I’ll be honest with you from the start. Google Ads is a beast. It has hundreds of settings, automation features that change every few months, bidding strategies, audiences, assets and reports. After years of managing accounts for businesses at Mindesigns, I’ve learned that doing it well takes two different skills together. You need to understand...

Early in my sales career, one question kept bugging me: “How do you know when a prospect is actually ready to buy?” The answer isn’t instinct. It comes from having a real B2B sales process, one that shows you the signals most of us completely miss. If you ask too early, you scare them off. If you...

After more than eight years working in SEO and hundreds of strategy sessions with business owners across Australia, I’ve noticed a pattern that genuinely worries me. Most businesses are still doing SEO the way it was done in 2015. They’re chasing keywords, buying links, and publishing thin blog posts while completely ignoring the thing Google...

Can AI really be trusted with thousands of dollars of ad spend?  That was the question we kept coming back to since the AI boom began.  We’ve been using Google Ads for our own and our clients’ marketing campaigns, and it’s been moving quickly toward automation. Performance Max, AI Max, broad match, automated bidding, AI-generated assets, and auto-applied recommendations are now pushed...

Parents are no longer waiting for open days to decide whether a school feels right.   Traditionally, open days served as one of the primary opportunities for prospective families to visit a school, meet staff, tour the campus, and learn more about the school’s culture and values. For many schools, they were the centrepiece of the...

Written By Omer Bernstein, Head of Marketing and Sales at Mindesigns  Omer has led integrated brand awareness, outdoor advertising, and digital growth campaigns across Australia, helping businesses connect billboard visibility with measurable search demand, lead generation, and retail performance.  My personal hot take: too many discussions around billboard advertising focus only on visuals and clever concepts. After working on integrated outdoor...

Even in the age of AI and hyper-personalised digital marketing, outdoor advertising costs remain a worthwhile investment. It may feel old school, but its impact is the same as it was 100 years ago, if not better. With digital formats and new innovations, it now delivers stronger performance, with advertisers seeing returns rise by 17%...