Eric's Experiment with LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads
Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips
Eric Siu and Neil Patel
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🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, so we're going to talk about why LinkedIn influencer ads might just be the |
| 0:04.2 | theme that can help you drive more leads. |
| 0:06.6 | Have you tried this out yet, Neil? |
| 0:08.6 | I've messed around with it. |
| 0:09.7 | I know you've run quite a bit of influencer Instagram ads so how did it work for you? |
| 0:14.4 | Oh LinkedIn influencer ads. Sorry yeah I met you but yeah you're good you're good. So just so to just so everyone knows the way this works is when you run a link let's say I write a blog or sorry a block post |
| 0:27.6 | Let's say I write a post on LinkedIn. It does fairly well or maybe I'm sharing a case study or something like that |
| 0:33.0 | As part of an organization, I can sponsor any employees post. |
| 0:37.0 | I could sponsor my post, I could sponsor anybody that works on the team. |
| 0:40.0 | What I have to do is I need a request, let's say I need a request for myself to sponsor and then I need to approve it or an employee needs to approve it |
| 0:47.3 | Basically, we are giving more air time to whatever we think will perform well whatever we think we should get more reach and then that post will be just be promoted. |
| 0:55.4 | Now what what I did was recently I just ran like a $500 test was a really small test |
| 1:00.5 | right and basically I talked about like a case study with like, let's say, here's |
| 1:06.2 | some results we got with programmatic SEO as an example, right? And so, you know, here's step one, |
| 1:10.8 | step four, step two. So here's a couple things you can do blah blah |
| 1:13.2 | at the very end of it there's a call to action saying hey by the way if you need if you want to learn |
| 1:17.9 | more about this stuff you can subscribe to our email us or if you need help with this |
| 1:20.5 | stuff you can you know go to go to you know click on this link right and in |
| 1:24.7 | that link itself it links to the website and we have some UteM tracking |
| 1:28.2 | parameters so we're tracking if this ad actually generates leads right so in So in $500 in spend, we generated five leads |
| 1:35.3 | and one was super qualified. |
| 1:36.9 | And that is the beauty of a new ad format |
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