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BrentOzar on March 25, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: It’s time for a digital protection agency

> I think it would be very easy to con them, and probably they get conned a lot of the time.

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” John Wanamaker

Advertisers are used to this.

bloak on March 25, 2018 [–]

I would guess that if John Wanamaker wasted only half of his advertising budget then he was doing better than most.

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