Contently

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A key part of my job as a product manager at Contently is talking to people. Earlier this year, as we were planning our 2021 product roadmap, I interviewed dozens of CMOs about their approaches to measuring content marketing ROI. “This is content ROI.” Cracking the ROI code on search.

Lead Ranking 217

Lead Ranking Multi-Touch Attribution Lead Scoring ROI 217

SmartBug Media

AUGUST 16, 2021

Successful digital marketing takes collaboration, planning, and strategy. The best campaigns are put together with a balanced mix of earned, owned, and paid media. Let’s take a look at a couple of inbound and paid media clients from SmartBug ® as examples of a combined strategy that have ended in great results.

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Contently

APRIL 20, 2023

Content value is a superpower — and it’s not just because superpowers are few and far between. When you find the right metrics to prove the value of your content, you can showcase how important your work is to the organization. But to truly maximize content value, you need to have a way to measure your content’s impact.

Lead Scoring 179

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Traffic Organization 179

Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Are you feeling pressure on your marketing budget? If you think you can’t stretch your dollars to meet all your marketing needs, you may actually need better allocation, not more money. The objective of marketing is to attract, engage, convert, and retain customers. Marketing Budgets Shifting and Changing.

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Sprout Social

JULY 25, 2023

Brands need the context social media metrics provide to meet today’s dynamic consumer space and take their business to the next level. That’s why leaders from more than 700 companies surveyed in the 2023 State of Social Media Report revealed that 85% of their business decisions were strongly informed by social data and insights.

Marketing Analytics Tools 138

Marketing Analytics Tools Social Media Top of Funnel Analytics 138

Digilant

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As marketers, we all know the importance of landing on the first page, ideally within the first five spots, of a search engine results page (SERP). Moz found that 71% of search traffic clicks on Google come from the first page of results, while some estimates say that is as high as 92%. What is paid search marketing?

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Paid Content Paid Search Agency Display Advertisements 52

Navigate the Channel

DECEMBER 6, 2022

If you’re searching for a way to drive traffic to your website and improve lead generation, paid advertising is an effective way to increase both traffic and leads. Here’s what to understand about incorporating Google Ads B2B targeting in your content marketing mix. Choose Keywords Carefully.

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Paid Search Agency Google Ads Work Management 65

NuSpark Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2017

It’s known that search marketing is a key tactic to generate conversions on the Internet as prospects are typically “bottom-funnel” or actively looking for a product or solution. Here’s an overview of paid search bidding strategies: Manual Cost Per Click (CPC). First you need to consider campaign goals.

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SmartBug Media

JUNE 22, 2020

As much as we all love inbound marketing, paid media is also an important part of the marketing strategy. No matter the size of your paid advertising budget, it is important it is to spend wisely. That means you need to know not just which ads drove clicks, but which ads drove conversions and actual revenue.

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Marketo Multi-Touch Attribution Advertisements Advertising 105

Brandpoint

JULY 14, 2023

Social media has transformed the way businesses engage with their target audience, and manufacturing companies are no exception. However, for manufacturing companies, quantifying the return on investment (ROI) of social media efforts can be complex. What is Social Media ROI? Focus on what you want to achieve.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The past two decades have brought disruptive technological change and radically reshaped B2B marketing practices. Traditional B2B marketing strategies relied heavily on direct and outbound methods. Cold calls, trade shows, direct mail, and print ads were the primary forms of marketing. Market size analysis.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re still on the fence about social media advertising, we get it. Research shows that one of the top goals for marketers is increasing brand awareness, which is why more and more brands are achieving this with a paid social presence. Why run paid social media ads, anyway?

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Metadata

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Like almost every B2B company on the planet, I knew my success would hinge largely on paid social advertising. So, I did what any demand generation marketer would do in my situation: DIY’d some LinkedIn ads using the platform’s native tools. Note: I sprinkled in some Google Search ads, too.)

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Paid Content Paid Social Agency Cost per Lead Advertising Agencies 52

ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

At ClearVoice, we understand that not all people are content people. Heck, not all marketing people are content people. Marketing is the tip of the spear for driving growth and new customer acquisition. Even in mature businesses, it’s tempting to funnel a lot of budget into short-term, paid campaigns for quick wins.

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SendX

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

You probably know that Google Ads is the fastest way to 10X your sales, thanks to the high buyer intent traffic it drives towards your landing pages. Unlike Facebook, where you’ve to rely on interrupting the user and getting his attention, the user WANTS to pay attention to you on Google. How do you make a typical Google Ad?

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Paid Search Agency Ads Google Cost Per Click 150

The Marketing Blender

MARCH 22, 2024

A robust B2B digital marketing strategy can and WILL drive growth in revenue, reputation, and resilience for your business. Otherwise, you’ll get overwhelmed by ALL the options available for marketing online. Learn about B2B digital marketing strategies from our own expert, Ramsey Sanchez in this episode of The Marketing Blender Show.

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Brandpoint

JUNE 24, 2021

So go ahead and Ctrl + F or Command-F and search the acronym you’re looking for. AVE: Ad-value equivalency. Ad-value equivalency, or AVE, is a PR tool for measuring the success of a given earned media campaign or placement. If you spent $1000 in a year on marketing efforts and acquired 500 customers, the CAC is $2.

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Paid Content Lead Ranking Top of Funnel CMS Development 118

ClearVoice

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As a brand marketer, you might wonder, “Are content marketing and digital marketing the same thing?” Though novice brand marketers think they’re interchangeable, they cannot be compared like apples and oranges. Let’s dig in… Definition of Content Marketing. Confused yet?

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ClickZ

JULY 26, 2019

With the growth in adoption of smartphones, consumers are also increasingly getting glued to their mobile devices more than ever, this has led to mobile marketing becoming a mainstay of the online advertising sector. Thereby, also taking up an increasing portion of organizational marketing spend, too. Why mobile advertising?

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Hinge Marketing

JULY 21, 2022

Improving your website’s search engine ranking has become more challenging than ever. Each time search engines update their algorithms, website traffic experiences a drop. Ads now dominate search engine results pages and offer higher click-through rates. The marketplace of digital content is more crowded than ever.

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Paid Content CMS Development Lead Ranking Work Management 92

Top Rank Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This points to one of the biggest barriers facing business leaders when it comes to search engine optimization. But the math is not as simple as, say, pay-per-click advertising with its straightforward transactional nature. Search engines are evolving around search intent. That’s been proven over and over again.

Lead Scoring 141

Lead Scoring Lead Ranking SEO Multi-Touch Attribution 141

Bannerflow

MAY 12, 2023

Google Optimize, a powerful tool for website optimization and A/B testing, has long been a go-to solution for advertisers seeking to enhance their online marketing strategies. Google Optimize has been a longstanding product but lacked features that many marketers found essential.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A lot of social marketers ask, does our brand really need to be on LinkedIn? Your LinkedIn social media strategy will be a bit different than your strategies for other platforms. However, the key to getting the most from LinkedIn is marrying your organic and paid strategies. Boost organic reach and engagement via paid.

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SalesIntel

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Here are some statistics related to edtech marketing: According to GlobalData estimates , the EdTech industry will grow from US$183.4 Online education is the fastest-growing segment of the edtech market, with revenues expected to reach $350 billion by 2025 (Source: ResearchAndMarkets ). 4 Marketing Learnings From a Study.

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FunnelEnvy

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The rise of AI set off a series of shockwaves in the SEO services industry while handing Google the first serious threat in years to its preeminence. In response, the search and web ads giant is revamping its search engine results page (SERP). Let’s look at an update.

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QuanticMind

MAY 15, 2019

Accurate attribution is likely more important for search advertising than any other marketing initiative. PPC managers target hundreds or thousands of keywords to reach their audience on search engines. Paid search attribution helps them understand the role each keyword plays in driving key performance indicators (KPIs).

Search Marketing 40

Search Marketing Multi-Touch Attribution ROI Marketing AI 40

Ledger Bennett

APRIL 6, 2022

The future of B2B paid advertising, as with most marketing mediums, is now largely based on data and machine learning and less and less on manual bidding. B2B marketers who get in front of this and evolve to leverage tech-enabled best practices will realize best-in-class results while gaining a sustainable competitive edge.

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Ideal Customer Profiles Paid Content Paid Search Agency Work Management 52

seo.co

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

You’ve got a content marketing strategy, but is it working? If you want to be a successful content marketer, it’s not enough to do what you think is effective—you need to objectively measure whether what you’re doing is effective or not, and then take the appropriate corrective actions. Why Analysis Is Important.

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Paid Content ROI Content Marketing Marketing Analytics Tools 98

seo.co

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In order to win in online marketing, your content marketing strategy should include at least (perhaps more) two easy steps: Create great onsite content with content marketing (which we have discussed at length before) Promote that onsite content.

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FunnelEnvy

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Online advertising is no exception. The cracks in this ecosystem have turned into gaping holes, and those holes are why your paid ads aren’t scaling. 84% of B2B marketers use paid distribution channels (read: Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, etc.), What do Paid Ads Actually Contribute?

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Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel Funnel Advertising Ads 88

Anteriad

APRIL 25, 2023

Keeping up with the latest B2B Sales and Marketing terms is no simple task. With a seemingly endless stream of new trends, tactics, and acronyms, keeping your finger on the pulse of marketing key terms is vital to stay current (and relevant) as a B2B marketer. Affiliates commonly use organic search rank and PPC marketing.

Paid Content 95

Paid Content Sales Management B2B Sales Top of Funnel 95

seo.co

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Search engine optimization ( SEO ) is multi-faceted and complex. Measuring the return on investment (ROI) of an SEO campaign is even more daunting, especially when direct results cannot always easily be tied to specific inputs. But not when it comes to organic search. It can’t be tied to any single variable.

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Paid Content SEO ROI Lead Ranking 98

Anyword

MARCH 9, 2022

Google is the number one advertising platform for both PC and mobile when it comes to pay-per-click models. Google controls 92% of the search engine market , which provides a massive audience for the paid ads that show up at the top of the page. . The Power of Good Headlines for Google Ads.

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Paid Search Agency Google Ads Lead Ranking 52

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 3, 2017

When measuring the effectiveness of paid advertising , you’re often presented with an overwhelming array of choices. In this article, I segment key paid marketing metrics into three different categories. Each set of metrics contributes to the funnel differently and tells a much different story than the next.

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Lead Ranking Cost Per Click Lead Scoring CPC 134

Hubspot

OCTOBER 27, 2020

To consider what ad fatigue is, let's start with an example. Consider times you've changed the TV channel because you've seen the same ad ten times that night already. These are both examples of ad fatigue — an issue that occurs when users become too accustomed to a specific type of ad, thus reducing its effectiveness.

Paid Content 101

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Ads Paid Social Agency 101

Anteriad

APRIL 25, 2023

Keeping up with the latest B2B marketing and sales terms is no simple task. With a seemingly endless stream of new trends, tactics, and acronyms, keeping your finger on the pulse of marketing key terms is vital to stay current (and relevant) as a B2B marketer. Affiliates commonly use organic search rank and PPC marketing.

Paid Content 84

Paid Content Sales Management Top of Funnel B2B Sales 84

BenchmarkONE

JULY 5, 2019

Showing your clients the return on investment of your service offering is the single most important thing the best marketing agencies do to thrive. If you’re running a marketing agency, calculating ROI may not seem like the most glamorous task, but it’s vital for keeping your business going long term. Marketing Investment.

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