Building your Community on LinkedIn · Tell a stronger brand story, by keeping members up -to-date...
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Building your Communityon LinkedIn
Manoj Rijhwani
Head – Online Sales, India
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
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Today’s Agenda
The importance of building a community
How to create inclusive communities
Engaging with your community on LinkedIn
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The importance of building a community
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Communities bring people together through shared attitudes, interests and goals.
• Professional communities are not mutually exclusive, they’re comprised of customers, advocates, prospects and employees (past, present and future)
• Brands create professional communities by bringing these individuals together, across a shared vision, to connect and share ideas
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A professional home for customers, employees, advocates and prospects is one where…
I get to LEARN
I can NETWORK
I feel INCLUDED
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Create economic opportunity for every member of the
global workforce
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Members Companies Jobs Skills Schools Knowledge
LinkedIn thrives by bringing communities together
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How to create inclusive communities
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Professional communities start with your Page
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Brands are actively building communities through their Page with content
increase in weeklyposting Pages+8%
+10% increase in contentShared by Pages
+26% weekly increase in original posts with native video
increase in Thought Leadership by sharing industry news or 3rd-party articles+13%
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Start with what people come to the platform for!
5Top reasons for content engagement
51%
To stay on top of the
latest brands
57%
It’s educational
or informative
60%
It’s relevant to me
39%
It’s inspiring
32%
It helps with skill development
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Your Page is a gateway into what’s top of mind for your community – start exploring! Foster inclusive conversations through Content Suggestions
Refine based on all of LinkedIn, followers or employees
See which topics are trending and the articles associated with them
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Hashtags are a little known superpower on LinkedIn
Discover what’s trending live with Communities Hashtags
Tell a stronger brand story, by keeping members up-to-date on what matters most to their brand
Expand your professional community and grow followers, by clicking into the hashtag feed and joining in on conversations with members who may not be currently following your Page
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Engaging with your community on LinkedIn
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Focus on building a “connection”
#1 Connection through Culture
#2 Connection through Storytelling
#3 Connection through Leadership
Times of uncertainty call for reassuring leadership. Use your leaders’ inspiring
voices to shape your message.
Wear your heart on your feed. Members are searching for feel-good stories.
Let your corporate culture shine through. Show how you are bringing employees together.
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CultureWhile technology is crucial in keeping teams connected, keeping spirits high and helping teams thrive during challenging times is also key.
Use your LinkedIn Page to share how you are uniting and supporting employees.
Rakuten shared their approach to reducing risk by encouraging work from home, banning non-essential travel, cancelling events, and increasing use of video-conferencing.
The LEGO Group exhibited its company culture through fun virtual communications and activities.
LinkedIn hosts a sing-along session with over 85 of the employees' kids
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Customer ValueThe best way to understand your customers is by listening to what they need and adjusting your business, brand and content accordingly.
• Alibaba Cloud shared regular updates on how their AI-driven tools were empowering research organizations worldwide.
Storytelling
John Hopkins Universityhosted webinars with public health experts to share new information on COVID-19.
Brands are highlighting new innovations, insights and best practices to provide actionable information to customers and their broader community.
Humanize your company’s response with Image Posts, Video Posts, and Long Form Posts highlighting specific employees’ contributions.
ICICI Bank deployed mobile ATMs at multiple locations across the country.
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Leadership
Kevin Ban, Chief Medical Officer, Walgreens wrote to parents about mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
Arne Sorenson, CEO, Marriott International exhibited compassionate leadership with an emotive note to Marriott associates.
Today’s best leaders set an authentic vision by inspiring others to act through clear, concise and compassionate direction.
Publish Video Posts and Long-form Posts featuring your leaders speaking directly to LinkedIn members from the respective leader’s personal page.
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Share content to your followers with a focus on conversations
Document Uploads
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Share content to your followers with a focus on conversations
Videos
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Share content to your followers with a focus on conversations
Questions
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Share content to your followers with a focus on conversations
Polls
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Share content to your followers with a focus on conversations
Images
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Host a virtual event or live stream with an opportunity to meet new connections, share your brand’s voice and learn from the community
Bring your community together in real time-via LinkedIn Events
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Your Page is a way to share your organisation’s culture while your employees can evangelise it
Start with your foundation - your employees -via Employee Notifications
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Key takeaways
Communities bring people together
Shared attitudes, interests and goals
With customers, employees, prospects and advocates
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional community
Build a connection through “culture, storytelling and leadership”
Professional communities start with your Page Engage with conversations
Communities Hashtags help you foster inclusive conversations
Content Suggestions help you foster inclusive conversations
Document Uploads, Videos, Polls, Questions and Images help you start a conversation
Live Streaming and Events help you turn these conversations into real time
Your employees spread these conversations and evangelise them
Content Suggestions help you foster inclusive conversations
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Thank you
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