I work with a brand that has a large presence on social media but is always looking for new ways to acquire new customers and expand their reach on Google. Since they regularly use Facebook, we have access to lots of creative assets. We have dabbled in some display advertising before, but they were looking for something new to try. The solution? Discovery … [Read more...] about Discovery Ads for New Customer Acquisition
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The Guide To Google Ads’ Reach Planner
Google Ads Reach Planner is a powerful tool within the Google Ads UI that can predict total user reach, costs, and frequency based on a number of audiences and budgetary inputs. I have personally used the tool for projection presentations a number of times now and the media plans the reach planner outputs are well-received by clients. Generally, the projections are decently … [Read more...] about The Guide To Google Ads’ Reach Planner
How To Create Facebook Video Ads
If you want to get more bang for your buck from Facebook ads, it is time to switch to video. Facebook video ads can drive more clicks and leads. They do better because something that moves in the feed will certainly attract more attention than a still image. And you also get to share more information and convince people to check out your landing page. This can be vital … [Read more...] about How To Create Facebook Video Ads
How To Navigate Google Optimize – A Free Website Optimization Tool
We all know that PPC campaigns that drive traffic to a website are useless if the landing page is ineffective. That’s why conversion rate optimization (CRO) and a wide selection of CRO platforms exist. Google Optimize is similar to other CRO platforms such as VWO or Optimizely and serves the same purpose; to facilitate landing page testing in order to increase conversion … [Read more...] about How To Navigate Google Optimize – A Free Website Optimization Tool
When Should You Use Google’s Conversion Action Sets?
When a customer completes an action on your website that you’ve identified as valuable, you call it a conversion. Conversions could be phone calls, content downloads, form fills, transactions, etc. Within Google Ads, you have the ability to create as many “conversions” as you deem necessary for your business. But how do you align each conversion type with its respective … [Read more...] about When Should You Use Google’s Conversion Action Sets?
Despite Facebook boycotts, 81% of survey respondents were advertising in the platform last month
We’ve been tracking COVID-19’s impact on the paid media industry with our Paid Media Pulse dashboard, a report which shares survey data from marketers across the globe every month. The dashboard gives you insights on where paid media dollars are being invested and what predictions look like for the next month. We just updated the dashboard with the newest data! Here … [Read more...] about Despite Facebook boycotts, 81% of survey respondents were advertising in the platform last month
5 Tips for Marketers: Write Simple, Persuasive Messages Your Audience Will Actually Read
You sit down to write an important report or email to a client, boss, or co-worker. After much effort, you click “send”. You’ve outlined your strategies with great detail. You’ve set expectations and made recommendations. Then, your reader comes back to you with the most disappointing response of all: “Oh, that email? I didn’t have a chance to read it.” You could … [Read more...] about 5 Tips for Marketers: Write Simple, Persuasive Messages Your Audience Will Actually Read
Does Facebook post engagement drive sales?
Social media marketing is an interesting profession. SMM thrives with good creative, which in turn drives high engagement for the content promoted. An ad with good creative can receive plenty of engagement, as likes, comments, and even shares. While this can be a good thing for brand-oriented campaigns if your goal is conversion-oriented, this doesn't always correlate with … [Read more...] about Does Facebook post engagement drive sales?
Preventing and Navigating Google Merchant Center Suspensions
Receiving an email from Google alerting you that your Merchant Center has been suspended is a worst-case scenario for any advertiser utilizing shopping campaigns to promote and sell their products. All campaigns immediately cease delivering and will remain in this state until the Merchant Center is reinstated. Navigating Merchant Center suspensions can be confusing and … [Read more...] about Preventing and Navigating Google Merchant Center Suspensions
How To Use Geo Exclusions To Measure Brand Ad Value
In the Fall of 2019, the PPC Twitter-verse was newly abuzz with a question that has been around for as long as the industry has existed: is it worth it to bid on brand keywords? At the time, we wrote about that topic extensively - see Matt Umbro’s “The Great Brand Keyword Debate: What You Need To Consider” for a detailed recap. As with many questions, the answer to the … [Read more...] about How To Use Geo Exclusions To Measure Brand Ad Value
Tips for Building Expansion Proposals
When things are going well it can be difficult to get the creative juices flowing and come up with your next brilliant move to expand your business’s marketing plan. Today, I’ll outline a few things that “past you” can do to make “future you” look like a genius with minimal effort. Keep track of your tangents Meetings can be an excellent petri dish for brainstorming. … [Read more...] about Tips for Building Expansion Proposals
Top 9 ASO Mistakes
App store optimization, or ASO, is a marvelous world of opportunities for mobile apps and games. With the help of ASO, mobile publishers increase the discoverability of their apps in the app stores and, what’s even more important, improve the conversion rates. The biggest dream and at the same time goal of every mobile publisher is to put an app in the limelight and occupy the … [Read more...] about Top 9 ASO Mistakes
