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A Fully Transparent Look Inside The RB2B Linkedin Ad Account


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

22:58

and then convert down the line.

22:59

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.

49:27

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

49:42

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

49:51

they all compounds or tagging sharing the posts everything like that.

49:55

And one of the things we're doing is also manually bidding for certain

49:59

basically conversion events so in this case we're bidding for clicks so this is

50:05

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.

50:24

We typically win an auction so it's something I recommend just when you're

50:28

setting up your own campaigns like under bid what they recommend because

50:32

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

51:01

metrics can you talk about a couple of the differences there because this is

51:06

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

51:15

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

51:32

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

51:58

of campaign you're running.

52:00

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.

53:53

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.

55:13

I'll leave you to reference one of the two screens before you just jump in and

55:17

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.

56:03

That's my preface because if you start doing these LinkedIn ads today you're

56:07

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

about how the new Spanler we're getting a bunch of thumbs up so this is great

01:07:33

so everybody follow me.

01:07:34

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

01:07:46

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

01:08:16

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

01:08:52

has a pushy life from Colorado with me he's a nice guy he'll always make an

01:08:58

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

01:09:28

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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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get out of the woods I hope if not I'm going to be back we'll do a little

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01:09:49

Thanks everyone thank you, big take everyone.