So, how can your organization lower its marketing costs by 60%?
Two years of data are clear: Do inbound marketing .
HubSpot's 2010 State of Inbound Marketing report , being released today, shows that Inbound-dominated organizations average 60% lower cost per lead than outbound-dominated organizations!
The report is based on a survey of 231 people involved with or familiar with their business' marketing strategy. We asked them to provide their average cost per lead, then compared the cost-per-lead for organizations that focus on inbound marketing (
Social media
,
blogs
,
PPC
,
SEO
) to the cost per lead for organization that focus on outbound marketing (direct mail, telemarketing, trade shows).
Other key findings of the 2010 State of Inbound Marketing report:
- Social Media and blogs are the most rapidly expanding category of marketers' overall budgets.
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Over 40% of customers using Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook and company blogs have generated a customer from that channel.
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Mark Kilens 8:42 AM on February 16, 2010
Couldn't agree more. If you're not doing inbound marketing then you're way behind in the newest strategies to find and retain customers. It's the number one most effective and cost-effective way to market. The beauty of it is that even small one-person companies can do it too.
Mark K
Merryl Rosenthal 3:02 PM on February 16, 2010
The article is exactly on point. Thanks.
Edith Bodnar 3:15 PM on February 17, 2010
Good article, however, one should not generalize these results. The outcomes may greatly defer between segments.
I still rely on my old school strategy in many of my marketing projects. We still have to answer many traditional questions to get to the solution, even when we work with a younger target market.
Mike Santoro 4:09 PM on February 17, 2010
We're finding the same thing with our clients. Pull marketing works. Put your dollars into SEO, web development, and other pull marketing strategies and you will find much lower cost of client acquisition. Thanks for the research!