Sharpspring

AUGUST 17, 2021

Paid advertising is often one of the most expensive aspects of your marketing budget. It’s infamously difficult to strike a balance between high cost and high reward. How can you maximize your ROI while reducing your cost-per-acquisition? The True Costs of Paid Advertising. The results?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 9, 2020

The search marketing industry is built to run like a macroeconomy. Search results are resources. . Google is a governmental body, and they work to improve market outcomes through the application of policies (algorithm updates). . Opportunity Cost. There are two “costs” associated with each method. .

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Outbrain

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Paid advertising. Or simply, paid. 45% of small businesses are using it already, and this year in the US, nearly $233 billion is forecast to be spent on digital ads. As websites compete more fiercely for traffic, costs are rising. Facebook, Google, YouTube…CPMs have become more expensive on all platforms.

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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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Choozle

MAY 5, 2021

How many times a day do you search for something online? Google processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average, which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide. Jump to: What is search advertising? Why does it matter?

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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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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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Metadata

MAY 8, 2023

This is the first post in our new content series, Meta With Metadata. We’re giving you an inside look at how our Marketing team uses our own product to automate paid campaigns and drive more revenue. What do Bigfoot, aliens, and stress-free B2B marketers have in common? They don’t exist. I know you have, too.

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Walker Sands

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) introduced several big changes for B2B marketers who recently had to switch over to the analytics tool from Universal Analytics (UA) , including how GA4 tracks conversions, the shift to events instead of goals, and the implementation of predictive metrics and audiences. What Is a Conversion Event in GA4?

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Envy

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

When you're working in B2B tech marketing agency, it can feel like you're drowning in a sea of TLAs (three-letter abbreviations) and technical B2B marketing terms. Marketing terms. Account Based Marketing ! Cost Per Acquisition is the amount you spend to acquire a new lead or make a sale. Did we miss any?

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Content should be designed to create and refine audience interest and trust. In fact, content that answers questions and provides valuable insights is especially helpful. Your content will not reach much of an audience if it isn’t promoted. As with content creation, promotion should be an ongoing process.

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Directive Agency

APRIL 15, 2022

Too often, companies can get stuck in a sort of tunnel vision, focusing only on one digital marketing solution for their business, either SEO or PPC. This article will highlight each digital marketing component providing the unique benefits while also including the drawbacks of having tunnel vision in each. What is SEO?

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Directive Agency

APRIL 21, 2023

However, when it comes to growth marketing, directories can often be a marketer’s afterthought to Google ads and paid social. Bottom-of-funnel advertising should focus on gaining a share of the search engine results pages (SERPs) for high-intent keywords. Still have more questions?

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Convert

APRIL 19, 2021

Should you expose expensive paid traffic to a variant that may actually be worse than the control? Of course in all A/B tests, there is an opportunity cost involved. But the soft “loss” of denied conversions hurts even more when the traffic in question is paid since you have well… spent actual money for the traffic.

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Choozle

AUGUST 20, 2019

Pay-per-click. a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement. Marketers have expanded their strategies to include other channels and tactics.

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QuanticMind

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Most advertisers consider paid search management software the solution to all their problems. What to Look for in Paid Search Management Software. All paid search management tools can help advertisers save time and improve campaign performance, yet some are more effective and efficient than others.

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QuanticMind

JUNE 28, 2019

Paid search automation has become increasingly popular in the past few years, striking a huge debate over the merits of manual versus automated bidding in Google ads. Advertisers have managed PPC optimization manually since the beginning of Google Adwords. The Benefits of Automated Bidding in Paid Search.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Part one: The promise The birth of marketing technology brought so much potential to the marketing department. I was a young, freshly minted MBA with a background in computer science, and a two-year stint doing software marketing at IBM. Plus, marketing was getting some extra respect in board meetings.

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Directive Agency

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Why You Should Spy on Your Competitor’s Keywords In PPC, you compete in keyword auctions to determine ad placement. To gain a competitive edge in paid ads and increase your visibility on the Search Engine Results Page (SERP), it’s essential to understand your competitor’s keyword focus using PPC keyword analysis tools.

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Directive Agency

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Why You Should Spy on Your Competitor’s Keywords In PPC, you compete in keyword auctions to determine ad placement. To gain a competitive edge in paid ads and increase your visibility on the Search Engine Results Page (SERP), it’s essential to understand your competitor’s keyword focus using PPC keyword analysis tools.

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Lake One

AUGUST 20, 2019

Paid advertising is often a great way to increase traffic and sales as you’re growing and sustaining your online presence. To help, here’s Lake One’s paid media glossary of terms, including a breakdown of the basic types of paid media to help identify which ones might be a fit for you.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 8, 2024

.” While that, unfortunately, maybe the case with a good number of personal resolutions as the year wears on, in business, setting sound marketing goals — and following through — is a primary ingredient for success. Markets ebb and flow. User behaviors evolve — and so do marketing goals. Technologies come and go.

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 11, 2015

We often are presented with a range of unique challenges when trying to demonstrate the value and impact of our search engine advertising campaigns. The extended sales cycle we face in B2B online marketing adds to the confusion. METRIC 1: CLICKS. For example, are more consumer oriented advertising entering the space?

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ClickZ

JULY 28, 2020

The tea on the devices that people use the most, their digital habits, content types they’re increasingly engaging with, and more. A user clicks on a Facebook ad at an average of 13 times and a LinkedIn ad can help brands reach around 676 million people. To top it all, voice search has risen 45% a month.

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Envy

AUGUST 22, 2019

Demand for cyber security solutions keeps growing, but the number of cyber security companies is continually increasing, creating a highly competitive market. Google Trends shows that interest in ‘cyber security’ has risen fourfold since 2014 : Source: Google Trends. Part 2: Value of PPC/Paid Campaigns for Cyber Security.

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ClearVoice

JUNE 25, 2021

Landing pages and click funnels are two tools marketers use to help achieve that objective. How does a click funnel differ from a landing page? The marketer can determine which channel is working effectively based on which landing page is getting the most hits. What are the benefits of a good click funnel?

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Directive Agency

JULY 23, 2020

For many business-to-business (B2B) software organizations, paid advertising is essential to generating leads and driving revenue. Through paid channels, marketers are able to segment and target audiences more precisely, leading to higher conversion rates and ultimately, more sales. What is B2B advertising?

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QuanticMind

JUNE 14, 2019

You could get results by optimizing bids and audience targeting for broad match search terms with a high search volume. But it’s also possible to attract more traffic and optimize your ad spend by targeting long tail keywords in Adwords. For example, a broad search term could be “marketing automation.”

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Oktopost

JULY 15, 2020

For the longest time, LinkedIn had a reputation as a site for networking and job searching. Not a bad zinger, but here we are four years later and LinkedIn is widely acknowledged as an invaluable resource not just for headhunters and job seekers, but for marketers and sales professionals too. The cost (sometimes) is lower.

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KoMarketing Associates

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Some marketers think there is a big difference between B2C (business to consumer) and B2B (business to business) marketing, but the fact is, there are facets of both that have similar qualities. Because of this, B2B marketers can employ many “traditional” B2C strategies of marketing into their own campaigns.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 22, 2020

If your SEO (search engine optimization) and PPC (pay per click) teams exist in complete silos, it's time to change that. These channels aren't meant to be siloed, and getting them aligned is one of the most underrated ways to improve your overall digital marketing performance. Avoid paid keyword traps.

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PPC Work Management SEO Top of Funnel 101

KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

With search queries from potential customers changing at such a fast pace in the industry, it is essential to not only determine when an ad should appear, but also when it shouldn’t. When negative keywords are added to a PPC campaign, ads will not be served if those words are part of the user’s search query.

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Hubspot

MAY 23, 2019

A couple of years ago, HubSpot Research found that 82% of salespeople and marketers lost up to an hour per day managing siloed tools — a costly mistake. We recognized this at HubSpot and began experimenting with paid ads to see if this could be a valuable distribution channel to our customers. Experiment Results.

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Conductor

MARCH 29, 2022

And the eCommerce industry added $219B in sales in 2020 alone. We’ve written extensively about the strategic value of organic marketing in 2022 , especially as it relates to online shopping. For this analysis, we analyzed 16 eCommerce domains within Google Analytics. eCommerce content trends: new rankers & result types.

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QuanticMind

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The biggest paid search trends of 2017 include changes to AdWords budgets, attribution, expanded functionality for Google Shopping and Product Listing Ads (PLAs), enhanced audience targeting tools and more. 2017 Paid Search Trend #1: The AdWords 2x Budget. 2017 Paid Search Trend #1: The AdWords 2x Budget.

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Valasys

JULY 26, 2021

An effective B2B marketing strategy focuses on generating quality leads, and building a strong pipeline will help you maintain a stable growth rate. B2B Leads are qualified prospects who may be approached and marketed by salespeople. You should drive more B2B traffic to your content, which can increase your subscriber’s list.

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NuSpark Consulting

JULY 22, 2012

Google Adwords Automated Rules is a compelling campaign and bid management tool that results in better performing paid search campaigns. That means better ad positioning, lower cost, higher click-thru rate, more conversions, reduced cost-per-conversion, and thus more efficient leads into the funnel.

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