At Hanapin, we encourage our clients to test out many different advertising platforms to see which work best for their business. From my experience, one of the hardest platforms to get clients to buy in to is Facebook. Even though...
Continue Reading Are Facebook Leads Less Valuable Than Google Leads?
Facebook is admirably clear on their advertising guidelines. Lots of (IMO) sane and common-sensical Dos and Don’ts aimed at protecting the user experience. They don’t want users creeped out by ad creative displaying uncanny access to user data They don’t...
Continue Reading When & How to Try to Push the Boundaries on “Non-Existent Functionality”
We here at PPC Hero are all about stretching the reach of our industry, and with that in mind, this week’s news update is going to stretch the definition of the word “news.” This week it came to our attention...
If you’re already dealing with a small image size, as you are in crafting Facebook advertisements, you never want to zoom out on the subject matter — that’ll just make the item appear microscopic. Instead fill the frame with your...
So I couldn’t help but notice this ad on my wife’s Facebook page: You gotta admit, the bold, fluorescent green font proclaiming FREE books would grab they eyeballs of most anyone, and capture the attention of every avid reader that...
Imagine you’re creating a Facebook ad targeted to professional photographers. And you don’t have ready access to the data which would allow you to target by Nikon or Canon preference. Would you still be willing to design ads that call...
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Have you heard anything about the Facebook IPO this week? Me either. Back to reality now…I haven’t been able to avoid this news in the least. The articles keep rolling in too. My favorite addition today was the Washington Post...
It’s social media, right? Meaning that social context has huge influence over what gets noticed and reacted to, right? And by “social context” I mean that you think different thoughts, and are likely to respond to different bids for your...
I once saw a video clip of British-Irish comedian, Jimmy Carr, doing a bit on “enlargement” e-mails, asking if everyone else was getting spammed by them too, or if they were somehow targeting him based on some sort of presumed...
In direct marketing, the ad that sets the performance baseline — the ad you’re writing against — is known as the control. Sometimes controls get beaten and replaced very quickly, and sometimes they run for decades. And learning from successful...
When most people think of testing results for Facebook Ads, they think in terms of boosting click-throughs — getting higher response rate by using the right picture and saying the right things. But that’s an incomplete picture. Don’t get me...
Back when e-commerce was relatively new, one of the go-to best practices for improving usability and conversion was to consistently tell visitors what would happen next. So you would: write embedded links so that visitors could reliably tell where they...
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