Category: Growth Strategy
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How Much Should a Lead Cost? Cost Per Lead by Industry
What should a lead cost your business? Directional cost per lead ranges by industry, what drives CPL up or down, and how to calculate your own target CPL.
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Own vs. Rent: Why Your Website Shouldn’t Disappear When You Cancel
Most business websites are rented, not owned — cancel and everything vanishes. Here’s what it means to own your website and the 5 questions to ask any provider.
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The Marketing Dashboard: The Only 7 Numbers That Matter
Forget vanity metrics. Your marketing dashboard needs exactly 7 numbers — traffic, captures, CPL, bookings, show rate, close rate, CAC. Here’s how to read them.
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Landing Page Conversion Rates: What’s Good and How to Get There
What’s a good landing page conversion rate? Directional benchmarks, the anatomy of a page that converts, and the 5 killers murdering most local business pages.
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Content Marketing ROI: How Blogging Actually Pays
Content marketing ROI is real but slow — most blogs fail from inconsistency, not strategy. The math of SEO content and the weekly engine that makes it pay.