn, your brand can now join in on the conversation and make an impact. Sponsored InMail is the most direct and personalized way to reach your target audience on LinkedIn. Personalize and amplify your content with Sponsored InMail to effectively build trust, humanize your brand and drive high quality leads. Use Sponsored InMail to send a personalized invitations for industry events, webinars, VIP gatherings and open houses. Build credibility and get your content in front of people who matter most to your business in an uncluttered professional environment where business leaders come to engage with their connections.
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I’ll turn it back over to Jen to recap things for us.