Ep. 19: LinkedIn Advertising with Guy Alvarez

Published: Sept. 19, 2017, 10:50 p.m.

b'Law firms and companies trying to target a B2B (business to business) audience are starting to recognize the value of paid LinkedIn advertising. Paid advertising on LinkedIn is a great way to not only expand your reach, but provides you with incredible targeting opportunities. Budgets for LinkedIn Advertising Like Google Adwords, you can set up your own budget. However, the difference between Google Adwords and paid social, and in particular, paid LinkedIn, is that LinkedIn is much cheaper \\u2013 as much as half the cost of pay-per-click. Some clients spend $200-$250 per month and are seeing great results. You can set your own budget and based on the results, choose to spend more or less. What is \\u201cMatched Audiences\\u201d? Matched Audiences is LinkedIn\\u2019s retargeting platform and lets you serve an advertisement for a piece of content to someone that\\u2019s already familiar with your brand. Studies have shown that people are much more likely to engage or purchase from a brand they\\u2019re already familiar with. Matched Audiences options Retarget people that have already visited your website. You do this by adding a script to your website that LinkedIn provides, and then targeting an ad to those people on LinkedIn. Upload your mailing list to LinkedIn. This action matches the email addresses that you have with the email address of LinkedIn users. So, instead of the contacts seeing your content in an email, which they\\u2019re used to, they come across it in their LinkedIn stream. Target employees of certain companies. Upload a list of companies to LinkedIn and your campaign will target individuals at that company. Get started by experimenting with tiny budgets and adjust as needed. If you want to go deeper it can get a bit more complicated so you should get some professional help. You can find helpful tips on our Good2bSocial blog.'