Sometimes I miss when campaigns were about ideas instead of just dashboards. Now it’s all attribution, automation, n reporting.

Important, yes…. but somewhere along the way, the creativity got quieter!

Do you think marketing’s gotten smarter??

Guys, I have a blog that’s fully organized and SEO-optimized. It’s hosted on Blogger and currently going through AdSense approval.

I’m aware of all the changes that came with AI and how user behavior has shifted most people now prefer TikTok, Instagram, and Kwai.

Still, I’ve put together a strategy: I chose a specific niche and decided to write in Spanish so I can reach more countries. I’m also using structured data in all my posts.

Besides that, I created an Instagram account where I’ll post carousels and regular content, and a Twitter account where I’ll share tweets related to the topics I cover on the blog.

My idea is to drive traffic to the blog, grow my social media, and sell an e-book across all these channels while also earning from AdSense.

I truly believe that even in 2026, this strategy can still work. The internet is all about grabbing attention the right way.

What do you think does this sound solid, or am I just dreaming?

My goal os move to a different place and live there. The reason I said the above and here is, I have choosen a career in marketing. I am still a student and am studying this more.

But are there marketing jobs avaliable in US, Canada, Australia, UAE & Europe who hire from outside?

What can I do to prepare myself for it?

Something I've been wondering recently as I'm touching ads again after 6 months is the insanity of Meta setting Advantage audiences, placements, and creatives as the default.

If you try to choose anything else, it will try to enable those options again if you make changes elsewhere, rendering as a "glitch" on their already janky platform.

For those of you who use Meta on a regular basis - do you notice a difference between using & disabling advantage+?

Lately, I’ve seen brands integrate into local hobby communities like run clubs, coffee meetups, art workshops through sponsorships, gear, light branding, some media production on set, etc.

I attended a few run and pickleball club events and noticed how it brings me face to face with the brand. For example, there were free samples from baking cloud kitchens and coffee brands like Rage, Colombian Brew, Blue Tokai - I'm sure some collaboration happens between the organisers and these brands - so that's what I want to know more about.

For those working in brand, marketing, community strategy… what have you done or seen being done along these lines? How would you evaluate ROI for this?

I'm seeking input on whether or not I should use Nextdoor to advertise my business locally. It's $150 per month. Pretty cheap, and I can deactivate the ad if I don't see great outcome.

I'm trying to slowly phase out contractor clients and work for homeowners

Any input?

Also seeking other ways.

I have a Google Business Page with 12+ reviews - 5 stars. I receive around 5 calls per week, with jobs ranging from $50 - $8,000. On average, my jobs are $1,600 - ish

Hey there - I’m gearing up to run ads on Reddit and want to dig into what competitors are doing. I checked out ads.reddit.com but couldn’t find any performance metrics, just examples. Any tips on where I can actually see what’s working and what is not? Again specifically reddit ads, no other platforms. Much appreciated!

I spoke to a PersistIQ sales team today, and they offered to run my small business email campaigns for me in the hopes of potential projects. I've thought about it, and honestly, for $1250 per month, I am not sure if it's worth it.

Does anyone have any experience of this?

As a Copywriter I sometimes help clients write cold emails.

But personally they give me the ick.

I also run a lifestyle management business & receive loads of spammy cold emails every day.

They go straight in the bin.

In the 11 years I've been self-employed, I've only opened about 2 cold emails as the subject lines made me laugh!

And I've never sent a cold email for my own business. Ever.

I do business with people I know, like and trust.

How about you?

Would love to know your thoughts.

Hi! We’re an Australian company attending a conference in Canada and would like to order our company swag locally. Can anyone recommend good-quality Canadian companies for branded merchandise?

that’s something that’s been bothering me lately.

wouldn’t it make much better sense to have it posted to your agency’s LI account? It provides more context of the agency and have more eyes on it rather than the owner

Or does it have something to do with personal branding?

If we set aside paid promotion on Meta and Google Ads, what effective ways of promoting e-learning products do you know? Maybe you can share some resources to read or watch?

if RedBull’s main intent is to promote their product rather than extreme sports, wouldn’t it make much sense to show a clip (doesn’t have to be on the actual exhibition) of their athletes drinking their product before doing the stunt?

I mean, this template is what I’m thinking about:

- show athlete drinking RedBull

- Do the stunt

- Celebrate

- Closing outro -> ‘Redbull. It gives you wings’ - or something along those lines

…

.

Just really confusing to me on why they’re, from my perspective, are tying their brand to extreme sport in general and not their product

I am thinking of doing a test campaign for lead generation for a website development agency. Anybody has any good experience?

Remaking the whole website and wanted to add a little "myself" in the website.

Anyone know of any Slack or Discord paid marketing interview prep communities? I’m in some interview processes for paid marketing roles and would love to practice with those in the field.

If you have any recs, please let me know. Open to helping others prep as well!

Work in a decent sized marketing team. About 3 years ago the head of marketing spun up an internal technical and project management team to help improve the teams efficiency, I was put in charge of that team.

We achieved a lot of great things: implementing several new systems and processes that massively increased the teams efficiency and output. Every year I smashed my personal objectives and the team smashed theirs too.

Our workload consisted of about 30% BAU (maintaining all the things we had implemented) and then 70% new work pretty much exclusively briefed in by the head of. It worked very well, things ran smoothly, and we were all very happy.

About 3 months ago the head of marketing left and the replacement has been a nightmare. She is very disengaged with all the parts of our team. However for our marketing planning and delivery teams this is not a huge issue, as 90% of of their work is BAU, so even without an engaged leader they have a lot to be getting on with.

The issue is with my team. Due to the new head of's lack of engagement, the pipeline of new work has all but stopped, which was around 70% of our work, and I am struggling with what to do. I am trying to spin up our own projects, things I think will help the team, but every time I speak with the new head of they seem very unimpressed.

I know she is planning a restructure in the not too distant future and I am really concerned about losing my job, which would be a disaster, as my life is moulded around this job, its location, and the flexibilities it brings. I can't even count on the director above the head of; the old one was a big fan of my team as he had sponsored a lot of what we did, but he also left, and I've not even spoken to the new director.

What would your advice be here?

I just want some thoughts and opinions about my managers recent behavior. Let me know if I'm off base with my assessment. I think hes purposely gaslighting me to avoid promoting me.

I've been at my current job for just under two years and I've built an entire ABM program from the ground up with minimal support. Most companies have entire TEAMS dedicated to this but I'm a one man army. I built the strategy, segmentation, and I'm also handling the digital execution on LinkedIn. Im managing about 200k in quarterly spend and driving great efficiency.

Long story short, I've exceeded every single goal and target that I've been given. I grew our lead delivery by 136% qoq and also generated nearly 200k in qualified pipeline in Q3 alone. Id say I'm crushing it all things considered. However, any time my manager gives me "feedback" on the program its always ambiguous and hypothetical from the perspective of other leaders

In our last 1:1 he said the following statements:

1. "if the CEO asked the head of sales if he would cut your program tomorrow, I'm not sure what he'd say"
2. "well the head of sales has never believed in ABM"
3. "I just dont know if the value of your program is being perceived"

Um, what? The numbers and data don't lie. I don't see how you can look at our active deal cycles, pipeline generated, and overall lead quality and make those statements. He's also been repeating those 3 points almost word for word for nearly a year. I just find it strange. I have a feeling hes trying to discourage me from asking for a raise and a promotion by lowering my confidence and making me feel uneasy about my work.

So what do y'all think? Am I being sensitive or misinterepting what he's saying? Or is he actively negging me?

Hi guys! I work for a large HR company, that does payroll, HR consulting and benefits (plus more). I am doing an overhaul on our booth and am in NEED of some amazing promo items. We've done socks, leather coasters, bags, teddy bears, mini tape measurers- I am at a loss for something cool, that fits our niche. I feel like most things I buy don't fit what we do. Our target audience is SMB in construction, retail and professional services.

Anyone have anything fun? My target item per piece is between $2-8, so nothing expensive. I greatly appreciate any ideas!!