How to Use Digital Ads to Grow Your Sales and Revenues

December 25, 2018

Let’s be honest. When we all started playing around with social media the general consensus was that it was going to drive a bunch of free traffic to our websites. Sure enough, social media can drive traffic to our websites, but it’s getting harder and harder all the time. For one thing, there’s more competition for people’s attention. On top of that, platforms like Facebook only serve your posts to about 6% of the people following your Facebook page. What steps can you take to use social media to drive more prospects to your website? The answer, of course, is to hunker down and to start using paid media in order to attract more visitors. That’s right you should run paid ads in order to generate awareness and drive engagement for your business.

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Affectv is a global programmatic marketing company with regional headquarters in London (EMEA), Sydney (APAC) and New York (North America). We specialise in predicting real time opportunities when customers are in-market and serving relevant creative to engage new customers with personalised messaging across display, native and video.

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