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An Essential Guide to B2B Marketing Metrics That Matter

Marketing Insider Group

Cost Per Lead (CPL). The CPL gives a dollar value to acquiring new leads. The formula for calculating CPL is: Cost Per Lead = Total Ad Spend / Total Attributed Leads. Base your target CPL on business goals and not on fixed percentages. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Website Traffic.

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What Are Experts Prioritizing in 2018 B2B Marketing Budgets?

KoMarketing Associates

We reached out to B2B marketers across different industries and asked them the following question: What are B2B marketers prioritizing in their 2018 budget? We do that through our weekly newsletter, which is easy to scan quickly, vendor briefing reports, and in-site messaging. Our best prospects generally start as non-paid subscribers.

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How to Use Marketing Budget KPIs for Decision-Making

SmartBug Media

Key KPIs to Track in Your Marketing Budget. By channel or tactic, you should be tracking the following key performance indicators (KPIs): Budget: How much capital you are allocating to a specific channel or tactic. Cumulative budget: The total budget summed up across all marketing channels. Budget pacing.

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86% of Software Buyers Use Peer Review Sites to Make a Purchase. How Discoverable is Your Brand?

Directive Agency

Directories offer 2 main growth solutions: Buyer intent data subscriptions : vendors get account-level intelligence on category, product profile, and comparison views. Cost-per-click (CPC) auctions : vendors bid to rank higher in a directory category page and pay per click to their site to generate leads.

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7 Questions You Need To Ask When Hiring a Demand Generation Manager

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At face value, what you’re looking for in this answer are key terms such as cost per click (CPC), cost per lead (CPL) and click-through rates (CTR). If they stop short at CTR or CPL or the number of MQLS they’ve driven, they’re most likely not the best candidate (at least for us). It depends on your marketing budget.

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

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This abundance of choice is what makes B2B so powerful; marketers with any problem, use case, or budget can find a solution right for them. It’s a process, and for better or worse, most of it doesn’t involve direct interactions with the vendor. (Note: Martech is just a fraction of the B2B landscape.)

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

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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. According to Forrester, over 90% of survey respondents said buyers “completely” or “somewhat” trust peers for vendor advice.