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How to Reduce Your CPL By 82% On LinkedIn Ads

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In 90 days, we increased our paid lead volume by over 270%, while simultaneously decreasing cost per lead (CPL) by 82%, and increasing lead-to-MQL conversion rate to over 60%. Three ways to lower your CPL on LinkedIn. Note: most people are marketing to North America, so your CPL will probably be lower if you target anywhere else.

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33 Questions to Ask B2B Appointment Setting and Lead Gen Vendors

Smashmouth Marketing

What types of clients do you work with (Software/Tech, Financial, etc.)? Can we provide an ABM (Account Based Marketing) list for you to call? Do you have Intent Data to enrich the ABM list? Where is your staff based (USA, India, Philippines, Eastern Europe, other)? What quality controls do you have in place? What is your pricing model?

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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. Ensure the directory ranks high on a search for “best (your primary software category).” At PartnerStack, we ran a 3-month pilot on a directory that doesn’t rank on the first page of our primary buyer search term, “best partner management software.”

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

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Our customers run the gamut from software to manufacturing to services—each with their own unique demand models. For example, an $82 CPC could be great for a company that only targets CEOs of maritime engineering companies with a $100k ACV product, but horrible for a company selling task management software to developers for $12/month.

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Why Cost Per Lead Can Be a Bad Metric

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A recent study by Ascend2 shows that 25% of respondents state that their cost per lead (CPL) is increasing. About 15 years ago I was leading a business unit marketing group for a software company. They were quick to respond with comparisons to other software companies and how this was a good CPL as compared with our competitors.

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

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Our customers run the gamut from software to manufacturing to services—each with their own unique demand models. For example, an $82 CPC could be great for a company that only targets CEOs of maritime engineering companies with a $100k ACV product, but horrible for a company selling task management software to developers for $12/month.

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In Defense of Demand Generation in the Age of ABM

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Demand marketers have fallen victim to the siren call of vendors who would have us believe that finding the right buyer, at the right time, with the right need is really just a matter of having the right data or software. In Defense of Demand Generation in the Age of #ABM Click To Tweet. If only it were that easy.