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Moving From an Old-School Lead Gen Playbook to a Demand Gen Machine

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How to use demand generation to reach the modern B2B buyer According to Gartner research, when B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of that time meeting with potential suppliers. It’s a process, and for better or worse, most of it doesn’t involve direct interactions with the vendor.

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LinkedIn Ads for Enterprise B2B SaaS: The Only Guide You’ll Need

Single Grain

If you’ve done any advertising on Facebook or Google Ads before, LinkedIn’s budgeting platform should feel pretty intuitive. Cost per lead, or “CPL,” tells you how much you’re spending to earn a lead through your LinkedIn Ads – essentially, it’s your total campaign spend, divided by the number of leads it produced. Cost Per Lead.

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Why we care about data-driven marketing

Martech

Instead, with data-driven marketing, you can use tangible data such as cost per click (CPC), cost per lead (CPL), customer acquisition cost (CAC), return on investment (ROI), and more to track your campaigns in real time. Marketing is no longer about publishing generic advertisements in newspapers, hoping the right people will see them.