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Content Marketing and Social Media: 25 Insights and Stats from Three Research Reports

Webbiquity

Nearly three-quarters of companies plan to maintain or grow their content marketing teams over the next year. Social media managers are actually (slightly) happier working in the office rather than hybrid or remote. And lead gen campaigns on Facebook and Instagram are 10X more expensive than brand awareness advertising.

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What Is Cost Per Lead, and How Can You Use It To Improve Your Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

It seems like all you have to do is think about marketing and you’ll start seeing endless ads for companies promising foolproof lead generation. The name of the game in marketing is fine-tuning your application of proven strategies through testing and reviews. To that end, one of the most critical metrics is cost per lead.

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Search Ad Budget

Zoominfo

If you’re in marketing, you might think of search engine advertising platforms as your “frenemy.” You’re kind of like friends because they distribute your ads, and kind of like enemies because you’re both self-interested. “The more profitable experience for search engines is more people clicking on ads. .

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Paid Search Platforms: Are Bing and Yahoo (Oath Platform) Worth it?

NuSpark Consulting

The name of Google is practically synonymous with search, to the point that few people even realize alternatives exist for paid search in places other than Google. While Google Ads struggled to regain the 11% that search clicks were down in 2017 over 2016, Yahoo grew by 10% in paid clicks and Bing grew by 19.7%

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Understanding the Ins and Outs of Google Ad Extensions

SmartBug Media

When launching your very first paid search campaign using Google Ads, getting your text ads to stand out can seem like a daunting task. Luckily, Google has equipped paid search experts with one more tool to help build a successful campaign: ad extensions ! What are Google Ad extensions?

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Content Marketing During a Downturn: Here’s What the Conventional Wisdom Gets Wrong

Contently

When these words start to appear, conventional wisdom tells businesses to cut their marketing budgets. As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. Companies need to keep growing to succeed, and content is one of the most effective ways to do that.

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Why This Amount Is All the Marketing Budget You Need

Marketing Insider Group

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.