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Some marketing advice on TripAdvisor

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Say hello to the 800 lb primate Leaders at DMOs have a TripAdvisor problem. Namely, What To Do About TripAdvisor. Strong annual growth and $1.25+ billion in revenue commands our attention, as does TripAdvisor’s 455 million average monthly unique visitors and its $620+ million annual ad spend. But perhaps the most telling stat about the […]

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Waste in Marketing

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Marketers wake up to the pain of misspent resources A really disturbing recent study of 1000+ EU marketers reported that, on average, they waste 26% of their annual budget on “the wrong channels or strategies.” In other words, more than a quarter of their budget is gone and unrecoverable. In four years time, an entire […]

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Facebook agrees: Quality > Quantity

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It’s as if Facebook listened to a focus group of marketers complaining about ad targeting: “It’s getting brutal….social makes it harder, not easier….my dollars are already stretched too thin….how can I be sure I’m reaching the right people….and how do I know I’m spending in the right places?” And then, Facebook looked deeply into its […]

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