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  <description>Performance marketing, AI systems and what's changing in ads and search — for founders who run the numbers.</description>
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    <title>How to Read a Meta Ads Report as a Founder, in Five Numbers</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Meta's Ads Manager shows twenty columns by default. A founder only needs five: spend, cost per result, ROAS, frequency and conversion rate ranking.</description>
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    <title>How AI Search Chooses Which Businesses to Recommend</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>ChatGPT and Google AI Mode cite indexed, snippet-eligible pages with reviews and links, not ad spend. Here's the method, step by step.</description>
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    <title>What to Do With a Meta Ads Budget Under ₹1 Lakh in India</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>With ₹50,000 to ₹1 lakh a month on Meta ads, Indian small businesses get more leads by concentrating spend on one ad set than by testing five.</description>
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    <title>Google Ads for B2B Manufacturers: Run Search Before Performance Max</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>For B2B manufacturer lead generation on Google Ads, Search beats Performance Max: PMax needs six weeks to learn, Search proves demand in 30 days.</description>
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    <title>Advertising an Indian-Manufactured Apparel Brand to UK Customers</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Advertising an Indian-manufactured apparel brand to UK customers means fixing origin-claim compliance and landed-cost math before you scale spend.</description>
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    <title>Dental clinic missed calls after hours: what an AI receptionist does</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Most after-hours enquiries to a dental clinic go unanswered; an AI receptionist's real job is triage and next-day booking, not blind confirmation.</description>
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    <title>Meta Ads for Dental Clinics UK: The Real Cost Per New Patient</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>UK dental Meta ads: the real cost driver isn't CPL, it's GDC compliance and how fast you call the lead back. Here's the honest picture.</description>
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    <title>What 4,248 wholesale buyer leads actually cost a Tirupur manufacturer</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>One apparel manufacturer, two Meta ad accounts, ₹70,444 spent, 4,248 buyer leads at ₹16.58 each. Here is the full account, what was counted, and what I would change.</description>
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