8 Tips to Help You Grow Your Business on LinkedIn in 2023 and Beyond

With more than 950 million members in over 200 countries, B2B marketers today recognize LinkedIn for what it is: a trusted, credible platform where business professionals go to network and find solutions to the challenges they face day in and day out. Case in point: Did you know that nearly three professionals sign up to join LinkedIn every second?

As B2B marketing continues to evolve in the digital space, it’s increasingly critical to meet audiences where they are, sparking meaningful connections and building fruitful relationships. It’s no longer a question of if you should be on LinkedIn — 96% of B2B marketers now use the platform to distribute content, according to CMI — but how you can stand out and gain an edge.

These eight tips will help your brand do just that by taking advantage of key tools and techniques.

Maximize LinkedIn Marketing Success With These 8 Tips

As a business in this crowded online space, how can you build communities, increase your brand awareness, and position for growth in 2023 and beyond? These are some of the top tips we’ve gathered this year with a focus on helping brands and marketers grow in the new era.

1. Help your LinkedIn Page work harder

You already know that the audience you want to reach is on LinkedIn. So do 61+ million other companies (give or take). Here are some methods to help your organization’s LinkedIn Page differentiate and drive growth:

• Complete your Page: We’ve found that Pages with complete information get 30% more weekly views. Be sure to add your logo, lead with an overview of key terms and phrases that LinkedIn members can easily find in search, and add a call to action button to encourage next steps.
• Include multimedia in posts: Images, video and document posts earn substantially more engagement — for example, video sees 5X more engagement than plain text.
• Boost your Page: Amplify your content getting the most reactions with a boost to extend your reach. Boosting can help connect you with people who are not following you (yet) but might be interested. 
• Invite people to follow: Prompt your first-degree connections to check out and follow your Page by selecting “Invite connections” within the Page admin tools.
• Spark the conversation: Companies that post weekly see double the engagement with their content. Bring people into your conversations, and join others on LinkedIn. Highlight your brand by re-sharing posts where your business is @mentioned. And expose your brand to a wider audience with three to five hashtags when it’s relevant.  
• Activate your employees: Add pictures, videos and give your employees a voice with the “My Company” tab to help expand your brand’s reach in a credible, authentic way.
• Go live: Communities are most active when they gather in real-time. LinkedIn Events allows you to build deeper connections with your audience with, on average, 7x more reactions and 24x more comments than native video.
  

For a much deeper dive into tips and to see how other organizations are leveraging LinkedIn Pages, find a complete list of best practices here.

2. Enhance your efforts with LinkedIn Marketing Partners

A little added support, consultation and integration can go a long way. In fact, 100% of top brands grow their marketing with LinkedIn partners, and 58% of leads are automated by a partner solution. 

Leverage LinkedIn Marketing Partners to support:

• Strategy planning: Ideate and create better content, use data to build ad audiences and leverage audience insights to become more targeted in your efforts.
• Execution: Learn how to grow your organic following with enhanced functionality, manage your campaigns to scale, and automatically route leads to the platform of your choice to foster the all-important conversion. 
• Measuring your marketing impact: Know that you’re on the right track with reporting and ROI, and track your leads through the entire funnel.
  

Connecting with partners can be the quickest way to tailor the solutions that best fit your business, helping drive focused and consistent growth on LinkedIn. 

3. Activate thought leadership on LinkedIn

Thought leadership content is not just fluff to fill social channels — it has evolved into an essential cornerstone of a content marketing strategy. Moreover, it's a way to establish a consistent voice, vision, and most importantly, trust with your audience. In our 2022 report with Edelman, 61% of respondents said thought leadership can be more effective than pricing or marketing messages at demonstrating a company’s potential value.

On LinkedIn, professionals have the platform to reach a wider audience seeking leadership insights and narratives to achieve their organizational goals. 

But what tangible outcomes can be achieved? Setting goals and expectations for thought leadership — and measuring them through the lens of audience growth, content views and profile views — can translate to concrete business results, such as:

• Brand and Reputation
• Market Consideration
• Demand Generation
• Talent Attraction
• Employee Engagement
  

To help create a framework for developing thought leadership on LinkedIn that engages and influences executives and top decision makers, we recommend checking out Edelman’s Flywheel of Thought Leadership.

4. Evolve customer engagement strategies

B2B customers today need more than a sales pitch: They need to know you know them. Understand their journey better with a buyer-first approach, and how your product or services can help solve their challenges.

In a recent post, we cover ways to get more out of LinkedIn Ads with new tools and tips, such as:

• Automated A/B testing to dial in what engages your audience most
• Use the Insights Tag to track website visitors beyond LinkedIn
• Employ LinkedIn Ads’ conversion tracking abilities to analyze customer response
  

Another simple place to start? Hear what your customers need directly from them, in a setting that centers on them instead of your brand. Consider hosting a LinkedIn Event or roundtable discussion where you can bring your customers together, safely and in real-time, to glean insights straight from the source. 

5. Get a hand with campaign planning

Campaign Manager offers a wide variety of tools, features and options. To help you understand which are best for which situations, and stay tightly aligned with what you’re trying to achieve, we’ve developed this easy-to-use campaign planning template that can assist in creating and launching campaigns that contribute to a full-funnel marketing strategy.

With this template, you can input your own variables. Follow the guide for best practices and tips to tailor your LinkedIn campaign depending on the ad type you intend to use, from Single Image Ads, Carousel, Video, Message Ads, Text Ads or Lead Gen Forms. 

6. Invest in creativity to differentiate

Let’s face it: B2B marketing has been stuck in a funk for years, caught in a monotonous loop of corporate-speak, sales-pitch-first content. Just the facts. But in the constant battle for buyers’ limited attention, it takes more creativity to come out on top. Our guide How Standout Creative Boosts Performance shows how the few brands that rise above with creative ads can see dramatic increases in engagement, conversions and ultimately revenue.

One way to reverse that trend — without overspending — is to embrace the creative renaissance now taking place. Many B2B marketers are taking a page from the B2C marketing playbook, aiming to connect with buyers on an emotional level where the majority of decisions are made. 

Research shows that at any time, 95% of your potential buyers are not in market. Creative, memorable ads can keep your brand top-of-mind for the future. 

Rethinking creativity doesn’t mean throwing out all the previous content you’ve created. If there are still valuable messages to share, consider ways to give them new life, like turning them into videos or infographics that catch the eye of a scrolling member. Create an always-on content strategy with evergreen content, employee advocacy, thought leadership and posts that highlight your brand’s purpose and values.

7. Use LinkedIn measurement to track and improve results

Data doesn’t lie — yet only 37% of marketers feel “very confident” in their ROI metrics. 

Knowing the effectiveness of a campaign — or where it’s falling short — will inform the next steps you take. Marketers who are able to harness the full breadth of reporting and analytics capabilities at their fingertips are more nimble, ready to press forward or pivot, and are swiftly moving ahead of the pack.

For instance, set up the LinkedIn Insight Tag to leverage Conversion Tracking that enables you to see how your ads are driving valuable actions, both on and off the platform.  

For more measurement advice, check out our 10 Most Valuable B2B KPIs and some novel ways to measure the impact of brand marketing.

8. Align LinkedIn Ads with your objectives

Over the years, the LinkedIn platform has experienced exponential growth, making an ideal environment to grow awareness, build communities and drive action. Today, 80% of B2B marketers put paid behind their content on LinkedIn.

But the benefits go beyond the numbers. B2B marketers who incorporate advertising on LinkedIn as part of a cohesive marketing strategy are finding they get more than just clicks. They’re using LinkedIn’s objective-based advertising to drive a full-funnel strategy leveraging the three key components of awareness, consideration, and conversion. 

After their ads were seen on the LinkedIn platform, brands were perceived to be:

• 50% “higher quality”
• 92% “more professional”
• 74% “more intelligent”
• 59% “more respectable”
  

Advertising on LinkedIn can help you achieve a wide range of business objectives while also serving to boost brand perception more broadly. 

Gear Up for Growth This Year and Beyond

The work ahead of us as B2B marketers is only beginning. The good news is that, as the change in our marketplaces continues to evolve, the LinkedIn platform is evolving with it to provide more opportunities for growth and sustained success than ever before. 

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