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Digital Advertising Is Essential to Small Businesses — and at Risk

Business and Tech

In our online economy, digital advertising and marketing have become critical to forging connections, not just commercial but also personal. Leveling the playing field Many of my clients wouldn’t be able to advertise at all without digital advertising. Some of my clients spend just a few hundred dollars.

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Put Marketing at the Core of Your Growth Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Companies that make the decision to put marketing at the core of their growth strategy outperform the competition, according to McKinsey research. Yet their research also showed that few CEOs recognize the potential for marketing as a growth accelerator. The first is to define what you need from marketing.

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Examples of Lateral Thinking in Marketing

Destination Innovation

Brand marketing offers tremendous scope for lateral thinking. Its whole branding, messaging and advertising is posited on one ridiculously obscure piece of lateral thinking – that customers might confuse the words market and meerkat and so search for comparethemeerkat.com. How can you differentiate yourself?

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Navigating the Pitfalls of Google’s Performance Max for Online Advertising

Brunner

Brunner Recommends Rigorous Testing Before Going with ‘PMax’ Google launched Performance Max in late 2021 with lots of fanfare about the benefits of AI-powered online advertising. At Brunner, we manage paid search engine marketing (SEM) for clients of all types with significant monthly spends. Yes, of course they are.

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The Modern Rental Market According to the Experts

Business and Tech

Real estate industry leaders share their insights on how the rental market has evolved in the face of COVID-19 and rapidly advancing technology. DL: While digital services have provided an easy way to advertise rental vacancies, it’s also opened your property (and your information) up to unscrupulous actors.

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Podcast S5E105: Perry Marshall – Detox, Declutter, Dominate

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with one of the original kings of paid marketing, Perry Marshall. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:30 – Perry’s history in cracking how to do online advertising. 00:07:00 – How Google changed the way advertising works.

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Weird And Wonderful Places Companies Have Found To Advertise

The Human Factor

Coming up with new places to advertise isn’t easy. But many businesses are taking risks in this regard, plastering their marketing materials practically everywhere you can imagine, in the hope of gaining brand value. Here are some of the weird and wonderful places have found to advertise: . Remarkable! Ice Rink Polishers.

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