Hanapin has access to several different reporting platforms. I was curious which reporting platform Hanapin’s team prefers. After sending out a poll, the results revealed our team really only uses 3 platforms, and one of them might surprise you. The top three platforms were: Optmyzr (37%), NinjaCat (26%), and Google Sheets (26%). Over the coming months, I will be highlighting … [Read more...] about Leveraging Optmyzr Part 1: Creating PPC Reports
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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
Tools to Help You Survive the GDN Mobile App Changes
This post is a follow up to our first episode of The PPC Newsflash, the new webinar series where we will bring you expert commentary on the newest updates in the PPC industry. See the video below, or if you're multitasking and just want to listen, check out the podcast! Once upon a time, mobile app exclusions were as easy as blocking adsenseformobileapps.com. That feature is … [Read more...] about Tools to Help You Survive the GDN Mobile App Changes
Why You Need To Be Layering & Testing Search Audiences
It seems like much of the news coming out of Google Ads and Bing is the continued push towards audiences whether they be custom made or created by the platforms themselves. From in-market audiences for search, custom intent audiences, and I’m sure more in the future, we’re being presented some great targeting options and you really need to be testing these out across your own … [Read more...] about Why You Need To Be Layering & Testing Search Audiences
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
9 Tips To Reduce Cost-Per-Lead
Here at Hanapin, all of my clients are focused on lead-gen, so you can probably guess that cost-per-lead (CPL) is a primary metric I focus on and goal-set for, if not the KPI for the account. If you also manage accounts that rely on generating quality leads for a low CPL, this post is especially for you! I’d like to offer some quick tips for reducing CPL, as well as offer some … [Read more...] about 9 Tips To Reduce Cost-Per-Lead
Geographic Customizers: Feed & Ad Creation
It can be difficult to find new things to test out. Whether you’re working with an older account or one that is conservative in new ventures, geo modifier ads can be a great way to test something new within the familiar form of ad copy testing! This is a great way to micro-target your PPC audience with a bit of automation. When recently tasked with creating ads that change … [Read more...] about Geographic Customizers: Feed & Ad Creation
The Ultimate Guide to PPC Marketing
What is PPC? PPC (pay-per-click) marketing is a form of online advertising in which advertisers accrue costs when users click their ads. Advertisers bid on the perceived value of a click in relation to the keywords, platforms, and audience type in which it originates. Paid search advertising and Pay Per Click management can be hugely effective form or digital marketing. With … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Guide to PPC Marketing
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3 Best Practices for Universal App Campaigns
Universal App Campaigns were launched in mid-2015 as part of Google's efforts to utilize machine-learning in its advertising product offerings. Google has since rebranded this effort as simply “App Campaigns”. The goal is for the machine-learning system to analyze, in real-time, hundreds of millions of signals to put your app in front of the best possible users. We saw Google's … [Read more...] about 3 Best Practices for Universal App Campaigns
All You Need to Know to Succeed With CPA Bidding
For a newer article on this topic visit: Google Ads Target CPA Bidding: Benefits & Drawbacks Using CPA bidding is like living with an unpredictable pet. He’s as likely to bite your guest’s hand as he is to be a saint. There are mixed feelings about using Target CPA bidding. But there’s one big question: are there enough benefits to CPA bidding to … [Read more...] about All You Need to Know to Succeed With CPA Bidding