You may or may not have read my post last year about how to use AdWords attribution models, but Google is stepping up their already impressive reporting game and combining their reporting tools to give you one solid platform that incorporates Analytics, AdWords, and DoubleClick. If you own a PPC strategy for your client or company, chances are you use more than one channel … [Read more...] about Why I’m Excited For The New Google Attribution
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Is Your Responsive Design Meeting The Needs Of Your Mobile Visitors?
The “rise of mobile” continues to be a hot topic for marketers. It’s important to understand where people are spending their time and where advertisers are spending their money. So, how much time are people spending on their phones? Four hours. That’s how much time people are spending on their mobile phones today. According to eMarketer, mobile now accounts for about 60% … [Read more...] about Is Your Responsive Design Meeting The Needs Of Your Mobile Visitors?
Guide to URL Tracking In Google Analytics
8/12/2020 What is URL Tracking? URL tracking is the process of adding unique identifiers to your final URLs. If you aren’t tagging your URLs for tracking in either Google Analytics or your analytics platform of choice, you are losing out on helpful information. When you manage pay-per-click campaigns in conjunction with other online marketing efforts, it is extremely … [Read more...] about Guide to URL Tracking In Google Analytics
The 5 Stages Of PPC Account Restructuring
During my tenure as a PPC account manager I've found few things to be more anxiety provoking than the performance of a brand new account structure. Those first couple weeks of data are pivotal not only for account success, but for establishing client confidence moving forward. Following the launch of a brand new account structure, I typically go through a series of emotions … [Read more...] about The 5 Stages Of PPC Account Restructuring
Get the Skills to Grow Your Agency by 25% – YOY!
Accelerate your Agency Learning by 2 Years...in 2 Days! You are competing with roughly 14,000 other digital agencies. And you’ve been doing it blind. Without outside perspective. Without benchmarks. Without the support of those that have successfully done it all before. If you're struggling with employee retention and are tired of that pit in your stomach anytime someone … [Read more...] about Get the Skills to Grow Your Agency by 25% – YOY!
FAME: Exploring Facebook’s Ads Manager for Excel
One of the largest aspects of digital marketing distinguishing it from traditional forms of advertising is the amount of information available in near real-time - information on consumer attributes and behaviors relating directly to the marketer's efforts. The data we accrue can be used to immediately measure the success of a campaign, evaluate the best strategies for a brand, … [Read more...] about FAME: Exploring Facebook’s Ads Manager for Excel
Training The New Generation Of Digital Marketers
Humans now have a shorter attention span than goldfish. In 2015, there was a study conducted by Microsoft on the human attention span. The study showed that the average attention span of 12 seconds had slowly been declining down to 8 seconds since 2000. In comparison, scientists have studied goldfish in the past to have 9-second attention spans. Addressing Shorter … [Read more...] about Training The New Generation Of Digital Marketers
Perform Better Analysis With Facebook Integrated Tools
Let’s face it. Analyzing marketing data regardless of platform or channel dominates digital marketing. We spend increasingly larger amounts of time trying to understand what our ad efforts are accomplishing, troubleshooting problem spots, and making optimizations based on that data. At any given time, there are tons of marketing platforms that are designed to solve every … [Read more...] about Perform Better Analysis With Facebook Integrated Tools
We Want Your Speaking Pitch…Now!
Fresh off of truly fantastic experience at Hero Conf Los Angeles (91% of attendees say they'll be returning), we're jumping right back into planning for our next event. And we need your help. Our speakers are the single most important part of our live event experience. So here is the open call to make your voice heard. Through May 31, we're accepting speaking pitches for Hero … [Read more...] about We Want Your Speaking Pitch…Now!
Isolate Your Competition’s Weaknesses To Strengthen Your PPC Efforts
Competition is literally the foundation of our industry. If it were not for the strategy behind competing in the auction, machines would be more than capable of carrying the duties of PPC and the world would have less PPC unicorns. It’s safe to say that most of us are, at the very least, aware of who our competitors are, but are you watching them and studying them? Do you … [Read more...] about Isolate Your Competition’s Weaknesses To Strengthen Your PPC Efforts
Attribution is Awesome! Here’s Why It’s Terrible
As I recently wrote in A Tale of Attribution Woe (read that beginner-post first if the idea of attribution is fairly new to you), understanding attribution well (note, I didn't say "figuring it out") is an essential part of any digital marketing strategy. Unfortunately, it is also an evolving industry… which means there is still a lot of guesswork and change … [Read more...] about Attribution is Awesome! Here’s Why It’s Terrible
First Impressions Of The New Google AdWords Dashboard
I started working with a new client recently and was delighted to find that the interface automatically reverts to the new AdWords dashboard. My first reaction went something like this. But after scrolling around and pushing some buttons, I took the more philosophical approach. I am confident that the changes Google has made are for the better, and it's only my … [Read more...] about First Impressions Of The New Google AdWords Dashboard