# Lobo Media Marketing

> Lobo Media Marketing is a marketing consultancy founded by Jiun Liao, built around a philosophy called Human Marketing. The core belief is that durable marketing is built on trust, earned attention, and genuine relationship rather than algorithmic tactics or manufactured volume. Lobo offers two flagship services: The World Map (audience and experience architecture for businesses that need narrative direction) and The Marketing World Build (full marketing foundation including strategy, positioning, voice, and campaign direction). The site publishes articles on marketing strategy, brand trust, and why conventional marketing approaches often fail.

> Key topics covered on this site include: human-centred marketing strategy, brand positioning, audience experience design, why trust-based marketing outperforms tactics-based marketing, and how businesses can build marketing that people actually want to receive. Lobo is based in Ontario, Canada and works with founders and business owners who want marketing built on substance rather than noise.

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## Pages

- [Page 1](https://lobomedia.ca/google-ads/page-1/): Every month, a new invoice arrives. And every month, after quickly glossing over the ads report that’s just a whole...
- [Anti-Viral Podcast](https://lobomedia.ca/anti-viral-podcast/): Available on Latest Episodes
- [Marketing Root System](https://lobomedia.ca/marketing-root-system/): Think about what keeps a tree standing through a storm. It’s not the branches, the leaves, or even the trunk....
- [The Alternative Model](https://lobomedia.ca/human-marketing-manifesto/hmm-2/): We all know Nike and their famous slogan, “Just Do It”. What’s funny is that every time I see a...
- [Strategy For World Builders](https://lobomedia.ca/human-marketing-manifesto/hmm-3/): A lot of people confuse strategy with planning. A plan is what comes after doing strategy, because you should already...
- [Human Marketing Manifesto](https://lobomedia.ca/human-marketing-manifesto/): Right now, most businesses are caught in what I call the algorithm trap. They’re optimizing for machines instead of humans....
- [The Algorithm Trap](https://lobomedia.ca/human-marketing-manifesto/hmm-1/): The algorithm trap didn’t emerge from nowhere. It’s the logical conclusion of a marketing framework that every agency, every freelancer,...
- [Google Ads](https://lobomedia.ca/google-ads/): Be Found When It Matters Most With Google Ads At Lobo Media Marketing, we believe every business deserves to be...
- [The Business of Creativity: A Blueprint for Entrepreneurs to Grow, Build, and Stand Out](https://lobomedia.ca/creativity-for-entrepreneurs/): When you hear the word “creative”, we immediately associate it with Picasso, Mozart, Shakespeare, the Beatles. Creativity is something reserved...
- [The Nature of Creativity](https://lobomedia.ca/creativity-for-entrepreneurs/creativity-for-entrepreneurs-1/): “If you know what you want to do and you do it, that’s the work of a craftsman. If you...
- [Generating Creative Ideas](https://lobomedia.ca/creativity-for-entrepreneurs/creativity-for-entrepreneurs-2/): “Making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. ”— Charles Mingus The business world...
- [The Business of Creativity](https://lobomedia.ca/creativity-for-entrepreneurs/creativity-for-entrepreneurs-3/): If you remember earlier in this guide, I mentioned Bernadette Jiwa’s book, Story Driven. In it, she argues that there...
- [Values](https://lobomedia.ca/values/): Values are the guiding principles that shape an individual’s actions and choices in life, serving as the framework for our...
- [Digital Advertising Services](https://lobomedia.ca/digital-advertising-services/): Advertising that generates happy customers Welcome to our little integrity corner of the internet... A place where ambitious, fiercely empathetic...
- [Speaking](https://lobomedia.ca/speaking/): Marketing Speaker My extensive repertoire of interests – history, science, psychology, sales and writing – makes me a bit of...
- [Add A Human Touch to Your Digital Advertising](https://lobomedia.ca/human-centred-advertising-4/): Making your entire customer journey more human, from ads to buying your product, requires two specific tools entrepreneurs often shove...
- [Human-Centred Advertising: The power of building relationship driven growth engines](https://lobomedia.ca/human-centred-advertising-1/): Many entrepreneurs step into the world of advertising with a simple equation in mind: money spent equals clients gained. And...
- [Marketing Experiences](https://lobomedia.ca/human-centred-advertising-2/): Imagine if, instead of bombarding potential clients with typical ads about your products, we used those ads to invite them...
- [Experience Examples](https://lobomedia.ca/human-centred-advertising-3/): You’ve probably been part of several marketing experiences in your lifetime, you just might not have been aware of it....
- [Beyond Advertising](https://lobomedia.ca/beyond-advertising/): Feeling Stuck in Your Business Growth? Many small businesses that make it, grow in the early years through referrals. Providing...
- [How Advertising Should Be](https://lobomedia.ca/how-advertising-should-be/): Navigating the world of advertising can often feel overwhelming and frustrating. Agencies and marketers knocking on your door telling you...
- [Happy Customers By Design](https://lobomedia.ca/happy-customers-by-design/): To some people, this will sound crazy. Marketing is about building relationships. About communicating information in a way that people...
- [Relationship Building](https://lobomedia.ca/relationship-building/): When US president Rutherford B. Hayes laid eyes on Alexander Graham Bell’s invention in 1876, he said: “That’s an amazing...
- [Worlds](https://lobomedia.ca/worlds/): “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you’re willing to do. ” —...
- [Marketing Experiences - The Art of Attracting and Growing Happy Customers](https://lobomedia.ca/marketing-experiences/): You’ve already been part of several marketing experiences in your lifetime, you just might not have been aware of it....
- [Pull Marketing - Build Relationships Through Storytelling in Marketing](https://lobomedia.ca/pull-marketing-building-relationships/): As you journey through the pages of this guide, I will be introducing you to some concepts that may be...
- [Attracting Attention](https://lobomedia.ca/attracting-attention/): I will never forget my visit to New York. Just before I entered university (many, many years ago... ), my...
- [Retaining Attention](https://lobomedia.ca/retaining-attention/): A friend of mine sent me an email in August of 2023 with the subject line: “I think you’re going...
- [Delivering Value](https://lobomedia.ca/delivering-value/): A lot of businesses create campaigns with the end of the customer journey being their product or service. There’s nothing...
- [Push vs. Pull](https://lobomedia.ca/push-vs-pull/): A comment from Paul D about push marketing: We’ve all experienced push marketing. It’s objection-crushing, persuasive sales minded marketing with...
- [Humpty Dumpty Story](https://lobomedia.ca/humpty/): This is a story that was created for the purposes of highlighting what can be accomplished when it comes to...
- [Digital Business Card](https://lobomedia.ca/digital-business-card/): Other Projects
- [Digital Marketing Barrie](https://lobomedia.ca/digital-marketing-barrie/): It turns out we don’t need everyone. We don’t even need a lot of people (yeah, seriously). We just need...
- [Digital Marketing Orillia](https://lobomedia.ca/digital-marketing-orillia/): It turns out we don’t need everyone. We don’t even need a lot of people (yeah, seriously). We just need...
- [Marketing Consulting](https://lobomedia.ca/digital-marketing-services/marketing-consulting/): If you’ve landed here, it means you are looking for help, for direction. You have been thrown into marketing with...
- [Spray and Pray](https://lobomedia.ca/3-things-every-business-should-know-about-digital-advertising/spray-and-pray/): How many times, in the back of your mind, this little voice inside your head tells you “I swear most...
- [Be Outcome Focused](https://lobomedia.ca/3-things-every-business-should-know-about-digital-advertising/be-outcome-focused/): Remember the first page of this journey? What is the goal you want to accomplish, and everything including your reports...
- [3 Things Every Business Should Know About Digital Advertising](https://lobomedia.ca/3-things-every-business-should-know-about-digital-advertising/): You’ve probably heard of the terms Click Through Rate, Cost Per Click, Impressions, etc. Whether you tried to dabble on...
- [Courses](https://lobomedia.ca/courses/)
- [Checkout](https://lobomedia.ca/checkout/)
- [Growing Better Email List](https://lobomedia.ca/subscribe/): Join a community of entrepreneurs dedicated on Growing Better For the weird few of us that choose not to grow...
- [Digital Marketing Services](https://lobomedia.ca/digital-marketing-services/): The Marketing Root System A comprehensive marketing strategy rooted in who you are with clear priorities and training for your...
- [About](https://lobomedia.ca/about/): I started Lobo Media Marketing in 2018, leaving corporate marketing behind with a young family depending on me. It was...
- [Contact](https://lobomedia.ca/contact/): Let's work together to start moving your marketing in the right direction. Lobo Media Marketing is a company located in...
- [Home](https://lobomedia.ca/): Building Something That Matters You didn’t start this business to manipulate people. You started it because you saw a better...
- [Blog](https://lobomedia.ca/blog/)
- [How to Better Market Your Local Business Online](https://lobomedia.ca/how-to-better-market-your-local-business-online/): How to Better Market Your Local Business Online The pandemic forced everyone to get an online presence. Now most businesses...
- [Attract a Local Audience Online- Free 6 Lesson Email Course](https://lobomedia.ca/attract-local-audience-online-free-6-lesson-email-course/): Attract a Local Audience Online (Free 6 Lesson Email Course) — 6 easy to understand lessons to guide you through...
- [One Page Marketing Plan for Small Businesses](https://lobomedia.ca/one-page-marketing-plan/): The Most Effective Marketing Plan for Small Businesses Simple and Actionable all in one page. Simple – Clear direction for...

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## Posts

- [The Quiet Advantage](https://lobomedia.ca/the-quiet-advantage/): Listen on SpotifyApple PodcastsYouTubePocket CastsiHeart Radio About This Episode The internet is getting louder. Every business with a social media...
- [The Quiet Advantage Transcript](https://lobomedia.ca/the-quiet-advantage-transcript/): Back to episode The internet is getting louder. Content sounds exactly the same, and ads are screaming at the same...
- [The Algorithm Trap Transcript](https://lobomedia.ca/the-algorithm-trap-transcript/): Back to episode The Algorithm Trap: Understanding Marketing’s Disconnect Algorithms don’t have wallets. AI can’t become loyal customers. Machines don’t...
- [The Algorithm Trap](https://lobomedia.ca/the-algorithm-trap/): The Algorithm Trap Listen on Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Pocket Casts iHeart Radio About This Episode Most businesses are building...
- [How Do You Decide What AI Should Do in Your Business?](https://lobomedia.ca/how-to-decide-what-ai-should-do-in-business/): Most conversations about AI in business start with the same question: what can it do? To me, that’s the wrong...
- [What Is Worth Keeping Human?](https://lobomedia.ca/what-is-worth-keeping-human/): AI has taken over the world, wouldn’t you say? All major services and apps have found a way to squeeze...
- [The Internet Promised Connection. Marketing Chose Extraction](https://lobomedia.ca/internet-promised-connection-marketing-extraction/): When the internet first came out, it promised worldwide connection. Human interaction at scale. The democratization of voice and opportunity....
- [Earning a Customer's Attention](https://lobomedia.ca/earning-a-customers-attention/): There’s a large difference between earning attention and expecting attention. Expecting that people are going to be interested in what...
- [You Know Your Target Audience Better Than You Think](https://lobomedia.ca/you-know-your-target-audience-better-than-you-think/): Everyone has had that moment when you first meet a prospective client. They ask a question, or say something. Just...
- [How To Promote Your Business Locally](https://lobomedia.ca/how-to-promote-your-business-locally/): As a small business owner with a local service area, you’re probably trying to understand the idea of marketing only...
- [Small Business Marketing - Answers To the 5 Most Common Questions](https://lobomedia.ca/small-business-marketing-answers-to-the-5-most-common-questions/): Marketing is a difficult concept to grasp for many business owners. You typically have a product or an idea that...
- [Top 10 Google Ads Examples (Using Ad Extensions)](https://lobomedia.ca/top-10-google-ads-examples-using-ad-extensions/): Picture this: you’re searching for something on Google. Suddenly, a website with impressive ad extensions catches your eye. Intrigued, you...
- [Optimize For Happy Customers Today](https://lobomedia.ca/optimize-for-happy-customers-today/): Have you ever thought of what your goal is when marketing your business? 9 times out of 10 (based on...
- [Choose Your Target Market Correctly](https://lobomedia.ca/choose-your-target-market-correctly/): Knowing your target market is remarkably important for modern marketing. Without catering your marketing to a specific audience, you are...
- [The Future Of The Marketing Funnel](https://lobomedia.ca/the-future-of-the-marketing-funnel/): You already know the standard marketing funnel right? The one that looks like an inverted pyramid. The top is whatever...
- [Building Your Marketing World](https://lobomedia.ca/building-your-marketing-world/): There is immense power when we see everything as interconnected with each other. Your marketing is not seen as separate...
- [Applying The Infinite Game Mindset to Earn Your Customer's Attention](https://lobomedia.ca/the-infinite-game-mindset-earn-customers-attention/): As a Strategic Marketing Consultant, I believe marketing should be about marketing with people and not to them. Earning your...
- [Top 10 Questions to Ask During a Customer Interview](https://lobomedia.ca/top-10-questions-to-ask-during-a-customer-interview/): You want to ask the right questions during a customer interview. You want to make sure that the time set...
- [What is Marketing Strategy and Why You Need it](https://lobomedia.ca/what-is-marketing-strategy/): If you have been following me for a while, you know my main passion is about marketing strategy. I always...
- [How to Write Copy That Resonates During COVID-19](https://lobomedia.ca/how-to-write-copy-during-covid-19/): The best solution to fight Coronavirus right now is about social distancing and staying at home as much as possible....
- [Word of Mouth - Do Something Worth Sharing](https://lobomedia.ca/word-of-mouth-something-worth-sharing/): Did you know, in a study by USM, they found that 91% of purchases were influenced by word of mouth?...

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- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/what-is-worth-keeping-human/
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- Published: 2026-02-20
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- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/internet-promised-connection-marketing-extraction/
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- Published: 2023-05-04
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- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/earning-a-customers-attention/
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- Published: 2023-05-04
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- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/you-know-your-target-audience-better-than-you-think/
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- Published: 2022-07-22
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- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/how-to-promote-your-business-locally/
- Categories: Marketing Strategy, Word-of-Mouth
- Tags: Google Ads, marketing advice, networking, orillia marketing
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- Published: 2022-01-31
- Modified: 2022-01-31
- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/small-business-marketing-answers-to-the-5-most-common-questions/
- Categories: Customer Research, Marketing Strategy
- Tags: marketing advice, marketing plan, marketing strategy, referral marketing
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- Published: 2021-11-12
- Modified: 2023-07-18
- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/top-10-google-ads-examples-using-ad-extensions/
- Categories: Digital Advertising, Digital Marketing
- Tags: barrie marketing, Google Ads, Google Adwords, orillia marketing
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- Published: 2021-11-05
- Modified: 2021-10-22
- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/optimize-for-happy-customers-today/
- Categories: Word-of-Mouth
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- Published: 2021-10-29
- Modified: 2021-10-22
- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/choose-your-target-market-correctly/
- Categories: Customer Research
- Tags: barrie marketing, marketing advice, orillia marketing, target market
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- Published: 2021-10-22
- Modified: 2021-10-22
- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/the-future-of-the-marketing-funnel/
- Categories: Marketing Strategy
- Tags: marketing advice, marketing plan, marketing strategy
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- Published: 2021-03-04
- Modified: 2021-10-22
- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/building-your-marketing-world/
- Categories: Marketing Strategy
- Tags: marketing funnel, marketing strategy
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- Published: 2020-06-30
- Modified: 2021-10-22
- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/the-infinite-game-mindset-earn-customers-attention/
- Categories: Marketing Strategy
- Tags: barrie marketing, earned attention, marketing advice, marketing strategy, orillia marketing
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- Published: 2020-06-10
- Modified: 2022-02-03
- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/top-10-questions-to-ask-during-a-customer-interview/
- Categories: Customer Research
- Tags: barrie marketing, customer interviews, customer research, marketing advice, marketing strategy, orillia marketing
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- Published: 2020-06-05
- Modified: 2022-02-03
- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/what-is-marketing-strategy/
- Categories: Marketing Strategy
- Tags: barrie marketing, marketing advice, marketing plan, marketing strategy, orillia marketing
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- Published: 2020-04-08
- Modified: 2021-10-22
- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/how-to-write-copy-during-covid-19/
- Categories: Copywriting, Marketing Strategy
- Tags: barrie marketing, copywriting, COVID-19, marketing strategy, orillia marketing
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- Published: 2020-02-18
- Modified: 2026-04-29
- URL: https://lobomedia.ca/word-of-mouth-something-worth-sharing/
- Categories: Marketing Strategy, Word-of-Mouth
- Tags: barrie marketing, marketing strategy, networking, orillia marketing, referral marketing, word of mouth
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