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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. We recommend that advertisers exercise caution using PMax, and we’re not the only ones. More than two years later, reviews are mixed.

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Emotional advertising can lift sales as much as 23%, but marketers are missing the mark

Brunner

After more than 40 years in marketing and advertising, Louis Sawyer, the chief strategy officer for ad agency Brunner, has come to believe that we are defined by the brands we choose to buy. Originally published in Atlanta Business Chronicle. By Mary Johnson – Contributor. Yet many businesses don’t tap the potential.

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Four Popular Brainstorming Techniques – and why they work

Svava

Alex Osborn, an advertising executive, and the team he led in 1939 are known to have coined the term “brainstorming.” Pen To Paper or Stylus to Tablet The old fashioned way, pen to paper, is meant to be a writing exercise where one sits down for a predetermined time, usually 10 to 20-minute sessions, and writes every thought down.

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3 of 7 in the DON’T LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS Series

Innovation 360 Group

Exercises in Innovation #3: Observe customers in the wild. For this same reason, they have had consistently positive results with their advertising. Look out for exercise #4. Going out and observing customers is something you should really try and not just as a thought experiment. That’s exactly what Gillette did.

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Preventive Maintenance for People

Mike Shipulski

And if you follow the instructions, the machine will run as advertised. How about eight hours of sleep, balanced diet, exercise and some fun? And if you follow the instructions, you will run as advertised. I want to perform as advertised, so I’m shutting down for vacation.

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5 Ways to Open Branding Strategy to Multiple Marketing Agencies

BrainZooming

In Giving Your Brand a Boost through Social-First Content , we share actionable, audience-oriented frameworks and exercises to: Understand more comprehensively what interests your audience. Download the Brainzooming eBook on social-first content strategy. Find engaging topics your brand can credibly address via social-first content.

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There Is a Secret to Creative Success for Everyone

BrainZooming

I’m guessing that this all came together for me right then because I had been pitching a new client in partnership with an advertising agency. I explained to them that no matter who we bring into an in-person Brainzooming workshop, we design the questions and exercises so that EVERYONE will be successful participating.