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More Than a Button: The Best CTAs for Paid Social Advertising (Based on $130M in Ad Spend)

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In the pandemic’s earliest days, everyone had their sights set on cost per lead (CPL), with spend-per-month averaging $35K. Based on the data in our benchmark report, advertisers were using owned assets to reduce costs and drive website traffic. CPO N/A $21,378.29 CPO $7,722.17 $7,546.49

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How Metadata Fundamentally Changed My Approach to B2B Marketing

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Seriously: our lead-to-conversion rate increased by 15X and our cost per opportunity (CPO) went from $40k to $800. For context, our cost per lead (CPL) was around $1,000 before we started using Metadata. With Metadata, our CPL dropped to about $50. I was instantly hooked.

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Is paid social advertising still worth it in 2023?

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After a few months, my cost per lead (CPL) was $3k, and I was in a frenzy. While our average account value (ACV) was much higher than that, I knew this level of spending wasn’t sustainable. Joe didn’t actually say that, but our conversation did kickstart my fascination with Metadata. My next move?

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Stop Struggling, Start Experimenting: How to Think About Your Paid Ad Experiments

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In that case, you might consider experimenting with LinkedIn’s thought leader ads to see if they spark good conversations with prospects. Optimize for pipeline (not CPL) and use auto-pause My biggest gripe with native ad channels is that you can only optimize toward vanity metrics like leads, impressions, and clicks.

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We’re Breaking Free: Why It’s Time for Demand Gen Marketers to Own Their Data

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That many people reading our 2023 B2B paid social benchmark report were surprised by the high cost per opportunity (CPO) of paid social advertising. I’m fine with that since leads have historically been a B2B marketer’s north star. I’m fine with that since leads have historically been a B2B marketer’s north star.

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Measure This, Not That: Your Guide to the Demand Gen Metrics That Matter

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Liam outlined these backburner metrics in his DEMAND session as follows: Cost metrics: Metrics that measure the cost per something —think cost per lead (CPL) and cost per acquisition. Here’s a table Liam shared that shows how he calculates these GTM metrics—and how you can, too.

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How to Reduce the Cost of a B2B Lead

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Rising costs of lead generation, increasing competition and a rapidly growing population of buyers that function almost like intense research organizations—these are the factors we are up against in the B2B world. See this Infographic from Madison Logic showing ways in which the cost per lead is calculated: [link].