Metadata

JULY 22, 2020

Both demand generation and account-based marketing (ABM) are as old as marketing itself: after all, somewhere around 90 percent of marketing is generating demand. However, while demand generation has been knitted into MarTech for years now, ABM software, as a category, is newer to the scene. Let’s explore.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Their answers ranged depending on their industry, but we found that most were interested in attempting new strategies and techniques for the B2B market, like artificial intelligence, paid social media campaigns, and virtual reality, while others wanted to focus budget dollars on tried-and-true tactics that work.

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Metadata

APRIL 8, 2024

After a few years, I decided it was time for a change, so I made a big one and started my career in marketing at a company called Influitive , which is the technology behind the customer communities at companies like Adobe, ADP, and IBM. I ran demand and operations, so my job was simple: generate and optimize leads.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2016

When it comes to demand generation, even the most seasoned B2B marketers have fallen into this trap and sabotaged their success without knowing it. Hopefully, I can help you avoid this disaster by shining a light on the most common pitfalls that demand generation marketers may run into. Pre-Existing Biases.

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Metadata

DECEMBER 20, 2022

What did $42M in spend on Facebook and LinkedIn tell us about successful paid social ads? A lot—but mainly, it showed us the four elements of paid social ads —the ad format, channel, audience and offer type—must work in harmony to drive leads, pipeline and ROI. LinkedIn’s edge in CPC and CPL supports that as well.

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Directive Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

However, when it comes to growth marketing, directories can often be a marketer’s afterthought to Google ads and paid social. The right directories for your tech company are typically the ones that rank high on your key buyer search terms. Determine if investing in directories is right for your company.

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Metadata

APRIL 25, 2023

We spared you the pitch slap in 6 Reasons You Shouldn’t Buy Metadata to help demand gen marketers learn why Metadata might not be the marketing OS for them. To help demand gen marketers feel more confident about buying Metadata before the DocuSign email comes through. The goal this time around? Expanding to Facebook dropped it by 50%.

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Metadata

JANUARY 18, 2023

Based on Silvio Perez’s DEMAND session: “Building a Paid Media Strategy in a Down Economy.” Was Sun Tzu, the famed Chinese military general and author of The Art of War , talking about paid media strategies when he said, “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity?” No, but he could have been.

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Metadata

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

That many people reading our 2023 B2B paid social benchmark report were surprised by the high cost per opportunity (CPO) of paid social advertising. Why don’t demand generation marketers know how much they pay for opportunities, especially in a down economy ? Let’s take a step back.

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Metadata

JANUARY 8, 2024

Liam Barnes , Head of Demand Generation at Bionic, whipped out the 2023 version of this adage during his DEMAND session : “If you don’t measure them your campaigns, you’re screwed.” As a demand generation marketer , you’re under more pressure than ever to prove your paid campaigns are driving pipeline and revenue.

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Velocity Partners

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Since then, lots of companies have put their marketing tech stacks to work, driving revenue. Often the ones that struggle are the smaller, ambitious companies with limited marketing teams. At Velocity, we see a lot of companies struggling in critical areas: Pipeline meets cliff: They continue to struggle to create enough pipeline.

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Metadata

AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m not telling you that every B2B SaaS company in this industry gets $X CPC or CPL. We always suggest you take these Facebook paid social benchmarks as a single data point to support a larger story. Average CPL: $224.77 When it comes to demand gen marketing, we’re always in testing mode.

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Act-On

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a law that imposes certain obligations around privacy and security on companies that collect personal information from California residents. CPL or cost per lead advertising is a pricing model for ads that charges advertisers only for the clicks that result in a conversion.

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The Point

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Enter the good people at Metadata.io , who analyzed nearly $15 million in customer ad spend on LinkedIn and Facebook to generate a compelling benchmark report covering everything from click-through rate (CTR) to cost per lead (CPL). Security companies do this all the time with so-called “threat reports.” But I digress … The Metadata.io

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Metadata

JULY 13, 2021

We honestly believe that most demand gen teams will see a major impact by using Metadata. You don’t spend (or aren’t planning to spend) $10k/month+ in paid social ads. If you’re not spending at least $10k every month in paid social ads, Metadata might not be the right fit just yet. We’ll spare you the pitch slap.

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Directive Agency

APRIL 22, 2022

On the other hand, the demand generation team has some pretty aggressive lead goals and time is running short, as always, to meet that goal before the quarter is out. The second, and less common way (at least for demand gen purposes) is to republish the same piece of content — an article, a video, an infographic, etc.

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The Point

AUGUST 25, 2022

Why then, in a world of on-demand, streaming, watch-where-when-and-how-you-like content, do we B2B marketers still insist on promoting live Webinars, and expect attendees to show up on a specific day at a specific time, fully cognizant they’ll have the option to watch the recorded event at a later date?

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Metadata

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You should first look at your cost-per-lead from any paid campaigns you’re running to generate the demo requests, plus the cost of the gift. Then see how this compares to the cost-per-lead in your demand model and whether you can stomach this. What’s the ideal video length for paid social campaigns?

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