How to Boost LinkedIn Signups by 288% With Voice-of-Customer Research – A Case Study

THE CLIENT

Niclas Thelander
Founder, Outsized

Outsized is the world’s first platform to match top independent talent across Africa and Asia with progressive financial services companies and management consulting firms. The scale-up is geared to build a fair talent market that works for both sides.

We were lucky enough to work closely with the founder & CMO, Niclas Thelander, a talented consulting expert cut from the same cloth as his clients.

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increase in average weekly sign ups

1.14 Million impressions

conversion rate

THE CHALLENGE

For the right professional, Outsized changes lives. They provide unmatched opportunities to work for some of the best companies in the world. The problem? The right professionals don’t know it yet.

In 2020, mandatory lockdowns changed our idea of work-life balance forever. What eventually followed was a trend people started calling “The Great Resignation”. Here’s what happened in simple terms: millions of people across the world quit their jobs or were (very) seriously considering it. According to the Telegraph, half of Britain’s workforce considered changing jobs in the last 3 months of 2021. 

If we peer closely, here’s why it unfolded: the pandemic fundamentally changed how people value their time. Knowledge workers stopped avoiding the truth – that their soul-killing 9-5 jobs had become intolerable. They started envisioning a better life for themselves through a career change or a switch to freelancing/independent consulting (whatever you prefer to call it). 

At the same time, smart companies realised that they’d double their efficiency by hiring talented independent consultants for specific projects without carrying the costs of permanent employees. 

The Outsized founders predicted this trend before it went mainstream. They had spent their careers building solid relationships with consulting and financial services companies. And the companies were sold on the idea of an agile workforce. The gap lay in convincing the independent talent. 

They needed a team to get this message to the right independent consultants and 9-5’ers sitting quietly on the fence, needing that push into freelancing/consulting. This is where we rolled in…

The Goal: accelerate high-quality freelancer sign ups in 6 months

THE RESULT

Outsized saw a 288% increase in sign-ups for their freelancing platform

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