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Why Measuring Success on Cost Per Lead is a Huge Mistake

ViewPoint

In the search for the holy grail of marketing KPIs, we want ones that correctly emphasize ROI over lead cost, tie lead generation to overall revenue and profits, identify the most successful marketing initiatives and deliver insights that can be leveraged to run future high-return activity. Cost-Per-Opportunity (Cost-Per-SQL).

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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. Cost-Per-Lead.

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5 Top Methods to Decrease B2B Cost per Lead

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The rising costs of lead generation , increased competition, and the rapidly growing population of competing companies are all challenges in the B2B world. Marketers are constantly challenged to drive qualified leads into the sales funnel and ensure that the cost per lead (CPL) is optimized.

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5 Top Methods to Decrease B2B Cost per Lead

PureB2B

The rising costs of lead generation , increased competition, and the rapidly growing population of competing companies are all challenges in the B2B world. Marketers are constantly challenged to drive qualified leads into the sales funnel and ensure that the cost per lead (CPL) is optimized.

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Lead Generation: 2 simple tips to determine cost per lead

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For example, should you factor in nurturing into the costs? In today’s B2B Lead Roundtable Blog post, I wanted to explore cost per lead by sharing a few tips and insights from the panel of industry experts that spoke on the subject at MarketingSherpa Lead Gen Summit 2013. Even then, how much?

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The Cost-Per-Lead Fallacy in Measuring B2B Lead Generation Investments (Pt 3 of 3)

ViewPoint

The introductory post in this series addressed the problems and costs of applying the cost-per-lead metric to measure the success of B2B lead generation investments. In the second post, we looked at elements of a complex sale that impact B2B lead generation costs. Not seeing the forest for the trees.

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

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The benchmarks and insights in this report are based on straight-up averages across all Metadata customers. You’ll optimize to this metric if you’re running a brand campaign, while you’ll optimize to CPL for lead gen. Cost per lead (CPL): CPL measures the efficiency of your campaign.