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8 Common LinkedIn Advertising Mistakes

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In a remarkably short time, LinkedIn has grown to become a major player in B2B advertising (at about 20% of total industry spend, according to industry watchers ), quickly rivaling search advertising on Google. Unless your LinkedIn ad performance and ROI continues to hold steady, plan on introducing a new ad at least once a month.

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Social PPC: 17 Tips for Successful Ads on Twitter, LinkedIn & Facebook

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It seems only yesterday that “PPC advertising” was synonymous with Google AdWords. Google still dominates search advertising – at last count, it handles roughly two-thirds of all Web search queries , a market share that won’t be decreasing any time soon. Billion with Google in 2013.

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B2B Display Ads with Demographic Targeting: Why Doesn’t Google Do This?

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You can even make comparisons to the display advertising offered by Internet darling LinkedIn , through whom B2B marketers can also target prospects by industry, company size, even job title. Financially, is Google prepared to lose all those clicks (and click revenue) that would disappear as a result?

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5 Ways to Expand Lead Nurturing Beyond the Inbox

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Paid Social Media – all three leading B2B social media channels (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) offer variations on “custom audience” programs that enable you to upload lists of customers, prospects, or target accounts and deliver ads exclusively to that audience, or so-called “lookalike” prospects that meet the same criteria.

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Should You Use the Same Landing Page for Email and Online Ads?

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A client asks: “Can I use the landing page from an email campaign for online ads, say: search or LinkedIn, if it’s promoting the same asset?”. Someone responding to a Google text ad, or a LinkedIn sponsored post may be only curious, or intrigued by your offer, but likely isn’t “sold” yet. My response: In short: no.

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Top 10 Posts on B2B Lead Gen for 2010

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26 Must-Have Negative Keywords for B2B PPC Campaigns. How to Answer a Question: 5 Tips for Making the Most of LinkedIn. I’m reminded of this because of the top 4 posts listed above, one is about PPC advertising, two are about Webinars, and the last is about direct mail: hardly the most cutting-edge topics.

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An Accident of Timing: The Case for Always On Marketing

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Cue the advent of search marketing and Google AdWords.). Think Google AdWords, paid social advertising on LinkedIn and Facebook, Content Syndication , account-targeted display ads. Well now the pendulum has swung yet again, and the same experts are all waving the flag of outbound marketing. Be aggressive!