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      <description>Plenty of people call themselves the best performance marketer in India. These seven checks show you who can prove it, including how to test me.</description>
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      <title>How to get your business recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude</title>
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      <description>Detailed audiences matter less and creative matters more. Here is how I plan distinct ad concepts for service businesses and what I feed back to Meta.</description>
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      <title>How much does performance marketing cost? India, UK, USA, UAE and Australia</title>
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      <description>A plain-English guide to the job: what a performance marketer does each week, how it differs from digital marketing, and when you need one.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Rising cost per lead is usually not an auction problem. It is a conversion-rate problem you are paying Google to hide.</description>
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      <description>If you are running Meta on the pixel alone, you are hiding a meaningful share of your own conversions from the algorithm that needs them most.</description>
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      <description>Every agency gives you a range. A range is useless without your numbers. Here is how to work out your own floor in about ten minutes.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>PMax hides the levers, it does not remove them. Here is what still moves the numbers when the campaign type refuses to show you where the money went.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>There is one question that decides it, and it is not about your industry or your budget.</description>
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      <title>Nine questions to ask before you hire anyone to run your ads</title>
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      <description>The answers separate people who run accounts from people who run reports.</description>
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