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LinkedIn Ads that reach decision makers

LinkedIn is the only channel where you can deliberately address the managing director of a 20-person Swiss trade business. A click there costs a multiple of Google – and it is worth it when the offer matches the job function. When it does not, LinkedIn is the most expensive way to spend money.

Illustration of LinkedIn Ads

In short

LinkedIn Ads are paid placements in the LinkedIn feed, the inbox and the sidebar.

What sets the platform apart is the audience: you select by job function, company size, industry and seniority – data people maintain themselves, because their career depends on it. For Swiss B2B that means an audience of 2,000 people who are all decision makers, instead of 200,000 of whom 300 qualify.

  • Audiences by job function, not by interest
  • One offer per ad group, never two
  • Lead forms with at most four fields
  • Minimum audience of 300, or nothing runs
  • Not a franc of budget before measurement works

What we do for LinkedIn Ads

From the audience to the report, with nobody in between:

  1. Audience matrix by job function and company size
  2. Campaign structure: one offer per ad group
  3. Ad copy written for a Swiss business audience
  4. Lead generation forms with four fields
  5. Imagery and document ads in your brand system
  6. Retargeting of website visitors
  7. Audiences built from your customer list
  8. Conversion tracking through to the meeting that happened
  9. Monthly report with cost per enquiry
  10. A stop condition agreed before launch, not after

What makes the difference

What decides more on LinkedIn than the budget does:

  1. We tell you beforehand whether your offer carries on LinkedIn – some do not
  2. One ad group carries exactly one offer; two offers halve the learning rate
  3. The intro text stays under 150 characters, because LinkedIn truncates after that
  4. The form asks four things, not nine – every field costs completions
  5. We measure through to the meeting that took place, not to the click
  6. No automatic spend: every budget increase needs your approval

Who LinkedIn Ads work for

And who they do not work for – that belongs in the answer:

  • B2B service providers with an order value from roughly CHF 5,000
  • Businesses addressing a nameable function: management, IT leadership, human resources
  • Companies hiring – job ads reach people here who are not searching
  • Providers of services that need explaining, where a document convinces more than a landing page
  • Not suitable: offers below CHF 1,000 order value and anything consumers buy

How we work

What happens at each step, what you have afterwards and what you contribute.

The steps follow the stages of ALPENIQ ASCENT, our model for the whole digital ascent. See ALPENIQ ASCENT

  1. 1. Stage 1: Assess

    First conversation

    Free of charge. We look first at whether LinkedIn is the right channel for your offer. In roughly one in three conversations the answer is no, and then we say so.

    Result
    An honest answer on whether LinkedIn is the right channel for your offer
    Duration: 30 minutes, free
    Your part
    Explain your offer and your ideal customers
  2. 2. Stage 2: Strategise

    Audience and offer

    Which function, which company size, which industry. And the one offer that function cares about – not your service catalogue.

    Result
    An audience by job function, company size and industry – and the one offer for it
    Your part
    Name your ideal customers and your deal size
  3. 3. Stage 3: Create

    Measurement first

    Conversion tracking, form connection, meeting feedback. Before the first franc, because advertising without measurement is bought clicks without insight.

    Result
    Conversion tracking, form and meeting feedback in place
    Your part
    Access to your website and form
  4. 4. Stage 4: Execute

    Approval and launch

    Daily budget cap, run time and stop condition in writing, approved by you. Only then does the campaign run.

    Result
    Campaign live, with a budget cap, a run time and a stop rule
    Your part
    Approve budget, run time and stop rule in writing
  5. 5. Stage 5: Nurture

    Operation and reporting

    Four numbers a month: spend, enquiries, cost per enquiry, meetings that happened. Plus what we do with them.

    Result
    Four numbers every month: spend, enquiries, cost per enquiry, meetings
    Duration: reliable numbers after about four weeks
    Your part
    Read the report and decide with us

Is this a fit?

Honest up front, so neither of us wastes time.

A good fit if …

  • You set budget, run time and a stop rule in writing up front
  • You want to see meetings that happened, not clicks
  • You also publish posts from your own profile

Not a fit if …

  • You expect a cost-per-click forecast before anything is measured
  • You want to judge results before about four weeks of data exist

What it costs

Projects with ALPENIQ Growth start at CHF 1,000. We work out the range with you in the strategy call, with every item listed. We name a price once the scope is clear.

See pricing and models

Ways to work with us

  • ProjectFixed price

    Clear scope, fixed price.

  • Growth PartnershipRevenue share

    Online marketing without project fees. We earn from what is left after ad spend.

Common questions

Why ALPENIQ?

We run LinkedIn for ourselves, under the same rules we hand you. What does not work for us, we do not recommend to you.

And we say the uncomfortable half: the most effective thing on LinkedIn is organic posting from personal profiles, and there is no API for that. Ads are the automatable part, not automatically the stronger one.

Your next steps

The strategy call is free. After that, it's your decision.

  1. 1. Strategy call, 30 minutes

    We listen, look at where you stand and which step moves you forward fastest right now. We only name a price once the scope is clear.

  2. 2. Summary and quote

    You get in writing what we understood, plus a quote with every item listed. Whether you accept it is up to you.

  3. 3. Kick-off and delivery

    The kick-off turns everything from the call into the concept. Then we work through the process, step by step.

    See the process

You know there's more in your business.Thinking higher starts with a conversation.

30 minutes, honest and concrete: we look at where your company stands digitally, and which step moves you forward fastest right now.

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