B2B Marketing Traction

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When It Comes to Your Marketing Leads, Quality and Quantity Count

B2B Marketing Traction

One way to measure this is by tracking the conversion rate of leads by source. Calculate your conversion rate as the ratio of sales to leads. Then, create a comparative graph that shows cost per lead compared to conversion rate. It is important to track the quality of your leads.

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What Do I Spend on My Marketing Budget? Part 1

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“ Your marketing budget does depend on a variety of factors, including your lead generation return rates and lead-to-buyer conversion rates. Then, knowing your average sale and conversion rate, figure out the number of leads it will take to generate the science.

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Is Marketing ROI Enough?

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I look at cost per lead for one marketing activity, such as a trade show, along with marketing conversion (how many sales does a marketing activity produce?). This is important, because while maybe the cost per lead is high, if the conversions are high (or uber-high), I’m going to think differently about cost.

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How Much Should I Spend on My B2B Marketing? (Part 1)

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Next is the tough piece of data – what is your conversion rate from prospects to customers? In the long run, if you are to know your conversion rate, you need to track each sales opportunity and its outcome. You also need to know your average sale in dollars.

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Is Your B2B Marketing Provider Showing Jazz Hands or Results?

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Many marketers including me relied on manual capture and input of marketing sources and hours spent calculating cost per lead, conversion rates, return on investment (ROI) and analyzing the reports. Now we have dashboards for just about every marketing software we use.

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B2B Marketers: Is Your Online Brand Working?

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We need to track engagement and conversion rates and improve our marketing to increase both. We need to carry our brand image and messaging across many platforms in an integrated fashion. We need to add value and engage with customers. How do you get there?

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B2B Marketing Survey Says Email and Twitter Work

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It concluded that Google is tops for traffic to websites from organic searches, social media provides a small fraction of traffic to these websites, email is a top lead generator and conversion activity, and that paid search is declining among B2B marketers. Do you need help with social media, email marketing, getting found online?