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Acquiring customers as a business rather than a marketer: which channel does which job, and what each one is genuinely worth.

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A creator unboxing a smartphone on camera, the kind of footage brands later run as paid media
MarketingGrowth

Running a Creator's Video as Your Own Ad: What to Agree First

The content that outperforms your studio ads is usually the content a creator made. Turning it into paid media is straightforward, but four things have to be agreed before the post goes live rather than after it does well.

August 31, 2026 · 6 min read
Seated attendees at a conference, representing the per-head costs of running an event
EventsGrowth

What Running an Event Actually Costs, Line by Line

The venue and the catering are the costs people budget for and rarely the ones that cause the overrun. A structural breakdown of where event money goes, including the lines that are invisible until the invoice arrives.

August 28, 2026 · 6 min read
A casual indoor gathering overlooking water, representing a small recurring community meetup
EventsGrowth

Why New Communities Die in Three Months, and What Prevents It

Most communities are launched, populated, and quietly abandoned. The failure is structural rather than a matter of effort, and the things that prevent it have to be built in before anyone joins.

August 26, 2026 · 5 min read
Runners celebrating at the end of a fun run, a format that depends on sponsorship
EventsGrowth

How to Get Sponsors for an Event Nobody Has Heard Of

Sponsors do not buy attendance numbers, which is fortunate, because a first event does not have any. What they actually buy, and how to sell it before you have a track record.

August 21, 2026 · 5 min read
A woman holding a notebook, representing recording campaign results before drawing conclusions
MarketingGrowth

How to Tell Whether a Creator Campaign Actually Worked

Views are the number everyone reports and the one that tells you least. What to measure instead, how to set it up before the post goes live, and why the honest answer is sometimes that you cannot know.

August 19, 2026 · 5 min read
Illuminated advertising screens at Times Square, representing shared campaign spend
MarketingGrowth

Shared Advertising: Splitting Campaign Costs Between Businesses

Co-operative advertising is old, unglamorous and almost undiscussed for small businesses. When splitting a campaign works, when it quietly costs more than it saves, and how to structure one.

August 14, 2026 · 5 min read
People enjoying themselves at a busy social event
EventsGrowth

Why People Register for Your Event and Don't Turn Up

A free event that sells out on paper and half-fills the room is not a marketing failure. It is a predictable consequence of how registration works, and most of it is fixable before the day.

August 7, 2026 · 6 min read
Young creators taking a selfie in a studio setting
MarketingGrowth

What Should You Actually Pay a Creator?

Creator pricing has no rate card, and the follower count everyone quotes is the weakest input. How rates are actually built, what changes them, and how to tell whether you paid too much.

August 7, 2026 · 5 min read
A person looking at an Instagram post on a phone screen
MarketingGrowth

How the Instagram Algorithm Actually Works

There isn't one algorithm, there are several, and they optimise for different things in different places in the app. What Instagram has said publicly, what follows from it, and what to ignore.

August 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Bright advertising billboards lining a busy city street
EventsGrowth

Events or Paid Ads: Which Actually Wins B2B Customers?

Ads are measurable and cheap per impression. Events are expensive and hard to attribute. The comparison people run flatters ads, because it measures the thing ads are good at.

August 7, 2026 · 6 min read