Here’s how I would think about how to manage the process of hiring a PPC agency and evaluating performance.
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Canceling eCommerce Summit, What We’ve Learned + Two Requests for Hero Conf
It’s best to just rip the Band-Aid off… Unfortunately, I’m announcing that we’re canceling Hero Conf eCommerce Summit. We’ve already taken a number of steps towards this, one of them being that we’ve removed the eCommerce Summit pages from heroconf.com....
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Now Seeking: A More Representative Speaker Slate
One of the greatest things about Hero Conf is the opportunity to spend three days with colleagues and peers discovering what’s new and forthcoming in the world of PPC. Those peers work across industries and include men and women from...
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Now Hiring: Entire Companies, Part Two
We received a fantastic response from my first post, “Now Hiring: Entire Companies.” It generated lots of activity, comments, and most importantly: we’re currently in three active and promising discussions. Since there was so much attention, I figured that a...
Now Hiring: Entire Companies
As the agency behind PPC Hero and Hero Conf, Hanapin Marketing is always looking for people. Really, really good people. Our careers page is always full of openings. We’re always having conversations with PPC professionals near and far. To do...
Five Questions We Didn’t Have Time For In #ppcchat Today
I just finished today’s #ppcchat (every Tuesday at Noon EST, hosted by @matt_umbro). The streamcap is already live. We only had an hour though, so here’s five questions that we didn’t have time for that I’d like to share! This week’s...
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MichelleMSEM’s Q&A with an AdWords Rep About the New Ad Rotation Settings
This post originally appeared on MichelleMSEM and is cross-posted with permission from @michellemsem. For those of you who keep reasonably up to date with the goings on in Google AdWords, you’ll know that they’ve recently made some changes to the...
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Letter from the CEO – “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we’re going to see a lot of boxes of chocolate and love quotes. At Hanapin, we decided to get into the spirit of things by showing our paid search accounts even more love...
Letter from the CEO – “Maybe we should uh, call ourselves the Febreeze brothers because it’s feeling so fresh right now.”
2011 ended on a high note! Here are some big highlights from last year, from both Hanapin and PPC Hero: We moved into our newly renovated downtown office in the Certified Technology Park. We hired 16 new employees, pushing our...
You mean it’s like, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”
As the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street points out, sometimes we don’t make our goals or succeed on the first attempt. Hanapin Marketing’s goal for PPC Hero was to increase monthly pageviews to 91,906 by December 1, 2011....
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Letter from the CEO – “Looks like you’ve been missing a lot of work lately.”
“I wouldn’t say I’ve been *missing* it, Bob.” You may have noticed that I didn’t post a ‘Letter from the CEO’ in October. My days at Hanapin have been extraordinarily busy lately with planning some big projects. Among them, we’ve...
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Save the Date for Hero Conf 2012!
I’m excited to announce PPC Hero’s signature event! The first annual Hero Conf, originally announced for this month, will now be held on April 16-17, 2012, in downtown Indianapolis. This exciting paid search conference will give you the chance to...
