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Choose three to four fields to use on your Lead Gen Form. Including fewer than the maximum of 12 fields will likely improve conversion rates. Learn more about available fields for Lead Gen Forms.
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If you have high form opens but low lead volume, consider decreasing the number of fields on your Lead Gen Form template or consider revising the verbiage in your creative. Learn more about managing your saved forms.
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Check the messaging content and Lead Gen Form to ensure consistency for the best user experience. Your message should clearly relate to the form.
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Remember to bid competitively and choose the right target audience.
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Ads with Lead Gen Forms can be purchased on a cost-per-click or cost-per-impression basis, but cost-per-lead is not available at this time.
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When creating a single image ad with a Lead Gen Form, consider including a URL to your landing page in your Sponsored Content copy. On mobile, taps on the intro text will open the Lead Gen Form. On desktop, clicks on the intro text will redirect to the landing page. Learn more about Sponsored Content.
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Be sure to follow up with your leads when you say you will. Include details like how and when you'll contact them in your thank you message.
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At this time, LinkedIn will not deliver automated content to the member on behalf of the advertiser. If your ad set goal is to deliver content to the member, enter an ungated link to your asset in the thank you message. Alternatively, you can download your leads from Campaign Manager and deliver the asset to the member via email.
Create a Lead Gen Form – Best Practices
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Lead Gen Forms simplify the process of capturing high-quality leads by automatically populating contact and profile information when a member clicks the call-to-action button on your ad. There is no additional cost for LinkedIn Lead Gen Forms outside of the costs for the associated ad sets.
Lead Gen Form features
The following table summarizes the different features of Lead Gen Forms:
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Create Lead Gen Forms to capture high-quality leads directly on LinkedIn. You can build forms from your Assets page for reuse across ad sets, or set them up while creating an ad set with the lead generation objective.
To create a Lead Gen Form:
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Go to your ad account in Campaign Manager.
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Click Assets on the left menu and select Lead generation forms.
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Click the Create form button at the top.
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You can select up to 12 informational fields when creating a Lead Gen Form to help you tailor the form to your specific objective.
Learn about the sections and fields you can include on Lead Gen Forms.
Lead details
In this section, you can choose to include fields from the following categories:
- Contact
- Work
- Company
- Education
- Demographic
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Lead Gen Forms are templates that you can attach to a single image, carousel image, video, message, document, or conversation ad to collect information from the member if they click on the call-to-action button. The form is automatically filled with the member’s contact and profile information.
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If you use a specific marketing automation or CRM platform to manage your leads, you might be able to integrate your Lead Gen Forms with your marketing automation or CRM provider. This integration allows you to automatically leverage the platforms you already have set up.
If we don't support your marketing automation or CRM platform at this time, you can download a list of your leads as a CSV file in Campaign Manager and manually upload it to your database.