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

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Cost per click (CPC): CPC is another early indicator of efficiency, and you can use it to compare one program against another. 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.

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4 Steps To Building The Content Marketing Business Case

Marketing Insider Group

The way to calculate content marketing ROI will vary for each organization, but the initial process for gathering the information to do so and building a strong business case is the same across the board. All marketing spend should be tied to quantifiable results that sales and executives can understand. Do Your Research.

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

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Cost per click (CPC): CPC is another early indicator of efficiency, and you can use it to compare one program against another. 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.

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Content Marketing ROI Starts With A Strong Business Case

Marketing Insider Group

So how do we build the business case for content marketing and answer the content marketing ROI question before we even really get started? It starts by building a strong business case that doesn’t just directly attack people, their teams, or their budgets. Let’s Make Marketing Accountable. Marketing ROI.

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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…”.

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The CMO/CFO Power Partnership: 9 Best Practices To Make It Work

Heinz Marketing

Too many companies place marketing budget decisions with CFOs without data and analysis. In today’s B2B marketing world, this is unacceptable. Using a model like the SiriusDecisions Demand Waterfall also helps marketers plan the stages where the budget will be used, how, and the intended results.

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Q4 Marketing Budget: 4 Key Areas to Consider

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In B2B circles, Q4 is historically a time of year when marketing spend picks up. Sales teams need the push to meet year-end numbers, whilst at other companies, spending marketing dollars in Q4 is simply a matter of “use it or lose it.” Does your corporate blog contribute to overall marketing ROI in a measurable way?