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What Is Cost Per Lead, and How Can You Use It To Improve Your Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

How do you know which tactics work and who’s just blowing smoke? To that end, one of the most critical metrics is cost per lead. Key Takeaways: Cost per lead is a marketing metric or a pricing model, depending on whether you’re using inbound or outbound methods. People want to engage with brands organically.

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What is: eCPM? | Digital advertising metrics

Choozle

CPM, eCPM, CPC —ah, too many similar-sounding acronyms! You might know what CPM means, but what is an eCPM, and how is it different? Simply put, eCPM stands for effective cost per mille (i.e., thousand impressions) and is calculated regardless of what buying method is used for the campaign.

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Podcast Advertising: 5 Experts Reveal Their Secrets

Hubspot

Ads can be sold on a cost per mille (CPM) or cost per acquisition (CPA) rate. CPM is the cost you'll pay per 1,000 impressions or downloads. CPA is the cost you'll pay to acquire a customer. Most ads are sold on a CPM model. Image source: AdvertiseCast.

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Understanding the Basics of Bid Shading

QuanticMind

One of the manifestations of this evolution was bid shading —an AI-powered optimization tactic designed to help media buyers reduce wasted ad spend in the new auction dynamic. A compromise between the two models, bid shading is an optimization tactic available in most enterprise demand side platforms (DSPs). Enter bid shading.

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Why we care about performance marketing

Martech

Performance marketing is any online marketing activity that can be tracked and attributed to a specific action or result. It encompasses any digital marketing tactic that can be tied to a measurable action – influencer, video, affiliate, search, and content marketing are all fair game in the performance marketing ecosystem.

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Black Friday advertising strategies: Black Friday weekend, part one

Choozle

As we head into the much anticipated holiday season, businesses both big and small have the opportunity to benefit from Black Friday (or, depending on your business’s viewpoint, anti-Black Friday) digital marketing and programmatic advertising tactics. Cheatsheet: mobile-specific ad sizes are 300×50 and 320×50.

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choozlechat: B2B digital advertising strategies & tactics with CallTrackingMetrics

Choozle

Q: For CallTrackingMetrics, what kind of strategies and tactics do you use? Instead, surround them with other important tactics, including content marketing, SEO, a strong website, a social media presence, and more. This also has many benefits for being in-house, such as being able to share feedback as a user with our product team.