In this video, I sit down with AJ Wilcox, founder of B2Linked Agency and expert on all things LinkedIn Advertising. You can check out his LinkedIn Ads course on CXL institute
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so what are some of the most common
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mistakes you see people making I think
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one of the most common mistakes is
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following linkedin's advice quite
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frankly if this is Pape I'm here with my
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man AJ AJ wall Cox is the number one
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dude on the planet for LinkedIn
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advertising which is why I wanted to
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have this chat with it
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because AJ I hear from so many people
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the LinkedIn advertising just sucks the
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cost per click is ridiculously high
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while the click-through rate is so low
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so can anybody make money on LinkedIn
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yes you absolutely can make money on
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LinkedIn but there is a load of a trick
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to it so just as you've heard the cost
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per click is obscenely high compared to
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other platforms in general what we see
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is a six to nine dollar cost per click
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which is high in some Google ads
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industries you might see you know cost
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per click getting that higher higher but
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in social we're used to Facebook where
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you have you know 150 $2 clicks kind of
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at the maximum so because of that
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because it costs more to get in what it
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means is you've got to be able to make
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more money on the back end in order for
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to have a return right so so for
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typically say that your minimum annual
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contract value be like $10,000 to make
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sales teams work so what's like the
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minimum ballpark for a LinkedIn
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advertising so we've seen people make it
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work with less but what I generally tell
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people is if you're gonna earn $15,000
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or more when you close a deal LinkedIn
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ads makes a ton of sense pretty much
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every time 15,000 that's high so like if
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my product is 200 bucks no chance not
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unless they're gonna stick around for a
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long time and you're okay footing that
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bill for a long time to get to your okay
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so it's typically like enterprise speed
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to be software like what's what's what
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was the best fit typically yeah SAS
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software makes a lot of sense just
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because with SAS software you've got
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that recurring agencies tend to work
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really well especially if they're
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charging you know one to three thousand
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that makes a lot of sense also we found
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devices like medical devices tend to
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make a lot of sense things like you know
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refurbished x-ray machines we found just
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anything with a high contract value mix
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a lot of SCOTUS oh no no one dollar
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trick it's no print business cards
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online web hosting that's crap
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nope that stuff this does not pay off
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all right let's say that I have a SAS
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software I have a plan enterprise plan
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I'm good to go so what will be like like
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top five things I should do to make sure
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that my LinkedIn experiment works out
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yeah so I have this acronym I like to
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use called a moe bring your ammo to the
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fight so you have your audience your
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message and your offer your audience
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it's gonna be pretty straightforward
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linkedin has by far the best
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business-to-business
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look in there and it's gonna become
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immediately apparent who your who your
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people are number two your message is
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really just a distilled version of what
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your landing page says or what your
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offer is so we don't worry too much
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about that we can talk about the
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different ad units you have available
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but the third part do the offer this
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makes a hundred percent of a difference
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in in your campaign in general if you go
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too high in terms of cost or that will
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go like the offer how friction prone it
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is so high meaning really low friction
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would be something like read my blog
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post or view this infographic and that's
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a very low commitment by anyone and the
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very bottom would be here talk to my
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high pressure sales rep really high
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friction if you go too high you don't
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have a strong enough call-to-action on
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the blog post you're generally going to
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have a very low conversion rate meaning
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a very expensive cost per conversion if
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you go all the way to the bottom where
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you're telling someone talk write to my
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sales rep or take a demo or or pop on
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this trial that's gonna be really high
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commitment and it's gonna have a low
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click-through rate meaning LinkedIn is
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just gonna shut it off so what you need
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to have is an offer that somewhere in
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the middle what I'll call that chunky
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middle where you get enough interest
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that people are willing to click on it
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and an offer that's
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it's call to action that's strong enough
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that people actually convert so that's
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gonna be things like here's this free
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checklist or a free cheat sheet or join
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this free webinar or a attendant of a
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free in-person event something like that
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that people are saying that's valuable
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enough to me that I'm willing to give my
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personal information for that got it so
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it's an it's an email opt-in offer yeah
exactly
exactly
exactly
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God do you ever see people just asking
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for money straight up or yeah you know
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because you're only gonna pay when
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someone clicks for the most part we tell
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people hey let's test any call-to-action
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you have because if you have a product
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that's so revolutionary or disruptive
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that people haven't heard of it before
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and there's some latent demand
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yeah sure they'll hop on the phone with
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the sales rep because they've never
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heard that this product existed and
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they're excited to hear from you
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but that's so rare I mean I would say 5%
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of the time you can get away with a
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really heavy ask right so they have
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different ways to advertise there's a
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link text ads banner ads sponsored email
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so which one works the best when should
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you use what so 95% of the time I'm
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telling people start with sponsored
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content these are the ones that are
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going to appear right in their user feed
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they're gonna appear both on desktop and
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on mobile no matter where you're viewing
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LinkedIn you're gonna see these and they
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have some of the highest click-through
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rates that's going to get you a click
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somewhere in the six to nine dollar
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range so that's just what you can plan
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on and I say 95% of advertisers can
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the next place that I say people can go
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to is you go to text ads because they
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are by far the cheapest cost per click
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of any ad out there but they have a
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really really low click-through rate so
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you've got to have a pre sizing 0.000 so
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it's like point zero to five percent is
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the average and that's two point five
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out of every ten thousand times they're
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saying so yeah obscenely locally through
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rates meaning if you've got a super
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targeted audience of 30,000 people you'd
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be lucky to spend ten dollars in a week
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good the beautiful part about this ad
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unit is its desktop only so if you have
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a landing page experience that's not
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great for mobile this is the only way to
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go mm-hmm and then finally as you
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mentioned sponsored in mail this is the
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newest ad unit that we got access to
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they are by far the most expensive ad
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unit on LinkedIn because you're paying
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per send not per click so you know you
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send it to someone's box you paid you
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know 40 to 80 cents usually to send it
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to someone it's gonna have a 50 percent
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open rate on average and it's gonna have
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an 8 percent click-through rate still
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pretty good I not too bad but
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considering that when you work out the
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math you're at like a 12 to 24 dollar
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cost per click so for the most part I
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say that works really well if you have a
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very special offer something that makes
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you feel because of who you are in the
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industry we want to give you special
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access or a sneak peek or come to this
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free event where you get to network with
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your peers those kinds of offers tend to
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work really well otherwise there that
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can just be pretty expensive so what are
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some of the most common mistakes you see
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people making I think one of the most
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common mistakes is following link Tim's
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advice quite frankly Lincoln will give
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you advice that is hey we're gonna give
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you this this range of bids that you
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should do and they're gonna quote you
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really high for the majority of
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advertisers who don't have massive
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budgets I think you're probably okay to
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bid pretty low and fill your budget up
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with cheap clicks as opposed to filling
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your budget very quickly with expensive
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clicks so LinkedIn is gonna tell you bid
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eight nine twelve fifteen dollars start
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near the minimum if it says the minimum
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is five dollars go 525 550 it's a good
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place to start and just see and if you
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can't naturally spend your budget at
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those at that bid sure you can raise it
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but start low don't overpay
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so you see this is what I always say
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don't just follow best practices blindly
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