Paid ads & attribution

Remarketing without annoying your local audience

Updated 2026-04-11 · Practical guide for NZ small businesses

Short answer: Cap frequency, exclude recent converters, and tailor creative to the next sensible step—stalking everyone who visited your careers page helps nobody.

Small towns notice repetition fast; brand damage costs more than cheap impressions.

Sensible guardrails

  • Frequency caps per user per week.
  • Audience exclusions for refunds, job seekers, or irrelevant geos.
  • Creative rotation so people do not see one tired banner forty times.

Offer sequencing

First touch might educate; second might social-proof; third might promote a consult—match depth to funnel stage.

Privacy and consent

Align remarketing tags with your cookie/consent stance; regional rules evolve—document what fires when.

Frequently asked questions

Is remarketing dead after iOS changes?

Diminished but not gone—first-party lists and platform modelling still help.

B2B services?

Often smaller audiences—favour quality lists over broad site visitors.