Webinar Presentation: Targeting with LinkedIn

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The LinkedIn profile gives marketers an unparalleled ability to deliver highly relevant, targeted messages to unique audiences. Whether you're seeking finance professionals with graduate degrees or decision-makers in healthcare organizations – targeting on LinkedIn connects your message with your precise audience. In this March 2013 webinar, we discussed: • Which components of the LinkedIn profile determine target audiences •Approaches for targeting your audience on LinkedIn to get the biggest impact • How the digital agency Vertic used targeting on LinkedIn to reach Fortune 1000 decision makers for their client, Vestas, a wind energy provider

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Targeting with LinkedIn Webinar

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Dan GonzalezSr. Global Product Marketing Manager, Targeting and Audience

LinkedIn

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Sebastian JespersenCEO and Founder

Vertic Digital Agency

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“When a company debuts at $9 billion based on minimal revenues and no projected profit,

is that a sign that their data is incredibly valuable, or that Wall Street has lost its mind?”

Paul Noglows, Managing Director at Mesa

Our data is incredibly valuable.

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IT Decision Makers

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Circle of InfluenceConnected to a CxO?

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Audience Targeting Content Targeting

Profile

Company Groups

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Establishing a framework

Reach and frequency

Awareness

Message amplification and content sharing

Advocacy

Purchase intent and brand preference

Engagement

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Reach and frequency

Awareness

Message amplification and content sharing

Advocacy

Purchase intent and brand preference

Engagement

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Message amplification and content sharing

Advocacy

Purchase intent and brand preference

Engagement

Reach and frequency

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Reach and frequency

Awareness

Message amplification and content sharing

Advocacy

Purchase intent and brand preference

Engagement

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Career changes

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Reach and frequency

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Purchase intent and brand preference

Engagement

Message amplification and content sharing

Advocacy

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Industry

Name, size

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Specific, occupations

Groups

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Influencers, opinion leaders, circles of influence

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Awareness

Reach and frequency

Message amplification and content sharing

Advocacy

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Purchase intent and brand preference

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Members first.

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Audiences work better at scale.

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Sebastian JespersenCEO and Founder

Vertic Digital Agency

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CLIENT: VESTAS

A PERSONALIZED MASS COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN

ENERGY TRANSPARENCY

BRIEF

The world’s largest pure player in wind energy

Vestas wanted to create awareness among Fortune 500Corporations about the economic and brand benefits

for using wind energy in creating their products and services

Unique Content

Vestas comissioned two studies, the Global

Consumer Wind Study in partnership with TNS

Gallup and the Corporate Renewable Energy Index

In partnership with Bloomberg New Energy Finance,

which showed that consumers want products made

with wind energy, and that corporations are eager to

source more renewable energy.

Targeting

Using LinkedIn targeting platform, this enabled

Vestas to reach specific individuals within selected

companies with a highly ersonalized and relevant

message.

In total 419.000 employees globally were targeted

Messaging

The combination of a compelling business case,

unique content and the opportunity to target a

specific audience, provided Vertic with the ability to

push engaging, customized messages and increase

relevancy.

PersonalizedInteractive ExperienceUpon click through from LinkedIn, the resulting

site experience was dynamically displayed to

provide relevance according to the user’s company,

industry, segment and role.

Unique ContentData and/or content that is compelling and

sparks interest and awareness.

TargetingAn agile platform that enables user segmentation

on multiple parameters and abillity to target

effectively.

PersonalizationAn opportunity for a subsequently customized

message to each targeted segment.

Results

Vestas was able to view a direct ROI from the

campaign

in addition to generating awareness. They have also

been able to reduce time-to-market based on direct

one-to-one messages that have been delivered to the

key C-level executives within the target audiences.

Vertic and Vestas were awarded the ECHO DMA

Gold Award for the campaign in November 2012.

Questions?

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