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What If “More Leads” Is The Wrong Goal: Media Made Easy w/ Charleston Media Solutions

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We challenge the old idea that conversions come from a magic number of ad views and replace it with a smarter approach: showing up across the customer’s real decision journey. We also lay out how small businesses can combine traditional and digital media, track results, and focus on higher-quality leads with messaging that stays consistent from first impression to final action. 
• why frequency matters less than touchpoints in the modern consumer journey 
• how to place ads where your ideal customer actually spends time 
• why “traditional vs digital” is the wrong framing 
• picking one clear action for people to take next 
• how we help businesses define the right audience and work backward from results 
• using dashboards and radio attribution to connect ads to web traffic and conversions 
• setting a budget using share of voice and customer lifetime value 
• quality leads over high volume and why “more” can waste time 
• matching your message across radio, search, retargeting, email, and follow-up 
Call who you trust and say, “This is what I think I can afford. What share of voice do you think I can get for that?” 


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How can Charleston businesses get noticed, found and chosen? The Charleston Marketing Podcast, brought to you by Charleston AMA and recorded at Charleston Media Solutions, answers the marketing and media questions local business owners are asking. We explore media buying, advertising budgets, radio, digital marketing, storytelling and the customer journey, with practical strategies for growing your business in today’s attention economy. CharlestonMediaSolutions.com

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Title Sponsor: Charleston American Marketing Association

Presenting Sponsor: Charleston Media Solutions

Annual Sponsor: SCRA; South Carolina Research Authority

Quarterly Sponsor: King and Columbus

CAMACast Cohosts: Stephanie Barrow, Mike Compton, Rachel Backal, Tom Keppeler, Amanda Bunting Comen

Silicon Harbor Hot Take Host: Stanfield Gray, https://digsouth.com

Produced and edited: RMBO Advertising

Photographer | Co-host: Kelli Morse

Score by:  The Strawberry Entrée; Jerry Feels Good, CURRYSAUCE, DBLCRWN, DJ DollaMenu
Studio Engineer: Brian Cleary and Mathew Chase

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What If “More Leads” Is The Wrong Goal: Media Made Easy w/ Charleston Media Solutions

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