Target the Right Audience
‘The larger circle represents your Target Audience,
For any given role, there are four ways to target while the colored circles represent the four types of
on Linkedin: targeting available to reach these members.
Job title targeting _| ‘Sales manager’ title
Job function + Sales’ job function
seniority plus ‘manager’
seniority oe
Skills + seniority Cold calling’ skill plus an aad
‘manager’ seniority
Groups + seniority | Sales management
executives’ group plus
‘manager’ seniority
If you create a campaign targeting with any of these types, you'd be hitting the same group. However, largely
due to the infinite ways in which professionals can complete their profile, incorporating two or more of the
above strategies does much to expand your reach.
Adding a new layer of targeting allows you to capture more of your desired audience. If you start testing one
targeting method and see success, continue layering the additional methods with new campaigns until
you're meeting your budget or traffic goals. This means creating four separate campaigns for one audience,
‘which will help you determine how each targeting segment performs based on the content you're
promoting.
In particular, Sponsored Updates has specific frequency caps preserve the user experience.
‘Lpage of Upto 100 SUs
‘organic content per member
between SUs_ in24 hours
Because of these frequency caps, one or more of your ads may not qualify to serve a Sponsored Update toa
specific member for up to 48 hours so it's recommended to have alarge enough target audience to ensure
ads are getting daily impressions.
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