A Note to the Sophisticated Marketer

What is a Sophisticated Marketer? It’s someone who understands the fundamental, unchanging principles of marketing but has absolute confidence applying those principles to new techniques and platforms. The Sophisticated Marketer is hungry to try new things and learn new skills but equally committed to testing effectiveness, optimizing around what works, and demanding robust data and ROI. They recognize social media and content marketing as threads that run throughout their integrated marketing strategies A Note to the Sophisticated Marketer fundamental to the task of building a brand and growing a business. They craft hybrid strategies for achieving their goals, grasping the opportunity to learn new skills along the way.

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H2 Concepts specializes in promotional marketing and customer acquisitions for major players in the Telecommunications, Energy Provider, Office Supplies and Merchant Processing industries in the Toronto area. Through our innovative approach to direct marketing, we are able to offer our clients 100% return on their marketing investments -- a statement few other marketing companies can make.

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Getting the Numbers Right

whitePaper | February 3, 2020

How much are you giving away to clients because of the omissions and guesstimates of time spent on the project? Do you question what can be charged back to the client, write off an hour spent on a project because you like your client or don't want to be seen as a penny pincher? Would you like to stop subsidizing clients at a personal expense to your quality of life? This month we discuss what classifies as billable and non-billable and how you can bill for more of your time.

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A Guide to Crafting Healthcare Ad Campaigns That Convert

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

60% of people can’t remember the last advertisement they saw.1 While analytics and data have made it easier than ever to target and reach highly-qualified customers online, the proliferation of advertisements and the fragmentation of media have made it harder to connect with HCPs and patients. In today’s environment of overstimulation, healthcare marketers need to serve advertisements that add value to their targets’ lives rather than distracting from them.

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Marketing mix modeling best practices: Understanding why regional data delivers more accurate results than national data

whitePaper | September 6, 2022

Organizations have been placing increasingly more emphasis on making data-driven marketing decisions in recent years. Especially since the onset of COVID-19, the demand for insights on how to craft the optimal marketing budget allocation plan has risen markedly. Marketers rely on guiding principles like Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) to determine which marketing channels will drive the highest return and optimize marketing budget allocations to maximize business outcomes.

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Every CMO's ultimate AdTech & MarTech guide for the MadTech Era

whitePaper | November 14, 2022

Adtech and Martech have become buzzwords in every marketing discourse in recent years. Because digital ad spending is skyrocketing, understanding these concepts, products, and impacts is critical. But, more importantly, finding common ground between the two and chances to unify them as a whole (MADtech) for improved ROAS and ROI on tech investments is vital.With the impending abolition of third-party cookies, there is even more incentive for your Adtech and Martech stacks to work in tandem in order for your advertising and marketing to perform well and seamlessly. But, given the sheer amount of tools in these stacks, it’s even more essential to identify redundancies between them every time you invest in a new one.This guide takes you through the fundamentals of Adtech and Martech and brings proven advice on unifying your tech stack for better results.

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Performance Television - The New and Improved TV Advertising

whitePaper | July 25, 2023

A deep dive into performance TV advertising and exclusive insights on how to use it as a growth engine. For television advertisers, upfronts and Newfronts season sets the tone for the rest of the year. And in 2023, the big story was Connected TV (CTV). Advertisers plan to allocate 40% of their 2023 budgets to CTV, bringing upfront spend on this channel to $8.14 billion.

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Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence

whitePaper | December 1, 2019

Internet advertising has been the fastest-growing marketing channel in recent years, accounting for roughly $60 billion of spending in the United States alone in 2015. The rise of digital advertising has been dramatic – more than doubling over the past five years alone. Paid search, in which advertisements are placed alongside search results, comprises the largest share of online advertising expenditures.

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H2 Concepts

H2 Concepts specializes in promotional marketing and customer acquisitions for major players in the Telecommunications, Energy Provider, Office Supplies and Merchant Processing industries in the Toronto area. Through our innovative approach to direct marketing, we are able to offer our clients 100% return on their marketing investments -- a statement few other marketing companies can make.

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