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Best Practices to Successfully Prepare and Optimize Your B2B PPC Campaigns

Launch Marketing

LinkedIn Ads is typically the best paid social media channels for B2B while many online marketers go to Google Ads for search engine marketing (SEM) campaigns. Some key metrics to keep an eye on include CTR, CPC, number of conversions, conversion rate and cost per acquisition or cost per lead (CPL).

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The Ultimate Guide to PPC

Hubspot

Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search Engine Marketing (SEM) refers to any digital marketing (paid or unpaid) done on a search engine, like Google, Yahoo or Bing. CPM, also known as cost per thousand, is the cost per one thousand impressions.

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The Top 35 Digital Marketing Acronyms You Need to Know

ClickDimensions

It is an important metric as it costs less to keep existing customers than to acquire new ones. CPA (Cost per acquisition)- A model where a business only pays for an action taken, such as a click, an impression, or a sale. CPA can be competitive which in turn leads to high costs.

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Seven Common AdWords Mistakes to Avoid

Webbiquity

Digging a bit deeper, it usually turns out it wasn’t the tactic that was ineffective, but rather the execution of the AdWords or other search engine marketing (SEM) program. CPC if the former converts at a significantly higher rate than the latter, thereby producing conversions (generally leads or sales) at a lower CPL.

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Lead Generation Case Study: 7 Examples of Success

Single Grain

Strategy: Optimize Digital Strategies Instead of relying on a traditional lead gen process, we implemented digital strategies that optimized sales funnel marketing. We focused on two core digital marketing strategies: search engine marketing and social media advertising.

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42 B2B Marketing Acronyms and Abbreviations

Digital B2B Marketing

EM : Email ABM : Account Based Marketing. A marketing approach that treats every company individually rather than as a mass of similar companies TAP : Targeted Accounts Program. SEM : Search Engine Marketing. Includes both SEO and paid search. SEO : Search Engine Optimization.

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PPC Isn’t Screwed — You Aren’t Doing It Right

Convert

For example, knowing your customer lifetime value tells you where to cap your ad spend: One way is to use customer lifetime value (CLV) calculations to determine the amount you pay per customer, and then compare that figure with your average cost per acquisition. James Limbrit, Co-Founder, YesAssistant LLC.

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