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Eric's Experiment with LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Careers, Marketing, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In episode #2610, We discuss the effectiveness of LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads in driving leads. We share our experiences with running these ads and highlight the importance of soft conversions, such as newsletter sign-ups and webinar registrations. While direct conversions into purchases may be challenging, the ads can be highly effective in building brand awareness and nurturing relationships with potential customers. Overall, LinkedIn is a valuable platform for reaching a professional audience and should not be overlooked in our marketing strategies. Don’t forget to help us grow by subscribing and liking on YouTube! Check out more of Eric’s content (Leveling UP YT) and Neil’s videos (Neil Patel YT)  TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: (00:00) Today’s topic: Eric's Experiment with LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads (01:01) Results of a $500 test with LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads (02:26) LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads are effective for soft conversions (03:37) Changing the profile URL to drive website visits (04:33) Soft conversions work better than hard conversions on LinkedIn (04:59) That’s it for today! Don’t forget to rate, review, and subscribe! Go to https://www.marketingschool.io to learn more! Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads Leave Some Feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with Us:  Single Grain << Eric’s ad agency NP Digital << Neil’s ad agency X @neilpatel  X @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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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