Attention of your audience is the ultimate commodity. And the most expensive. Can be easily wasted. Trust of your customers is the ultimate goal. And the most precious. Cannot be bought.
If your marketing budget is limited (and when is it not?) - choose to market to one thousand people ten times over the year than to market to ten thousand people all at once. Intensity, as always, beats extensiveness.
If everyone is running facebook ads, test out banners that no one uses anymore. If everyone is marketing online, market offline. If your pretty ads aren't working, try ugly ones. Do what others are not doing, and you'll do well.
Good ads attract the right people to your offers and brand. Great ads concurrently repel the bad prospects. This lowers your stress as well as overhead.
Everything starts with vision. Your business is getting nowhere if you don't know exactly where it is headed. There can be no strategy, no tactics, no implementation nor execution without vision.