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September 28, 2026

How to prove marketing is working to your CFO, CEO or leadership.

Cost per acquisition tells you what you paid, not whether you’re winning. Paid advertising is one of the more expensive lines in the budget, so sooner […]
September 14, 2026

Too few sales to optimize to? Use a proxy that tracks them.

When there are too few sales to learn from. Optimizing an ad account, whether automated bidding does it or a person does it by hand, comes […]
September 7, 2026

Leads are down. Ask two questions, not one.

Three months of decline… and someone wants an answer by Friday. Leads have been sliding for a few months. Not a cliff, just a steady drift […]
August 31, 2026

“Scale It” Is Not a Strategy

When something works and someone says scale it. You’ve probably been in this situation. Something works, maybe a good month or a campaign that’s clearly performing, […]
July 23, 2018
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8 Tactics for Making Confident Marketing Decisions

In marketing as with almost every other discipline, it is important to be able to make confident decisions. It becomes especially critical when these decisions have […]
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