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More Than a Button: The Best CTAs for Paid Social Advertising (Based on $130M in Ad Spend)

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Advertisers pivoted from contact-collection mode (lead generation) to pure brand awareness plays. We looked at the click-through rate (CTR), conversion rate, cost per lead (CPL), and cost per opportunity (CPO) for each. CPO N/A $21,378.29 CPO $7,722.17 $7,546.49 CPO $8,330.22 $4,869.48 CPO $15,923.93 $5,703.43

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Is paid social advertising still worth it in 2023?

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I was the Director of Revenue Operations & Demand Generation Strategy. So, I did what any demand generation marketer would do in my situation: DIY’d some LinkedIn ads using the platform’s native tools. Our benchmark report found the average cost per opportunity (CPO) on LinkedIn and Facebook to be $3,162.89

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Stop Struggling, Start Experimenting: How to Think About Your Paid Ad Experiments

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For example, you can create a rule that tells Metadata to stop spending on an experiment if it’s not generating a lead after a certain number of clicks. What’s the overall goal of your demand generation strategy ? To elaborate, Metadata makes sure you don’t waste spend on experiments that aren’t actually driving revenue.

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B2B Paid Social Benchmarks: What We Learned From $15M in Spend on Facebook and LinkedIn

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How much can you spend to generate a qualified lead and convert that lead to a customer? Cost per opportunity (CPO): CPO is another measure of efficiency that you can use to start looking at the ROI of your marketing spend. A good CPO is different for every company and should be based on your unit economics.

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B2B Paid Social Benchmarks: What We Learned From $15M in Spend on Facebook and LinkedIn

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How much can you spend to generate a qualified lead and convert that lead to a customer? Cost per opportunity (CPO): CPO is another measure of efficiency that you can use to start looking at the ROI of your marketing spend. A good CPO is different for every company and should be based on your unit economics.

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Measure This, Not That: Your Guide to the Demand Gen Metrics That Matter

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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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How to work with a content marketing agency to create kick-ass content

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The business of generating qualified sales leads for our clients — not making anyone coo at our wordsmithing skills, however deep such skills may go. Remember, you’ve all got the same goal: generate leads (again, not the cover article with Mr Musk or Zuckerberg). The King of the short sentence has lessons for any marketing writer.)