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Why Cost per Lead is a Bad Way to Measure Your Return on Lead Generation Efforts

ViewPoint

While cost-per-lead measurement has been the de facto favorite for evaluating marketing programs, we are seeing radical and positive shifts in how marketing is evaluating qualified leads. Marketing must align its B2B lead generation activities and resources with deeper-in-the-funnel outcomes.

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Map Lead Generation Targets to Financial Goals For Campaign Success

Strategic-IC

How can you ensure your marketing campaigns will deliver ROI? To achieve lead generation and revenue targets, it's important to first map those targets back to clear, realistic goals. When planning a marketing campaign, it’s the Marketing Director’s responsibility to ensure the strategy will deliver on financial goals.

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Winners of 2016 Video Marketing Awards Announced at Viewtopia

Vidyard

KITCHENER, Ontario – November 11, 2016 – Vidyard , the video platform for business, today announced the winners of the 2016 Video Marketing Awards (VMAs), recognizing innovative marketing and sales leaders at Viewtopia, the company’s annual video marketing summit. Winner: Lenovo with agency partner Traction.

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Why I’m glad third-party cookies are dying

Martech

Ever since GDPR was rolled out in Europe back in 2016, the rules for how marketers can collect and use data have been getting stricter and stricter, but the real hammer blow will hit next year. Google is following the lead of Apple and Mozilla, which already block those kinds of cookies in their Safari and Firefox browsers.

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Marketers Focus on Buyer Intent Data as Privacy Undermines Targeting

6sense

Identifying and understanding customers in the digital sphere is getting much tougher. Apple’s privacy policy downgrading tracking on mobile and Google’s plans to nix the third-party cookie are making it more challenging for marketers to track prospective customers across properties and target them with ads.

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33 Thought-Provoking B2B Social Media and Marketing Stats

Webbiquity

As noted in the 2016 B2B Marketing Trends report , B2B marketing strategies and practices are in the midst of significant change, driven by new technologies and evolving buyer expectations for more “consumer-like” experiences. B2B marketing budgets are shifting to digital and social. eMarketer ).

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SEO Tactics That Will Skyrocket Your B2B Lead Generation in 2019

Directive Agency

Is There a Kink in My Funnel? Those are all useful tactics, but we can’t forget how our inputs correlate with our clients’ marketing funnel. If we are just focusing on the inputs that seem natural to us, we may be neglecting an essential stage within the funnel ultimately making our demand generation efforts futile.