Oktopost

JULY 15, 2020

For the longest time, LinkedIn had a reputation as a site for networking and job searching. When Microsoft bought the site in 2016, many joked that this was the first time someone had actually accepted a LinkedIn request. For B2B marketers, the importance of LinkedIn cannot be overstated. Consider: You get more leads.

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Lead Generation Top of Funnel Linkedin Lead Ranking 148

Schubert B2B

JUNE 23, 2023

Did you know that 89% of B2B marketers use LinkedIn for lead generation? And 62% say that the platform generates over 2 times more leads than the next-highest social channel. The good news is that anyone can turn the platform into a lead-generating machine. Let’s get started! Look no further.

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Linkedin Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Leads 62

Marketing Insider Group

JULY 28, 2020

The challenge with campaigns is that marketing teams or agencies are defining a message, creating content – and then they hope that it will drive awareness and leads on LinkedIn. But sales and marketing are not shifting their content, LinkedIn profiles, and messaging.”.

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Top of Funnel Linkedin Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Search Agency 249

Oktopost

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For savvy B2B social media marketers, LinkedIn plays a vital role in online engagement. In 2020, LinkedIn kept its ranking as the most-trusted social media platform for the third consecutive year. LinkedIn has seen an uptick in user engagement of late. How Do LinkedIn Hashtags Work? Why Should You Use LinkedIn Hashtags?

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Linkedin Paid Content Social Media Ideal Customer Profiles 118

Go Beyond SEO

MAY 31, 2018

What can you accomplish by using LinkedIn to market your business? LinkedIn is the only social media networking site of its kind which targets business professionals. Additionally, 4 out of 5 of LinkedIn members are decision-makers in their company and according to a LinkedIn study, it is the number one platform for lead generation.

Paid Content 104

Paid Content Linkedin Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies 104

Smashmouth Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2011

Outsourcing some or all of your appointment setting or lead generation activity to a third party vendor is a task that shouldn't be undertaken by responding to one cold call. I believe this across lead gen: the most important thing to look at is cost per opportunity not cost per lead. How many reps do you have?

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Lead Gen Work Management Marketing Management Vendors 100

Launch Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This comprehensive checklist covers: The components of a successful product launch Key tactics to include in the product launch Marketing elements to focus on leading up to the launch Article: B2B Marketing Webinars: How to Create a Lead Gen Webinar Webinars prove to be one of the most successful lead-generating tactics for B2B organizations.

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Resources B2B Marketing Planning B2B 136

SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Start with the buyer persona(s) you are targeting in your lead gen marketing, and ask yourself what that individual wants and needs from you. Every decision you make and every question you ask during your audit should be informed by your personas. Use Your Blog as a Way to Bring More Traffic to Your Lead Gen Content.

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Lead Gen Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 65

Ledger Bennett

MARCH 6, 2019

Search vs. display network, Google vs. Bing, Facebook vs. LinkedIn, do we even run on Instagram? All are valid questions you need to ask yourself when establishing goals of a client. To focus on one, in particular, we’ll explore how to make Facebook Lead Gen forms work for B2B campaigns. Lookalike Audiences.

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Lead Gen Facebook Campaigns Paid Social Agency 45

markempa

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Tweet According to the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report , 24% of marketers ask a timeline-to-purchase question on their lead capture forms. Q: Please select the most important fields that you need to collect from your leads on the lead generation form. The “from” field might be a clue.

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Lead Gen Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Sales Qualified Leads 120

Metadata

OCTOBER 6, 2021

How to look at the data LinkedIn vs. Facebook for B2B marketing What are the best CTAs? But after analyzing nearly $15M of ad spend, we’ve zeroed in on some of the ways our customers are boosting their LinkedIn and Facebook campaign performance. Cost per lead (CPL): CPL measures the efficiency of your campaign. Lead quality.

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Cost per Lead Paid Social Agency Advertising Benchmark CPL 78

Metadata

AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s not exactly news that LinkedIn advertising can be expensive. Google that phrase, and you’ll see articles like “Why are LinkedIn ads so dang expensive?” and “LinkedIn is the most expensive digital advertising platform.”. Our customers’ LinkedIn ad experiments prove that out. What are the most popular CTAs on LinkedIn?

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Cost Per Click CPC CTR Conversion Rate 52

KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 23, 2016

There’s no doubt that LinkedIn is one of the most effective social media lead generators for B2B marketers, offering businesses the chance to tell their brand story in a unique and meaningful way. HootSuite does a great job of utilizing their LinkedIn page to share major company happenings. Ernst and Young.

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Linkedin Enterprise Management Work Management Examples 120

Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

Longer sales cycles: The personalized nature of ABM can sometimes lead to longer sales cycles, meaning marketers must weigh the potential benefits against the patience required for the strategy to yield results. A contrarian approach to ABM The LinkedIn B2B Institute’s “ 2030 B2B Trends ” tackles contrarian ideas for the next decade.

Account Based Marketing 105

Account Based Marketing Spending B2B Marketing ABM 105

markempa

MARCH 16, 2015

Tweet You need to rethink the way you use LinkedIn. Without some of us even noticing, LinkedIn developed into a useful publishing platform and lead generation tool for marketers and sales people looking to build relationships with prospects. But if you’re looking for an easy lead source, you won’t find it here.

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Linkedin Sales Qualified Leads Lead Ranking Lead Scoring 120

KoMarketing Associates

MARCH 3, 2020

Questions that need to be asked and answered include: What questions are buyers ask online? These questions will help shape ad messaging, keyword strategy and offerings for all online advertising, so making sure they are answered with as much detail as possible will help lead to success. Customer email lists.

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Paid Search Agency eCommerce Effectiveness Companies 212

Biznology

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Ramp up your LinkedIn outreach. Then it takes over the LinkedIn accounts of the client’s sales reps. Jason Kieffer offers a similar service using a message template stream on LinkedIn on behalf of the sales reps in small and medium businesses. They don’t have to answer any possible question.

Marketing Prospects 189

Marketing Prospects B2B Marketing Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel 189

Go Beyond SEO

MAY 31, 2018

What can you accomplish by using LinkedIn to market your business? LinkedIn is the only social media networking site of its kind which targets business professionals. Additionally, 4 out of 5 of LinkedIn members are decision-makers in their company and according to a LinkedIn study, it is the number one platform for lead generation.

Paid Content 60

Paid Content Linkedin Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies 60

markempa

JUNE 13, 2017

And they leverage their social network via LinkedIn and Twitter, and monitor news feeds about key accounts. But outside of high tech, lead generation is still mostly done by salespeople. Who should own lead generation? Jonathan Hyde stated, “Lead gen is part of both roles; it’s simply accomplished differently.

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Lead Ranking Marketing Qualified Leads Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads 318

Ledger Bennett

MAY 24, 2018

The forms, available for Sponsored Content and Sponsored InMail, allow us marketers to collect even more quality leads from our ads, whilst offering LinkedIn members a seamless, simple experience with a pre-filled form. A seamless experience that allows them to access valuable content, without leaving the LinkedIn platform.

Lead Generation 53

Lead Generation Linkedin Demand Generation Agencies Generation 53

Metadata

OCTOBER 6, 2021

How to look at the data LinkedIn vs. Facebook for B2B marketing What are the best CTAs? But after analyzing nearly $15M of ad spend, we’ve zeroed in on some of the ways our customers are boosting their LinkedIn and Facebook campaign performance. Cost per lead (CPL): CPL measures the efficiency of your campaign. Lead quality.

Cost per Lead 52

Cost per Lead Paid Social Agency Advertising Benchmark CPL 52

NetLine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Only 2.35% of visitors coming to your landing page actually become leads. . To say that another way, roughly 97% of all lead gen budget spend is wasted. Considering how vital new leads are to B2B organizations, this is something that should be addressed immediately. The next question, of course, is how to do this.

Lead Gen 45

Lead Gen Vendors Lead Ranking Sales Qualified Leads 45

Directive Agency

JUNE 24, 2020

In a recent interview with our Director of Marketing, Hannah Mans, she outlines the successes that Directive has found with LinkedIn conversation ads. Conversations ads were launched by LinkedIn back in March of 2020, and since then has been an important topic of conversation (no pun intended). Sourced from Satheesh Blog.

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Linkedin Paid Search Agency Conversion Ads 52

SnapApp

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Lead generation—it’s the workhorse of any B2B revenue stream. The more effective a brand’s lead gen efforts, the more prospects get converted into paying customers. What might be however, is the fact that lead generation efforts are one of the biggest obstacles marketers struggle to overcome.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads Top of Funnel Generation 75

Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

LinkedIn Ads are one of the most effective channels for reaching highly targeted groups of B2B buyers. Here’s a set of basic tasks, best practices, and advanced tips that can help you optimize your results and ROI from advertising on LinkedIn. You can find a complete guide to creating conversions for LinkedIn Ads here.

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Linkedin Advertisements Advertising Practices 282

Metadata

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

So, I did what any demand generation marketer would do in my situation: DIY’d some LinkedIn ads using the platform’s native tools. After a few months, my cost per lead (CPL) was $3k, and I was in a frenzy. Hey, maybe I just didn’t have the chops to catch our customers’ attention on LinkedIn. My next move? I hired an agency.

Paid Content 52

Paid Content Paid Social Agency Cost per Lead Advertising Agencies 52

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Some are using twitter and LinkedIn , and some have great staff members who are passing the value up the chain. The question is to reach that senior executive, especially in non-technology fields (where you get less of the geeks and trend setters), how do you reach a C/VP level target? Call it Lead Gen 2.0,

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Lead Gen Social Media Work Management Marketing Management 100

Biznology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In my last post , I started to show how even the most recognized social media and social selling authors, experts, and consultants are getting LinkedIn wrong. Here is the actual LinkedIn summary for Judy Schramm , CEO of ProResource Inc., You will be proud of the way you look on LinkedIn.

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Social Media Linkedin Ideal Customer Profiles Media 80

Smashmouth Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Some are using twitter and LinkedIn , and some have great staff members who are passing the value up the chain. The question is to reach that senior executive, especially in non-technology fields (where you get less of the geeks and trend setters), how do you reach a C/VP level target? Call it Lead Gen 2.0,

Lead Gen 100

Lead Gen Social Media Work Management Marketing Management 100

markempa

MAY 13, 2009

A few weeks ago I wrote a post called 5 steps for using LinkedIn as a lead generation tool and step number five was ‘create your own LinkedIn group and share relevant content.’. Well, last Thursday I launched the B2B Lead Gen Roundtable Group on LinkedIn. What do you do?

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Lead Generation Linkedin Generation Leads 120

Lake One

APRIL 4, 2019

Creating LinkedIn posts for B2B can be a challenge when competing with all the other noise on social. However, unlike some channels that are heavily influenced by friends and families, research from Marketing Profs found that while individuals have a slight advantage, brands bring a fair degree of influence on LinkedIn.

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Linkedin B2B Peer-to-peer Opinions 45

Metadata

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

He asked a quasi-rhetorical question I still can’t get out of my head. Most marketers don’t consider demand gen campaigns as part of ABM, or vice versa. But that’s not the only reason: your CEO and CRO probably think “leads, MQLs, and opportunities” in the same breath as “marketing.”. 4 demand gen campaign examples.

Account Based Marketing 98

Account Based Marketing ABM Demand Campaigns 98

Metadata

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

He asked a quasi-rhetorical question I still can’t get out of my head. Most marketers don’t consider demand gen campaigns as part of ABM, or vice versa. But that’s not the only reason: your CEO and CRO probably think “leads, MQLs, and opportunities” in the same breath as “marketing.”. 4 demand gen campaign examples.

Account Based Marketing 98

Account Based Marketing ABM Demand Campaigns 98

Brandwatch Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2024

Your social media platforms can be a gold mine for leads. Brandwatch uses our presence on sites like LinkedIn and Twitter to generate leads, so we’re going to preach what we practice. If you get it right, social media lead generation is a viable and valuable strategy. LinkedIn is obviously a prime place for this.

Lead Generation 98

Lead Generation Paid Content Social Media Generation 98

Brandwatch Marketing

JANUARY 29, 2024

Your social media platforms can be a gold mine for leads. Brandwatch uses our presence on sites like LinkedIn and Twitter to generate leads, so we’re going to preach what we practice. If you get it right, social media lead generation is a viable and valuable strategy. LinkedIn is obviously a prime place for this.

Lead Generation 97

Lead Generation Paid Content Social Media Generation 97

markempa

APRIL 21, 2009

Like many of you, I’m using LinkedIn to connect with work friends and colleagues. But I’ve been intrigued by how LinkedIn has quietly developed into a useful lead generation tool for marketers and sales people to build relationships with potential customers. Step #4 - Answer questions posted on LinkedIn.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Linkedin B2B Thought Leadership Lead Ranking 120

Directive Agency

JUNE 10, 2020

We spoke to some of the leading SaaS marketing leaders in the space, and they answered the following question, “What do you think is the best strategy to generate leads for SaaS businesses, and why?”. LinkedIn Twitter. LinkedIn Twitter. LinkedIn Twitter. LinkedIn Twitter.

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Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Top of Funnel Sales Qualified Leads 90