This week we had the opportunity to interview Marc Poirier, Co-Founder and CMO of Acquisio. Hero Conf is proud to not only have Marc as a speaker, but also to have Acquisio as our Platinum Sponsor! We enjoyed hearing Marc...
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Learning from “Controls”
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...
Interview with Webinar Presenter- When and How to Increase PPC Budgets
Have you signed up for our January 23 webinar? If not, please take a moment to watch this interview with presenter, Jeff Allen. He discusses who should participate, what will be covered, and key takeaways! There’s still time- Register here!...
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Shorten Your Sales Cycle with PPC After the Conversion
For most, PPC is an invaluable way to drive leads and/or ecommerce sales. But with its precise targeting capabilities, PPC is also an amazing way to stay in front of these leads and customers to increase closing rates, reduce sales cycle time,...
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Conversion Rate Redemption! Receive a FREE Account Analysis with Hero Conf Registration Through 1/22
Now through January 22nd, receive a free analysis of your AdWords account with your Hero Conf registration- compliments of Query Miner! Act now, because this is limited to the first 25 registrants. Once you register, we will send you a...
Using Project Management to Help PPC
The versatility of a great project manager can assist a company in many functions. When reviewing a PPC marketing campaign, consider utilizing best practice project management skills to promote a strategy that can bring increased efficiency and profitability to your...
MSN adCenter Keyword Normalization & The Frustration Therefrom
Microsoft's adCenter blog recently published a blog post about MSN's keyword normalization & how this can cause duplicate keywords in your adCenter account. The way they put it, you can't upload keywords they normalize as the same keywords into an...
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Ad Testing Made Easy: Series Wrap Up
Thanks for joining us on another week-long series here on PPC Hero! Hopefully after this week you are ready to start thinking about implementing ad testing in your own accounts, or maybe you’ve already decided to jump in. (Hey, we...
Improve PPC Results by Ignoring Conversions – Case Study
Can relying on interface data, specifically lead numbers and CPL significantly hurt your PPC accounts’ performance? The following is a case study that sheds light on exactly this, and will show you why I have cut down on the time...
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Ad Testing Made Easy: Getting Over Challenges for Necessity
The final installment to this month’s PPC Hero series on Ad Testing Made Easy will focus on covering why ad testing can be difficult and why it is so important to keep at the top of the priority list in...
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Information Architecture For Your PPC Account – By Hero Conf Speaker Shawn Livengood
This week we had the pleasure of hearing from Shawn Livengood, Online Marketing Manager at BuildASign.com and author of the blog PPC Without Pity. Shawn will be speaking about Account Structure at Hero Conf (April 16-17, 2012, Indianapolis, IN). In...
The Importance of Negative Keywords
I’m going to apologize right off the bat for this tired cliché, but not all keywords are created equal. There are, in fact, tons of keywords you don’t want anywhere near your campaigns, driving ‘bad’ traffic to your website. In...
