Budgeting
How much should a Dubai business spend on digital marketing?
Why percentage-of-revenue rules mislead in the UAE, and how to size a digital marketing budget from your own cost per lead and customer value instead.
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Channel mix
Google Ads or SEO: which should a Dubai business fund first?
How the cost per lead behaves over three years for Google Ads and SEO in Dubai, why most businesses need both, and the order that wastes the least money.
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Choosing an agency
How to choose a digital marketing agency in Dubai
Six questions that separate an agency that reports from one that performs, plus the contract terms worth arguing about before you sign anything.
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Measurement
What a lead actually costs in Dubai, channel by channel
How cost per lead differs between Google Ads, SEO, social and email for UAE businesses, why category matters more than channel, and how to set a ceiling.
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Measurement
Attribution for small Dubai businesses: what to track, what to ignore
A practical attribution setup for UAE SMEs: the four things worth tracking, the reports safe to ignore, and why the phone is the hardest channel to measure.
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Tell us what you sell, what you spend now and what a customer is worth. You get back a proposed allocation across the six channels, the expected cost per lead for each, and how long before it shows.