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The elephant in the room of the free market

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. About the natural selection of the free market. This idea did not come to me immediately. For quite a long time I was looking at what was happening in a very simplified way. I’m sharing this observation mainly for colleagues in the field — marketers, traffic managers, […]

Don’t try to avoid paying Yandex

Let me try to explain, in a short article, why you need to spend money on Yandex auctions first — and only then even think about “paying only for conversions”. (Yandex is Russia’s largest search ecosystem; Yandex Direct is its ads platform, similar in role to Google Ads.) Nice to meet you — I’m Bogdan. […]

How to use SWOT analysis effectively to grow

This article is about how to use SWOT analysis effectively to grow a business. So what is “analysis”, actually? Numbers are not analysis Text is not analysis So is interpretation analysis? A proper definition of analysis Analysis is usually performed using specific methods and procedures that ensure consistency, reliability, and objectivity of the results. During […]

How to work with positioning

I’ll say it right away: positioning is not an easy thing. Most likely you won’t “solve” it in one attempt. This article is meant to push you into doing the work. How your positioning will take shape Why positioning matters Positioning exists to help you stand out. In everyday language, people call it “differentiating from […]

Marketing Frameworks for Creatives

Let me explain it “on fingers” one more time. A marketing framework is a “working marketing frame” — from English frame (a frame) and work (work). Work is not a wolf. Work is… “work”. Why is it a working marketing frame? Because its тезисы-пункты (thesis-points) give your thinking a direction: they drop the right concepts […]

How to Improve Advertising Creative: The Mathematics of Creative Probability

Dear clients and executors (traffic managers, performance marketers, SMM folks), let’s try to stop this medieval bloodbath around “the creative is trash, the author is trash”. We’ll talk, specifically, about paid traffic. It’s common that the traffic manager makes the creative: the text, the image, or both. That is, the “creative”, exactly as I said. […]

How to work with the “square” of target audience measurement”

This is a dry HOWTO instruction on how to work with the “square” of target audience (TA) measurement — and why it’s even a “square”.Essentially, this is a published slide deck: slides, broken into parts, plus a few explanatory comments about each slide. Terms, and why they’re called that What’s the difference? What is “target-audience […]

HOW NOT TO HANDLE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK

Using “School of Rock” as an example (VK link; for readers outside Russia: VK is a major Russian social network, roughly comparable to a Facebook-style platform in how communities and comment threads work). Ethical disclaimer: I’m pointing to the source where I found this example because it’s already public. Any SMM specialist or paid-traffic manager […]

A Game of Peeking: Gamification in Social Media

To help this article travel beyond my own communities, I’ll add a bit of context about my background: I’m a philosophy-and-humanities guy, a self-taught tech nerd who drifted into art—and now I blend that with internet marketing and SMM (social media marketing). This piece is, at the same time, an explanation of what gamification is—and […]

How to Work with Positive and Negative Reviews

This article answers these questions: – How do you work with positive and negative customer reviews? – How do you use customer reviews to promote a company? General notes: Let’s first look at reviews through the lens of the customer journey, including customer experience (CX). 1. First, a potential customer feels they have a need: […]