The Sophisticated Marketer's Guide to LinkedIn
First, build your company's brand and build trust with your community.
Second, create your first ad campaign on LinkedIn's ad platform.
Reach and engage a professional audience in the LinkedIn feed.
Engage your prospects where professional conversations happen.
Engage prospects with ads automatically personalized to them.
Self-service ad formats to create campaigns in minutes.
Discover how much it costs to advertise on LinkedIn.
Reach the people who matter most to your business.
Qualified leads come from a quality audience on LinkedIn.
An easy way to reach new audiences by amplifying your best content.
Measure the true impact of your LinkedIn ads.
Measure the ROI of your LinkedIn ads.
Choose your LinkedIn ad format based on your objective and customer journey.
There is a common misperception that LinkedIn is solely effective as a B2B marketing tool. However, LinkedIn works with many high-consideration B2C brands that experience long-term success by engaging customers and prospects on the platform. Volvo Car Canada saw a key opportunity with LinkedIn’s member base of thoughtful and sophisticated researchers. “With the way people shop for cars now, so many of the choices considered are determined from online content, before they even arrive at the lot,” says Alexandra Cochran, Activation Director for Volvo Car Canada’s agency, m/SIX. She adds that her team didn’t view the business-oriented nature of LinkedIn’s member base as an inhibitor: “At the end of the day, whether it’s a consumer in a laid-back mindset or in a professional mindset, they’re still people.”
The targeting capabilities on LinkedIn empowered Volvo Car Canada to reach the type of individuals it sought as customers, based on geography and career attributes. The marketing team experimented with a variety of different ad products, including Video Ads, Sponsored Content, and Carousel Ads. Cochran notes that leveraging positive press articles with coverage of Volvo performed well, providing third-party validation of the latest features, technology and design. LinkedIn’s new format for Carousel Ads was a central focus and stood out as a strong fit because of the way it can help brands tell a visual story to a mobile audience.
Results
The main objectives for Volvo Car Canada’s marketing was to accelerate engagement, awareness, consideration, and onsite lead conversion depending on format and content. Volvo Car Canada’s marketing efforts on LinkedIn delivered for each of these goals. Volvo Car Canada were extremely impressed with the response rates being “in some cases three times higher versus standard media approaches.” In particular, the Carousel Ads achieved a 75% increase in click-through rate compared to static posts. As advice for others using the platform, Alexandra Cochran emphasized the importance of knowing your audience and catering creative directly for them in order to achieve best results.
About Volvo Canada
Volvo Car Canada Ltd. is a subsidiary of Volvo Car Group of Gothenburg, Sweden. VCCL provides marketing, sales, parts, service, technology and training support to the 37 Volvo automobile retailers across Canada.
INDUSTRY: Automotive |
NO. OF EMPLOYEES: 25+ |
HQ LOCATION: Toronto, ON |
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“The Carousel Ads format lends itself to mobile really strongly. You can tell a longer story to contribute to a higher level of engagement.”
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