Lets hop right into it. Facebook can be a powerful advertising tool but there are several things that annoy me about the platform or I think could be done better. So here are 15 of those things that I think Facebook should fix in order to make the platform better for advertisers. Update: Since writing this article, Facebook has made some updates to their platform around the … [Read more...] about 15 Things Facebook Ads Should Do Better
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What it Means to Provide Value as a Digital Marketer
Value. It’s a concept that we all understand in theory, and we have all certainly faced this question in our professional lives: “What value do you bring?”. It can be a tricky question to answer, and to even begin to answer it we first must have an understand of this word “value”. This is the cliché part where I include a Merriam-Webster definition of “value” Source It’s a … [Read more...] about What it Means to Provide Value as a Digital Marketer
The Missing Ingredient to Your PPC Strategy: Non-Branded Campaigns
You may have a client, or you may be a client, asking the question, should we spend more on branded or non-branded terms? Like anything in PPC, it depends on the industry, the type of product/service, what your competitors are doing, how your PPC account is currently set up, etc. Having worked with a variety of clients, I have seen a wide range of strategies. Two opposing … [Read more...] about The Missing Ingredient to Your PPC Strategy: Non-Branded Campaigns
4 Facebook Ad Time Saving Tools
Digital marketing can be very time consuming. Advertising across multiple channels and devices can consume all your bandwidth if you let it. That's why you need to take advantage of every time saving tool and feature you can. Facebook has really grown and allowed users to automate and mass edit their campaigns in recent months. Utilizing these four features in Facebook will … [Read more...] about 4 Facebook Ad Time Saving Tools
How to Project Budgets for PPC Accounts with Sporadic Spend
Part of paid search is planning ahead to know how to spend your client’s money in the best possible way. To do that you need to start with a budget and delegate which platforms get a piece of your budget pie. But what happens when you aren’t given a budget and asked to give projections for a client? If the client has an established search campaign you can look at past … [Read more...] about How to Project Budgets for PPC Accounts with Sporadic Spend
Only 15 Hero Conf London Passes Left at 30% Off
At Hero Conf, we can tout that our speakers are required to provide at least three actionable takeaways from each presentation, or the fact that you have direct access to key players in paid search, including execs from Microsoft, Quora, iProspect & Merkle. But instead of expanding upon our own humble brags, we thought you're better off hearing it from our attendees … [Read more...] about Only 15 Hero Conf London Passes Left at 30% Off
3 Methods for Training PPC Teams
To Nerd, or Not To Nerd My whole life, I have been a nerd. From elementary through high school, I took advanced classes. I had a free period in high school and chose to fill it with an independent study. I played violin in the orchestra. I read books for fun. I raised my hand in class, always. I never really had a problem with the label of "nerd". So when I became a PPC Nerd … [Read more...] about 3 Methods for Training PPC Teams
Personalized Training to Become a PPC Superhero
If you could divulge your biggest challenges in paid search advertising to an expert who is highly revered by industry peers, approved by 15 US & UK agency leaders, and a driving force in PPC innovation, would you? At Hero Conf you can. Hopefully by now your experience with PPC Hero has introduced you to Hero Conf, our annual PPC conference encompassing all the training, … [Read more...] about Personalized Training to Become a PPC Superhero
Spend Smarter: Identifying Account Opportunities
Budgeting can be a tricky thing. Oftentimes we run into one of the following situations: Performance has been steady, but we’re limited in what we can spend. Wow we want to grow the account. The client comes to us asking if we could spend more, if so, how much more? What will the outcome be? The client comes to us saying that they have additional $X to spend, but their … [Read more...] about Spend Smarter: Identifying Account Opportunities
Easy Steps to Complete a Competitor Analysis
Always wish you could have one eye on the competition? Don’t we all. We all want to always stay one step ahead of the competition, and that’s where we want to share our expertise with you. By utilizing auction insights, you can better identify what you want to target and use the data to decide what your audience is doing and how you can be the best of the best. In this … [Read more...] about Easy Steps to Complete a Competitor Analysis
Stop Whining. Start Winning. Swiftly Navigating the New AdWords UI
The new AdWords interface is here, and everyone has an opinion about the new layout. This blog is not an opinion piece. You won't find me crying into my pillow about the AdWords interface updating by the end of 2018, scrapping our old AdWords dashboard navigation for good. This blog will teach you the more technical side of actually navigating the interface, for those of us … [Read more...] about Stop Whining. Start Winning. Swiftly Navigating the New AdWords UI
Reasons to Not Use an Automated PPC Bidding Strategy
AdWords offers many fantastic automated PPC Bidding Strategies for your accounts and campaigns. In a previous article, I discussed When Flexible Bid Strategies Are Right For You. Recently, Krista Hsieh wrote an excellent article about Testing New Bidding Strategies Through AdWords Experiments. In this article, we are going to discuss reasons you might want to avoid using … [Read more...] about Reasons to Not Use an Automated PPC Bidding Strategy
