KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Instead of planning for 2018 when you’re already starting it in January, the most prepared B2B marketers already have priorities identified and plans for execution come January 1. We reached out to B2B marketers across different industries and asked them the following question: What are B2B marketers prioritizing in their 2018 budget?

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Marketing Budget Creation Marketing Budget Budget Programs Marketing AI 439

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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Webinar Metrics Cost per Lead Ad Building Media 52

Metadata

AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s not exactly news that LinkedIn advertising can be expensive. Google that phrase, and you’ll see articles like “Why are LinkedIn ads so dang expensive?” and “LinkedIn is the most expensive digital advertising platform.”. Our customers’ LinkedIn ad experiments prove that out. Note: This data includes Conversation ads.

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Metadata

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Just as CMOs and other marketing leaders started reaching into their pockets after more than two years of pandemic-restricted spending, they’ve hit another flaming hoop: uncertain macroeconomic conditions. Insert the collective sighs of marketers.]. If you could get every marketer in the world in one room, who’d you approach?

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Metadata

APRIL 8, 2024

I used Metadata for the first time in 2021 when I worked at Armorblox (now a part of Cisco), and it instantly made me a better B2B marketer. I wore many hats there, but the core of my role was developing and executing their paid ad strategy. I wasn’t any less skeptical of paid social, I knew a test run of Metadata wouldn’t hurt.

Cost per Lead 52

Cost per Lead CPO B2B Marketing Advertising Agencies 52

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Let’s start this with a statistic that should by itself be enough to have any small business owner invest in digital marketing. According to RetailDive , 87% of buyers start searching for products to buy online. Digital marketing helps small businesses build lasting customer relationships. Eighty-seven.

Small Business Marketing 174

Small Business Marketing Paid Content Cost per Lead Marketing Budget 174

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. First, what’s an offer type?

Linkedin 52

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Metadata

AUGUST 16, 2021

Let’s be honest—finding your perfect B2B Facebook target audience kind of sucks. Working in the Facebook platform natively, you have very limited options for finding and targeting B2B buyers. You might even wonder if it’s worth it for your company to use Facebook advertising. Okay, not just kind of.

Demand Generation 98

Demand Generation Facebook Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking 98

Directive Agency

OCTOBER 2, 2019

One of the significant challenges within paid advertising is prospecting while staying within your cost-per-lead (CPL) or cost-per-action(CPA) target. It is a daunting question that many digital marketers face: how can you reach your total addressable market efficiently without wasting your paid ad platform budgets?

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Metadata

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

If you’re reading this post on the ROI of Facebook ads, you’re probably asking a lot of common questions: Are Facebook ads worth it for B2B? What’s a good ROI for B2B Facebook ads? How do I calculate the return on investment of my Facebook ads? Are Facebook ads a waste of money for B2B?

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Metadata

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

If you’re reading this post on the ROI of Facebook ads, you’re probably asking a lot of common questions: Are Facebook ads worth it for B2B? What’s a good ROI for B2B Facebook ads? How do I calculate the return on investment of my Facebook ads? Are Facebook ads a waste of money for B2B?

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ROI Facebook Cost per Lead Paid Search Agency 52

ClearVoice

JANUARY 8, 2024

.” 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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Metadata

AUGUST 16, 2021

Let’s be honest—finding your perfect B2B Facebook target audience kind of sucks. Working in the Facebook platform natively, you have very limited options for finding and targeting B2B buyers. You might even wonder if it’s worth it for your company to use Facebook advertising. Okay, not just kind of. Employee count.

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Demand Generation Facebook Ideal Customer Profiles Lead Ranking 69

Metadata

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The life of a B2B marketer is full of decisions. Use image or video ads on Facebook and LinkedIn? That last question is common among B2B marketers—do they look toward the future (video) or stick with what they know (image)? Image ads vs. video ads. So, why the heck are marketers still asking this question?

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Metadata

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

B2B marketing is a lot of what-have-you-done-for-me-lately and a never-ending game of follow the leader. Some marketers see ROI on TikTok ? Google PPC ads still drive a solid cost per lead (CPL)? People actually click on B2B ads on Facebook ? Sign me up.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Cost per Lead Demand 52

Hubspot

AUGUST 8, 2019

Marketers, can we be honest with each other for a second? On a scale of 1-10, how much do you really understand the world of paid advertising? Despite the fact that 45% of small businesses use paid ads , pay-per-click is still a concept that eludes many of us. When done right, PPC can earn you quality leads.

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Paid Content PPC Cost Per Thousand Cost Per Click 77

Act-On

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Getting started with pay-per-click (PPC) advertising—or any type of digital advertising—can be downright overwhelming. Advertising has its own special lingo and library of acronyms involved, and new tactics and technologies are constantly emerging. What is Account-Based Advertising? What is an Ad Audience?

Paid Content 214

Paid Content Advertising Agencies Multi-Touch Attribution Cost Per Thousand 214

SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

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. .

Lead Ranking 107

Lead Ranking Paid Content Cost per Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 107

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. It’s only over the last several years that software vendors have tried building platforms to help marketers deliver an end-to-end ABM program.

Account Based Marketing 98

Account Based Marketing Demand Generation Demand Generation Agencies Ideal Customer Profiles 98

Ledger Bennett

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the early days of the expanded knowledge graph, rich snippets, schema.org information pulling through into the search engine results page…the writing was on the wall. What are some ways to engage our audience outside of search rankings? Rich snippets provide added value when you optimize correctly. Optimize for Rich Snippets.

SEO 40

SEO Trends Paid Search Agency CPL 40

Hubspot

APRIL 23, 2020

Acquisition marketing campaigns are critical to bring in new customers and revenue. First, we knew our target audience consisted of marketing managers, as we were re-launching our Marketing Hub Enterprise product that month. We knew that reports were a content type that worked well for us in the past.

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Author’s Note: the following blog post was inspired from Launch Marketing’s 2018 Digital Marketing Guide: In-Depth Digital Strategy for B2B Marketers. To learn more, follow this link to download your own copy of the white paper and get various digital marketing best practices.

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Paid Content PPC Cost per Lead Paid Search Agency 54

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. You just can’t do that natively in ad channels.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Marketing Automation Services Cost per Lead Lead Ranking 52

Metadata

MARCH 10, 2021

Corelight became a first-time Metadata customer last year as Jaimie Bakas, their Senior Manager of Digital Demand Marketing, joined their team. Prior to Jaimie coming onboard, Corelight didn’t have the headcount they needed to launch and manage paid campaigns efficiently. However, doing so at a reasonable cost proved to be a challenge.

Newsletter 52

Newsletter CPL Cost per Lead Sales Qualified Leads 52

Metadata

JANUARY 25, 2024

Our favorite marketing trends — think influencers, Barbie memes, and an obsession with account-based marketing — come and go. We’re looking at you, pop-up ads.) According to Roger Breum , Head of Demand Generation at Alpine Investors, allegiance to the core B2B marketing fundamentals is something that will never go out of style.

Segmentation 52

Segmentation Cost per Lead Buyer Personas Demand Generation Agencies 52

Single Grain

DECEMBER 8, 2023

From setting a realistic budget to developing captivating creatives that make key decision makers in your industry sit up and take note, you need a simple step-by-step instructions on how to create successful LinkedIn Ads. Most importantly, LinkedIn’s competitively priced ad rates produce results. The answer is simple.

Paid Content 105

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Linkedin Cost Per Thousand 105

Metadata

AUGUST 23, 2022

In this data-backed guide, we’ll walk you through the most recent Facebook Ads Benchmark data. We’ll cover: The most popular CTAs on Facebook What is a good CTR for Facebook ads? The average CPC for Facebook What’s a good cost per result on Facebook? Build your own Facebook advertising benchmarks.

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Advertising Benchmark Cost Per Click Facebook Paid Search Agency 52

Hinge Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Top Professional Services Marketing Content from January 2014. Each month an enormous amount of content is published on marketing. This monthly column will help you keep up with the best marketing articles on the web. Why You Should Schedule Your Paid Search Ads. Facebook Isn’t Dying.

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Cost per Lead CPL PPC Adwords 48

Directive Agency

MAY 19, 2023

When it comes to paid media , a bulletproof strategy can make all the difference between hitting your revenue goals and wasting your budget. Find out how you can empower your team to take control of your paid media efforts and unlock the full potential of your marketing spend.

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Metadata

APRIL 11, 2023

Maybe—and I mean maybe —it makes sense to DIY your campaigns in native ad channels if you’re new to running paid ads, working with a smaller budget, or have a marketing plan without many moving parts. If that’s the case, manually running paid campaigns could make sense.

Campaigns 52

Campaigns Cost per Lead Advertising Agencies B2B Thought Leadership 52

Single Grain

APRIL 24, 2023

A good case study not only proves a marketing company’s success, but also zones in on the strategies used to identify leads, customer pain points, increase sales, convert leads, and accomplish other goals. The Challenge: Convert Prospects into Paid Subscribers Twenty20 suffered from many barriers in its growth and needed to overcome them.

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Sharpspring

MARCH 7, 2022

There are many different metrics for marketers to potentially keep track of, and some aspects of digital marketing can be harder to quantify than others. That’s especially true for content marketing, where you may need to evaluate sales results that aren’t easily attributed. Cost per lead (CPL).

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Sales Management Top of Funnel Cost per Lead Cost per Acquisition 86

Brandpoint

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

MAT Releases, native advertisements, CPL campaigns — it’s hard to remember what exactly these different controlled media formats are (especially after coming back after the holidays). In my previous post , I touched on what controlled media is in a general sense and what the two main types are: owned and paid.

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Paid Content Cost per Lead CPL Examples 165

Metadata

MARCH 16, 2022

We often review campaigns for our clients, and we’re always surprised at how many marketers aren’t using the right call to action on their ads. Depending on the ad platform and content type, you have a variety of calls to action available to choose from, but which one should you choose for your ad campaign?

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Cost per Lead CPL Cost Per Click Best Practices 64

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 ? What does an independent demand generation marketer look like?

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Cost per Lead Demand Generation Agencies CPO Paid Social Agency 52

The Point

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Most B2B marketing benchmark reports are completely useless. webinars vs. ebooks), product category, and target market. webinars vs. ebooks), product category, and target market. Side note: this is a perfect example of a SaaS company leveraging aggregate client data to generate meaningful content for marketing.

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Linkedin Cost per Lead Paid Search Agency Ads 130

Metadata

JANUARY 8, 2024

As a demand generation marketer , you’re under more pressure than ever to prove your paid campaigns are driving pipeline and revenue. 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.

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