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NextGen Marketers 365, International City, Dubai (2026)

06/08/2026

Why I proposed a full funnel instead of just running ads..!

Most people think running Meta Ads means:
Create an ad. Set a budget. Press go. Wait for customers. That’s not a campaign. That’s a gamble. When Memento Bites came to me this month, a home bakery selling NYC-style cookies in Dubai, the easy thing would have been, Give me AED 500 and I’ll run you some ads. I didn’t do that. I proposed a three stage funnel instead.

Here’s what I built and why:
STAGE 1 - AWARENESS
Make them know you exist. Target: Cold audience, Females 18-40 in Dubai
People who love desserts, baking, food content. Ad objective: Reach / Video Views
Goal: Get the brand in front of as many relevant people as possible. We’re not asking for anything here. Just showing up. Consistently, Visually, Memorably.

STAGE 2 - CONSIDERATION
Make them want to know more, Target: Warm audience, People who engaged with Stage 1. People who visited the Instagram profile Ad objective: Engagement / Traffic Goal: Get them to interact, visit the profile, see the product properly. This stage is about building the relationship. Not selling yet.

STAGE 3 - CONVERSION
Make them buy. Target: Hot audience, People who engaged multiple times, People who clicked but didn’t order, Ad objective: WhatsApp Messages, Goal: Direct conversation that converts to a cookie order. Now we ask for the sale, but only from people who already know, like and trust the brand.

THE BUDGET SPLIT
Total: AED 500
Stage 1: AED 200
widest reach, coldest audience
Stage 2: AED 150
narrower, warmer audience
Stage 3: AED 150
smallest, hottest audience

WHY THIS WORKS
Asking a stranger to buy your cookies on the first interaction is like proposing on a first date. Most people say no. Not because they don’t like cookies. Because they don’t know you yet. The funnel warms them up first.
Then closes. This is performance marketing, not boosting, not guessing.

A structured system with a clear job at each stage. Campaign goes live this weekend.
Documenting everything here.
Follow for the real results 👇

04/08/2026

Most Dubai businesses post
inconsistently and wonder
why nobody remembers them.

It's not a content problem.
It's a foundation problem.

Here's exactly what a proper
brand kit looks like
built for a real Dubai salon 👉

02/08/2026

Everyone told me to become
a social media manager.

I chose performance marketing.

Because likes don't pay rent.
Followers don't fill
appointment books.

Here's the real difference —
and why it matters for every
Dubai business owner

DigitalMarketing SocialMediaMarketing

21/07/2026

Most Dubai businesses running Meta Ads are simply talking to the wrong people.

It’s not about the creatives. It’s not about the budget. It’s a targeting problem and it’s costing them money every single day. Let me break down how I actually think about audience targeting for Dubai businesses:

LAYER 1 - LOCATION
Dubai is not one single audience. It’s made up of many small communities.
Al Nahda, Deira, Al Quasais, Jumeirah, Al Barsha, Mirdif, Business Bay, Al Twar. A ladies salon in Al Nahda targeting the whole of Dubai is throwing away 70% of its budget on people who will never travel across the city for a home beauty service.
Start tight - 5km radius around your location first. Expand only when that starts working.

LAYER 2 - DEMOGRAPHICS
Dubai has one of the most diverse populations anywhere. A tailoring shop for Pakistani and Indian families needs totally different targeting than a luxury spa in JBR.
Age, gender, language preference, these details matter a lot more here.
Don’t just use default options. Think about who actually walks through your door.

LAYER 3 - INTERESTS AND BEHAVIOUR
This is where most beginners lose money.
They pick obvious interests like “beauty” for salons or “fashion” for tailors. Everyone else is doing the same, so you’re competing and paying more.
Smarter way: Target the behaviour around the service, not the service itself.
For a ladies salon:Women who recently moved to a new area.Women engaging with wedding content.Women following certain UAE lifestyle pages
For a tailoring shop:People interested in Eid preparations.People who recently got engaged or have big events comingSouth Asian expat communities in specific Dubai areas

LAYER 4 - TIMING
Dubai runs on its own clock. Friday-Saturday weekends. Ramadan flips everything. Summer is completely different from winter months. Your targeting should match when your customers are actually active and in the mood to buy.

The real takeaway:
Good targeting in Dubai means knowing your customer’s neighbourhood, community, language, current life situation, and timing, not just basic interests. I am building these exact targeting setups right now for real businesses here.

Documenting the whole process.
Follow for the full journey 👇

19/07/2026

Episode 5 of my founder journey..!

One month honest update. No sugarcoating, just real numbers.It’s been four weeks since I started sharing this journey publicly.
Here’s exactly what happened

THE LINKEDIN NUMBERS:
Episode 1: 392 impressions
Episode 2: 219 impressions
Episode 3: 133 impressions
Episode 4: 91 impressions

Yes the numbers are going down. I am not going to act like it’s not happening. Each episode after the first got less push because I wasn’t getting enough quick engagement in the beginning. LinkedIn loves posts that get reactions fast in the first hour. My audience is still small so it didn’t trigger that. Lesson learned. Already changing the approach.

THE UNEXPECTED WIN:
One comment I left on someone else’s post just sharing my story honestly got 1,700 impressions in 7 days. More reach than all my own episodes combined. That showed me something important, Your story reaches more people when it’s part of a real conversation than when you just post it alone.

INSTAGRAM:
1,001 followers, Just crossed 1K this month. Average post reach around 400. Slow and steady, but growing.

CLIENT WORK - THE REAL UPDATE:
Abu Salah Tailoring & Embroidery:
14 posts live now. Brand built from zero. Content calendar running.

Touch and Care Salon:
Brand kit finished. Meta Ads strategy ready.
Still stuck with ad account access problem. This has been my biggest headache this month.

Memento Bites:
New client starting Monday. Social media + Meta Ads. First paying client.
Qozey. Space:
Marketing plan delivered. Waiting for their reply.

THE HONEST TRUTH ABOUT MONTH 1:
I thought month 1 would be all about results.
It turned out to be mostly about building strong foundations.
Brand kits, templates, content systems, client relationships, posting schedules, all the behind the scenes work nobody sees. The actual results are coming. But they come after the foundation is ready. Not before.

If you’re in your own month 1 of building something, don’t beat yourself up over results yet. Check if your foundation is solid instead. Mine is getting there.

Month 2 is about results. Watch this space.
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16/07/2026

I spent about 20 minutes auditing Abu Salah Tailoring & Embroidery’s Google presence this week.

A real old-school shop that’s been doing quality stitching in Dubai since 1986. 38 years in business. Located near DAFZA Metro in Al Nahda. Trusted by families for decades.
Here’s what I saw:

Finding 1- They’re not showing up when people search.
I tried “tailoring shop Al Nahda Dubai” and “tailoring near DAFZA metro” Abu Salah doesn’t appear in the top results at all.
38 years of reputation and basically invisible to new customers searching on Google right now.

Finding 2- Their Google Business Profile is incomplete. No clear business hours. No proper list of services like Abayas, school uniforms, Shaila, Jallabya, or custom stitching.Someone searching has no idea what they actually do just by looking at the listing.

Finding 3- Almost no recent reviews.
Last review was months ago. No system to ask happy customers for fresh feedback.
In Dubai, Google reviews are the new word of mouth. Every week without reviews is lost trust.

What we need to fix:
1. Complete the Google Business Profile fully
2. Add all services with clear descriptions
3. Put correct opening hours
4. Upload real photos of their work
5. Build a simple way to collect reviews
6. Start posting weekly updates on GBP (most businesses don’t even know this feature exists)

The good news? All of this is free. No ad budget required. Just time and consistency.
This is exactly the kind of audit I do with NextGen Marketers 365 before we touch any paid advertising.

Because throwing ads on a weak foundation is just burning money faster.
Fix the basics first. Then scale with confidence

14/07/2026

The first thing I always do when I take on a new client in Dubai before any ads, before content, before strategy.

I check if they have Meta Pixel installed.
And 90% of the time…! they don’t. Most business owners here have never even heard of it.

Let me explain it super simple:
Imagine 100 people visit your salon, clinic, shop or website. Maybe only 3 actually book or message you. What happens to the other 97?

Without Pixel:
They disappear. Gone forever. You spent money to get them there… and lost them completely.

With Pixel installed:
Meta remembers those 97 people. You can show them ads later like “Hey, you checked us out but didn’t book, here’s a special offer just for you.”

This is retargeting. And trust me, it’s one of the strongest tools in performance marketing. But here’s the reality I keep seeing in Dubai.

Salons, clinics, tailoring shops, home service guys, most of them are running ads or boosting posts with zero Pixel. They’re paying for traffic they can’t track or follow up with.

Money just leaking everywhere.
The good news? Installing Meta Pixel properly takes less than 30 minutes and costs nothing. But it makes every dirham you spend after that work way harder.
It’s the foundation. Everything else sits on top of it.

If you’re a Dubai business owner and you’re not sure whether your Pixel is set up correctly.

Just comment “PIXEL” below and I’ll tell you exactly how to check it for free.

12/07/2026

Episode 4 of my founder journey..!

What nobody tells you about your first week with real clients. I thought landing two clients was the hard part. I was wrong.
The real hard part started after they said yes.

Week 1 managing both clients while doing my 12 hour front desk job looked like this:
Wake up. Work 12 hours. Come home, go to the kitchen, prepare food, Open laptop. Work more. Sleep few hours. Repeat.

Some days it became 18 hours, Sometimes 20 hours. My body telling me stop. My mind saying not yet. Because this dream is bigger than the tiredness.

But here’s what I actually learned in that first week:

Lesson 1- The pitch is just the beginning.
I thought pitch, agree, work starts easy.
Reality: pitch, WhatsApp number, follow up, follow up again, explain again, wait, follow up more, meeting, maybe agree.

Nobody convinces in one meeting. Patience is not optional here. It is the business.

Lesson 2- This work is deeply detailed.
I thought brand kits are few hours work.
Reality: one single template took me more than one hour to get right. Colors, fonts, spacing, logo placement, watermark… everything matters. 5 templates per client. Two clients. 10+ hours just on templates.
Before even one post goes live. Before one ad runs.

Performance marketing is not glamorous. It’s hard, detailed, tiring work. And I wouldn’t change anything. Every tired hour at the laptop taught me something no course or YouTube video ever could. Real clients teach with pressure. With deadlines. With real people waiting for real results.

This is the education I signed up for when I stopped applying for jobs and started building my own thing.

Episode 5 coming next Sunday - one month honest update. Real numbers. Real results. What’s working. What’s not.
Follow for the real version 👇

09/07/2026

Day 1 of managing Abu Salah Tailoring & Embroidery.

The first thing I noticed. The business wasn't the problem. The online presence was.

Abu Salah has been serving Dubai since 1986. Almost four decades of experience.
Abayas.
School uniforms.
Shaila.
Jallabya.

Families around Al Twar and Al Nahda already knew the name.But online...! It almost didn't exist.When I checked everything, here's what I found.

No Instagram.
No page.
No proper Google Business Profile showing all their services.
No content.

No digital proof of nearly 40 years of quality work.That surprised me. Because if someone searched for them today, they would never know the story behind the business.

So before thinking about Meta Ads or getting more customers. We had to build the foundation first. The first thing I did was create and organize all the accounts. Instagram.
Facebook.
Meta Business Suite.
Everything connected properly from day one.

Then I looked at the shop itself. Their signboard already had a strong identity. Royal Blue.
Gold.
Simple and professional.

So instead of creating something completely new, I carried that same identity into their social media. Built Canva templates. Created a consistent color palette. Made sure every future post would look like it belonged to the same brand.

Next came the content. Planned the first 15 days. Wrote captions in both English and Arabic because that's how their customers communicate. Then finalized a posting schedule that the business could actually maintain consistently.

The lesson from Day 1. Most small businesses don't need better marketing first. They need a stronger foundation.
Because running ads without proper branding, content and organized accounts is like building a house without laying the base.

Right now I'm managing Abu Salah Tailoring & Embroidery alongside Touch and Care Ladies Beauty Salon. I'll be documenting everything here.

The wins.
The challenges.
And everything I am learning along the way.

Episode 4 of my founder journey drops this Sunday.

Follow for the real story 👇

07/07/2026

One of the biggest mistakes I keep seeing Dubai businesses make with Meta Ads.
And almost nobody talks about it.

Most people think the problem is the creative.Or the budget. Or the targeting. Sometimes it is.But many times...

It's something much simpler.
Running conversion ads to people who have never heard of your business.

Think about it like this.
Imagine you're walking on Al Nahda Street.
A complete stranger stops you and says,
"Buy my product." No introduction. No conversation. No trust.

What would you do?
You'd probably keep walking.
That's exactly how cold audiences react to conversion ads.They don't know your business.They've never seen your work. They have no reason to trust you yet.

So they scroll. The budget gets spent. The leads don't come and the business owner ends up saying,
"Meta Ads don't work."

But the problem wasn't Meta Ads. The strategy was.The lesson nobody tells you is this, People rarely buy the first time they see you. First they need to know you. Then they need to trust you. Only then are they ready to take action.

That's why I like to build campaigns in three simple stages. First, awareness. Let people discover your business. Then engagement. Retarget the people who watched, clicked or interacted with your content.And finally, conversion.

Now you are speaking to people who already know who you are. That's how a proper Meta Ads funnel works and that's exactly what I am building right now for two real Dubai businesses.

I'll be sharing everything here.The wins. The mistakes.And what actually works in the real world.

Follow for the journey 👇

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