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

Marketing Insider Group

To that end, one of the most critical metrics is cost per lead. We’ve been at this marketing thing for a while now and want to share what you can do to improve your CPL. Key Takeaways: Cost per lead is a marketing metric or a pricing model, depending on whether you’re using inbound or outbound methods.

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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.

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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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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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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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The Dangers of Using Cost per Lead as a Metric to Measure Marketing

ViewPoint

Twice over the past two years I blogged about the dangers of using cost per lead as a metric to measure marketing. As a foundation, I published three blogs in 2012 in which I outlined three critical elements that impact B2B lead generation costs in the complex sale: 1. But, let’s look under the hood.

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In Defense of Demand Generation in the Age of ABM

The Point

Much has been made of the argument that Account-Based Marketing (ABM) gained traction so quickly in B2B marketing primarily because traditional, funnel-based demand generation has stopped working. But it would be a mistake to suggest that ABM somehow “replaces” demand generation or that the funnel-based approach is an idea past its time.