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Paid, owned and earned media: What they are and where social fits into the mix

Sprout Social

Achieving a balance between paid, owned and earned media strategies is an ever-evolving skill. Most communications professionals would say we’re in the midst of a major shift in media mix effectiveness. Now, social strategies apply to more than just owned media. Defining paid, owned and earned media.

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The Ultimate B2B Marketing Glossary

Envy

When you're working in B2B tech marketing agency, it can feel like you're drowning in a sea of TLAs (three-letter abbreviations) and technical B2B marketing terms. Marketing terms. Account Based Marketing ! Churn rate. Cost Per Acquisition is the amount you spend to acquire a new lead or make a sale.

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Earnings Per Click: How to Win Big at Affiliate Marketing

Optinmonster

The marketing world is full of acronyms: ROI, ROAS, PPC, CPA, along with about a hundred more. Read too many marketing articles, and you start to feel like you’re staring at a bowl of alphabet soup: But here’s the thing: not all acronyms are created equal. One of the most important, at least for affiliate marketers, is EPC.

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Adapting and Evolving: The Ongoing Process of Marketing Goal Refinement

ClearVoice

.” While that, unfortunately, maybe the case with a good number of personal resolutions as the year wears on, in business, setting sound marketing goals — and following through — is a primary ingredient for success. Markets ebb and flow. User behaviors evolve — and so do marketing goals. Technologies come and go.

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The power of customer data across the journey: Acquisition

Martech

This results in customers getting more relevant content, offers and experiences while the brand enjoys increased customer lifetime value. To achieve this, various marketing channels can be used, including social media, search engine optimization, content marketing and paid advertising.

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41 Execs Discuss Key B2B Marketing Metrics to Watch in 2018

SnapApp

Demonstrating the value of any marketing campaign is challenging. In fact, 43% of companies list it as the biggest marketing challenge: . . This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. .

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How to Deal with Direct Traffic Source Data in Your Content Analytics

Content Standard

All of these represent crucial gaps in how you measure your content strategy’s success and mark missed opportunities for your sales and marketing teams, respectively. Referral traffic is how Google tracks visits that came from a source outside the search engine. ” How Referral Traffic Works.

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