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Accelerating Education Enrollment

What does your admissions department need? Sheer volume? More qualified applicants? Students with specific experience? We use digital targeting to generate leads so you can craft the class composition you need. “Why would a school want more applicants than it can take?” A friend asked me this the other day when I was sharing that we had delivered 5035 applicants
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How to create multiple ads for Facebook campaigns

Facebook is a key advertising outlet for many of our clients, in part because the response rates for social media are still strong.  As a writer, you need to understand how each medium measures its users, and which of those tools the ads manager will use, in order to craft effective copy. Social media measure audiences multiple ways… All social
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What kind of ad agency service do you need?

Agency services and client needs have changed As we meet with prospective clients we’ve noticed a shift in the structure of the agency-client relationship that is causing confusion.   Classically, companies had marketing departments headed by a Sales and Marketing director. That person would usually work with an ad agency, and they shared a common language and understanding of the
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How to budget paid social media

How much should you spend on paid social media campaigns? One of the questions we get asked most often is “How much do I spend on paid social media?” Meaning mostly Facebook and Instagram. There are a couple of things to understand about how we charge and why we charge the way we do. Traditional media costs vs. social media
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Is Your Marketing Mix Missing This?

Are you missing one of the most powerful tools in your marketing mix? There’ s a really powerful tool that people like to leave out for a really dumb reason. What I’m talking about are programmatic banners. We’ve all seen banners on websites that we go to, they’re at the top, they’re on the side [that’s called a skyscraper] , we
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What is lead generation?

  What is lead generation? What is lead generation, what do I mean by that? In short, it’s sales. Let me give you a quick example. One of our clients is the Yale School of Management. They have a course that only requires 90 students. But we generated last year 5035 leads for their admissions funnel. That allows them to be highly
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Should you hire an agency or an in-house team? Ask these 6 ½ questions.

I run a boutique agency in New York, but believe it or not, sometimes I’ve counseled existing clients to move services in-house instead of going through us. Think that’s nuts? The truth is there are some projects and services that are better handled in-house, and at the end of the day, I’d rather our clients come to us for the
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How to Create Lead Form Facebook and Instagram Ads(March 2019)

Sections: What are Lead form ads? How to set up Lead Generation ads Step-by-Step Guide to Setting up Lead Generation Ads How to Create an Instant Form to collect leads directly on Facebook/Instagram If you’re reading this, you’ve likely hit a snag when creating a Lead Form [or Lead Generation] campaign on Facebook Ads Manager, so you turned to Google,
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Insights in MarTech: An interview with Boris Bauer

Romanoff Consultants a provider of marketing automation best practices and strategy invited Boris to participate in their MarTech Braintap Podcast.   Inga: Welcome to the weekly “MarTech Braintap,” weekly insights from Marketo consultants in New York. I’m Inga Romanoff. Robert: And I’m Robert Vo. Inga: All right. And today, we have a special guest. Boris Bauer and I have actually known each other
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The Importance of Experimentation in Optimizing your Campaigns

Think with Google just published a Sprint case history showing the sales bump from the “digital halo.” That’s a marketing term that loosely translates to “everything that happens because of digital engagement doesn’t necessarily happen in the digital world.”  In Sprint’s case, digital sales from an increase in digital spend went up 22%. That’s great. Even better was the “halo”
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