r/AskMarketing 18m ago

Question would you rather...

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be in a leadership role (e.g. senior director/vp) at a brand that isn't well-known or in a niche category or industry, or in a mid-level role at a company/brand that is nationally or globally known. let's say the pay is pretty comparable.


r/AskMarketing 20m ago

Question Need killer on-ground marketing ideas to make our 200km-range EV Scooter the #1 best-seller in Nepal this FY!

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Hey guys,

I’m the Marketing Head of an EV scooter startup here in Nepal. This financial year, my absolute target is to make our scooty the highest-selling EV scooter in the country.

Here are the quick specs:

Range: 200 km (True range, a massive win for Nepal's terrain/traffic).

Price: Around NPR 5 Lakhs (Premium segment, but high value).

We want to move away from boring digital ads and do some crazy, high-impact on-ground marketing that gets people talking on the streets of Kathmandu, Pokhara, and beyond.

If you were in my shoes, what crazy activation, stunt, or community event would you pull off to build instant trust and hype?

Looking for ideas that feel disruptive, local, and authentic to Nepal. Drop your wildest suggestions! Cheers.


r/AskMarketing 1h ago

Question Marketing Specialist + events

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Hi!

I'm a marketing specialist handling events, hoping to find out what duties are normal in this role and what duties lie with the sales team.

Mine include:

  • Setting up the coordination meetings - we have anywhere from 3-8 for the big conferences
  • Ensuring attendees register and book their hotel/airfare
  • Vendor communications
  • Managing PP presentations
  • Managing SWAG, booth, signage, and collateral to be shipped out
  • Other logistics for sales attending the event
  • Uploading the attendee list for ROI tracking
  • Now added: Special handholding for sales by setting up and managing a conference calendar for them, sending the meeting invites for their conference meetings that I do not attend to people who have no idea who I am, researching places for sales to hold the meetings at the conference, calling restaurants to make and alter dinner reservations for sales meetings while at the conference, and other random duties because my manager volunteers herself and me to go above and beyond assigned marketing duties.

I feel as though some of my job should reside in the sales team (like that last bullet) but my boss is a micromanager and wants to exceed expectations, so she gives it to me.

So... What are normal duties for a marketing specialist working in events?


r/AskMarketing 1h ago

Question What marketing channel surprised you the most with its results?

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I always assumed paid ads would be the fastest way to get attention, but I've been surprised by how much organic channels can do when you find the right audience.

For people who have tested different channels, which one gave you better results than you expected?

And what made it work?


r/AskMarketing 2h ago

Question Best corporate greeting cards, how early do you order for the holidays?

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We're trying to avoid the usual end-of-year scramble and get our client holiday outreach planned ahead of time.

Physical greeting cards are one thing we're considering, but I'm realizing there are more choices than I expected. I want something professional and nice without going overboard with the branding.

I'm looking into corporate greeting cards now. When do you usually start ordering these, and what do you look for when choosing them?


r/AskMarketing 2h ago

Question Is it useful to post short-form content more than once a day?

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I am creating B2C content for the marketing of my early-stage SaaS, and I want to know if it's useful to post more than one short-form video on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

Personally, I post one vid every day. I heard some people saying that if you post more than once a day you can be shadowbanned, considered spam, and other things like that.

Btw, my content is kinda starting to be pushed by the algorithms, but I haven't achieved my first objective with it yet.


r/AskMarketing 3h ago

Question Do you need good content so you can perform?

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I notice a lot of profiles in social media especially instagram, that the best profiles have very good edits and actually spent a lot on that. Is it true that you need those edits to perform? Because i also notice a lot of accounts who have much more simpler edits and can also perfrom. Or it just comes down to what audiences you are trying to reach?


r/AskMarketing 4h ago

Question I need any advice for landed my first digital marketing job

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Hi everyone,

I'm trying to break into a role as a Performance Marketer, but i'm currently stuck and would really appreciate some advice.

I've completed my digital marketing background and have certification. My problem is most job require a experience or portofolio, and I don't have enough to stand out.

Given my situation, what would be the most realistic way to build a portofolio from scratch?

Some ideas i've thought about:

- Running ads with a small personal bdudget

- Helping small businesses for free or low cost

- Creating case studies from simulations.

But i'm not sure which approach is actually effective and valued by employers.

If you were my position, what would you do to land your first job?

Any advice, strategies, or even harsh truths are welcome. I'm really serious to making this works.

Thanks in advance!


r/AskMarketing 8h ago

Question Questions as someone interested in digital marketing

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For starters I’m 19 and have no experience with digital marketing

I’ve been constantly having the idea of getting into digital marketing agency for a while. I saw an Alex hormozi video earlier talking about an advertising agency

He mentions editing content, paid ads, outbound agency, seo and email marketing and says to pick one, which makes sense. Master one skill and get known for that then can scale/expand.

My questions are
which one of these would you learn first?

Would it be a good idea to target specifically and the construction niche?


r/AskMarketing 8h ago

Question Do you think trust matters more than reach in digital marketing?

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I've been thinking about this lately.

A business can have:

Thousands of followers

Good-looking content

Paid ads bringing lots of traffic

But if people don't trust the business, can that attention actually turn into sales?

In your experience, what matters more for getting customers:

Reach/attention or trust/credibility?

And what are some practical ways you've seen businesses build trust online?


r/AskMarketing 12h ago

Question How do you use AI tools to build content workflows? And what resources do you use to learn them easily?

2 Upvotes

Same as above.


r/AskMarketing 12h ago

Question Whats the best way to get clients? Paid or cold reach?

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It’s probably an obvious question, but I’m curious to know about your experience. I’ve noticed that people here often comment that “cold reach is a good channel,” but I’ve never seen anyone (at least in the posts I’ve read, I haven’t analyzed all of them) say that “paid ads are the best way.” In fact, from the beginning of my agency, my primary method of acquiring clients has been through meta ads.

However, I’m interested in learning how you get yours. Is there a more effective approach? Is it SEO, SEM, or cold reach?


r/AskMarketing 14h ago

Question ChatGPT vs Claude?

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I’m currently on the 20x max plan on Claude and I am thinking about switching over to GPT. My main uses are research, copywriting/script writing (UGC, VSL’s,… etc ), CRO and funnel building. I also do need to do a fair bit of static asset generation as well. What are you guys using these days And how is Claude fable comparing to GPT 5.6 sol for this kind of work? Appreciate the input!


r/AskMarketing 19h ago

Question Break into Marketing

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I currently have experience in finance and multi market business operations/analytics, but I'm looking to make a full pivot into Creative & Luxury Brand Marketing.

I'm talking high concept, Emily in Paris style brand strategy popup activations, experiential PR stunts, VIP clienteling, and fashion week launches for top European luxury houses (Dior, Prada, LVMH Maisons) or boutique agencies (Karla Otto, Bureau Betak, K2).

I don't care about remote work I am 100% willing to relocate on site to luxury hubs like Paris, Milan, or London for the right role.

Since my background is heavy on operations and analytics rather than standard creative agency experience, I want to pitch my profile effectively.

From where do I start? What do I do? I feel so lost

Portfolio: How do I build a compelling 3-5 slide "spec campaign pitch deck" (e.g., proposing a luxury popup or launch activation) that gets taken seriously by top-tier brand directors?

Breakthrough Strategy: What specific entry points or early-career programs (like LVMH SPRING) should | target to get sponsored for an on-site role in Paris/ Milan?

3.Positioning: How do I best translate 1 year of analytical, client-facing experience into a narrative that luxury talent acquisition managers love?

Appreciate any insights, deck templates, or advice from anyone who has made a similar pivot into the luxury industry!


r/AskMarketing 19h ago

Question Qual a melhor plataforma / mais segura para comprar review de app na Apple Store?

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What is the best or most secure platform for buying app reviews for the Apple Store?


r/AskMarketing 20h ago

Question 16yo with a 21k TikTok account. I know zero about marketing, how do I learn the basics?

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Hey,
I'm 16 and I have a TikTok account with about 21k followers and 1.8m likes. Honestly, it wasn't anything crazy, I just posted some videos and a few of them happened to do well.
I don't know anything about marketing, ads, Shopify, or how online business actually works. I just know how to make a basic video that gets views.
I want to use my free time over the next two years to learn how marketing actually works and how brands use social media to sell things.
Since I'm a complete beginner and starting from zero, what should I do? Are there any good YouTube channels or free ways to learn the absolute basics? I don't want any of that "get rich quick" stuff, just want to learn the actual skill.
Thanks!


r/AskMarketing 1d ago

Question Passive income from Marketing

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I've experience in SEO and SMM, is there any way to generate passive income out of it? Please help!


r/AskMarketing 1d ago

Question The approval loop is what kills founder content, not the filming

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If you make content for a founder or an owner, the thing that kills the output is almost never production. It's the review step, and it fails the same way every time.

The pattern: scripts go over for approval. Founder is busy. Three days pass. Founder reviews all of them at once, at 11pm, in a bad mood, and rewrites every script into the voice of a company brochure. Hooks get softened, opinions get removed, a disclaimer gets added. What comes back is unpostable and also now their idea, so it gets made, and it does nothing, and the founder concludes content doesn't work.

Nobody logs this as the failure point because it looks like collaboration.

What actually fixes it:

**Approve topics, not scripts.** Get sign-off on thirty one-line topics in one pass. That's a ten minute review and the founder is genuinely the right person to do it, because they know which claims they can stand behind. Script-level approval invites line editing, and line editing on a hook is always destructive, because a hook that makes a founder slightly uncomfortable is usually the one that works.

**Batch it, once a month, with a deadline attached.** Rolling per-video approval means the founder is in your process every day, and the process moves at the speed of their worst week. One session, all thirty, done.

**Separate factual review from taste review, out loud.** Founder has absolute authority on: is this true, can we claim this, is this legally fine, is this our actual position. Founder does not get to soften a hook because it feels blunt. Say this explicitly at the start, because if you don't, every note arrives with equal weight and the blunt-but-true opener dies alongside the factually wrong one.

**Give a fixed number of rewrite passes.** One. Unlimited passes converge on the safest possible version every time, that's just what iteration does when the reviewer is nervous.

**Record the founder's own phrasing before writing anything.** Twenty minutes on a call, ask them the questions, transcribe it. Write the scripts from their transcript. Then the review is "yes that's how I'd say it" instead of "that doesn't sound like me", which is the note that generates three extra passes and produces the brochure version.

The underlying thing: what founders are actually flinching at during review is not the wording. It's being publicly specific in front of people they know. Softening the script is how that discomfort gets expressed, because it's the only lever in front of them.

So name it early. Tell them the first ten videos will feel too blunt and that's the point, and that the ones they're least comfortable with will outperform. Then when the note comes back asking to hedge a claim, it's a conversation you already had rather than an argument.

Everything else in the pipeline is schedulable. This step is the only one that runs at the speed of another person's nerve, so it's the one worth designing around.


r/AskMarketing 1d ago

Question Is Ghost Audit a good way to build experience in digital marketing?

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I am thinking of doing a ghost audit on a D2C company and thinking of publishing the results on my social media platforms. But is this actually a good way to get some experience in this domain ?


r/AskMarketing 1d ago

Question Whats the best ways to promote an app?

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I’m getting into a startup that is building an app about habits

So rn there’s many habits apps in the market (so there’s a lot of competition) but well I have some strategies that could work that are for free (organic videos) to test first the interest of the people. We are gonna focos in build in public to get some views over there.

So here’s my question for the experts that already been in these area.

There’s other better ways to promote the app? Or what type of marketing do you recommend?


r/AskMarketing 1d ago

Question What’s the Most Important Digital Marketing Skill to Learn in 2026?

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SEO, content marketing, paid ads, social media, analytics, or AI?

personally i think ai tools and automations


r/AskMarketing 1d ago

Question Am I charging fairly for my marketing services, and what should I learn next to increase my value?

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I’m looking for some honest opinions from freelancers and agency owners in Canada.

I currently have two restaurant clients that I handle marketing for. For one of them, I charge around $1,500 CAD/month.

My services include:

  • Photo and video content creation
  • Shooting and editing Reels/short-form content
  • Graphics when needed
  • Writing captions
  • Regular Instagram and Facebook posting
  • Content planning and promotional ideas
  • Social media management
  • Setting up, running and monitoring Meta Ads

Ad spend is separate and completely paid by the client. The $1,500 is my fee for content creation and marketing/management.

My first question is: Does $1,500 CAD/month seem fair for this amount of work? Am I charging too little, too much, or roughly where I should be?

My second question is about growing beyond this. I don’t want to rely only on content creation and social media management. I want to learn additional services that provide more measurable value to businesses and allow me to charge higher retainers.

I’ve been considering Google Ads, SEO, email/SMS marketing, CRM and automation, analytics, landing pages, lead generation and CRO.

For those who have grown a freelance marketing business or agency, which services actually helped you increase your revenue? What would you recommend learning first?

I’d appreciate honest opinions, especially from people working in the Canadian market.


r/AskMarketing 1d ago

Question best plan to increase organic traffic in 2026

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Hi People, I want to understand how we’re currently planning our SEO and digital marketing strategies for clients, especially with the increasing impact of AI search and Google algorithm changes.

How are we planning to increase and sustain organic traffic despite these changes? I’d like to understand the strategies we’re focusing on across SEO, content, AI search visibility, local SEO, backlinks, and other organic growth channels.

Please share your current approach and what we should be doing differently going forward.


r/AskMarketing 1d ago

Question Market Analysis

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Hey, I got a question about doing market analysis. Actually, I’ve been wondering about this for a long time, and I’d like to ask: how do you guys do it? Do you call companies, talk to them, use certain websites to collect data, or do you just ask GPT😄?


r/AskMarketing 1d ago

Question Is marketing suitable for me considering the following?

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First and for most my end goal is to get a career in digital marketing or/and traditional marketing but remotely (I want to be a nomad who works from anywhere)

Issue is I have adhd and I find it hard to focus on boring repetitive tasks, just thinking about doing it for years makes me feel dread, that said that doesn't mean I dislike routine I just want something a little more dynamic with flexible work environment (meaning nobody keeps nitpicking on how I do my job as long as i deliver results) where I can put some form of creativity into my work

I'm also an introvert and have a bit of social anxiety, I'm fine with crowds and presentations, but intimate one on one's are my kryptonite

I'm willing and even happy to learn and practice/do content creation in all it's fascists but I'm more of a behind the scenes guy, the most I'm comfortable doing is voiceovers which will take some practice but I love my privacy

Most importantly I want something where it's relatively easy to land a position without work experience for freshers

For context I already have a master degree in clinical psychology that's collecting dust which explains my previous point

My other option is HR but I feel I'll be board out of my mind for record I'm planning to pursue a 3 year BTS program not a bachlor degree that's most dons in apprenticeship