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Using Data to Build a Demand Generation Engine

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Google PPC ads still drive a solid cost per lead (CPL)? Funnel tracking Walk into any B2B company’s war room, and you’ll see quotas, pipeline targets, active deals, and other data isolated to the Sales team plastered on the walls—and that’s fine. Note: There’s no right or wrong CPL. Sign me up. Keep it up.

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Improve Your CPA to Make the Most of Your Marketing Budget

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Keep in mind that cost-per-action is different from cost-per-acquisition (also called CPA) and cost-per-lead (CPL). Cost-per-acquisition is the cost of converting someone into a customer, which likely requires a series of actions. Press pause on poor performance.

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Should You Put Budget Behind Brand Awareness in a Down Economy? We Think So.

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Two ad executives walk into a bar conference room… Executive #1: I bought an Aston Martin after I saw one of their ads. In the past, companies have chased cost per lead (CPL), aka the opposite of brand awareness. Executive #2: Wait. Aston Martin hasn’t advertised in years. How’s that possible? That’s how.

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The 3 Step B2B Marketing Exec’s Guide To Improving ROI and Slaying The CFO Dragon

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But NAICS codes are inaccurate, and people move from one position to the next and one company to the next every day, and half of your data is whack before you even press go on your fancy marketing campaign. And you can run pilots on a CPL basis. And half inaccurate data means a ton of waste. This is different.

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The Ideal Trade Show Checklist & Timeline

Navigate the Channel

Marketing departments and agencies are working to develop trade show themes and slogans, many of them highlighting being back together and pressing the restart button. Remember to calculate your cost per lead , which is a calculation of your display costs over how many leads are generated in the booth.

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How to Manage Your Entire Marketing Budget [Free Budget Tracker Templates]

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That is a loaded question, my friends, and one that I don't have room to answer in-depth in this post. Using our Paid Advertising Budget Template , you can keep tabs on your monthly (and quarterly) ad spending, and then cross-reference the amounts with your lead-generation metrics to determine your cost-per-lead.

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Where Marketing Metrics Go Wrong

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Of course, it’s okay to track some of these metrics internally within your department (we call these “boiler room metrics”) if they help you make better marketing decisions. Some common examples include press release impressions, Facebook “Likes”, and names gathered at tradeshows. Here are the top categories of metrics to avoid.