Marketing with Confidence

About Marketing with Confidence

Do not spend another cent on paid advertising, until you listen to this Podcast! Welcome to Ready, Set, Paid Ads, the podcast that helps business owners and marketing professionals to take back control of their Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Google ads! I’m your host - Mary-Anne Amies founder of award winning Digital Marketing Agency, Wise Up Marketing. With a career in marketing spanning more than two decades, I am a passionate mentor, coach and speaker, who is dedicated to helping business owners and marketing professionals to succeed. I have managed millions of dollars in paid advertising for clients big and small, and have seen inside thousands of paid ads accounts. I’ve seen the good, the bad and the just plain mind-boggling set-ups. I started this podcast to help you create digital marketing for paid ads success. Each fortnight you’ll hear from me and together we’ll work through the essential ads knowledge and skills, and on alternate fortnights you’ll hear from big names in business and marketing, as I interview them to hear how they tackle paid ads, what has worked well, and what have been their biggest learnings. Whether you are DIYing or outsourcing, you will learn the foundations you need to succeed, plus grab insider agency tips on how to make every dollar work harder. It’s time to subscribe and listen, and unleash the power of Paid Ads to its full potential!

Publisher

Mary-Anne Amies

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Sept 2022

Latest episode

10 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

84 of 158 episodes have a transcript.

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   10 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Your 2026 Meta Ads Scaling Guide

   Host Alex Vasquez interviews Meta Ads expert Sarah Chen on scaling Facebook ads in 2026 with AI integration and Andromeda updates for optimized ad spend.

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   26 Nov 2025

   Your Paid Ads Questions Answered

   Host [Host Name] answers common paid advertising questions, clarifying Google Ads versus Meta Ads and budget strategies for effective campaigns.

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   12 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Ad Hacks: Strategy Approved Boosting

   Host [Host Name] reveals a 10-minute strategy-approved hack for effectively boosting posts, offering insights for exceptional results.

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Your 2026 Meta Ads Scaling Guide

Published 10 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It may damage the brand that you have so carefully built and I have seen this in tests that we've done. The AI generated image and copy is so far from our brand that it can only be damaging. So I feel as this move to Advantage Plus and Dromeda really kicks up a notch and you're really wanting to leverage this for your ad success in 2026. I want you to continue to be the custodian of your brand. So to use your intuition, your expertise, your emotional intelligence, your insights and continually challenge what the platform is doing to make sure that your brand stays true to your brand. I think the other thing to remember, especially if you hand over all the optimization to the platform is that platforms are notorious for overstating results. […]

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