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PowerMinute: [Video] Why Measuring Success on Cost Per Lead is a Huge Mistake

Pointclear

Do you measure success on the basis of your cost per lead (CPL)? Measuring success through CPL is a mistake for three reasons. First, you can’t create the same umbrella lead for different solutions. Second, not everyone who visits your website and fills out a form is a lead.

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What Determines Cost Per Lead

Pointclear

While most people wouldn't quibble with the above reality, many still measure marketing success based on the cost per lead. Take a look at the following cost per lead comparison. These numbers show what goes into generating a high-quality lead—and what it costs.

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Why Cost Per Lead is Irrelevant

No More Cold Calling

In this month’s guest blog, he turns the tables on popular marketing strategies and explains what’s important, what’s relevant, and which metrics really matter: “Cost per lead is not only the wrong metric to watch, but it could lead you to deprioritize or turn off lead sources that are helping you make more money.

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How to Calculate & Apply Cost per Lead (CPL)

Hubspot Sales

One of the most important metrics for gauging that efficiency is known as cost per lead (CPL). Here, we'll discuss the concept a bit further, go over how to calculate cost per lead, see an example of what it might look like in practice, and review how to determine whether your CPL is up to snuff.

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The Cost-Per-Lead Fallacy in Measuring B2B Lead Generation Investments (Pt 1 of 3)

Pointclear

As much as marketing and sales best practices—not to mention just plain common sense—dictate that cost-per-lead not play a prominent role in managing and measuring B2B lead generation investments, the metric continues to prevail. The problems and costs of a cost-per-lead approach.

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Inbound Marketing’s Top 4 Newest Insights

SBI Growth

She has been trying to reduce her cost per lead, but have not been able to get below $360 per qualified lead. I reminded Kathy that she’s not focused enough on Lead Management. Kathy, the latest research on Cost Per Lead (CPL) scenarios surprised me.

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The Cost-Per-Lead Fallacy in Measuring B2B Lead Generation Investments (Pt 2 of 3)

Pointclear

In the first blog on the fallacy of using the cost-per-lead metric to measure the success of B2B lead generation investments, we looked at the nature of the problem and associated costs to the organization. B2B sale complexity impacts cost-per-lead.