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. What are paid traffic sources? YouTube Ads. Google Ads.

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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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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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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. These metrics are the most commonly measured by marketers. CPC: The average cost-per-click across a campaign.

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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. Most of the traffic on directories comes from search.

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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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Webbiquity

JUNE 15, 2021

Even as newer and fancier ways to market your business crop up every season, old-school email marketing continues to provide the highest ROI, at a whopping $42 for every $1 of expenditure. This is where lead magnets come in, as an integral part of email marketing. Have highly specific content. What is a lead magnet?

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Hubspot

JANUARY 22, 2020

According to a recent survey from Lawless Research and Factual , marketers are spending an average of 43% of their ad budget on Google and Facebook, with Amazon not far behind. Regardless of business size, online advertising strategies are similar. In fact, marketers are hoping for new advertising options.

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Unbounce

APRIL 4, 2019

When you’re just starting out, it can be a struggle to find simple advice about where you should be advertising your business online. The digital marketing world can be noisy, after all, and everyone has an opinion. Your friend tells you that Google Ads is just too expensive. And what are your marketing resources ?

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Valasys

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The race for featuring higher & ranking up in the Google search results for organic traffic is ferocious than has ever been before, making it imperative to using Google ads for B2B lead generation. Featuring high in the organic search results is also difficult owing to the zero-click search results.

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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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Hubspot

AUGUST 2, 2018

That was the click-through-rate of the first ever banner ad , purchased by AT&T on HotWired.com in 1994. Nowadays, this ad would be considered the scum of clickbait. No sane person would ever click on it. You can create engaging ads in multiple formats and target people who actually need your product or service.

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Hubspot

MAY 25, 2016

Have you ever had any formal or informal paid advertising training or education? Most marketers are presented with a chunk of their company’s marketing budget one day and told to “run some ads.” Don’t let the costs scare you, paid social advertising is incredibly measurable, and can produce real ROI.

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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. Research Customer Needs to Create Effective and Relevant Content.

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The ABM Agency

JANUARY 15, 2021

For some B2B companies, the 2021 marketing budget has increased due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While there’s some level of uncertainty, the general consensus is there’s extra money that can be used on marketing, albeit in different ways than previous years. What are you looking for your next marketing campaign to achieve?

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Valasys

APRIL 27, 2020

Content marketing during Coronavirus has to be more empathetic than ever before, while succinctly reflecting on the value proposition of the products or services. And have highlighted and advertised the solutions they provide for their COVID-19 patients. Marketers need to put a pause on offline marketing.

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Metadata

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The life of a B2B marketer is full of decisions. Outsource design or beg your in-house team to move your projects up their to-do lists? Use image or video ads on Facebook and LinkedIn? That last question is common among B2B marketers—do they look toward the future (video) or stick with what they know (image)?

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The Marketing Blender

APRIL 5, 2022

The Basics of B2B Digital Marketing. B2B digital marketing is essential for any business-to-business company (B2B) looking to promote its products and services. But where should you begin with digital marketing? What Is B2B Digital Marketing? B2B Vs. B2C Digital Marketing: How Do They Differ?

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Unbounce

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You and a couple of friends have an idea for a product that fits a clear gap in the market. Procurify’s marketing team was under more pressure than ever to keep their growth going—even accelerate it. We also spoke with Jendi, Procurify’s Marketing Web Designer, over the phone. They did a bang-up job, too.

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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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Metadata

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Advertising legend David Ogilvy said, “On average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. Ads have changed since then, and he certainly didn’t have the digital revolution in mind. But his message still applies: ads need to capture attention, and people decide quickly if they want to read them or not.

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Unbounce

JUNE 10, 2021

Marketers talk a lot about getting customers, but not so much about what it costs. Nowadays, achieving growth and gaining new audiences solely through organic search is tough, so most marketers supplement these with pay-per-click (PPC) ads. How do you know you’re getting the best spend on your ads?

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Onalytica B2B

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Measuring the success and ROI (return on investment) of marketing in general has been notoriously difficult. The whole point of marketing is to evoke action in your target audience. More specifically to influencer marketing – how can you measure the return on a relationship? But how can you measure this?

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EveryoneSocial

AUGUST 24, 2020

If you currently work as a marketer or spent any time in the marketing department, you are well aware of the amount of B2B marketing tools currently available. After all, there are over 8,000 marketing solutions available to utilize (and growing). Best B2B Marketing Tools.

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

Demonstrating the value of any marketing campaign is challenging. In fact, 43% of companies list it as the biggest marketing challenge: . . This is amplified in the B2B marketing arena where longer sales cycles and multiple touchpoints across a range of different channels make KPI selection and attribution much more complex. .

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Outgrow

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Or as he explained, “growth, not with traditional advertising but rather with programming smarts on a shoestring budget". Lo and behold, came growth hacking strategies that EVERY marketer started talking about. A growth hacker works at the intersection of product, marketing, and data. Pre-Launch Marketing.

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Act-On

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Getting started with pay-per-click (PPC) advertising—or any type of digital advertising—can be downright overwhelming. Advertising has its own special lingo and library of acronyms involved, and new tactics and technologies are constantly emerging. What is Account-Based Advertising? What is an Ad Audience?

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Biznology

AUGUST 20, 2014

With B2B and B2C customers increasingly using their smartphones to browse for, shop for, and buy the products and services they need , marketers have increasingly turned to mobile search as a major component of their pay-per-click ad campaigns. Which begs the question: does mobile search work?

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KoMarketing Associates

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Social media has changed the way we live, interact with each other, and, yes, even market our businesses. billion people use social media worldwide, making it one of the most popular online activities. Designing an effective B2B social media marketing strategy, however, is no easy feat. More than 3.6

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Directive Agency

JUNE 13, 2018

What does marketing no longer do for B2B companies? I think we spend so much time focusing on “ what does marketing do ” that we have forgotten to talk about what doesn’t work anymore. Click on it… You’re able to scroll through any specific point of the video that way. Mass Marketing.

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Valasys

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Once the B2B brands have been done with their LinkedIn pages, the next big challenge for them is to establish their brand equity through LinkedIn & attract an increased number of followers, for promoting brand visibility. The B2B marketers need to have a comprehensive B2B marketing strategy particularly when it comes to content.

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KEO Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Over the past year, content marketing has become a crucial component of the marketing strategy. A recent study found that 53% of marketers see clear ROI and 43% believe opportunities exist. Although the value of content marketing is undeniable, most marketers find adapting to an ever-shifting landscape challenging.

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LeadSquared

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Say what you will about social media, but it has become the metaphorical elephant in the room: hard to ignore. Aditi is the Director of Ops and Strategy at Emporio Marketing Pvt Ltd. Emporio is a boutique marketing agency, which specializes in Social Media Marketing, Influencer marketing and Online Reputation Management.

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Metadata

JULY 21, 2022

B2B marketing is tough. In fact, there are now over 9,000 companies in Scott Brinker’s 2022 marketing technology landscape. . With so much noise in the market, what’s the best way to get in front of your audience and hit your revenue numbers? Running legit demand generation marketing campaigns is a great place to start.

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Directive Agency

MARCH 25, 2020

These giants continue to dominate the market share of revenue generated by the overall software industry. We coupled our insights generated from these companies and added our analysis of why your SaaS marketing team should be executing these pillars of demand generation on all cylinders. Organic Search. Activation.

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