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How Metadata Fundamentally Changed My Approach to B2B Marketing

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Seriously: our lead-to-conversion rate increased by 15X and our cost per opportunity (CPO) went from $40k to $800. I ran demand and operations, so my job was simple: generate and optimize leads. I could lift up the hood and see every optimization happening and all the metrics I could ever need to make the most of my ad dollars.

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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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From there, they’d retarget audiences across channels and run conversion rate optimization (CRO) tests to see what resonated best. 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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Gaurav Kachhawa: Looking forward with AI

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Gaurav Kachhawa is the CPO of Gupshup, which builds advanced conversational messaging platforms. Every time there’s a new technology, you go through a phase of reality check and optimism. He knows AI both through his work and working with clients as they deploy it. Interview edited for length and clarity.)

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How brands should react to market slowdowns

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For example, pre-COVID, we saw CPO ratios of 2:1, yet during the pandemic, this jumped to 4:1 as captive audiences spent more time on screens and switched spending patterns to focus on home-related products. It can be tested and scaled up or down depending on real-time metrics, a dynamic approach that helps brands optimize spending.

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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. Metadata handles all of the permutations, dollar allocation, and performance tracking so you don’t have to.

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

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and want to quickly optimize those with the most initial engagement. You’ll optimize to this metric if you’re running a brand campaign, while you’ll optimize to CPL for lead gen. . Cost per opportunity (CPO): CPO is another measure of efficiency that you can use to start looking at the ROI of your marketing spend.

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

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and want to quickly optimize those with the most initial engagement. You’ll optimize to this metric if you’re running a brand campaign, while you’ll optimize to CPL for lead gen. . Cost per opportunity (CPO): CPO is another measure of efficiency that you can use to start looking at the ROI of your marketing spend.