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Threading the Needle of Thought Leadership | Nora DePalma

Peter Winick

Nora explains how you need to tie activity to business outcomes and understand what action you want them to take next, moving them deeper into your content but not necessarily leading them into a sales funnel. Not all calls to action must lead into the sales funnel. Otherwise, they are likely to tune out.

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Candidate Sourcing: Your Ultimate 2024 Guide (+Tips & Strategies)

AIHR

These candidates are probably also applying for multiple positions based on where they are advertised or what they know about the company. This is where advertising and employer branding become critical. You can also use automation to reach passive candidates through targeted emails or advertising pop-ups.

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How To (Actually) Calculate CAC

Andrew Chen

CPA would be used for leading indicators to CAC, such as Cost Per Lead, Cost Per Sales Qualified Lead, Cost Per Trial or other points in the marketing and sales funnel. In Facebook’s case the paying customer are advertisers so CAC is the cost to acquire a new advertiser.

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Hoping to Grow Your Ad Agency? Support Growth Goals With Existing Customers

Chief Executive

If account executives don’t appreciate the sales side or know the questions posed to salespeople, then your agency won’t be as effective as it could be. In time, they’ll be able to drill deeper into the sales funnel, get to know their overarching goals, and understand where to focus their research going forward.

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Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team

Harvard Business Review

Deconstruct Your Sales Funnel. In order to improve sales outcomes and clarify the relevant sales KPIs in your business, you need to deconstruct your sales funnel. Consider one SaaS company that sells a menu display and advertising platform to restaurants, which is a big but fragmented market.

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The Social Cost of Bad Online Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Despite taking the faux-curmudgeonly attitude of an anthropologist exploring the strange world of business dudes — is a sales funnel really that much of a novelty? Dan Lyons’s book Disrupted is an often-delightful tour through startup culture, based on the author’s experience working at online marketing firm HubSpot.

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Solving Facebook's Customer Advocacy Challenge, and Yours

Harvard Business Review

Identifying users who "like" an advertisement as advocates, without clear and explicit permission, violates the basic trust that real advocacy requires. As a result they view their Facebook page as just another channel for traditional advertising and PR — an approach that's typically antithetical to authentic customer advocacy.