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Where do we go now? It's anecdotal, I know, but my main entertainment business revenue is down 50% over the past 3 months. Our main paid source of leads was Google Ads, which have served us well over the past 10 years or so - I think I know what I am doing in adwords by now. Once per month I check the analytics, updating keywords and tweaking ad campaigns. Over the past year we increased our budget, and then I started looking at it once per week, running simultaneous campaigns with different settings, just trying to get SOMETHING. Last month Google gave us a bonus - free money! This was 5x our monthly ad spend, to spend just when we needed it most - over the December holidays. I added another new campaign, updated the budgets for the existing ones. Still no change. The last week there was money to burn, left over from unused ad spend. I increased our budget to 10x. ZERO RETURN. The money ran out. I am not putting more in. Where do we go from here? What is next Research shows that many young people are getting their information from short video platforms like TikTok and Instagram. We are trying ads on there. Our customer base is comprised of 50% returning customers (I am proud of that statistic!). We have an email newsletter, we started sending them regularly over the past 2 months. Remember us? We also plan to do some actual physical advertising - I am going to a market next weekend, doing a free show or two, handing out cards. Also, we are branching out - I have some projects I want to make, related to the Magic Poi project, and hopefully sell. We ordered supplies last week. Right now, though - I'm broke. Anyone need a website or IOT project built? I am AI assisted, very fast! [e2f04]Author tomjugglerPosted on 29th December 202529th December 2025Categories Web Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. 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