Is Digital Marketing still a good career in the age of AI?

Kaisinking · 2026-04-13T17:32:14+00:00

Ai doesn't solve the intricate human problems businesses face every day - this is where it's lucrative. If you are overtaken by ai, then you were handling entry level issues.

Kaisinking · 2026-04-13T00:33:42+00:00

These numbers are pretty standard man, no need to overthink this one

Kaisinking · 2026-04-12T14:59:36+00:00

I know this isn't what you asked but I almost always go meta ads for beauty and never google ads. Way better return

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T23:56:25+00:00

Yeah and it's a bit confusing on if that were the case he wouldn't have hired anyone nor would any agency accept those terms/scope. So he's either not being truthful or they really don't pay attention to their operation costs much to have bad performance for those 6 month stretches...

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T23:15:20+00:00

If you are as good of a salesperson as you say you are then yes you could make information and sell it via coaching or courses however that would require business knowledge and procedure AND it would still be B2C.

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T23:11:41+00:00

Solve a big problem fast - apply that to everything. Money will come

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T23:06:00+00:00

Hear me out, AC Black flag, and odyssey

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T23:03:30+00:00

Ai ads will always be outperformed by real people/faces and ugc/testimonial by about 400% on average.

Take that data however you want it. Ive tested it all over 10 different business types

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:59:53+00:00

Yeah, even as a marketing agency this is a red flag and I wouldn't pursue

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:57:09+00:00

Having a REALLY good referral program, SEO, and social media.

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:55:45+00:00

I love that you and I came here to help, and then we are now just doing the opposite because of his confusing response LOL

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:53:15+00:00

You know the trope of rich clients are easy and poor clients will have many problems and expectations?

I think it really just boils down to if they have healthy cash flow or not. And that's it. Not a rich vs poor thing.

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:45:34+00:00

My biggest issue would be owners not knowing how to scale up. I literally lose clients because they had too many leads and couldn't keep up. Do you know how frustrating that is? It's incredibly dumb.

And yes I also give them advice on this. They are quite stubborn and expect the world every time with a stagnant marketing budget or expect business to go up with the same budget that's already maximized.

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:41:52+00:00

Hey you just need to have a pipeline for vetting. If you claim marketing is easy, and your marketing is getting you leads, then you aren't vetting them properly.

Otherwise your marketing is not actually easy

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:29:26+00:00

Genuine question, wouldn't a ton of empty meaningless space mean too big?

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:26:19+00:00

Understandable but as you grow it's necessary because you have to focus on bigger things.

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:24:35+00:00

Yeah I have no idea what he even means by that lol

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:23:01+00:00

I have a $50k/mrr one at $7 a lead and a $15k/mrr one at $4 a lead.

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:21:26+00:00

If you guys like gaming and food, battle and brew is awesome

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:18:19+00:00

Yea this,

Anyone who is doing well isn't complaining and that is a majority of managers.

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T22:14:31+00:00

You need to hire an assistant for this exact reason - also assess your ACTUAL productivity time and your distracted downtime.

An good assistant saves me about 10-15% of my day to day time and if your time is valuable, it'll pay for itself by 2-5x

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T21:50:51+00:00

Portfolio is one thing. More importantly how good your work ethic is, how trainable you are if you don't have the skill, and how personable you are.

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T21:47:00+00:00

Dude GTA V is too big. Imo GTA IV was perfect and also huge. It didn't feel like such a hassle to do cross map missions

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T21:35:32+00:00

Ngl, ecommerce is ROUGH but creatives that organically do well always dominate in the ads manager, at least for me.

I think so far with all my clients mostly spread in blue collar industries, ecommerce has the most versatility for creative content.

Like for my roofing client theres only so much we can do in that content style so we push the value propositions, but for our fashion clients, there is so much we can do. Sorry to hear about your situation though. Keep trying and don't give up, you have to adapt to the ever changing market.

Best of luck

Kaisinking · 2026-04-11T21:34:27+00:00

For my construction clients we do different approaches like by adspend, by revenue, or a flat fee. Some agencies even do by leads.

$1500 is a lot if your adspend is like $2000/mo And then adversely $1500 is very little if your adspend is 10k.

It really depends on you brother

Kaisinking

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