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People Don’t Want to Buy Your Product or Service They Want to Buy a Better Version of Themselves
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One of the most difficult things for business owners to get a handle on is the true perspective of the needs and desires of their clients or customers.  Because we spend so much time working on, perfecting and promoting our products or services – over time we get caught up in how awesome our product […]

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More Isn’t Better, Better is Better
7 years ago

I find it interesting as I begin evaluating prospective clients how infatuated they are with a single metric in their lead generation – volume. Search volume, click volume, impressions, number of calls – whatever it is they watch it like a hawk and sadly make a lot of decisions based on it alone. I think […]

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Google’s Stupidity Tax
9 years ago Pay-per-click, FeaturedDane Shakespear

Google’s Stupidity Tax

Pay Per Click is probably the most valuable and effective marketing medium in the history of the world.  But it can be extremely costly if you don’t know what you’re doing. Google has what my friend Perry Marshall calls “a stupidity tax” which means that every way that you misunderstand your customer and their intent […]

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Unlimited Traffic – A Real Life Case Study in Behavioral Health Marketing
8 years ago Marketing, Pay-per-click, Advertising, FeaturedDane Shakespear

Unlimited Traffic – A Real Life Case Study in Behavioral Health Marketing

Unlimited traffic?  It sounds like a pipe dream or only a theoretical concept, but in fact, it is not only an actual possibility – it will always happen in any online market when someone does a few simple things just a little better than their competition. On the internet, things operate on 90/10 vs. 80/20 […]

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The Pitfalls of Data Driven Marketing
5 years ago Marketing, Pay-per-click, FeaturedDane Shakespear

The Pitfalls of Data Driven Marketing

I often hear techie marketers boast about how they are “data driven” so they don’t get caught up in the errors of human judgment – as if it is possible to make complex decisions based solely on what their computer model, formula or data shows them. The idea is seductive because with large data sets […]

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Refining Google AdWords
7 years ago Pay-per-click, AdvertisingDane Shakespear

Refining Google AdWords

One of the most important things of any Google AdWords campaign is to continually test and refine.  The best practices for Google AdWords is to continually test and refine keywords, text ads, display ads, placements, ad extensions, target locations, and on and on. When testing so many things, it is easy to test things that […]

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A Statistical Correlation Does Not Necessarily Mean a Cause-Effect Relationship
9 years ago Marketing, Pay-per-click, AdvertisingDane Shakespear

A Statistical Correlation Does Not Necessarily Mean a Cause-Effect Relationship

One of the greatest aspects of digital marketing in comparison to traditional marketing methods is the amount of reliable data we can collect in a short period of time. Like no other marketing medium, we can track just about every aspect of every component of the ad and the people who respond to it. This […]

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People Don’t Want to Buy Your Product or Service They Want to Buy a Better Version of Themselves
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