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Why Marketing is the First to be Cut in a Recession (and How to Fix it)

Heinz Marketing

The way to do this is to have a robust attribution model and clear ROI on marketing initiatives. If the C-Suite can see exactly how marketing dollars become revenue, there will be a much harder conversation when it comes to cutting marketing spend. Vanity metrics like impressions and CTR only get you so far.

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Health and Wellness is, well, healthy and well – but you have to be smart

Liveintent

Health and fitness messages, for example, achieve a 25% higher clickthrough rate (CTR) than average. Still, the good news doesn’t mean that health and fitness marketers can just spray money into media, then take a nap as the sales roll in. Paying attention to gender can also give health and fitness marketing a boost.

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How to affect consumer consideration with ads in email

Liveintent

They also suppressed existing subscribers to optimize their marketing spending. CTR — roughly 10X the CTR of a traditional display ad. Reaching just the right audiences, they used their existing CRM database to create lookalike models and target readers of relevant, third-party email newsletters. The result?

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Why This Amount Is All the Marketing Budget You Need

Marketing Insider Group

In some cases, however, marketing spend is up. A survey from Merkle of 400 companies revealed that the majority (52%) are increasing marketing spend. The priority of these dollars was: Adopting new marketing technology. How Do Marketers Spend Their Budgets?

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B2B Paid Social Benchmarks: What We Learned From $15M in Spend on Facebook and LinkedIn

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Click through rate (CTR): CTR is an early indicator of the relevance and appeal of your campaign to your target audience. A CTR of 0.60% to 1% is considered good. 100k, I can likely afford to spend more per lead. So test it early to see which brings the highest CTR or lowest CPC and then use that one going forward.

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Digital Marketing Metrics & KPIs You Should Be Tracking

Sharpspring

When you’re budgeting your marketing spend and asking key decision-makers to invest in marketing campaigns, you must be prepared to demonstrate value. The need to prove the effectiveness of your proposed marketing tactics makes it critical to track, analyze and report digital marketing metrics.

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B2B Paid Social Benchmarks: What We Learned From $15M in Spend on Facebook and LinkedIn

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Click through rate (CTR): CTR is an early indicator of the relevance and appeal of your campaign to your target audience. A CTR of 0.60% to 1% is considered good. 100k, I can likely afford to spend more per lead. So test it early to see which brings the highest CTR or lowest CPC and then use that one going forward.