In my opinion, people go about “user generated” ads in exactly the wrong way. They go about it the lazy way, which is to say they pitch all the work over to the users and customers and then expect the...
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Hero Conf 2014 | Will You Marry Us?
Okay, not actually us. But how about getting married for us and your PPC colleagues. That’s right, we’re inviting one lucky couple to join us in Austin for Hero Conf 2014 to tie the knot. We’d love to have PPC...
Tracking Made Simple – How to Create AdWords & Analytics Tags in Google Tag Manager.
Tracking seems to be a major pain point for most online marketers. Google Tag Manager is an easy to use free tool that helps ease some of those frustrations by allowing you to place one snippet of code on all...
CRO Landing Page Critique [Webinar Recording]
[Recording] Live Critique: CRO Landing Page Clinic What exactly is a landing page critique? In this webinar, we go through a cross section of different landing pages to give our feedback on what we think works and what doesn’t. With...
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Happy Halloween From PPC Hero!
Wishing you a spooky-low cost-per-trick this Halloween! How to make sure your month ends on a sweet note: 3 Tips to Troubleshoot Your Lead Quality Increase the Power of AdWords Scripts With a Few Simple Edits How to Create a...
Best Practices: Optimizing Your Bids By Time of Day
Ever since enhanced campaigns have come into play, bid adjustments have become the heart of any optimization strategies, and discovering the particular day and time that your target audience converts the most will enable you to increase your accounts’ performance...
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56 Days Till Christmas: A Quick Guide To Planning For The Holidays
We’ve seen the leaves changing, sweatshirts adorned with pumpkins, and so much candy everywhere we turn! While we enjoy the fall, that sneaky holiday season is right behind it! If you’ve not yet begun planning for how to manage your...
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Maximize The Value Of Remarketing This Christmas
October is a funny time of year for retailers; summer is over and the build up to Christmas is just beginning. At this time of year traffic starts to increase but conversion rate might not follow suit. Consumers have started...
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Boost Your Remarketing Performance With AdWords & YouTube
October’s almost over, and with it another Redbop has come and gone. This month, my task (along with Carrie Albright) was to educate the team on how to leverage your video content to improve account performance. And in this case,...
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CRO Landing Page Critique [Webinar]
Attention all PPC Heroes! Next Thursday, October 31st, Hanapin will be hosting a Live Landing Page Clinic and we’re looking for volunteers. What exactly is a landing page critique? The plan is to go through a cross section of different...
Social Media PPC: Advertising vs. Content Marketing
I’ll admit it: I used to be the guy that always wanted to get one thing straight — there was Social Media, and there was advertising on social media platforms. It’s an important distinction because a banner ad on a...
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Find New Opportunties and Lower Your CPA with a Simple Heat Map
Heat maps are a great tool for data exploration and analysis. A good heat map effectively utilizes a color scale to impart information on how a range of values compare to one another. Rather than having a large table packed...
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