Digital B2B Marketing

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5 Metrics Every B2B Marketer Should Track

Digital B2B Marketing

Pay attention to how your conversion rate changes over time and how it varies by traffic source and landing page to differentiate between improvements in your traffic mix and in the effectiveness of your site. As your process improves, your conversion rate from marketing qualified lead to closed deal will improve as well.

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The New Sirius Decisions Waterfall (and New B2B Marketing Acronyms)

Digital B2B Marketing

Benchmark conversion rates for each source provide an additional support point for marketers moving towards inbound marketing. This is a significant improvement over the previous inquiry to marketing qualified lead benchmark, which blended conversion rates from firms qualifying through automation and through teleprospecting.

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Why Marketing Benchmarks Are Bogus

Digital B2B Marketing

Is my my email click rate good? Is my search conversion rate where it should be? We like to measure ourselves against something. We want to know that we are doing good work. Is my brand lift above average? Ummm, but what are you comparing yourself too?

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Getting Out of the B2B Lead Generation Trap

Digital B2B Marketing

Why is our conversion rate so low? Why isn’t our churn rate lower? However, if a spreadsheet and series of status quo assumptions are driving your marketing goals, you will continue to compete on the basis of an increasingly expensive volume game. It is time to start asking why and finding new opportunities.

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How To Avoid the Biggest Pitfall of Progressive Profiling

Digital B2B Marketing

If 35% of these visitors complete the second form in your progressive profiling sequence, the complete rate from the initial visit is 1.6%. Thanks to progressive profiling, your database is a bit larger, but your conversion rate dropped by more than two-thirds with a very generous set of assumptions.

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Online Marketers are Creepy

Digital B2B Marketing

Retargeting ads are inexpensive and for online direct marketers, they usually perform very well on click rate, conversion rate and cost per conversion metrics. Unfortunately for HostGator, I already chose a hosting provider, and now, I’m tired of HostGator’s advertising and their alligator mascot.

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Online Marketers are Creepy

Digital B2B Marketing

Retargeting ads are inexpensive and for online direct marketers, they usually perform very well on click rate, conversion rate and cost per conversion metrics. Unfortunately for HostGator, I already chose a hosting provider, and now, I’m tired of HostGator’s advertising and their alligator mascot.