12 LinkedIn Marketing Best Practices for Building Your Brand

12 LinkedIn Marketing Best

Practices for Building Your

Brand

Discover LinkedIn marketing tips and strategies that will help you to increase your visibility on LinkedIn, raise brand awareness and educate potential customers on your products and services.

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Today, businesses realize that LinkedIn and other social networks can be just as important as their websites and deserve serious attention. LinkedIn gives organizations increased visibility for their brand, products, and services. Potential customers, clients, and suppliers can learn about your company on LinkedIn to see if they’re interested in doing business with you. We have compiled the toptips to help in building your brand with LinkedIn.

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#1 Optimize Your Company OverviewOn your company page’s Overview tab, only the top portion of your company description is visible. Make the most of this real estate by giving followers a reason to follow the company page, and include a call to action.


Company Specialties — Use keywords when you list your “Company Specialties” to help your company get found when people are searching for companies like yours within LinkedIn.


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#2 Plan Your Content Use LinkedIn Pulse to research

what other people in yourindustry are writing about.

Create a content calendar for regular updates about company news, new products and services.

Status updates that either create dialogue (grow your visibility) or contain a call to action (generate leads) are the most effective forms of updates.


Monthly Theme

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4

Link Content

Trivia/questio

nFeature product Tip Video Lifestyle Photo

TITLEcatchy

Choose the title of your post wisely. Every time you publish a post, your connections receive a notification in real time. This notification contains the title of your post, and the title of your post only.So it is critical that your title stands out.

#3 Use a Catchy Title


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#4 Post Regularly

Best-in-class marketers are posting 3-4 status updates per day, per audience.

Consistently posting will help you grow your LinkedIn reach, as well as regularly get traffic to your website from LinkedIn.


20XPost at least 20 status updates per month to

maximize your reach to approximately 60% or more

of your unique audience each month.


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#5 Leverage LinkedIn Publisher Insights LinkedIn Publisher analytics shows you how many people are viewing each post, the length of life of each post, reader demographics and the people who engage with your posts.

Use the first three demographics (industries, titles and locations) to make sure you’re attracting the right audience with your content.

These insights can help you refine your content development and lead generation strategy.



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#6 Time Your Status Updates

Experiment with different publish times and days to gauge the way your audience responds.

As a baseline to get you started, many companies time the posting of their status updates during the morning or midday during the business week for maximum exposure.



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#7 Publish in LinkedIn Pulse Post regularly to LinkedIn Pulse and encourage shares and comments on each article.

How-to posts perform best for post views, likes, comments, and shares than any other post type.


In addition, “best-of” lists get almost 40% more amplification than regular company posts.40

%


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#8 Use Images Use images in all your company updates. Images attract more attention to your content, meaning more engagement and increased visibility. Your uploaded image will be automatically resized to fit the 180 x 110 pixel thumbnail space.



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#9 Build Followers

Pinpoint LinkedIn groups that allow you to extend your reach, showcase your expertise and stay on top of industry trends. Share valuable information and facilitate interesting discussions within the groups.


#10 Join Groups

Encourage your employees to follow your page, email your existing contact database with a request that they follow your page, place a Follow button on your website or blog, and cross-promote your page on other social channels, including LinkedIn Groups, Twitter, etc.

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#11 Pin Valuable Content Pin your most valuable content to the top of your Company Page in the recent updates section. This ensures that your most important content is the first thing people see in your updates.


ENGAGEYOUR FOLLOWERS

Take the time to thank, respond to and fully engage with your audience. Ask questions, share trivia and quizzes, and celebrate company wins with your followers.

#12 Engage Followers


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Sallie Burnett, CEOCustomer Insight Group, Inc.Email: [email protected]: www.customerinsightgroup.comTwitter: @sallieburnettLinkedIn Group: Customer Relationships — Engage. Keep. Grow


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