045: Destination: Digital Marketing Data with Duane Brown

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Join us in this episode as Duane Brown, Founder & Head of Strategy at Take Some Risk Inc., shares his unique journey from college in Canada to the realm of digital marketing, unveiling the power of mentorship, strategic PPC tactics, and the often-overlooked nuances of data analysis in advertising.
Episode Highlights

• Duane Brown first started his career in Public Relations after attending college and then university and getting two marketing certificates. His first (hard-won) digital marketing position taught him many business skills and PPC. He’s worked in the data-rich realm of paid search and paid social advertising ever since.
• Mentorship should be tailored to the person. A mentor is someone who will root for you to succeed but not just give you the answers. They should guide you in your journey. He finds it necessary to discover what motivates his mentees and what they want to work on. He will then try and find the points where the business can help them achieve their goals.
• Ultimately, PPC is about taking action. Duane and his team have a general rule that if a campaign is performing poorly for three or more days, that’s no longer an anomaly and has become a trend, and you need to make a change. People often underestimate the power of good ad copy and of delving deep into the data of a campaign. He knows how beneficial it can be to look deeper than just campaign-level metrics into the SKU, ad level, keyword, and ad group data.

Episode Links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duanebrown/?originalSubdomain=ca
• Website: https://www.takesomerisk.com/about/
• Blogs: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/author/duane-brown
• Articles: https://www.appbind.com/agency-connect-featuring-duane-brown/
• Twitter: @DuaneBrown

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Chapters

1. 045: Destination: Digital Marketing Data with Duane Brown (00:00:00)

2. Exploring Mentorship in Digital Marketing (00:00:05)

3. Lessons Learned From an Influential Boss (00:05:17)

4. Learning PPC and Mentoring Others (00:10:08)

5. PPC and SEO (00:15:30)

6. Managing Ad Accounts and Scaling Campaigns (00:23:20)

7. Ad Account Optimization and Data Analysis (00:30:11)

8. Pandemic's Impact on Travel Plans (00:36:26)

9. Digital Marketing Mentor's Valuable Nuggets (00:43:39)