LinkedIn is one of the best platforms to reach new customers. You can filter leads based on professional criteria, which makes it super powerful for B2B businesses to target prospects based on job title, company size, industry, and other business metrics.
Unfortunately, your competitors know this, too...
Once you identify ideal target customers, you need to cut through the noise and demonstrate why your solution is better than the competition.
Sending videos in LinkedIn messages lets you stand out, make a human connection, and SHOW how you can help.
With the Sendspark Integration for Expandi, it’s never been easier to connect personally at scale.
Read on to see 3 video outreach "starter" campaigns you can implement right now to book 2-5 meetings per day, per LinkedIn account.
We’ll also go deep into how you can create automatically personalized videos, so you can scale your outreach and make a great impression for future customers.
Let’s get started!
There are ton of ways that you can use video to amplify your LinkedIn outreach strategy. The way to think about it is… What are you doing right now that’s almost working, but needs a little something extra?
Video can make that difference to spark that connection or close that deal.
If you’re just getting started, these are 3 simple automations we recommend you set up to start connecting. Once you've implemented these, you can check out more video scripts for sales prospecting here.
The possibilities are endless. Always iterate, improve, and let your creativity shine through!
Start by identifying your target audience based on characteristics about them (job title, industry, company size, etc.) and then just start reaching out.
How this works:
Connection request: keep it empty so it doesn’t feel like a generic pitch.
Video follow- up: “Great to connect, [first name], I’ve been building out [your company name] to help [target audience] achieve [desired outcome]. Here’s a quick video to show how you’d be able to [get desired outcome].”
The video should be no more than 30 seconds. It’s not a 30 minute product demo… Just a teaser of how much better their life would be using your solution!
The nice thing about this campaign is that it’s evergreen. You can set it up, and then just keep enrolling new contacts who fit your lead criteria every week or so. The tradeoff is that it’s pretty generic. You know some general criteria about your lead, but you don’t know how relevant or top of mind your solution is.
So, while we recommend having this campaign going, we don’t expect it to be your big breadwinner. The following campaigns are more targeted, so these are likely to get higher engagement (though they have shorter lifespans), so they will ultimately require a little more work to set up and maintain.
This is my personal favorite, and this is how it works:
Connection request: “Hey [first name], I saw you liked [Influencer]’s post on healthy lifestyles for golden retrievers. I work for DogCrunch, and we just introduced a new dog food with all the nutrients golden retrievers need. Would you like to learn more?”
Video follow-up: “Hey [first name], here’s a video of how happy your pup will be after their first bite of DogCrunch. Click the button under the video to get your first box of DogCrunch for 10% off ”
This is a similar concept, but instead of targeting people who like hot industry posts, you target people who are engaging with your competitor’s posts.
Connection request: “Hey [first name], I noticed you liked Quickbook’s latest product announcement. If you’re using Quickbooks for your SaaS, you might be struggling to get your numbers for MRR, Churn, and Retention in real time. I started SaaSMetrics to help SaaS founders get the SaaS metrics they need in real time. Would you like to learn more?”
Video follow-up: “Hey [first name], thanks for accepting. Here’s a video to show the beautiful charts you could make with SaaSMetrics. Way better than Quickbooks, right?”
A slightly less aggressive tactic is targeting people who engage with your partners’ posts, instead of competitors. For example…
Connection request: “Hey [first name], I noticed you liked Stripe’s latest product announcement. If you’re using Stripe, you can generate real-time charts to visualize your MRR, Churn, and Retention metrics using my platform, SaaSMetrics. Would you like to learn more?”
Video follow-up: “Hey [first name], thanks for accepting. Here’s a video to show the beautiful charts you could make with SaaSMetrics. It just takes 2 clicks to integrate Stripe and start seeing these!”
You can use Sendspark to automatically personalize videos in Expandi. Read the steps below, or watch this video!
Create your Sendspark account. Start a free trial here to get all you need to send personalized videos at scale.
Set up your account styles. Add your logo and brand styles in your workspace settings, so your videos will make a great first impression.
Keep in mind that you must be connected with your recipient on LinkedIn in order for them to see a preview of your video message. Otherwise, they will just see a link. For this reason, we recommend using videos in the follow-up messages and not the initial connection request.
Let us know if you have any questions or concerns about sending videos on LinkedIn. We’re happy to help!