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Investing is a special thing. In terms of functionality, almost anyone can invest. But in terms of achieving the results of long-term profit and sustainable growth, only some people have the talent or skill sets for that. It’s like baseball for example… anyone can swing a bat at a ball. But only a few people make it to the big league, and even fewer become world champs. These days there are so many apps and platforms for individual investing, but that doesn’t mean everyone is achieving good results or ROI. There are great investors, good investors, and bad investors. A professional investor can achieve exponential growth and profit. A professional investor understands markets and industries and can account for both the traditional and the new.
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
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You gotta be smart with AdSpend. Ultimately it's about conversion to sales. And your AdSpend needs to have a healthy ROI based on that conversion to sales.
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
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Noah Kagan, a growth hacker at Facebook, the personal finance service Mint.com (which sold to Intuit for nearly $170 million), and the daily deal site AppSumo (which has more than eight hundred thousand users), explains it simply: “Marketing has always been about the same thing—who your customers are and where they are.”5 What growth hackers do is focus on the “who” and “where” more scientifically, in a more measurable way. Whereas marketing was once brand-based, with growth hacking it becomes metric and ROI driven. Suddenly, finding customers and getting attention for your product are no longer guessing games. But this is more than just marketing with better metrics; this is not just “direct marketing” with a new name. Growth hackers trace their roots back to programmers—and that’s how they see themselves. They are data scientists meets design fiends meets marketers. They welcome this information, process it and utilize it differently, and see it as desperately needed clarity in a world that has been dominated by gut instincts and artistic preference for too long. But they also add a strong acumen for strategy, for thinking big picture, and for leveraging platforms, unappreciated assets, and new ideas.
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Ryan Holiday (Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising)
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Once a competitor’s move has occurred, the denial of an adequate base for the competitor to meet its goals, coupled with the expectation that this state of affairs will continue, can cause the competitor to withdraw. New entrants, for example, usually have some targets for growth, market share, and ROI, and some time horizon for achieving them. If a new entrant is denied its targets and becomes convinced that it will be a long time before they are met, then it may withdraw or deescalate. Tactics for denying a base include strong price competition, heavy expenditures on research, and so on. Attacking new products in the test-market phase can be an effective way to foretell a firm’s future willingness to fight and can be less expensive than waiting for the introduction to actually occur. Another tactic is using special deals to load customers up with inventory, thereby removing the market for the product and raising the short-run cost of entry. It can be worth paying a substantial short-run price to deny a base if a firm’s market position is threatened. Essential to such a strategy, however, is a good hypothesis about what a competitor’s performance targets and time horizon are. An example of such a situation may be Gillette’s withdrawal from digital watches. Although claiming it had won significant market shares in test markets, Gillette bowed out, citing the substantial investments required to develop technology and margins lower than those available in other areas of its business. Texas Instruments’ strategy of aggressive pricing and rapid technological development in digital watches probably had a substantial impact on this decision.
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Michael E. Porter (Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors)
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What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you’ve ever made? Investing in Cobra back in the early ’90s. My $ 1.8 million investment earned me $ 40 million after the company was bought by Acushnet. I rolled that money back into my business. The decision was a no-brainer for three reasons: My investment got me 12 percent of Cobra and the allocation of my investment was put to R& D. During this era, Callaway was the first to go to market with an oversize driver but neglected to follow up on oversize irons. We/ Cobra decided to attack this virgin market immediately by producing oversize irons for men and women, and we catered for the senior player, which had been left neglected. This decision was a solid rocket booster for Cobra’s massive growth in the marketplace. I was to remain an endorsed player representing Cobra for years to come, receiving an annual payment that would quickly recoup my initial investment. So, my ROI was always guaranteed, leaving me with 12 percent of a company that had hyper growth. I was the #1 player in the world during these halcyon times—a global player. So, fortunately for us, I was a needle-mover in regards to exposure in a sport that was booming in the ’80s, hence product promotion and awareness.
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Timothy Ferriss (Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World)
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While many hoteliers and marketers still look at social media as an ROI tool, it should be looked at primarily as a communication platform to engage with guests and potential guests. Hotels that are built with social elements in their DNA may receive more reservations through social media but that is a positive side-effect that one should consider as a bonus and not the main goal.
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Roi Shahaf (El avc del marketing digital (Spanish Edition))
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Give away your best information. Building this trust with prospects will result in bigger financial returns than bland content
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Stacey Kehoe
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Enter Inbound PR, where content meets measurement and helps PR people show the real return on investment (ROI) of their efforts in the new digital era.
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Iliyana Stareva (Inbound PR: The PR Agency's Manual to Transforming Your Business With Inbound)
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Inbound PR enables you to measure the real ROI of your efforts.
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Iliyana Stareva (Inbound PR: The PR Agency's Manual to Transforming Your Business With Inbound)
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PK SEO has been in the SEO Industry for approximately 20 plus years now and we have evolved largely together with Google and improve the user experience through better SEO services and web development. When it comes to search engine optimisation, there is not much that escapes us from improving rankings on Google and ROI for clients and in establishing their brand on the web. From on-page SEO to off-page SEO, we do it all from guest posts, to authority link building from Guest post services. Our SEO Services is about as white hat as you can get. 20 plus years in SEO spells experience in the online marketing game and you can trust PK SEO specialists when it comes to SEO and effective rankings.
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PK SEO Services
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Even the most die-hard online marketers should consider using traditional metrics such as reach, frequency, and engagement when measuring the success of their online campaigns, since these metrics offer a more accurate view of display advertising’s impact on overall marketing ROI.
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William Leake (Complete B2B Online Marketing)
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Research shows that personalization can deliver five to eight times the ROI on marketing spend and lift sales 10% or more.
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McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum (Big Data, Analytics, and the Future of Marketing & Sales)
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Harvard Business Review study found that 80 percent of marketers are unhappy with their ability to measure marketing return on investment (ROI). Not because the tools aren’t good enough, but because they’re too good, and marketers are seeing for the first time that their strategies are “often flawed and their spending is inefficient.”4 Noah
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Ryan Holiday (Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising)
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The aim of Good Investments is the ones that offer a high value product that is needed by the target market at a reasonable price and potentially fast ROI which part of the profits will be constantly used in order to improve the existing business and keep building positive image with charitable investments as part of the profits.
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Manos Abou Chabke
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ARTICLE Five steps to squeeze more ROI from your marketing To keep up with today’s channel-surfing customer, marketers need to move beyond traditional Marketing Mix Modeling.
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McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum (Big Data, Analytics, and the Future of Marketing & Sales)
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ROR: Return on Relationship™, #RonR… simply put the value that is accrued by a person or brand due to nurturing a relationship. ROI is simple $’s and cents. ROR is the value (both perceived and real) that will accrue over time through connection, trust, loyalty, recommendations and sharing.
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Ted Rubin
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Poor practices are blunting email marketing’s effectiveness and keeping its ROI from being truly awesome.
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Chad White (Email Marketing Rules)
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Do not lie to yourself: not every penny you invest in marketing and promotion is an actual investment. What’s the difference? It is easy — if you spend your precious money in a marketing campaign and this provokes increased profit, then that is well invested money.
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F. Marco-Serrano (Making Sense of Social Media ROI: A Short Guide Focused on Sales, Marketing and Strategy)
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I do not like measuring using soft indicators, like RTs or likes. I prefer the hardcore financial values. The ISO 10668:2010 is an international valuation standard that is very valuable if you are interested in how to measure a brand.
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F. Marco-Serrano (Making Sense of Social Media ROI: A Short Guide Focused on Sales, Marketing and Strategy)
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potential to increase the lifetime value of the customer. Usually marketing departments assume that the lifetime value of a customer is fixed when doing their ROI calculations. We view the lifetime value of a customer to be a moving target that can increase if we can create more and more positive emotional associations with our brand through every interaction that a person has with us. Another common trap that many marketers fall into is focusing too much on trying to figure out how to generate a lot of buzz, when really they should be focused on building engagement and trust. I can tell you that my mom has zero buzz, but when she says something, I listen. To that end, most of our efforts on the customer service and customer experience side actually happen after we’ve already made the sale and taken a customer’s credit card number.
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Tony Hsieh (Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose)
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Sustainable success can only happen on purpose
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Seth Czerepak (The 24 Hour Marketing Miracle: The FIRST Marketing Book EVER to Be Backed Up By a 500% Money Back Guarantee (Value Mechanics))
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What gets measured gets better
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Seth Czerepak (The 24 Hour Marketing Miracle: The FIRST Marketing Book EVER to Be Backed Up By a 500% Money Back Guarantee (Value Mechanics))
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In B2B copywriting, clarity and conciseness are even more critical due to the complex nature of many business products and services. The persuasive element in B2B involves demonstrating a clear understanding of industry-specific challenges and providing evidence-based solutions. It’s about convincing a business that the product or service will offer tangible benefits and a strong return on investment (ROI).
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Kaitlin Terry (Copywriting for Marketers: The Busy Marketer’s Guide to Writing Awesome Multichannel Marketing Copy (For B2C and B2B))
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the data used in targeting ads are garbage. The algorithms being used to deliver advertising are garbage. Nico concludes that old-school mass marketing, without targeting and audience data, will “create better ROIs in many situations.”4 The whole edifice of online advertising is, in short, bunk.
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Tim Hwang (Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals x Logic))
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AI enables marketers to: •Accelerate revenue growth •Create personalized consumer experiences at scale •Drive costs down •Generate greater return on investment (ROI) •Get more actionable insights from marketing data •Predict consumer needs and behaviors with greater accuracy •Reduce time spent on repetitive, data-driven tasks •Shorten the sales cycle •Unlock greater value from marketing technologies
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Paul Roetzer (Marketing Artificial Intelligence: Ai, Marketing, and the Future of Business)
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The top ten individual use cases by score across all 5Ps were as follows: 1.Recommend highly targeted content to users in real time (3.96) 2.Adapt audience targeting based on behavior and look-alike analysis (3.92) 3.Measure ROI by channel, campaign, and overall (3.91) 4.Discover insights into top-performing content and campaigns (3.86) 5.Create data-driven content (3.82) 6.Predict winning creatives (e.g., digital ads, landing pages, calls to action) before launch without A/B testing (3.81) 7.Forecast campaign results based on predictive analysis (3.80) 8.Deliver individualized content experiences across channels (3.80) 9.Choose keywords and topic clusters for content optimization (3.78) 10.Optimize website content for search engines (3.77)
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Paul Roetzer (Marketing Artificial Intelligence: Ai, Marketing, and the Future of Business)
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we think of “cutting steel” as a media expense. Cutting steel is what you do when you build a mold to create a custom product—you buy a big block of steel and then cut it into a mold in the shape you want. It’s an expensive process with little room for error; it’s why many companies choose generic or stock bottles instead of investing in custom ones. But when we compared the cost of cutting steel to the cost of marketing, the ROI suddenly started looking much better. For us, it costs an average of $150,000 to create a new unique bottle design, which looks expensive compared to selecting a stock bottle with no tooling cost. But if we saved that $150K and invested it in marketing instead, what would it buy us? Not much. Not even one quarter-page ad in a national magazine. Yet the unique bottle design can generate millions in free press and social media attention! Not to mention the marketing power it will retain, capturing retailers’ attention, landing better shelf space, and inspiring impulse purchases from new customers. Our belief was that if we created a product that exceeded expectations, people would talk about it and drive word-of-mouth. Because Method could never win the advertising battle by shouting louder, we needed the product to shout for us.
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Eric Ryan (The Method Method: Seven Obsessions That Helped Our Scrappy Start-up Turn an Industry Upside Down)
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But there may never be enough to satisfy shareholders who expect to win back one hundred times their initial twenty billion dollar bet.
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Douglas Rushkoff (Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity)
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It is hard to exaggerate what the company went through. It changed its strategy from selling products to providing customers with solutions. It changed its value proposition from offering beauty to improving return on investment (ROI). It changed its culture from top down to wide open. It changed the way it maintained quality from using audits to having process-based mechanisms. It changed its marketing philosophy from promoting what it made to creating what customers wanted. It changed its technology from a system built around an outmoded mainframe to one based on a state-of-the-art network.
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Bo Burlingham (Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big)
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Prospects should purchase the solution for the value it provides, not its bells and whistles. There’s a reason why so many B2B solutions have large market shares in spite of terrible user experience. B2B buyers buy an ROI, not an interesting feature set.
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Étienne Garbugli (Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want (Customer Development & Lean Startup in B2B))
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What Should Be The Right Strategies For Your Business On Social Media?
Social Media Is A Bullet Train Which Will Not Going To Be Slow Down Any Time Soon. Every Business Is Now Getting Involved With Social Media. 2 Billion People Are Currently Active On Social Media And By 2019 It Is Expected To Be 2.77 Billion People And 64% Of People Use Social Media For Purchasing Decision. However, 85% Of Marketers Participating In Social Media Still Aren’t Really Sure What Strategies And Tools Are The Best To Use.
Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snap chat, YouTube Are Some Of The Hitter Social Media Platforms For Now. In Order To Stand Out From The Crowd, Your Business Need To Have A Solid Social Media Strategy.
Here, We’re Going To Break Down The Steps To Help You Get Started With The Solid Social Media Marketing Strategies-
Identify Business Goals-
Social Media Strategy Will Work According To The Goals You Set. Look Closely To Your Company’s Overall Performance And Needs And Then Decide How Social Media Will Contribute To Attain Them.
Your Company’s Goal Can Be Brand Awareness, Brand Identity, Strong Customers Base, Sales Etc.
Having Too Many Goals Distracts You And You’ll End Up Achieving None.
Set Social Media Goals-
Now Align Your Business Goals With Social Media Goals.
-Increase brand awareness
-Drive Traffic To Your Page
– Higher Quality Sale
– Lead Generation
– Improve ROI
– Get Likes, Share, Comment
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5 Thumb Rules to Follow for Outsourcing 3D Character.
Outsourcing has become one of the basic requirements of the digital industry. Be it software, websites, architecture rendering or 3D character modelling, companies look forward to outsource these tasks to reliable names. Reason is simple. When it comes to value for money, 3D Art Outsourcing Service stands to be the most viable option as setting up in-house production often isn’t considered a wise ROI choice.
But, this necessity has also given rise to possible frauds. There are countless companies waiting to gulp your money in the blink of an eye. There are many more who are ready to lure you with lucrative offers when it comes to 3D character modelling concept. Since not everyone is familiar with the technicalities of this field, companies can easily get trapped with fake promises of giving top notch services well within their reach, only to find out that the whole thing was neither worth their time nor money.
However, all the sham can be avoided if companies follow the six thumb rules while Game outsourcing character modelling tasks to animation studios as these will lead them to the right names.
1) Take a Tour of the Website
Although you will find expert comments on not to judge a company by its cover, there is no denying the fact that website plays a decisive role in company’s credibility, especially when it comes to art and animation studios. A studio that claims to offer you state-of-art results must first focus on its own. A clean, crisp website with appropriate content can actually say a lot about the studio’s work. A poor design and inappropriate content often indicate the following things:
- Outdated and poorly maintained
- Negligence towards its virtual presentation
- Unprofessionalism
- Poor marketing
A sincere design and animation studio will indeed feature a vibrant website with all its details properly included.
2) Location Matters
Location has a huge impact on hiring charges as it largely decides the price range one can expect. If you are looking forward to countries like India, you expect the range to be well within your budget chiefly because such countries have immense talent, but because of the increasing demand and competition in the field of outsourcing, hiring charges are relatively cheaper than countries like UK or USA. This means that once can get desired expertise without spending a fortune.
3) Know Your Team Inside Out
Since you will be spending your hard earned money, you have every right to know the ins and outs of your team. Getting to know the team can assist you in your decision. Do your part of homework and be ready with your queries. Starting from their names to their works, check everything you can, and if need be, go for one-to-one conversation.
This will not only help you to know them better, but will also give you an idea of their communication, their knowledge about their work and their sincerity. A dedicated one will always answer you up to the point while a confused one with fidget with words or beat around the bush.
4) Don’t Miss Out on the Portfolio
While the website of a studio is its virtual representative, it’s the portfolio which speaks about its execution. Reputed names of 3D modelling and design companies house excellent projects ranging from simple to complex ones. A solid portfolio indicates:
- commitment of the studio towards its projects
- competency of its team
- execution and precision
- status of its expertise
Apart from the portfolio, some animation studios even feature case studies and white papers in their websites which indicate their level of transparency. Make sure to go through all of them.
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Game Yan
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80 percent of marketers are unhappy with their ability to measure marketing return on investment (ROI). Not because the tools aren’t good enough, but because they’re too good, and marketers are seeing for the first time that their marketing strategies are “often flawed and their spending is inefficient.”4
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Portfolio (Growth Hacker Marketing)
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Whereas marketing was once brand-based, with growth hacking it becomes metric and ROI driven.
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Ryan Holiday (Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising)
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You can increase conversion rates and return on investment (ROI) by several times by making PPC landing pages extremely relevant.
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Brian Halligan (Inbound Marketing, Revised and Updated: Attract, Engage, and Delight Customers Online)
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I’m Angela Liberatore Melbourne, a seasoned digital marketing expert with over eight years of experience creating high-impact strategies that drive results worldwide. I specialize in transforming businesses by executing sustainable, data-driven marketing strategies that enhance user experience and compound ROI. Whether you’re a B2B or B2C company, I can help you scale your business through tailored digital marketing campaigns that deliver measurable results. In 2022, I generated over USD 10 million in revenue for Systems Limited through strategic media buying across multiple platforms, drivin
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Angela Liberatore