• CAKE News

    Spotlight Q&A With Ollie Ross, CAKE’s Business Development Representative

    In this spotlight Q&A, we caught up with Ollie Ross, CAKE’s EMEA Business Development Representative. Ollie brings more than six years of retail and sales experience to CAKE and is dedicated to helping prospects understand the robust and powerful capabilities of the company’s platform. Here are some highlights from our conversation.   What is your
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  • Events

    3 Trends Influencing Lead Generation and Distribution in Europe

    The CAKE team recently attended Lead Generation World London to meet existing CAKE customers, network, and learn about the 2022 trends impacting the lead generation industry in Europe. Lead Generation World is a global event that takes place in the United States and the United Kingdom and brings together lead generators, performance marketers, and service
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  • Insights

    Podcast: Lead Distribution Trends and the Growth Potential For the UK Market

    CAKE’s Technical Director, Ben Cockburn, was recently featured in a Lead Generation World podcast to discuss an important topic – lead distribution. The host, Michael Ferree, is a performance marketing leader with more than a decade of experience as a lead generator, lead buyer, and now the founder of Lead Generation World (LGW). LGW is
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  • How-To

    Using Lead Statuses in CAKE for Closed-Loop Reporting

    What happens to leads after they’re sold? What was the quality of the leads? How can you provide better leads to your buyers?  If you’re like many lead generation marketers, the answers to these questions are a big unknown. You spend time on acquiring the leads (optimizing the landing page experience and form fill, for
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  • Insights

    The Ultimate Guide on How to Sell Leads with Technology

    Sell leads for maximum profitability Let’s face the ugly truth. The process of selling leads is not simple. Anyone who may have attempted to manually manage a lead distribution program can attest to this. The manual part doesn’t work. Yet, it is worth figuring out a better way (which actually doesn’t need to be hard)
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  • Insights

    Spotlight: Q&A with Performance Marketing Industry Leader, Michael Ferree

    In this CAKE Spotlight, we’re excited to feature a performance marketing leader, Michael Ferree of Lead Generation World. Michael Ferree has spent over a decade in the performance marketing industry as both a buyer and a generator of Internet leads. He is well respected in the lead generation industry for his leadership on the LeadsCouncil,
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  • How-To

    How to Run a Successful Lead Generation Program on CAKE

    During today’s shifting ecosystem, many marketers are taking the time to pause: Where do they want to focus efforts today? And equally important: How should they plan for the long-term? We’ve been talking with our customers about how they can best leverage the CAKE platform that they already have in place. For many, that means
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  • Insights

    What is Performance Marketing and How Has it Evolved?

    What is performance marketing? What is the goal of performance marketing? How has it evolved over the years and how can it help my organization? Today’s blog answers these questions and more.   What is performance marketing? Two decades ago, performance marketing emerged when brands were getting increasingly concerned about the amount of money they were
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  • How-To

    Vlog: How to Control and Improve Lead Quality

    As a performance marketer, you need to make sure the leads you sell to buyers aren’t returned because of fraudulent data or low lead quality. So the constant challenge is: How do you control and improve your lead quality?? That’s the topic of our latest conversation between Garth Harris, CAKE’s VP of Product Innovation, and
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  • How-To

    5 Best Practices for Working with Your Lead Buyers on a Ping Post

    As a lead distribution network or publisher, your success hinges on being flexible enough to work with a wide range of lead buyers that are using different technologies and have vastly different requirements. If you’re constantly creating workarounds, chances are you’re missing out on lead revenue. To increase your lead volume and scale your program,
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  • Insights

    3 Reasons Why CAKE Has the Most Robust Lead Distribution Software

    As a performance marketer, lead generation is a big job. It can be overwhelming to manage multiple campaign details and connect the supply and demand sides of lead generation. You’re constantly aware of trying to keep partners happy, all while driving your organization towards profitability. With so many moving parts, it’s difficult to stay on
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  • Insights

    In Good Company – Performance Marketing Software Reviews

    Where do you start when looking to purchase a consumer product? If you’re like many, one of the first things is to check out customer reviews on sites such as Amazon, Angie’s List, Yelp, or TripAdvisor. This provides you with insights and ultimately helps make smart buying decisions. The same holds true for business technology.
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