RB2B Head of Growth, Pete Crowley, is joined by the Co-Founders of Understory, a demand generation agency. Ali Yildirim and Alex Fine take us on a deep dive into the RB2B LinkedIn ad account. They share tracking metrics, spend, persona targeting, and more.
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>> Hello everybody, welcome.
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Welcome everybody, we're just getting our other house in.
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I'll be joining everybody in a second.
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I have two Alex here, I'm going to promote them both.
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>> Can you hear me?
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>> Can you hear me?
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>> Can you hear me?
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>> Uh-oh.
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>> Why am I in here today?
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>> I'm in a state.
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>> Please, we have to have Cp.
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>> I think you're entering the Zoom call twice there, Alex.
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>> Yeah, I don't know why.
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>> Can you remove one of them?
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>> I'm going to remove, yes, let's kick this one out.
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Remove.
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>> All right, how about now?
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>> What happened, I'll tell you later, don't report.
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>> All right, I got you in here.
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I'm going to turn my video on here now.
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>> You can hear me?
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>> I can hear you.
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>> That's weird, I literally only joined once, that was strange.
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>> Yeah, we're having the greatest technical.
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>> It's always me, we make jokes about my technical issues all the time.
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>> Is it Ali Yildram?
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>> It's Ali.
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>> Ali, what is it?
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Yildram?
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>> It's like Muhammad Ali.
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>> Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Go, we're going to make him a co-host.
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Everybody, chime in on the chat, let us know where you're joining in from.
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We're getting everything set up.
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We got six of us in here right now.
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>> Hey guys.
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>> What's up?
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>> Hello.
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>> Hello, is everyone doing?
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>> We're doing the same thing.
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>> We're doing the same thing.
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>> We're doing the same thing.
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>> Yeah, we're doing the same thing.
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>> I just want to stop over here, Port wants to sit there.
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>> I'm going to get out of the conversation, fortunately, on Atlanta.
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If anyone's in, drop in where you're calling in from on the chat.
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>> We've got something all right.
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>> 10 minutes.
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>> I'll say peaches.
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>> I'll say peaches.
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>> I'm not so off of that.
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>> I agree.
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>> That's from Montrum.
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>> Heck yeah, Rachel.
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>> On from India, that's got to be past midnight there.
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I'm thinking.
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You can let us know.
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Well, cheers for joining them.
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>> I guess it is.
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>> I'm not telling you, I'm not Adam.
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I'm Adam's video producer.
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Adam is currently in the woods of Aspen.
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Doing a little soul searching.
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He is off this week.
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He and Santosh are both living off the land right now.
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So I'm helping get this set up for Pete.
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Adam, or Pete, Alex and Ollie.
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And we're going to have a great show today.
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>> A great show.
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Everyone's going to be like Adam, who?
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You know, it's just,
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going to totally take over the RV to be brand today.
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>> Pete, people are going in there.
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Getting more wine here.
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>> All right.
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>> The reminder does, so we'll start seeing this blob a little bit right here.
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>> Oh, perfect.
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And then Ollie, you're free to share all the things like it's only yesterday.
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So we didn't get, we Adam's in the woods.
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We couldn't run anything by him.
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So the answer is yes.
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>> To me, it's fair to game show everything.
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>> Yeah. >> Is the mod up to that.
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>> Yeah, yeah.
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>> We like radical transparency here.
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I've been shooting with Adam.
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If you guys have watched in the Billion Dollar Challenge,
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it's something I've been helping him make with Christy,
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our main producer on that.
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And one of the big things is radical,
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radical transparency.
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So.
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>> All right.
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>> I'll share everything except for the Billion Center details.
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>> Yeah, you got it.
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>> But the spindle show up, I know that's going to show up a couple of times.
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So. >> Yeah, I'm going to see how much for setting,
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just not the account number.
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Yeah.
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>> People are slowly piling in.
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Of course, we'll start probably about one minute after the hour.
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Keep chiming in, letting us know where you're all from.
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I see more people joining in right now.
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>> I mean, Bill and Sof are joining in.
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>> We have 14.
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>> So what's the length?
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>> Yeah, the true.
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>> Or is there more on the LinkedIn live?
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Are we running on LinkedIn as well?
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>> No.
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>> Here, we're bringing everybody to Zoom.
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We like everybody in the same spot.
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>> Yeah, here we are.
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>> It's not fair to ask questions to LinkedIn.
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And people are chiming in here and vice versa.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Fragment and chats are not good.
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>> No.
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>> Fair enough.
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>> And we are already recording.
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>> And then afterwards too, I am going to post this once it's loaded.
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John will post this on our V2V Academy with any supplemental materials that we
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have. So that's something I'll announce at the end once everybody fills in.
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But is that something that gets done to the usually get processed within the
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day or?
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>> We get it on YouTube at 9 a.m. the next day.
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So tomorrow, 9 a.m. central time, which is 7 a.m.
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Pacific time, it goes live on YouTube.
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I'll put the not since I am at them today.
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I'll do what I ask them to do every time.
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And I'm going to put the YouTube channel so you guys can all see where that's
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at.
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Get the moment here and I'll put it in the chats and we'll link to that at the
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end too.
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>> We got a few more minutes while we get set up here.
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>> Peter, I'm always jealous of your background.
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>> Thank you.
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>> It's a good.
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>> It's hard to try to make it clean but not like.
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I couldn't arrange my room in a way where the wall was behind me like a flat
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wall.
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So yeah, I appreciate it.
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I got to organize the book better to be honest.
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It's kind of a jumbled in there, but everything around it looks pretty enough.
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>> So you can all these have like a four or five shelf bookshelf.
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And it's like, I don't know, probably 15, 20 feet wide.
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And it's completely color coordinated like thousands of books.
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It's insane.
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>> Really?
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>> Yeah, it's been a weekend one time just like going through everything just
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to make it look aesthetic.
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>> Yeah, I want to see a picture of that.
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>> Yeah, I'm going to drop that dress and hit it in our slide.
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>> All right, that's good stuff.
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>> Yeah, there's something very common about trying stack of books.
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>> Yeah, I know of this.
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>> Great. We got two minutes left.
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Any more people?
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Looks like 15 more joining than last minute.
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Where's everyone calling out of?
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Now we're going to be AI, a little bombardment, but everyone can still drop in
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where they're calling out of it.
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It would be great to hear where we're going to.
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>> He did the best to give it a minute or two because most people chime in
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right out too.
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So we can kind of start doing a little intro to add around to, but it really
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starts getting hammered at 2pm.
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>> Or whatever time it is for you all.
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>> It's time zones.
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>> 1pm.
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>> Oh yeah, I forgot you're an hour behind me.
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>> Yeah, and Alex and I'll be here.
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>> We're on the last five days.
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I've been in every time zone on the continent on the mainland.
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It's pretty good.
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Pretty good.
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>> Good.
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That's a lie.
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It's a little bit less good, but I guess they can take them to the continental.
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>> You know what?
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>> I'm sorry, talking about.
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>> We'll give you a couple more minutes here.
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>> Give it a couple more minutes.
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>> Yeah.
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>> I'm going to go ahead and link another YouTube channel here.
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>> Just so you all know, the billion dollar challenge season three is in
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production.
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That's a little sneak peak.
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We will be posting those coming soon.
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I'll tell Adam, I told you all.
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>> What was the one from last week?
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Wasn't there one that dropped?
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>> Or was that just a little...
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>> Those are, those are, we're doing a little re-edits as some of the past
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seasons to get everybody up and running to where we're at in season three as
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well as we're doing narrative content that's going out on LinkedIn.
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It's been really cool to do.
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>> Got it.
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>> So that wasn't like an official billion dollar challenge.
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It was just sort of a...
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>> It is.
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>> It's like constantly.
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>> ...conceiving one and two, and it's more like, here's what we've been doing
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in compilation.
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>> I told you it's going to happen, John.
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>> Adam dies.
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>> Adam dies.
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>> Hair.
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>> I am, I'm Adam's video producer.
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He is in the woods right now.
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So I am helping run this.
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I'm going to be turning my camera off here in a minute, letting these guys take
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it away.
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Actually it's two o'clock, so I'm going to do that now.
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He give it like one more minute and then we can start.
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>> Oh.
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>> We got 89, so I think we're a good spot.
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>> All right. Fantastic.
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Thanks, John.
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And yeah, well, we'll give it another minute for everybody to join.
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As John said, Adam and Son Toche are both in the woods this week.
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Completely disconnected off the grid.
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I don't even think they're together.
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I think they're just in different parts of the woods separately, but near each
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other.
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So I'm filling in this week.
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And we'll give it about one more minute.
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We got Ali and Alex.
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I'll introduce them in just a second.
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Yeah, everyone's throwing off.
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I swear it's going to be a great show.
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It might even be better.
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I think this could definitely be better.
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And they might not even come back.
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So definitely stick around.
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I don't want to see that number drop.
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I'm not sure if it's going up.
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This is perfect.
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It's perfect.
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Ken confirmed they're not together.
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Nice to to solo act to solo woods.
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Wilderness experiences happening right now for both Son Toche and Adam.
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There is a little film coming out about it.
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So you will get to actually see whatever they're doing.
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Who knows, probably just meditating on the ground.
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I would imagine.
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But we're two minutes after the hour.
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Let's start.
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We got a bunch of folks in here.
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Hi, everyone.
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My name's Pete Crowley.
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I lead growth here at RB2B.
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I'm hosting this week.
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We'll be back to your normal hosts next week.
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I'm joined today by Ali and Alex.
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They were on a agency called Understory.
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I'm going to let them actually introduce a little bit more about themselves.
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What Understory is.
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And really what we're going to do today.
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We're going to go through RB2B's linked in Add account.
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We're going to show you all the metrics, all the experiments we're running.
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We have a tracking sheet.
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We'll show you.
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You'll see how much we're spending everywhere.
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What her son is working well.
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We'll literally show you everything.
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Ali asked me yesterday on our call.
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Is there anything off limits?
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Adam was already in the woods.
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So I couldn't ask him.
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So it was just the answer was.
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Let's show him everything except our credit card.
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So.
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Ali, Alex.
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We love a little introduction of you guys and what Understory is.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So.
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Hello, everyone.
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My name is Ali.
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I'm a co-founder here at Understory.
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We help you to be SaaS companies.
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Go to market with paid media, outbound email.
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LinkedIn outreach and graphic design.
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I run all of our paid media campaigns.
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So I'm going to be doing a lot of the talking today as we go through that Add
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account.
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But I have here my co-founder, Alex.
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Go ahead and introduce yourself, Alex.
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Yeah, what's up, y'all?
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I'm Alex.
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I'm the other co-founder of Understory.
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I managed the entire app.
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I'm seven the business.
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So a lot of cold email through clay and various different sequencing tools.
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And then a lot of LinkedIn outbound as well.
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But yeah, well, we'll shake under the hood.
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But we're doing for for our B2B and Adam.
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And Ali is going to walk you through that whole journey.
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Awesome.
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Awesome.
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Thanks, guys.
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So before we actually dive into the account itself.
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I just wanted to share with folks.
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Kind of where this fits into our kind of our marketing marketing goals and
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initiatives.
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So I want to say I just have two slides here.
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It's going to be really quick.
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Can you see my screen, by the way?
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Is that coming through?
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Okay.
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Okay, fantastic.
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So when we think about growth here at RB to be, we think about this bullseye
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framework.
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This is not something that I came up with, but it is something that I follow.
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I'll show you where you can learn more about this in a second.
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But essentially all of the marketing channels fit into one of these three rings
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We have on the inside that red ring.
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That's what's working.
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Those are all the channels.
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We are spending almost all of our time on.
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From a growth and marketing perspective.
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So those are our community building.
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That's our content strategy.
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Is you know, Adam spends most of his time doing content.
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I spend most of my time now with our creator community and doing content as
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well.
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So that's really what's working now around that edge.
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So those are things we spend most of our time and energy on.
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That's what we prioritize most heavily.
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Outside of that is what's probable.
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So those are those are channels that we are experimenting with.
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Okay, back to that one second.
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Right outside of that is what's possible.
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Those are every other channel.
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I like to call that the blatantly ignoring kind of rings.
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Like those are things I'm just completely ignoring.
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That's for us. Those are things like speaking events and offline ads and all
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these other channels that like we're just blatantly ignoring because we have.
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Other channels that are working that we're experimenting with.
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So the what's probable column that's where the LinkedIn ad and social and
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display ads channel fits right now.
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And that's why I'll be in all of the join us today.
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So we are running experiments on two channels right now.
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One of them is social and display ads under stories running that for us.
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And then we have another agency that we're testing SEO out with.
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I do not like testing more than two channels at once.
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And I like a test to run at least one quarter long.
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SEO one will have to run longer just because that's the nature of the channel.
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So when we test channels here at RB to be.
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We do not just hire a full time person to start running that channel.
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We love using agencies when we connected with understory.
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Our LinkedIn ads were road I mean our campaigns and our experiments were robust
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and live within.
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I don't know like a week. It was crazy fast.
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We'd nept to go through a hiring process.
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And if this doesn't work, we can just end our engagement within agency.
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Fortunately for understory. This is working very, very well.
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So this is probably going to move into this this middle ring here.
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If you want to learn more about that bullseye framework.
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There's a really good book. I have it here as well.
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It's called traction not to be confused with the EOS book.
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This was written by the guy who founded duck duck go.
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He had to go up against Google. He had a very big head lens when it came to
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getting traction.
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So it's a really fantastic framework. That's what we use.
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I will talk more about it in my posts and content, but I will stop there.
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I just want to let everybody know where ads fits into our strategy here.
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So without further ado, I'm going to stop sharing.
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If you could dive into let's start with the LinkedIn account.
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I think itself, then we'll go to the sheet second.
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Okay. Yeah. Cool. That sounds good.
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Now guys, we will ask well a whole Q&A session at the end.
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If we are in the neighborhood of a topic or we're on a certain page,
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you can still feel free to drop in questions.
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We'll kind of answer them through it as well as we're going through.
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So I'll leave. Please.
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Yeah, let's do it. So I think as an advertiser, this gets me pretty excited.
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I think oftentimes we're pretty discouraged from sharing spend details,
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from sharing ad accounts and all that.
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So I'm very excited to share all this with you.
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One, because it's performing really well.
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I think we're lucky in that regard.
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So we can actually show like good performance.
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But also, again, that transparency is something I really value.
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Something I really appreciate about Adam as well.
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So high level.
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I think like I'm sure none of you are strangers to Adam's organic content on
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LinkedIn. Obviously he has I think like 100,000 followers.
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His content gets great engagement.
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And so the organic reach there is amazing.
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I think the benefit that we have when we're running these ad campaigns.
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That we can segment the targeting for the different campaigns based on who we
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want to reach.
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So one of the first exercises we did when we were looking at the different
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types of content that Adam was putting out was how can we bucket them into
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these different personas.
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So when we talk to Adam, those four personas we'd like to start out with kind
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of like a sales persona, founder persona, marketing persona.
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And then outbound kind of agency persona similar to what we do.
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And so, you know, when we were looking at the various pieces of content that he
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posted organically, we were trying to fit those pieces into these different
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buckets.
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And some of the pieces also fit across multiple different personas.
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You know, there's some content pieces where Adam is talking about early stage
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sales teams that we felt would fit not just in the sales persona, but also in
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the founder bucket.
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So that's kind of how we grouped it.
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There's some like I'm saying, like there's some ads that are live in the sales
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persona that are live across all the other campaigns as well.
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So kind of high level that that was our strategy from the get go.
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Dynast anything there?
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No, I just also wanted to mention there was a leave Adam posted that maybe two
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months ago, he had somebody do a full analysis of this LinkedIn audience and
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that also helped us zone in on these personas.
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We found that these were sort of the most followed personas and it's also who
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he speaks to because they're the most followed one.
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So I just wanted people to know there's analysis done also to just like these.
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But I'll get keep rolling. Thank you.
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Yep.
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And so I think there's a few different ways we're measuring the success of
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these campaigns.
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When we first spoke to Adam, obviously we want to increase reach.
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I think that's definitely something we're doing.
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You can see we've in the last month or so we've had over a million impressions
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from the ads.
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That's a high level metric, obviously.
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Getting more granular.
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We will also want to understand what the impact was in terms of signups for RV
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to be.
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And so what I did was I set up a conversion action basically anybody who
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submitted their email and start the signup process with already be RV to be
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that was tracked as a conversion.
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And when we're measuring that performance specifically, we're looking at two
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different types of conversions and.
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This is how LinkedIn defines them, but there's click conversions and then view
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conversions.
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So click conversions. The default setting is it will be counted if anybody
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clicks on an ad and then signups for RV to be within seven days.
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The view through conversions happen based on an impression basis.
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So if they see an ad and then sign up for RV to be within 30 days, then they're
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counted as a view through conversion.
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So I think it's important to clarify the distinction between the two.
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In my opinion, I think click conversions are kind of the ultimate.
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Measure of the success of the campaign that we have in terms of the data that
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is available to us because it's in my opinion, just like the tightest
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correlation between somebody clicking on the ad and then signing up.
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But I think like I was pointing out the impression count, all these different
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metrics matter in different ways.
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But if we're analyzing based on ROI, that click conversion number is really
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important to take into account.
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So just want to clarify those different types of conversions that we are
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tracking for RV to be specifically.
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And I'll leave someone asked to kind of conversion goals like, can you just
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tell everybody where that click conversion, what that click actually is that
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that correlates?
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Yeah, so there are a few different ways on the ad to get to the RV to be
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website.
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When you're looking at it organically, and I think I have one pulled up here.
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So, you know, this is the actual post after somebody clicks see more.
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But when you're seeing it as an ad in the feed, you'll have about one or two or
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three lines of text before you have the see more button.
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So there's a couple of different conversion points that people can take in
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order to register for RV to be.
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You can see here, Adam has the custom call to action underneath his headline.
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So that's one point of conversion. So somebody could click the visit my website
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and then convert down the line.
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It could click to his profile and then also convert on that same call to action
23:04
button.
23:05
But one thing we're also doing just in order to maximize the amount of attrib
23:08
ution that we're getting.
23:10
Maximize the amount of conversion tracking that we're getting is we're editing
23:14
the posts after the fact just to add a call to action.
23:18
You know, we want to build up the organic social proof as much as possible.
23:22
And then after we've hit kind of a limit there, then we'll go in and just add
23:26
that line at the bottom of the post just to get as much attribution and
23:31
opportunity for people to sign up as possible.
23:34
So you can see here, we just added sign up for free using this link.
23:38
Now aside from that line, is there anywhere that shows the viewer that it's a
23:42
paid ad as opposed to an organic post?
23:45
So you won't be able to see it here. This is just a preview, but it'll say
23:49
underneath the Adam's name promoted by RB to be.
23:52
So that will be the one indication that it's actually an ad. It'll say promoted
23:56
by RB to be.
23:57
And what's cool about this ad you do too is it's a very small subtext. You
24:01
almost miss it half the time, whether or not it's promoted.
24:04
I mean, I get I get these kind of ads all the time on my news feed and half the
24:07
time.
24:08
I think they're regular posts and then I look and it says like that four months
24:10
ago or something like that.
24:12
And that gives it away where I know it's promoted, but yeah, it's it's very
24:15
small subtext and it's really hard to even see.
24:18
Another thing I'll leave might be worth talking about is when we're editing the
24:23
the text of the actual post afterwards.
24:26
You know, the length of time we typically see organic reach such a drop off.
24:32
Yeah, exactly. So we wait around three weeks after a post goes out before we
24:37
edit the post and put money behind it.
24:40
I think LinkedIn in a lot of ways is a black box like every ad channel is so
24:43
you never know exactly how things get impacted.
24:47
But we like to play it, say, especially because this organic reaches so crucial
24:51
to the business.
24:53
We just want to give enough time like a buffer period in between posting the
24:57
work post organically and then putting dollars behind it.
25:01
We haven't proved this out, but a theory is there might be some throttling that
25:05
happens to organic reach after you sponsor the post.
25:09
And they're proof there. Yeah, but we're just playing it safely.
25:13
So we're getting just real quick reading a lot of questions about attributions.
25:17
So these other things will let's do a whole attribution section towards the end
25:20
after we go through some of the content.
25:22
So just so everyone knows we'll we'll hit all of that stuff and we'll open it
25:24
up for kind of questions during that section.
25:27
But I appreciate all the questions. We'll let you carry on.
25:31
Yeah, for sure.
25:34
I think another thing that we're seeing specifically related to our B to B's
25:38
content and kind of speaks to what Alex was saying that these ads really do
25:43
look like organic posts is the type of engagement and the volume of engagement
25:48
that we're seeing on the ads.
25:50
Like we run a ton of different clients on paid media specifically on LinkedIn.
25:55
And I'll say like these type of engagement rates that we're seeing, you know,
25:58
you know, the 300 comments or 300 reactions over 200 comments, all these shares
26:04
It's pretty not I would say it's not similar to what we're seeing for other
26:08
accounts.
26:10
And so I think it just speaks to that.
26:15
How these ads don't really look like ads people are willing to engage with them
26:18
. They're willing to share them and they're willing to comment on on the post
26:22
themselves because of the valuable content that's being shared and the fact
26:27
that they look and they are organic posts, but we've turned them into ads.
26:30
So just want to highlight that as well.
26:33
And that's the whole if you really kind of zoom out to RB to be an and Adam's
26:37
whole strategy. It's really around just thought leadership and providing
26:43
educational content and value and then the awareness of RB to be in retention
26:47
kind of fold their way into that message.
26:50
It seems like the best way to get eyeballs and attention is through genuine
26:54
kind of thought leadership ads and there was something interesting to join our
26:58
meeting yesterday.
27:00
I'll leave you pointed out, which was the engagement that happens once the post
27:05
has been promoted. So when we look at what posts to promote, we're using the
27:10
organic traffic and kind of engagement that had already occurred on that post
27:16
as a barometer to how well the post might perform once we put money behind it.
27:19
So this is interesting world where we can actually test our content without
27:24
having to pay to test it, which is great.
27:27
But yeah, this is all this is all around having it not look like marketing,
27:32
which is the best market.
27:34
So I just want to add exactly. Thank you.
27:37
And to validate the point you just made to we run thought leader ads for
27:42
another very notable company in a similar space. And we do things the same way
27:47
we use reactions and impressions and things like that as a barometer.
27:51
And it's working for them really well too. So this is you know, a tactic that
27:56
we tried now across multiple different clients and we're seeing similar results
28:02
Yeah, and another thing that we tested was just spinning up what I like to call
28:08
more like boring ads. So, you know, these were kind of like a split test that
28:13
we ran.
28:14
We wanted to understand, would these convert if they're more conversion
28:18
oriented, they seem more like regular ads. And we found that they actually don
28:23
't convert as well.
28:24
We're seeing a higher cost per conversion lower click through rate higher cost
28:28
per click across across the board for these more like boring ads. So it's just
28:32
interesting like that social proof really compounds and essentially relying on
28:37
these more boring ads might not yield the performance that we expected at least
28:43
So something to point out as well there.
28:49
That's great. That's certain. So as we're diving through creatives, Brandon and
28:55
the chat asked the question about just the different how we're deciding on
28:59
which posts fit which persona.
29:02
So as we're diving the content that we great point to hit along the way.
29:06
Yeah, for sure. So I think it depends on the actual content of the post. Like I
29:13
was mentioning before we have a certain amount of characters before people have
29:17
the option to click see more.
29:19
And so in some cases we're selecting posts where we're speaking to certain
29:23
segments in the actual hook. So if you look at some of the ads that we're
29:28
running in the founder segment.
29:30
So specifically, you know, obviously this is more subjective. We tried to put
29:36
on our thinking had here, but you know if we're talking about bootstrapping a
29:41
company that's going to feel more to a founder persona based on the
29:45
conversations we've had.
29:47
You know talking about specific startup issues, growing the company. So yeah
29:52
scaling certain organizations. This one is another post that I mentioned that
29:58
could fit into multiple different buckets like not only scaling it.
30:03
So we're going companies but scaling specific sales organizations we felt that
30:07
that would fit both in the founder bucket as well as sales. So it's just
30:11
looking at that hook but also looking at the overall content of the post itself
30:15
. That's kind of how we're deciding what fits into each bucket.
30:23
Thank you. We're going to go let's continue on. So there's a there's some
30:28
chatter around audience targeting. We'll do a whole thing on targeting as well.
30:33
So targeting and attribution we will dive into in their own little buckets.
30:37
I promise guys great, great questions.
30:41
You want me to go into audience now or sure. Yeah, I think I think that covers
30:45
a good content. Yeah, let's hop over to audience. Okay. So I think you let's
30:54
start with maybe the marketing audience. I think that
30:59
we're going to be interesting to dive into. So obviously we tried to focus more
31:04
on B2B companies since the name RB to be. So we're starting with a very narrow
31:11
focus in terms of demand, and leaders specifically for this marketing persona
31:15
at tech companies.
31:17
It works best in the US just given the privacy restrictions, but you know, it's
31:21
a pretty tight audience that we're testing for the marketing persona more
31:26
demand gen oriented titles more senior titles.
31:29
Smaller company sizes specifically in the tech industry. I think honestly RV to
31:34
be could be potentially applied to every industry. I don't think it's
31:39
necessarily industry agnostic.
31:41
Just for this narrow test, we wanted to just prove it out with an audience that
31:45
we knew would resonate with the offer specifically, which is tech leaders at B2
31:50
B SaaS companies.
31:54
So that's kind of how we were approaching the marketing bucket.
31:58
Just to build on that thought to Ali so in general when we're whether it's our
32:03
LinkedIn ads or our content strategy.
32:07
Really what we're trying to do is create an echo within one sort of niche like
32:11
one bubble right now that it's really a lot of B2B SaaS companies as I'll be
32:15
said, we will continue to bubble out, but right now it's like be a like
32:20
dominating echoing force within the smaller bubble and that will kind of expand
32:24
out.
32:25
Just right in line with that.
32:30
And I think one thing Pete and I were talking about yesterday was how can we
32:35
make the sales audience more actionable how can we increase the amount of
32:41
conversions that were seen from that persona because out of everything that we
32:44
've tested so far.
32:46
And that persona has the highest cost per conversion. So one thing we were
32:59
talking about was potentially including some more SDRs and BDRs into that
32:59
audience right now it's more business development managers, CROs like more
33:00
senior level titles.
33:02
But you can see here sales does have the highest cost per conversion.
33:07
Our theory is that it's potentially the least actionable like marketing they
33:11
have direct access to the website they could install the script pretty easily
33:15
same with founders.
33:17
Outbound agencies there are almost like nodes for other clients so one agency
33:21
could you know install script for 10 different clients.
33:25
And so I think that tracks in terms of the cost relief.
33:28
So one thing we were just discussing is how can we make that sales audience
33:32
more efficient and our idea which is an upcoming test is to launch to some SDR
33:37
and BDR folks.
33:39
So kind of a new test that we're spinning up in the coming days.
33:43
As a concern of yours really when I brought up yesterday but it's definitely
33:47
concerned my now is with the SDRs and BDRs and now being a part actually click
33:51
into that sales persona will be fantastic.
33:54
So what I lead and I had done yesterday we looked at all of the folks in the
33:58
sales were like man sales should in theory based on the conversations that have
34:03
customers be a good fit for our DB.
34:06
They seem to get the quickest most direct ROI when they start using the
34:10
platform.
34:12
So you know someone just said they aren't buyers that's kind of are theory to
34:18
that fight just be the case.
34:21
But one concern we have with putting the BDRs and SDRs in is we probably won't
34:25
be able to track attribution back so it's probably going to look like what's
34:30
likely to happen we're going to have more impressions.
34:34
And it's going to be a higher cost poor cost per conversion and maybe it's
34:38
helping a little bit but we'll have no way of knowing it will probably shut it
34:42
down so that's potential so instead how long you running tests.
34:47
It depends on the test and how quickly we you know feel we can get to a
34:51
reasonable sample size.
34:53
So we'll continue the sales one for a little longer probably another month but
34:57
I would say sometime September correct from wrong alley we might look to pivot
35:01
away from it or just continue to reach out to those people organically not put
35:06
out and always find it.
35:08
Yeah I think that's fair.
35:11
We'll make that decision yet like you said in September.
35:14
We'll make about those down the line like obviously in a lot of ways this data
35:18
that are you to be is providing teams is almost like crucial to sales seems
35:22
like if they see somebody on their pricing page and all that like those of the
35:27
leads that people should be calling should be contacting immediately.
35:31
So I think it's definitely an audience that's worth advertising to it just
35:34
seems a little less action well then what we were expecting so it would just be
35:38
working with you.
35:40
So you're saying like do we want to have like a limited audience where we are
35:44
serving ads at a very small scale as opposed to just going for for conversions
35:48
right off the bat so yeah I think that September poll is going to be good.
35:54
And so much was Jonathan here asks what we're talking about assessing how long
35:58
to run a test and you know there's no.
36:02
Like every case is a little different but when we are running tests on
36:06
different personas kind of in this case what is a good sample size to shoot for
36:10
is there a spent you guys do this with so many companies is there a spend or a
36:15
timeline or impression you know count of impressions that will signify to you
36:20
okay we've dug enough here we should try to pivot away and and feature
36:25
different persona different type of content etc.
36:28
Yeah I'll say there's not like a hard and fast rule you know when we spoke to
36:32
you like obviously we have sign up or a cost per sign up goal so you know we're
36:37
trying to get as close as possible for that $25 per conversion number is
36:43
possible.
36:44
So I think you know if we launch the campaign and we spent anywhere between 500
36:48
to a thousand dollars and we're noticing that the cost per conversion is you
36:52
know a hundred dollars plus then I think that's a pretty fair assessment to
36:56
where we can say like this I might not be working this campaign might not be
37:00
working with spin it down so it's kind of a combination of getting enough
37:04
conversions we're also looking at what the cost is relative to our goal and
37:08
relative to the other campaigns that we're running as you can see with the
37:11
founder or the marketing persona we could.
37:13
Pretty quickly see what's working what's not in comparison to the other ones so
37:18
it's kind of factor of spend a little bit of it depends and then just the
37:22
volume of the number of conversions that we're getting.
37:26
Yeah like we have some other clients that we work with as well who are you know
37:29
their tolerance for conversion is way higher because they're ACB is way higher
37:33
and so for them it's just that goal set of you making sure that if you know we
37:38
have something that's nowhere near what their target is then we cut it off
37:39
quickly and we set thresholds.
37:41
Yeah and so everyone's got a couple of questions about our goal I mean we're
37:46
going for conversions and we're going for an average conversion of ideally less
37:51
than 50 dollars we kind of have this goal of 25 right now we're sitting around
37:55
33 we'll go through that in a minute but I know a lot of people have just
37:59
dropped in questions about our goal that's kind of where goal is.
38:03
There was one other thing while we're on the audience oh so what says do you
38:08
test the titles versus functions in your audience testing so do you mean like
38:13
seniority versus function is that kind of what that question is I know what
38:17
like people boosted or bump that up so I just want to make sure we're clear
38:20
before we go out answering that but maybe hop into the I don't know marketing
38:26
persona we can we get kind of into that question in there and just show yeah
38:31
kind of title versus function or or.
38:32
Or seniority versus function how that's selected.
38:36
Yeah so the reason why we started with title as opposed to function is that I
38:42
think there are specific titles within the marketing function that obviously
38:47
might be a little bit more accountable for an initiative like RB to be we
38:53
wanted to specifically reach these demand and personas so you know the typical
38:59
LinkedIn build for a job function audience would be.
39:01
Job function equals marketing in this case we would do seniority equals manager
39:06
but I just don't think it would be as specific as how we want to get in terms
39:12
of the titles that we want to go after it could just include anybody who's a
39:18
marketing manager content marketing manager product marketing manager I think
39:21
those titles are a little bit too broad something we can think about down the
39:25
line but we wanted to just start with this very specific persona very specific
39:30
job titles as opposed to breaking the title. So it's supposed to breaking it out into function that's kind of our thought
39:35
process behind it.
39:38
That's great thank you.
39:40
What was the next section you wanted to go I'm trying to like fold in I don't
39:43
want to like break up the flow too much of questions are trying to like get a
39:46
ground more in the neighborhood so yeah let's hop on in the next section and I
39:51
do see the questions about the content types videos to images,
39:58
carousels, texts, all these different ones there's some some ads that you can't
40:03
actually promote I believe our posts but we'll we'll we'll make our way over
40:07
there.
40:09
Yeah I guess probably next I was going to cover just how we change spend from
40:13
July going into August and how that impacted performance but if you think we
40:18
should talk about those add types first you can.
40:21
Let's get into let's get into the spend we'll circle back on the add types once
40:26
we get into questions because there were a few there and I want that to be more
40:31
I want to be some follow questions on that so.
40:36
So just put together this quick spreadsheet just to give everybody a breakdown
40:41
I think it's a little bit easier just to visualize basically what we did in
40:45
July versus August and the main goal there was just to see if we could profit
40:51
ably spend close to 10 K a month on those ads we showed the results for July and
40:58
the next couple words out of Adam's mouth was let's double it so we're pacing
41:03
to 20 K going into August.
41:05
I think we had a couple of assumptions when we doubled the add spend one costs
41:09
probably we're going to go up usually there's just like a the nature of scaling
41:14
at spend on LinkedIn and had channels in general when you increase the amount
41:19
of money you're spending the tend to see a decrease in efficiency.
41:24
So one of the ways we were tracking that is our cost per conversion and more
41:28
specifically our cost per click conversion.
41:31
So it did go up but not to the extent we were expecting you know we doubled add
41:35
spend we were not necessarily expecting costs to double but we were expecting
41:39
it to go up a little bit good thing is it only went up by about $3 in terms of
41:43
the total cost per conversion so I think that's a huge win there we were able
41:48
to increase the spend profitably.
41:51
I think some other things that also you know kind of indicated the decrease in
41:57
efficiency is you know our impression count went down we spent almost double in
42:02
terms of what we spent in July but we didn't double the amount of impressions
42:06
that meant the add through being served to the same audience more than once
42:11
more times and we did back in July so that's another thing to keep in mind I
42:15
think it's something.
42:17
Pete and I were talking about yesterday actually like we're going to
42:20
potentially hit issues with frequency where people are seeing the ads over and
42:23
over again they potentially have already signed up so we need to exclude all
42:27
those new people who have signed up.
42:29
But you know that frequency is starting to go up and with it we also tend to
42:33
see a decaying performance whether it's CTR engagement rates and all that so
42:37
that's something we're also monitoring.
42:40
But yeah overall pretty happy with the fact that we doubled spend essentially
42:45
but didn't see that doubling in terms of overall costs.
42:49
Yeah that's kind of how we went into August essentially.
42:53
Yeah fantastic and I know the goal why we're going to keep basically doubling
42:57
every month so the thing breaks economically.
43:02
We're hoping we can scale this to over $100,000 a month now we do that it's
43:06
going to be a lot of impressions it's going to be a lot of kind of saturation
43:11
on LinkedIn with RB to be content especially as Santos is posting more rob Hojo
43:15
in the show last week's posting more I am as well.
43:18
We have a bunch of users like to you who post about RB to be is there a risk of
43:23
like oversaturation with both the influx of organic content both by us and
43:28
users and then also us ramping up these ads so far.
43:33
Yeah absolutely I think that's kind of what I was speaking to in terms of
43:36
hitting certain frequencies like if the average person is seeing our ads like
43:40
10 15 20 times like that's starting to get to a pretty like concerning point
43:46
where. We might be hitting them too many times but I think we have a lot of levers
43:50
that we can pull specifically in terms of the industry targeting.
43:54
We're actually also job titles like adding new ones into the mix spinning up
43:57
those tests that we were talking about like whether it's SDRs BDRs are a
44:01
completely different audience in that way but I think industries will be our
44:06
biggest lever there in terms of expanding the audience and making sure we're
44:11
not hitting saturation because I think it will be something we'll run into.
44:16
Just given that there's only a limited amount of people like in the marketing
44:19
audience I think it was like 20,000 people like you know look how many
44:23
impressions we've served for that audience specifically like it's a lot so it's
44:27
definitely something we're thinking about and just like an issue you run into
44:33
as you increase had spent.
44:36
Now there is another tab on here this is something we're starting to spin up we
44:41
just we just talked about it for the first time last week which is our third
44:47
party posts so phase one of of doing this with Alex and Ali and by the way I
44:53
think our engagement is that we we've been doing this for about two months now
44:56
we're like in our second month so we're pretty early in on this.
45:00
The first month was really about dialing in the thought leadership ads and and
45:05
Adam's ads and everything like that we have this idea now that we're getting a
45:09
ton of third party posts and I'm really focused on personally building our
45:13
creator community there's a lot of really good third party posts that are going
45:17
out so
45:18
Ali you are briefly just describe the strategy that we're going with on that
45:22
and and kind of that motion just because people might want to repeat that
45:26
motion in their own you know with their own ads.
45:30
Yeah absolutely I would say it's actually very similar to what we're doing just
45:35
for Adam's posts we're identifying people who mention RB to be who speak
45:40
specifically about certain use cases using RB to be.
45:44
Ranking it by social proof just you know selecting the ones that have the
45:47
highest engagement rates reaching out to the poster of whoever created the
45:53
content doing something similar in terms of editing the post include that call
45:57
to action and then sponsoring that way like the same way we grouped Adam's
46:01
posts into different content buckets will do the same thing with
46:04
the third party poster as well like Alex on his end he posts a ton about RB to
46:10
be outbound use cases so I think the type of post that Alex is posting probably
46:16
be very relevant to either the sales or the outbound agency persona so very
46:22
similar kind of ranking strategy that we're doing for Adam's post it's just the
46:26
added social proof of having a third party speaking about RB to be.
46:30
I think the one or the couple like downsides or things we just need to keep in
46:34
mind is that obviously there's more conversion points for people to take action
46:38
when they're clicking Adam's profile visiting the website from his button down
46:43
here when you're sponsoring third party posts obviously people have their own
46:47
brands their own companies that they work for so in a sense we are.
46:51
You know promoting their own content like for their brand but obviously we're
46:56
trying to get content that speaks very is very clear that it's about RB to be
47:02
so I think it's a win win in some cases like that but something to keep in mind
47:07
also because people obviously work for separate companies brands all that.
47:12
Only while we're here to looking at this I think it's important to talk about
47:15
how we don't include a link that takes people off of LinkedIn in the organic
47:18
posts that we're using we're doing that three weeks after after the organic
47:22
reach has faded away and putting that in like I'll he said LinkedIn is a bit of
47:27
a black box no one really knows every single thing about how it works but at
47:30
the same time we do see direct correlation between having links in the post
47:35
that lead you off of LinkedIn to decrease in performance from organic reach so
47:40
we wouldn't recommend doing that until.
47:41
The organic reaches faded and that's that three week period we talked better
47:45
earlier.
47:46
So the three week is sort of a minimum so that you don't disrupt the organic
47:51
reach is there a like a ceiling along along the west side of the way I'm losing
47:57
the word right now like we're a maximum you want to post something more than
48:02
six months.
48:04
So I mean specifically for RV to be we are running some posts that are older
48:08
than six months I think as soon as the content becomes irrelevant or you know
48:12
you're speaking about what happened in 2023 like very like outdated content
48:18
then at that point you probably want to phase it out because I don't think this
48:23
If I remember correctly I don't think it has the time when the ad or the
48:27
content was posted on the ad itself so it's really just about the content like
48:31
making sure it's fresh and on sale.
48:34
The other thing I'll just add to that a lot of folks were especially just
48:37
starting out doing content I'm one of those people by the way so like this goes
48:42
for me to.
48:43
I wouldn't want to post or put spend behind something from like two months ago
48:46
because it's just probably not as good a quality as the stuff I'm posting today
48:50
there are a couple things that popped off but like for the most part if you're
48:54
kind of early on in your journey and you're really trying to learn what you
48:58
know what you're an heir to is who you're speaking to who your audiences it's
49:02
just going to be the whole reason stuff diving back into stuff that's a year
49:05
old might just not be a good idea for that reason alone.
49:09
So what have asked how do we do the linked in follow-on analysis analysis we
49:13
mentioned we had somebody do that somebody who's like a data scientist cool I'm
49:17
going to let you continue on the and then we'll open up for questions in just a
49:22
few minutes maybe maybe you know five minutes or so yeah.
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So I think one thing that we talked about yesterday that you said would be
49:31
pretty interesting for the audience is talking about how we're bidding for the
49:37
campaign so right now and I know this controversial depending on how you talk
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to but we've set up the campaigns just to optimize for engagement we want as
49:47
many people engaging with the ads clicking on them commenting all that because
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they all compounds or tagging sharing the posts everything like that.
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And one of the things we're doing is also manually bidding for certain
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basically conversion events so in this case we're bidding for clicks so this is
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a little insider tip LinkedIn will always recommend and I think ad channels in
50:09
general will recommend that you over bid for what you're optimizing for so in
50:16
this case they're recommending we bid you know minimum of four dollars and four
50:21
cents we found if you set the bid lower than what they're recommending.
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We typically win an auction so it's something I recommend just when you're
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setting up your own campaigns like under bid what they recommend because
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LinkedIn really likes money as most ad channels do so we always tend to under
50:36
bid what the suggested bid is in this case we're going for engagement clicks it
50:42
's a little different from like a landing page click or anything like that is
50:45
just any click that happens on the ad itself and so again my suggestion here is
50:49
just under bid with the recommending.
50:52
That's awesome and can you dive in just a little so there's different.
50:57
Different businesses and different ads will go for different you know goal
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metrics can you talk about a couple of the differences there because this is
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probably not going to be the goal metric for everybody here.
51:11
Yeah exactly so like I said we're optimizing for engagements for those more
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like boring ads that I was showing you guys earlier we're sending people
51:19
directly to the RV to be website and so in those cases we're bidding
51:23
specifically for website clicks so we'll we're only charged whenever somebody
51:29
clicks on the landing or clicks to the landing page so you know if we're
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driving traffic specific to a website that would be an event that I would
51:36
recommend.
51:38
For a lot of our other clients were also using the lead gen objective to
51:43
actually captures people's information information that way that's also a click
51:49
objective so it's similar to what we're bidding on for engagement basically
51:54
anytime somebody clicks on the ad then we get charged just depends on the kind
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of campaign you're running.
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The one objective I haven't found a ton of success with is the awareness
52:04
objective that one you're charged on a CPM basis so even if people are not
52:08
clicking on the ad you're just being charged just to serve it so it can get
52:12
pretty expensive pretty quickly we typically like to just bit or just get
52:17
charged whenever somebody engages or clicks on the ad itself so that's why we
52:22
kind of stay away from the awareness objective just another insider tip there.
52:28
What would just a people know what would be a use case where brand awareness
52:31
would be your objective would be like for advertising the Olympics or something
52:35
like that where it's like not really anything I can do with an Olympics add it
52:38
and hopefully watch the Olympics in a week when they start and stuff like that.
52:43
Yeah I mean if you have a ton of money so light on fire I think that's one
52:47
situation where it might make sense.
52:50
You can also actually run CTD ads through LinkedIn so connected TV where they
52:54
'll show up on you know obviously people smart devices and you can only do that
52:59
through the awareness objective and I think that's one of the typically the
53:03
only cases where we do use awareness is when we're running CTD ads and I think
53:08
that's actually really interesting ad unit because you get the same
53:11
professional targeting you would on LinkedIn like all these job titles company
53:15
sizes and all that but you can appear on people's connected TV devices.
53:19
So that's really the one use case where we rely on the awareness objective.
53:24
Awesome.
53:25
So when asked brand awareness before sending cold outreach to a customer
53:31
audience, Steven asked that so you're going to be sending out a bunch of cold
53:35
you know cold outreach or you're going to have your team call them whatever it
53:40
might be. It's brand awareness or even let's just not focus on brand awareness could any
53:45
of these ads be a primer for a cold outreach one to one strategy.
53:51
Yeah absolutely.
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I mean that's why I think Alex and I partnership works so well together.
53:57
All of those email lists that Alex is pulling on the outbound side we're also
54:01
cross referencing and uploading until LinkedIn ads they have two different
54:06
types of content matching they have company lists and also contact list.
54:10
You know Alex goes through a very rigorous like cleaning process he's looking
54:14
through any catch all is any like unverified emails and all that.
54:18
And so sometimes we miss out on being able to reach those emails over outbound
54:22
initiatives so in order to reach them we can actually match those companies
54:26
over LinkedIn and essentially provide air cover to the outbound campaigns and
54:31
outs running.
54:32
I know if you're not.
54:35
I mean the just that right is we'll find companies that fit the criteria for
54:38
who we want to reach out to but we can't find the right email addresses and
54:41
doesn't happen often but it does happen you know just invalid emails catch all
54:45
emails companies are getting better and better hiding their.
54:49
Three email formats so yeah that's that's one of those instances where we can
54:52
just take that company list and if we don't have any contacts or even if we do.
54:56
We overlay them with LinkedIn ads and we just match the company to the person
55:00
that we're looking for.
55:02
That's great that's great so we'll use Stephen's question there thanks for
55:06
those great answer we use that as a launching point right into our Q and a
55:10
session that works so might.
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I'll leave you to reference one of the two screens before you just jump in and
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share.
55:18
So I asked a question I want to get to because this is.
55:23
So generally everybody's a situation so Geraldine asks what would this campaign
55:28
look like if you didn't have Adams brand recognition both in terms of execution
55:33
and where you think you might be right now.
55:36
I can give a slight preface on this to to you guys up so all of our channels
55:41
that were leveraging have been.
55:44
The growth of those have been accelerated by the community that's been built on
55:49
LinkedIn by at so that is without a doubt with everything that we do we're
55:53
trying to figure out continue to leverage the though or excuse me that effort
55:58
in that community with the other channels that we experimented.
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That's my preface because if you start doing these LinkedIn ads today you're
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not going to have the wealth of content probably the quality of content either
56:12
that we have that you know our disposal here so.
56:15
I would love to hear your thoughts though and how somebody who is not Adam
56:19
would start doing these LinkedIn ads we thought leadership ads.
56:23
Yeah absolutely so I mean the first thing to keep in mind is that Adam was
56:27
posting for I think like two years before we started this engagement so you
56:32
know he refined his tone his voice like the content that he was putting out who
56:36
he was speaking to so getting that down first obviously is the crucial first
56:43
step until launching these campaigns you want to understand what content is
56:47
working like building up the social proof.
56:50
So we found that you know clients who are posting regularly on LinkedIn to put
56:54
their ad for instance at least 2x clients that aren't we're much less active on
57:00
LinkedIn so definitely compounds I think the great thing about posting organ
57:06
ically is you don't have to put ads going behind it like you don't have to
57:09
continuously spend dollars so I highly recommend figuring that out first but
57:14
figuring out good flow connecting with people on LinkedIn building your
57:19
audience that way. And then moving into the ads once you are able to get deals and source clients
57:23
out of those posts and organically from LinkedIn I think a lot of cases the ads
57:27
that is adding fuel to the fire.
57:31
And nothing exists in a silo I mean there's a reason why performance increases
57:35
after you engage more on LinkedIn I think it's all working in one big ecosystem
57:40
like you know LinkedIn ads doesn't exist just by itself there's just the
57:44
campaign manager that's how we think about it.
57:47
Gotcha. That's awesome that's perfect.
57:51
So when asked why are you so something about us doing outbound we do a little
57:55
bit about bound just to answer your question Alex at RV to be do a little bit
57:59
of email marketing and some LinkedIn outreach but it's not I wouldn't consider
58:03
it cold outbound these are kind of warmer lists of engaged folks so.
58:08
And it's it's just not the thing that's driving in the majority of our business
58:13
it's more of a supplement and arena to test in if we need to talk to people
58:18
about x y and z will do outreach I was doing outreach to talk to creators so it
58:24
's not a core sales motion or business development motion now.
58:30
So a couple questions here. How do you keep your LinkedIn as a complete you
58:37
organize campaigns by month.
58:40
How do you guys organize a beefy kind of a LinkedIn as account is there yeah
58:47
yeah all these genius.
58:50
Yeah it all comes out to naming conventions like nothing's perfect and I found
58:54
like you know after years of working on the same accounts like things change
58:59
like priorities change and all that so.
59:03
I mean a structure that we usually go with initially is at the campaign group
59:07
level will separate campaigns into different personas you know in RB to be case
59:12
we're going after those four different ones and so those were all organized the
59:17
campaign group level.
59:18
But it all really depends we have some clients that they only have really one
59:22
main ICP that they're going after so at the high level we're organizing it by
59:26
you know whether it's cold content that we're serving top of funnel.
59:31
You know retargeting campaigns that have more bottom of funnel messaging and
59:34
splitting it out by intent that way.
59:37
And you know if we have other customers that advertise globally and so they
59:41
have you know a media campaigns a pack all those split out so really just a
59:45
pencil in the client but you have to get your naming conventions down the get
59:51
go I think is the best tip there.
59:54
In a similar lens when it comes to so RB to be right now we're just doing our
59:59
social ads on LinkedIn we're not using we will eventually explore outwards but
01:00:05
we're trying to have a narrow narrow experiment here so somebody asked can you
01:00:11
combine your audience from Google meta LinkedIn Twitter so you can keep enrich
01:00:16
ing kind of this one contact list I think that's a good understory question so I
01:00:21
'm going to hear your thoughts.
01:00:23
Yeah so like I mentioned on the email side all those lists that Alex is going
01:00:27
after we're also uploading them directly into LinkedIn.
01:00:32
In terms of retargeting specific traffic from those other channels we also
01:00:37
segment all of the channels by UTM's so we could build a retargeting audience
01:00:42
in LinkedIn anybody who's visited a URL where UTM source equals Twitter ads or
01:00:47
Google ads or something like that and so we can retarget the traffic that way.
01:00:51
So yeah kind of two separate aspects of it like the custom lists that we're
01:00:55
uploading but then also UTM specific traffic that we're retargeting.
01:01:00
Perfect.
01:01:03
Let's see I get two questions I really want to get okay we got 10 minutes we're
01:01:07
good so talking about UTM's house Tony asked how do you manage UTM attribution
01:01:11
tracking from an analysis perspective when boosting organic posts.
01:01:17
He says he can he's found that he can't edit a boosted post but would instead
01:01:22
have a copy a post into an ad so unable to like actually transition that one.
01:01:28
And then you tie employees into the LinkedIn business manager to share posts
01:01:33
from their personal accounts so kind of a little how to on that post boosting I
01:01:38
guess.
01:01:39
Yeah so in order to I don't think you even need yeah they don't even have to
01:01:43
work at the company specifically like that's how we're boosting third party
01:01:47
posts you essentially just go into campaign manager when you're setting up the
01:01:53
campaign and you can go into posts like there's like option to sponsor posts
01:01:59
from people's profiles.
01:02:01
And you just copy and paste the URL into that drop down and then you get like
01:02:05
an approval link and you can just send it to the person who's approving the
01:02:09
post and then that's how you get them added to the account itself.
01:02:13
There's some like stipulations about the content when you're promoting it on
01:02:17
LinkedIn we've actually run into this with Adam you can't swear too much on the
01:02:21
ads.
01:02:22
Like a little flag it so we've run into that a couple times you can't
01:02:26
capitalize to too many words also thing we've run into that Adam you can't have
01:02:32
for a mode or more than four emojis for whatever reason.
01:02:36
And then there's only three types of thought leader ads or I guess organic post
01:02:40
that you can vote one just pure text posts one with just one image so it can't
01:02:44
be a carousel.
01:02:46
And then the same for video we can only be one video associated with the post
01:02:52
itself.
01:02:53
Awesome. Very thorough thank you that was a good question Tony Alex had asked
01:02:59
about so when you run ads your ads can be directed at different parts of the
01:03:03
funnel so you can have top of funnel ads that are more for awareness people who
01:03:07
have no idea what your company is or what our V2V is.
01:03:10
You know the middle funnel bottom bottom would be where you're really trying to
01:03:14
push for that conversion event can you talk a little bit about the where the
01:03:18
ads that we're running on LinkedIn the post we're running fit within that top
01:03:23
middle bottom of funnel and all add some color afterwards as to like my view on
01:03:28
the bottom of the link the the RBB funnel because we are.
01:03:34
So let the dog of the out truck yeah he's not the dog out the window he's ramp
01:03:37
ed up right now but I'm glad somebody saw that but but yeah let's love to hear
01:03:43
your thoughts on top middle bottom and I'll do a little conclusion.
01:03:48
Yeah so how we set it up originally all of those like thought leader ads actual
01:03:53
content we're promoting that was served to a cold audience and then those
01:03:58
boring ads that I was showing those are only going to a retargeting segment.
01:04:03
So I guess how I was thinking about is let's nurture the audience and then hit
01:04:07
them with something more conversion oriented down the line what we found is
01:04:11
that people are actually straight up just converting on the cold ads so that
01:04:16
original strategy didn't work as well as I was expecting so that's why always
01:04:22
be testing.
01:04:24
But that's how I think about it generally especially for higher ticket SaaS
01:04:28
products like we want to first nurture the audience and then hit them with more
01:04:32
bottom of funnel retargeting messages down the line.
01:04:36
We don't really believe in like gating like white papers or ebooks or anything
01:04:39
like that I think it's all down to math like you only get one out of 10 clicks
01:04:43
converting on that.
01:04:45
There's nine other people who are not reading or engaging with your content so
01:04:48
top of funnel we're not getting anything we're just giving a lot of the
01:04:52
information away for bream.
01:04:54
Yeah we're going to start experimenting with more gating content soon that's
01:04:58
that's definitely on the road map will keep everyone posted about that but I
01:05:03
have one more question I wanted to ask and then we'll do it some little outros.
01:05:10
We'll have room for a couple more people have kind of a question about someone
01:05:14
said how many campaigns would you suggest testing it first this is Rachel not
01:05:19
somebody this is Rachel how many campaigns would you suggest testing it first
01:05:23
if you only have about $500 and add spend per month until you can prove the
01:05:27
value to get more budget.
01:05:28
So how would you go you know we spent I think eight thousand our first month
01:05:33
and we're going to spend I don't know 20 this month somebody who's just has a
01:05:38
very small budget and wants to get some roof of concept with a very you know
01:05:44
and wants to have some sort of reliable sample size that we'll have someone go
01:05:49
about that.
01:05:50
Yeah that's a great question so ideally you just want to get to statistical
01:05:54
significance as fast as possible so I think about it you know if you're budget
01:06:00
is $500 for the month there's 30 days on average in the month so that's about $
01:06:05
15 a day that you have in terms of what you can spend average cost per clicks on
01:06:13
LinkedIn or anywhere between five to $10 typically.
01:06:17
So that's kind of how I think about it honestly that's on the lower end I think
01:06:21
LinkedIn is known in a lot of ways for being the more expensive ad channel but
01:06:25
if you're only getting like a couple of clicks per day it's just I don't think
01:06:28
you're going to get to statistical significance as fast as you would like so
01:06:33
typically what we recommend is at least $25 to $50 per day per ad that's kind
01:06:40
of the math that we use in order to get to that significance as fast as
01:06:44
possible.
01:06:45
So that's kind of my hard and fast rule is let's do the math to where it works
01:06:49
out to $25 to $50 a day per ad essentially there's the more complex formula
01:06:54
always holding back a little bit.
01:06:57
It's got the civil four hills are good.
01:07:00
Cool one last one I'll answer and then we'll do some Astros and I'm curious how
01:07:06
everybody found this meeting to be if they liked this kind of in depth look at
01:07:12
one of our growth channels one more marketing channels.
01:07:14
I'm happy to host this meeting as a as a weekly thing on Wednesdays have it be
01:07:19
my own thing we can dive right into the different growth channels that we're
01:07:24
doing will do updates we can have a alien Alex back next month we can talk
01:07:29
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I hate to say this follow me on LinkedIn it's it's kind of cringe myself out a
01:07:40
little bit but I will post I will post that next workshop I'll get one out in
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September I promise thanks all for joining one last question someone said how
01:07:51
are how are your views on Facebook and Google ads they better when it comes to
01:07:55
are they better than LinkedIn when it comes to be to be.
01:07:58
That's going to depend on the business both the business you are in the
01:08:02
business that you're selling to you're going to have to test that out I wish I
01:08:07
had a good answer there but test test test that's the that's the magic magic in
01:08:12
the game so what else this meeting will be out on recording it will drop on
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YouTube at 9 a.m.
01:08:18
I am also going to post it on a new thing I've spun up called RB to be Academy
01:08:23
so Academy dot RB to be dot com I'm going to drop it in the chat tomorrow I
01:08:29
will upload this to RB to be Academy you will also see a video that Alex had
01:08:36
created a nice workflow there this is where we're posting a lot of user
01:08:40
contents as well.
01:08:42
And that's all I got someone asked about the dog that's Raya he's a 5.5 year
01:08:47
old bar Bay he failed that a guide dog school because he's too shy and now he
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has a pushy life from Colorado with me he's a nice guy he'll always make an
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appearance here and Alex Ali fantastic Ali I mean I just a killer walk through
01:09:06
thank you so much.
01:09:08
Thank you all for joining any any final words where can people learn more about
01:09:12
understory.
01:09:13
Yeah, well something didn't yeah it's going to say we are all over LinkedIn I
01:09:17
mean we preach what we sell so we even run our own thought later ads and we do
01:09:22
the exact same logic.
01:09:24
Perfect follow along on LinkedIn everybody thank you for joining like I said
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01:09:31
The best this was super fun I will spin up my own show all because of your
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01:09:49
Thanks everyone thank you, big take everyone.