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The One Marketing Principle That'll Save You Thousands of Dollars and Hundreds of Hours

John Boitnott
4 min readMar 21, 2024

Navigating the dynamic landscape of marketing as a startup founder often means encountering a barrage of trendy tactics that can obscure your focus and divert your attention from the core objective: fostering business growth and maximizing profits.

It’s essential to approach marketing as a strategic investment. Whether you’re allocating funds to a social media campaign or investing in a television ad slot, the underlying purpose should always be to amplify your return on investment (ROI). In essence, every marketing endeavor should be geared towards enhancing your company’s profitability.

Measurable results

The principle that should guide every marketing decision you make is whether it produces quantifiable results.

Ideally, you should not spend money or time towards any marketing channel that does not give you a return on your investment. But, to determine whether or not your marketing tactics are producing results, you must first collect detailed information about your marketing strategies. Social media impressions, click-through rate and conversions are all metrics you should be paying close attention to.

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John Boitnott
John Boitnott

Written by John Boitnott

Writer: Inc.com, Entrepreneur.com ~ Advisor: http://t.co/7sYwBxg4W9 ~ Fantasy/Sci-Fi Nerd ~ Futurist ~ Tweets are my own.

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