This is the story of a creative copywriter who managed to secure a job by spending merely $6 on Google AdWords.
New York based Alec Brownstein created ad campaigns on Google targeting the directors of various advertising companies where he wanted to apply for a job.
When these executives were ego surfing on the web, they noticed the ads on Google with their own names and that creative and original thinking helped me secure his dream job.
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