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More Than a Button: The Best CTAs for Paid Social Advertising (Based on $130M in Ad Spend)

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In the pandemic’s earliest days, everyone had their sights set on cost per lead (CPL), with spend-per-month averaging $35K. We looked at the click-through rate (CTR), conversion rate, cost per lead (CPL), and cost per opportunity (CPO) for each. CPO N/A $21,378.29 CPO $7,722.17 $7,546.49 CPO $8,330.22 $4,869.48

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Is paid social advertising still worth it in 2023?

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I began working for Armorblox in 2019, and my job was to drive pipeline. After a few months, my cost per lead (CPL) was $3k, and I was in a frenzy. If it still isn’t working, I’ll grab a shovel and help you bury paid social for good.” I work for them now, so you can also probably guess how those six months went.

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How Metadata Fundamentally Changed My Approach to B2B Marketing

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I used Metadata for the first time in 2021 when I worked at Armorblox (now a part of Cisco), and it instantly made me a better B2B marketer. Seriously: our lead-to-conversion rate increased by 15X and our cost per opportunity (CPO) went from $40k to $800. With Metadata, our CPL dropped to about $50. I was instantly hooked.

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

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What works better: images or videos? Which images work best? So, what’s working in social advertising for B2B marketers? To find out what’s working, we looked at what’s working for our own customers. Cost per lead (CPL): CPL measures the efficiency of your campaign. and is most expensive.

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Stop Struggling, Start Experimenting: How to Think About Your Paid Ad Experiments

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Once you push your experiments to the channels, Metadata’s optimizer figures out which experiments are working, stops the ones that aren’t via auto-pause, and shifts any remaining spend to what’s moving the needle. Roll up your sleeves It’s almost time to launch some experiments, but there’s a bit of dirty work to do first.

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

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What works better: images or videos? Which images work best? So, what’s working in social advertising for B2B marketers? To find out what’s working, we looked at what’s working for our own customers. Cost per lead (CPL): CPL measures the efficiency of your campaign. and is most expensive.

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We’re Breaking Free: Why It’s Time for Demand Gen Marketers to Own Their Data

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That many people reading our 2023 B2B paid social benchmark report were surprised by the high cost per opportunity (CPO) of paid social advertising. Everyone, including Sales, Marketing Ops, and Customer Success, must work together to keep campaigns flowing. These metrics are closer to actual revenue.