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86% of Software Buyers Use Peer Review Sites to Make a Purchase. How Discoverable is Your Brand?

Directive Agency

In fact, 86% of software buyers use peer review sites when buying software. Cost-per-click (CPC) auctions : vendors bid to rank higher in a directory category page and pay per click to their site to generate leads. Recall how 86% of software buyers use peer review sites to research and evaluate solutions?

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Why Isn’t Chief Content Officer a Bigger “Thing” Yet?

Contently

CMOs are falling behind their peers when it comes to tech adoption and data-driven strategy. So why don’t we know as much about them as we do Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operations Officer, or Chief Technology Officer? Where do Chief Content Officers fall in the hierarchy? The reward? What CMOs and CCOs currently lack.

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How one tech company is doing marketing without cookies

Martech

How will it impact your marketing and your marketing technology? Despite several years of warnings, half of marketing professionals don’t think their organizations are ready for deprecation, according to a study by Basis Technologies. got rid of all advertising and tracking cookies last July. We took a slightly different approach.

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Did martech break B2B marketing?

Martech

Google, LinkedIn and Facebook are driving CPC up. Part one: The promise Part two: The shift Part Three: The crossroads Part Four: Where do we go From here? Part one: The promise The birth of marketing technology brought so much potential to the marketing department. It was the early aughts. Hey kid,” they said. And why not?

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Why is Facebook Ads Benchmarking Necessary?

Valasys

Benchmarks are an excellent tool to help you evaluate your ads’ performance and how they compare to your industry peers. Benchmarks are an excellent tool to help you evaluate your ads’ performance and how they compare to your industry peers. Introduction Are you struggling to evaluate the performance of your Facebook Ads?

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Unpacking the Rise of ABM and Ungated Content for B2B Marketers

Metadata

Most of my peers say the rise of ABM and the death of gated content is happening independently. Paid social advertising has changed a lot since Facebook (now Meta) introduced ads at an event in 2007 featuring executives from Blockbuster, CBS, and The Coca-Cola Company. Most of the changes have been positive. And for the most part, I agree.

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Key Content Marketing Metrics For the Fearless Marketer

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

That’s why marketing ROI —including content marketing ROI—is one of the top challenges for CMOs and marketers. Social shares have no real value unless they drive engaged visitors back to your website. Ads have no quantifiable value unless they deliver leads or sales you can measure. Stop creating content that no one wants. How are you doing?