Marketing Strategy Insights from Dr. Linda Orr

Practical articles on fractional CMO leadership, marketing mix modeling, market research, and AI search.

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9 Signs You Need a Marketing Audit Before You Waste Another Dollar on Marketing

Is your marketing budget increasing without delivering better results? A comprehensive marketing audit helps identify what's working, what's wasting money, and where the biggest opportunities for growth exist. Learn the nine warning signs that it's time for an independent marketing audit, what a quality audit should include, how much it costs, and how advanced analytics like Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) can help optimize your marketing investments and improve ROI.

Linda Orr

Jul 139 min read

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Your Best-Performing Ad Is the One Quietly Costing You Money

The campaign with the best return on ad spend is often the one quietly wasting your budget. A landmark eBay experiment showed branded ads taking credit for sales that were always coming. Here is how to spot the same pattern in your own account and measure what your ads actually cause.

Linda Orr

Jul 66 min read

A stone temple labeled “Marketing Decisions” stands firmly on top of a complex, shifting platform of analytics dashboards, attribution models, traffic sources, consent controls, and marketing data tiles. Beneath the stable structure, reporting elements continuously rearrange and relabel themselves, including Facebook source consolidation, AI traffic channels such as ChatGPT and Perplexity, audience measurement, conversion tracking, and privacy consent settings. The image illustrates the contrast between stable business decisions and constantly changing digital attribution systems.

Understanding GA4 Changes: What You Need to Know

GA4 made two attribution changes in June 2026: a new Source Group dimension and a consent control split. Here is how each one affects your marketing data.

Linda Orr

Jun 235 min read

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