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Did you know this resurfaced “feature” of GTM? Stop making these conversion-killing mistakes. February 22, 2022 [Read in browser]( [logo] [sponsor]( Happy Tuesday! Did you know that today is 22.02.2022… Well, at least that's how we write the date here in Europe. But there's more! The date is also an ambigram, which means it still reads the same when upside down (depending on the font). Isn't that cool? What’s your favorite palindrome (date, word, or phrase)? ADVERTISING The Google Tag Manager feature that bypasses ad blockers [article-image] When we see the Hacker News community commenting on a marketing technique from over a year ago, we take notice. “Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon”, is the title of a blog post [that was posted]( on November 15, 2020 and [went viral on Hacker News yesterday.]( What’s the post about: More and more marketers are using the server-side tagging version of Google’s Tag Manager. Why? Several reasons. One is that with the server-side version, trackers are no longer called from the user’s browser. The result is a better user experience than client-side loading, which can load hundreds of scripts at once. The primary reason many marketers use server-side tagging is because it bypasses most ad blockers. This is still true today. This struck a chord and sparked a huge discussion on HackerNews about how to create better ad blockers that will block server-side tagging, which is difficult to achieve. Until that happens on a mass scale, the fact remains: Server-side tagging with Google Tag Manager is getting more popular by the day among marketers. MICROSOFT Microsoft Advertising gets auto-apply recommendations If you have 15 useful recommendations for your ad campaign, it can be time-consuming to select each one and click "apply" on each one. Multiply that by 20 ad campaigns and you kinda give up. Microsoft appears to have recognized this frustration and, as a result, [has just rolled out]( auto-apply recommendations. Attention control freaks: Microsoft will, by default, opt-in advertisers for auto-apply recommendations. Advertisers will receive an email about this and unless they explicitly opt out, recommendations will be auto-enabled within 7 days. Which might not be such a bad thing if we’re to believe Microsoft’s claim that their recommendations really improve ROI. SPONSORED BY TRENDS How this profitable wellness app got 300k users with Reddit marketing [article-image]( “Should I try Facebook Ads or Google Ads? Is SEO worth it? Should I produce content in-house or hire a freelancer?” Testing new business or marketing ideas always comes with its risks. What if you could use winning strategies from other entrepreneurs? [Like the one shared by James Saady]( to grow his app, Bearable, to 300k users. He is a member of Trends, a digital tribe of 15,000+ ambitious and successful individuals, [sharing business, marketing and growth strategies](. And help each other dominate their own markets. Back in 2019, James Saady started Bearable as a personal wellness app. From zero and completely bootstrapped. After six months, the app had 100k users. Today, the app counts 300k users. It was all done with Reddit marketing. No ads, no press, no influencers. Just pure Reddit hustle. Tap into some of the best and brightest minds in business, like James Saady, when you [join the Trends community](. Try it today for just $1 and get ready for your next big idea. META ADS How to unlock secret Facebook Interests [article-image] Did you know that Facebook has been intentionally holding out Interests from us? They did it with a good intention though. When you type a keyword in the Interest search bar, to make the interface more user-friendly, the platform will only return a limited list of related Interests. But in reality, there are more Interests than the ones shown in that dashboard you’re all too familiar with. These are untapped audiences that your competitors can’t see - unless they read Stacked Marketer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [Justin Briones shared a process to unlock them](. And no, you don’t have to scrape them manually. You’ll do it through the [Facebook Marketing API](. This is the data you see on the Facebook Ads Manager interface, but raw and without restrictions. The Ads Manager tends to restrict some data to make it more user-friendly. The Marketing API doesn’t. And that’s how you unlock the hidden Interests. So, first of all, create a [Facebook for Developers account](, then add your app, product and get an access token. It’s a few steps that Justin Briones outlined quite clearly. Once you get the access token, there are 4 more technical steps to follow, and again, it’s simpler if you just follow the ones outlined in the blog post. And don’t worry, you don’t need to do any complicated coding to get access to this. Justin’s guide really goes step by step so that almost anyone can do it. SPONSORED BY GRAZE Mow Money – A lucrative investment opportunity. [article-image]( Landscaping companies are plagued by high labor costs and turnover. [But Graze, a fully autonomous commercial lawn mower,]( has the answer. Their 100% electric mowers eliminate 50% of labor costs and 75% of fuel costs associated with traditional lawn mowing, increasing margins up to 40%! Graze already has $32M in pre-orders from some of the world's largest landscaping companies and is set to disrupt this $100B industry. And guess what? [You have a chance to invest in it!]( THE CREW'S INSIGHTS Does your lead gen landing page make one of these killer mistakes? [article-image] We’ve tested plenty of landing pages ourselves (not just for our newsletter). We’ve analyzed others. We’ve promoted countless landing pages within our newsletter from a wide variety of sponsors. Here are 3 things you must implement, unless you want to kill your conversions. We’ve ordered them from most important (and most common, actually), to least important. 1. Have *all* your form fields above the fold for mobile OK, we understand for certain leads it’s not possible but you should really try. In some cases, this goes as high as doubling the conversion rate from 25% to 50%. If you need more info than you could fit above the fold, consider making it a 2-step form, where you first get the vital information (and the lead), then get more details later. 2. Your headline should be the strongest value proposition All too often we see products use their lead magnet name as a headline. That’s most likely a waste for the most visible text on the page. 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