Paid ads, AdWords, and Facebook have never worked for Weekdone
Yuri Kaljundi · 1026 "Juri, would you sell to me now for $1.5m?" · May 16, 2018 · at 10:15
Yuri Kaljundi discusses why Weekdone abandoned paid performance marketing channels in favor of content marketing.
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“We've never been able to make paid ads or so work. So the conversion there has been really bad, actually. So yeah, we still experiment, but neither retargeting or Google AdWords or Facebook actually work for us.”
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