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Marketing Solutions According to eMarketer, for the first time ever, digital will pass TV as the
in The Organic + Paid leading advertising medium in the United States with 33.9% of market
Playbook. share) this year—and in the next two years, that figure will swell to 47.9%.
Naturally, social media is at the forefront of this seismic shift. But with
abundant opportunities come significant challenges for B2B brands. As
organic reach on social media continues to decline, brands are feeling
the pressure to deliver concrete ROI—and this pressure is resulting in
So how do you reach the right professionals, the right way with your
social media strategy, all while maintaining brand safety?
3 stEps
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
The greater your paid reach, the more it can amplify your organic efforts.
By testing and optimizing with organic content, you ensure you’re investing in your highest-
performing content for paid campaigns.
Continue your focus on organic to drive even more followers and increase engagement.
Engagement on
LinkedIn is booming 50% 130K 60%
Now is the time to reach your ideal Members engaging with Millions of professionals Views in the LinkedIn
customers on the world’s largest the Feed is growing more create over 130K articles Feed are up 60% from
online professional network. than 50% year over year. per week. last year.
Step 4
Build a compelling
organic presence
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Visual is the new headline
Ensure your imagery matches the messaging.
With links
45%
Without links
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and grows your followers, but it also helps you to identify the content
that resonates best with your audiences.
Employees are 14x more likely to share content from their employers than
other types of content on LinkedIn. To make the most of your content
marketing efforts, use an employee advocacy solution like Hootsuite
Amplify to make it easy for your employees to find and share your top
thought leadership articles and content. This can be a cost-effective
channel to build your community and generate highly qualified leads at a
fraction of the cost you’d spend elsewhere.
Empower your top employee voices 7
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expertise within your organization. GE, for example, has a fleet of
top voices sharing strong authentic posts and publishing long-form
articles regularly. And when they cross promote each other and the
company announcements, they’re growing their follower base to tens
of thousands.
Promote their best content from your Company Page to build both
your brand’s and your influencers’ followership.
Top publishers have seen an average of 120% growth in Company Page followers.
Best practices for your top voices
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Long-form articles showcase how your
top voices analyze a trending topic in
depth.
Be authentic. Members want to hear your voice,
not a press release. Be sure the articles sound like
they came from you.
of your employees
Research from Edelman indicates that only 45% of Americans trust
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institutions. At the same time, 63% do trust people like themselves.
And you have access to these “people like themselves”—they are your
employees.
2x
How Hootsuite Helps Content shared by
Hootsuite Amplify makes it easy for your employees to safely employees has 2x
share your content—extending your social reach. higher engagement
Learn more at hootsuite.com/amplify than when it’s shared
by a company.
Step 10
What you’ve been building organically will help you identify which
content resonates best with your audience. You’ll see content that
gets shared relentlessly or spawns numerous comments.
You’ve identified the content and messages that resonate best with
your audience. Now it’s time to implement a paid strategy that
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connects your brand with your ideal customers at scale. Focusing on
LinkedIn’s Sponsored Content will jumpstart your paid strategy.
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Get visual. Opt for rich, eye-catching imagery that matches the
messaging of your content, keeping the text on your imagery to a
minimum. Keep in mind that 75% of Sponsored Content engagement
happens on mobile devices, so make sure your content looks great on
small screens.
snackable stats work wonders. Lifting short stats and quotes from
larger content assets makes for really engaging posts. Numbered lists
and surprising stats both grab attention effectively. And everyone is
more likely to share content that makes them look smarter.
Measure, learn
MEasUrE
and optimize
By analyzing details about the audiences that are reading and sharing
content on a specific topic, you can discover additional audiences that
would be good segments to target using Sponsored Content—giving
you additional opportunities to broaden your reach with content that
will have a high impact.
MEasUrE
Create tailored content.
Compare different pages to learn which kinds of content resonate with
different audiences. Customize content to your strongest prospects.
And with LinkedIn’s conversion tracking, you can review and optimize
campaigns in real time. Having the metrics that matter to you most at
your fingertips is critical for managing campaign spend and informing
your content roadmap.
on LinkedIn in 3 steps
3 stEps
Step 1
Build a compelling social presence
Step 2
Boost your reach and engagement with paid advertising
• Reach and engage with the right people at scale with LinkedIn
Sponsored Content
Step 3
Measure, learn, and optimize
social selling
Employee advocacy
HOOTSUITE IS THE LEADER IN SOCIAL MEDIA Along with our channel and agency partners,
management, trusted by more than 18 million we help organizations build and manage their
customers and employees at 80% of the Fortune brand, strengthen relationships with customers,
1000. Our unparalleled expertise, customer insights drive business results, and integrate social
at scale, and collaborative ecosystem help people across their organization. Innovating since day
and organizations succeed with social. Hootsuite’s one, we continue to help organizations pioneer
versatile platform supports a thriving ecosystem the social media landscape and accelerate their
of social networks complemented by 250+ business success through product training, group training
applications and integrations, allowing organiza- and tailored organizational training, as well as
tions to integrate social media into existing systems security and compliance services.
and programs.