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Strategy, analytics, creative and acquisition. Written for founders and growth teams who want to build systems that last.

StrategyOct 20268 min read

Why most performance marketing fails before it starts

Unpredictable ad results usually start before the first campaign. The three decisions to make first, how to put numbers on them, and how they show which lever to pull.

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AnalyticsOct 20268 min read

Building a revenue-connected reporting stack

How to join your ad platforms, GA4 and CRM so your reports show what each channel costs per sale, in figures the person signing off the budget will trust.

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AcquisitionOct 20267 min read

The 4-pillar acquisition system that scales without breaking

Why ad results break down as budgets grow, and how to build reach, traffic, engagement and conversion so that each stage feeds the next.

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AnalyticsOct 20267 min read

How to calculate your real CAC (and why most companies get it wrong)

A step-by-step way to work out what a new customer really costs you, fully loaded and per channel, and how long each customer takes to pay that cost back.

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Paid MediaOct 20267 min read

LinkedIn Ads for B2B: the targeting combinations that actually work

The company, job and intent combinations that reach real B2B buyers on LinkedIn, how large your audience should be for your budget, and how to bid while you learn.

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CreativeOct 20268 min read

Creative fatigue is killing your ROAS: here's how to fix it

How to tell creative fatigue from other causes of falling ROAS, estimate how fast your ads wear out at your budget, and keep fresh creative coming before results drop.

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AnalyticsOct 20267 min read

Why your attribution model is lying to you

Every attribution model shares out credit by its own rules. Here is where each one misleads you, and how to cross-check them before you move budget.

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StrategyOct 20268 min read

The B2B demand generation playbook

How to run B2B demand generation when buyers research privately: judge marketing by real sales opportunities, follow buying signals and earn trust before the first call.

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AIOct 20268 min read

AI in paid media: what actually works

Where AI in Google, Meta and LinkedIn advertising earns its keep, where it quietly wastes budget, and what to check before you give it more of your money.

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StrategyOct 20267 min read

Zero-click search is here. Here's what it means for your content strategy

What AI Overviews and featured snippets mean for your content: which pages lose clicks, which still earn them, and how to measure and distribute what you publish.

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Paid MediaOct 20267 min read

Performance Max: how to use it without losing control of your Google Ads

When Performance Max is worth using, how to stop it claiming sales you would have had anyway, and the settings and tests that keep your Google Ads budget under control.

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StrategyOct 20267 min read

Retention is your cheapest growth channel. Most companies treat it last

The arithmetic of keeping customers, why retention gets neglected, and the three basics to build before cancellations turn into a crisis.

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AnalyticsOct 20267 min read

First-party data: the asset most companies own but don't use

What first-party data is, why it holds up as browsers and consent rules limit tracking, and how to put your customer list to work in ads, email and measurement.

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CROOct 20267 min read

Your pricing page is probably your worst-converting page. Here's how to fix it

Why pricing pages lose buyers who are ready to act, and how to fix yours: clearer plans, objections answered on the page, a safe next step and tests your traffic supports.

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StrategyOct 20267 min read

PLG vs. sales-led growth: how to choose, and how to combine them

A practical way to decide whether your software should sell itself or be sold by people, and how to run both without wasting sales time on free users.

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Paid MediaOct 20267 min read

How to recover Meta Ads performance after iOS signal loss

A practical plan for rebuilding Meta Ads after iOS privacy changes: set up the Conversions API properly, optimise for the right event and measure against your own sales.

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CROOct 20267 min read

How to build a CRO programme from scratch in 90 days

A month-by-month plan for your first 90 days of conversion rate optimisation: what to research, how to rank ideas, how to run fair tests and what to do with low traffic.

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StrategyOct 20267 min read

How high-growth companies are structuring their growth teams

What to keep in-house, what to buy from specialists, how the split changes as you grow, and how to stop shared responsibility becoming nobody's.

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PerformanceOct 20268 min read

Quality Score: the Google Ads lever most teams ignore, and what it actually costs them

What Quality Score measures, how weak ad quality raises what you pay per click, and the order in which to fix keywords, ads and landing pages.

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PerformanceOct 20268 min read

Cold audience strategy on Meta Ads: why most campaigns fail at the top of funnel

Why narrow targeting now holds Meta prospecting back, and how to set up audiences, creative and budgets so cold audiences turn into new customers.

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PerformanceOct 20267 min read

Search term report mining: the €0 optimisation most Google Ads accounts skip

How to read your Google Ads search term report: find wasted spend, add the searches that convert, build negative lists safely and set a review rhythm for your budget.

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PerformanceOct 20268 min read

Remarketing that doesn't annoy people: a segmentation framework

How to split website visitors by intent, give each group the right message, limit how often people see your ads and stop paying to reach customers you already have.

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PerformanceOct 20267 min read

YouTube Ads as a performance channel: how to build a video funnel that converts

How to aim YouTube ads at people with buying intent, write openings they don't skip, connect video with search and remarketing, and measure what the channel adds.

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PerformanceOct 20267 min read

Smart bidding transitions: how to move from manual CPC without cratering your account

A safe path from manual CPC bidding to Smart Bidding: tracking checks, conversion thresholds, realistic first targets, protecting the learning phase and when to roll back.

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PerformanceOct 20267 min read

Ad copy testing that produces insights, not just winners

How to design ad copy tests that teach you what your buyers care about: which angles to test, how to keep tests fair, how much data you need and how to record lessons.

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PerformanceOct 20267 min read

Google Shopping feed optimisation: the e-commerce lever most brands ignore

How to improve the product data behind your Shopping ads: titles that match real searches, images and identifiers that keep products live, and labels for margin-based bids.

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PerformanceOct 20267 min read

TikTok Ads for B2B: does it actually work, and if so, for whom?

Which B2B companies TikTok works for, where it wastes money, what the videos need to look like and how to run a fair test before committing a real budget.

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PerformanceOct 20268 min read

Page speed is a performance channel: what every 1 second of load time is costing you

How to put a euro figure on your landing page's load time, find the usual causes of a slow page and fix the biggest ones, often without a development project.

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AIOct 20268 min read

AI agents are coming for marketing operations. What that actually means for your team

What AI agents can already handle in marketing operations, which tasks to hand over first, the safeguards to set, and how your team's work will change.

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EmailOct 20267 min read

Email is still the highest-ROI channel in your stack. Most companies use it wrong

Why email earns so much per euro, and how to move from one-size-fits-all newsletters to lifecycle emails triggered by what your customers actually do.

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AIOct 20267 min read

SEO in the generative AI era: what still works and what's been permanently broken

Which parts of SEO still bring in enquiries and sales now that AI answers many searches, which have stopped paying, and how to shift your SEO budget to match.

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StrategyOct 20267 min read

Brand vs. performance is a false choice, and it's costing you both

How brand work lowers the cost of every ad, how to run brand and performance from one message, and simple ways to measure what brand adds to sales.

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AIOct 20267 min read

AI content at scale: how to use it without turning your brand into noise

Where AI genuinely speeds up content work, where it fails, and the briefing and review process that keeps AI-assisted content accurate, useful and on brand.

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StrategyOct 20268 min read

ABM in practice: why most companies fail at execution (and what the ones who succeed do differently)

Why account-based marketing programmes stall before producing sales, and what the companies that make it work do differently, from the target list to the metrics.

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AIOct 20267 min read

Personalisation at scale with AI: the practical reality

Which kinds of AI personalisation pay off for a growing business, which rarely do, and how to keep tailored marketing helpful rather than intrusive.

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CROOct 20268 min read

Conversion copywriting: the seven principles that separate high-converting copy from everyone else's

Seven practical principles for copy that turns website visitors into enquiries and sales, with examples, a simple research method and a plan for your own pages.

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StrategyOct 20267 min read

Why B2B companies should be investing in podcasts, even if nobody listens to them

A B2B podcast pays off through the guests you invite and the material each episode gives your sales team, not downloads. Here is how to plan, run and measure one.

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AIOct 20267 min read

Using AI for media buying decisions: where it helps, where it misleads

How to use AI as a copilot for budget and channel decisions: what it reads well, where its advice goes wrong, and the checks to run before you act on it.

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StrategyOct 20267 min read

Community-led growth: the acquisition model most companies overlook until competitors use it against them

What community-led growth is, why it wins customers that ads cannot reach, and how to start a small community your buyers will use before a competitor builds one.

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