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A coworker showed me how to do something that only took about five minutes, but it involved enough little steps that I knew I'd forget one of them later.

Before they walked away, I explained the process back to them in my own words. I got one step wrong, which they corrected immediately. If I hadn't done that, I probably wouldn't have realized until I was trying to do it on my own.

Now I do this anytime someone trains me on something new. It's a lot easier to fix a misunderstanding while the person is still standing there than after they've gone back to their own work.

I think this is something many new marketers realize after running a few campaigns.

A high CTR looks great at first. You see lots of people clicking your ad and think "This ad is working really well." But then, you check the actual conversions and sometimes.....not much is happening.

Well the reason is simple. A click doesn't always mean someone is genuinely interested.

Maybe the ad was really good at creating curiosity. Maybe the hardline caught the attention. Or maybe the ad reached people who weren't actually the right audience.

So you can have an ad with a great CTR but still get poor results. Instead of looking only at CTR, I think it's better to look at the whole journey:

Impression - Click - Landing Page - Conversion

For example, if you are getting plenty of clicks but very few conversions, I'd look at the landing page, the offer, and whether the people clicking are actually the right audience.

This is something I'd tell anyone who's just starting with paid ads, Don't celebrate the clicks too early.

A high CTR is nice, but what happens after the click is what really matters.

Do you find any beginners mistake any newbie make? What are the most common ones in your opinion?

Recently, I saw a colleague who is pretty new to digital marketing trying to improve one of his campaigns. The campaign wasn't performing well, so he changed almost everything at once, the ad creative, audience, landing page, budget, and even offer. (Pretty Bold move)

A few days later, the numbers looked better. But when I asked him what actually improved the campaign, he couldn't really tell.

And honestly, I think this is something a lot of people new to digital marketing can easily do. When you're trying to fix a campaign, it's tempting to change everything immediately. But then you lose the ability to understand what actually made a difference.

A better way is to identify the biggest issue first, change one major variable, and give the test enough time and data to learn from it.

You're not just trying to get better numbers. You're trying to understand why the numbers changed.

I just wanted to share this because I think it's a small thing that can save new marketers a lot of confusion.

For the experienced marketers here, what's one testing mistake you see beginners make often?

Lately, I've noticed that I spend most of my workday looking at marketing tools.

Checking Meta Ads, Looking at Google Ads, Digging through GA4, Search Console, CRM reports, Analytics. Then doing it all over again a few hours later.

Don't get me wrong, they're all important. They tell us what's happening.

But then it hit me... none of these places are where customers actually spend time.

Customers are on Reddit reading other people's experiences. They're watching YouTube reviews, scrolling TikTok, comparing options, reading comments, asking friends for recommendations, and even using AI Tools before they make a decision.

It made me wonder if some of the best marketing insights aren't sitting inside another report, but in the conversations people are already having.

I've started spending a little more time reading discussions instead of only watching metrics, and honestly it changed how I think about messaging.

Has anyone else changed the way they work because of this? Where do you go when you want to understand what customers are actually thinking beyond the numbers?

I used to fake it whenever someone recognized me first because I didn't want to seem rude. The problem was I'd spend the whole conversation trying to figure out where we'd met instead of actually listening.

Eventually I started being honest and saying something like "I'm sorry, I know we've met, but I can't remember where"

Almost everyone laughs, reminds me and we move on in about ten seconds. It makes for a much more natural conversation than pretending I remember details that I clearly don't.

Lately it feels like every new AI tool claims it can replace another part of marketer's job.

One tool writes email, Another builds landing pages.

Another promises better ad copy, content, research, or even your entire strategy.

Don't get me wrong, I use AI almost every day, and it's definitely made part of my workflow faster. Brainstorming, first drafts, summarizing information...it's great for those kind of tasks.

But I've also realized that speed isn't usually what determines whether a campaign succeeds.

The harder part is "deciding what to say, who to say it to, and why that message matters in the first place." That's where I still end up speeding most of my time.

AI can give you ten different ideas in seconds, but it doesn't always know which one actually fits your audience, your business, or the moment you're in.

Sometimes I wonder if marketing has shifted from "creating more" to simply making better decisions.

Curious how everyone else is approaching it.

Has AI genuinely changed the way you work, or has it mostly become a tool that helps you get to the starting line a little faster?

A few days ago two people at my workplace were promoted within a couple of days of each other.

One was promoted from a Junior PR Executive Position to the Senior position and the other got promoted as a Brand Manager from a lower position in the gap of around 10-15 days. very unexpected for all of us to see 2 promotion happening within a couple of days from each other.

When the first promotion announced, everyone talked how hard he'd worked. They mentioned the late nights, the project he worked on, and how he'd earned it. Which was nice, appreciating the hard work and creativity.

Now, few days later, a woman, my work friend got promoted and the conversation and discussions started sounding very very different. Topic of conversations were like:
"I wonder if they're trying to improve diversity"
"She gets along well with the management"
"Maybe they just needed a woman in that role"
Like literally nobody said she wasn't qualified. Nobody outright said she did not deserve it.

But no one also talked about how hard she worked and how well she deserves everything.

I have talked to many women's and noticed that this is the same story everywhere no matter where you work or what position you work on, story's the same always.

Maybe it doesn't happen everywhere but once I noticed it, I couldn't stop noticing it.

Have you ever heard the same achievement talked about differently depending on who achieved it?

This is one of those things where the industry kind of sets you up to focus on the wrong metric.

You know that volume is visible and easy to report but quality is very hard to measure and take way longer to understand. SO naturally, most people chase volume early on and wonder why the numbers don't convert.

If you'll ask me to choose, I'll always choose 500 clicks from a tightly targeted source that will almost always outperform 5000 clicks from a low intent source.
The CPC might look worse on paper for the targeted traffic, but your cost per conversion will tells a completely different story.

The other thing worth mentioning- some traffic sources really inflate click counts. Not always intentional but bot traffic, accidental clicks, low engagement placements and it all adds up and create a low conversion for you.

Anyone here experienced this? and what did you do to overcome high CPC but low conversion rate problem?

I used to think running 12 ad variations at once meant that I was being throughout. Turns out I was just making it impossible to learn anything.

Spent a good amount of time learning and simplifying. Went from dozen of campaigns with overlapping audiences & conflicting budget to clean, focused structure with clear explanation.

The difference? when something works now, I actually know why. When something fails, I can figure out what happened, before everything was a noise.

I think there's a culture in digital marketing where staying busy feels like progress. You're always breaking, always testing, always launching. But if you can't explain why you mad a change, or what you expected to happen, you're not actually testing. You're guessing at scale.

Curious if other have have gone through similar "simplify everything" phase. Did it actually improves your results, or did you find that broader testing was working well for you and your setup?

Honestly, I made this exact mistake when I started. Though a high CTR meant the campaign was working, Took me about 3 months and a lot of wasted spend to realize CTR means nothing if your landing page isn't converting.
The thing nobody tells you early on, your ad and your landing page are one system, not two separate things. If one is off the whole thing breaks.
What helped me the most was creating a simple post-click checklist. Before launching anything I now ask, does the headline on the page match the promise in the ad? Is ther one clear action? Is the load time under 3 seconds? Sounds obvious in hindsight but it wasn't when I starting.

What's the conversion rate looking like on your end? Sometimes the issue isn't the clicks at all.

So it all begin 15 years ago when I was 7 Years old. Every Sunday my family would visit my grandparents. The men would be in the living room arguing about cricket before lunch was even ready, On the other hand the women's would disappear in the kitchen.
As a kid we'd run in and out asking for snacks, another glass of water, dessert, anything we wanted. Somehow we always asked our mums or aunts. Never our fathers or Uncle...NEVER. Surprise is I don't remember anyone telling us to.
By the end of the afternoon, the man were still talking. The women's were washing dishes, wrapping leftovers, making sure everybody had eaten and discussing who was taking food home.
I honestly thought that's just what Sunday's looked like. I wasn't until years later that I wondered why nobody had ever questioned it? Nobody explained those roles to us, we just watched them every weekend until they fell Normal.... But should it??

Looking back what's something from your childhood that you accepted without question but see completely different today?

So, I just finished watching a Netflix movie called "Voicemails for Isabelle", and my thoughts regarding Wes was going back and forth to the thought that whether his gestures are genuinely heartwarming, sweet or bit Creepy, and a question "was the romance in movie only works cause of grief story or despite it?"
As much I enjoyed the romance, the scene between Jell and Isabelle stayed with me the longest.
So tell me what are your thoughts on this movie and how you interpreted the whole movie and how do you interpret Wes particularly by the end of the movie? Share your thoughts!

My mum wakes up at 6AM. She has woken up at 6AM for 30 Years. She packs lunches, She remembers vaccination dates, she knows every teacher's name, she tracks every family member's medicine, she calls the plumber, she follow up with the plumber, she follow up again because the plumber didn't show. she has a full time job on top of all this.

My dad comes home, eats the food, watches TV and at every single family function someone raises a toast to him for "Keeping the Family Together" and my mum smiles. because what else is she supposed to do?

I used to think this was just my family, then i talked to literally every woman I know and realized it's just called Tuesday.