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Evaluating Your Marketing Spend: Is It Delivering Enough ROI?

June 16, 2025 / by Dave Burnett

Evaluating Your Marketing Spend: Is It Delivering Enough ROI? By Dave Burnett, Online Marketing Expert at AOK Marketing • Last updated: June 16, 2025 Key takeaways for evaluating marketing ROI Understand Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) – total cost to win a customer. Calculate Lifetime Gross Profit (LTGP) – profit...

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How Social Media Indirectly Benefits SEO – The TL;DR

June 15, 2025 / by Dave Burnett

By Dave Burnett, SEO Specialist — Last updated: June 15, 2025 TL;DR Social signals—metrics like likes, shares, and comments—do not directly influence Google’s search rankings but are factored into Microsoft’s Bing algorithm Bing Webmaster Guidelines. Instead, social media boosts SEO indirectly by increasing content discovery, earning backlinks, improving brand...

Stop wasting ad spend. Discover how combining organic and paid social media strategies boosts ROI, builds trust, and accelerates growth.

Organic vs. Paid Social Strategies: How to Maximize ROI

June 14, 2025 / by Dave Burnett

By Dave Burnett, Online Marketing Expert at AOK Marketing Last updated: June 14, 2025   What is the main point of this article? TL;DR: A combined organic and paid social media strategy delivers both immediate reach and long-term brand loyalty. Organic social builds trust and authority over time. Paid...

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Boost Conversions: The Ultimate Marketer’s Guide to Website Heatmaps, Session Recordings & Clickstream Analysis (2025)

June 12, 2025 / by Dave Burnett

Introduction In the world of digital marketing, understanding user behavior is key to optimizing engagement and conversion. Traditional analytics (like page views and bounce rates) only tell part of the story. Modern marketers are increasingly turning to website heatmaps, session recordings, and clickstream analysis to gain deeper insights into...

AI content covers the basics, but original content converts. Discover why differentiation—not automation—is your real competitive edge.

AI Content vs. Original Content: Why Being Different Is Better Than Being First

June 11, 2025 / by Dave Burnett

AI Writes. But It Doesn’t Think. There’s no denying it—AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are changing how we create content. They’re fast. They’re scalable. They get you 80% of the way there. But here’s the catch: AI is the average. It’s trained on billions of data points...