If you’re anything like me, ideating and building strategies is often much more fun than presenting your plan and being pressed by the question, “what am I going to get from this? How much more revenue (or conversion volume) is this initiative going to provide?” Last year, we talked about forecasting uncertainty in Excel as one way to answer that question. Rachael Law also … [Read more...] about How to Forecast Spend Potential for Paid Social Campaigns [Free Tool]
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What The gclid?
Most of us are aware of Google Ads auto-tagging but don't know how it works. What does auto-tagging do and why is it important in your Google Ads account? Auto-tagging is a way for Google Ads to communicate all the details about a user session to Analytics. In turn, we are able to use the information reported in Analytics to measure post-click behavior. Auto-tagging is a … [Read more...] about What The gclid?
[Hero Academy Video] Targeting the Right Audience in Microsoft Advertising
Search has gone through an evolution. As marketers, we used to be focused on keyword targeting and what someone was searching for at that time. But now the focus has shifted on the people we’re trying to sell to and what we know about them. We’re more focused on how to connect with them and figuring out where they are in our customer journey. With this evolution has come a wide … [Read more...] about [Hero Academy Video] Targeting the Right Audience in Microsoft Advertising
The 3 Search Campaign Analyses You Need To Run
Ongoing PPC search campaign analyses are crucial to improve performance and cut wasted spend. Extensive analysis should always be performed upon acquisition of new accounts, but they should also be conducted as part of account maintenance. There is always room to improve as the paid search landscape is always evolving. In this post, we’ll discuss 3 of the top analyses to run … [Read more...] about The 3 Search Campaign Analyses You Need To Run
Beginner’s Guide to Pinterest for Business
Pinterest is a growing advertising platform that can boost any company’s reach and sales, especially for e-commerce brands. This guide will walk you through setting up your Pinterest for Business account, creating Pins, and launching ads. It will also help you start to create a budding Pinterest strategy that will drive conversions and loyalty from your targeted audience. Why … [Read more...] about Beginner’s Guide to Pinterest for Business
Top 4 Reasons Hanapin Loves Pinterest Ads for Travel
People go to Pinterest to discover new places to travel and to help map out their vacations - from choosing their dream destination to figuring out what kinds of things they should be bringing with them. It's a great place for useful and personalized ideas AND according to Pinterest, 69% of Travel Pinners use Pinterest to discover travel services when deciding to book. So there … [Read more...] about Top 4 Reasons Hanapin Loves Pinterest Ads for Travel
Use Facebook Audience Insights Tools to Swipe Your Competitor’s Customers
One of the great advantages of advertising on Facebook is the ability to fine-tune your audience targeting using the platform’s research tools. With Facebook’s Audience Insights tool, you can go beyond high-level demographics (location, age, gender, etc.) and identify the specific interests, websites, publications and content topics that your current customers (and similar … [Read more...] about Use Facebook Audience Insights Tools to Swipe Your Competitor’s Customers
[Hero Academy Video] What You Need to Know About Naming Conventions
There’s a lot of complexity in running paid ads, so it's easy to let something more simple – like naming your campaigns – fall to the bottom of your to-do list. However, investing the time and energy upfront to build a consistent campaign naming convention will pay off over the long run. Not only does it make your campaigns more organized, but it allows you to pull reports more … [Read more...] about [Hero Academy Video] What You Need to Know About Naming Conventions
Paid and Organic are Indistinguishable
When that reality was, though, was a matter of extreme debate ~ Iliad & Odyssey The idea of Paid Search and SEO being one, has been debated for years. Paid search is pay per click (PPC) traffic that is not free. You have to pay a cost dictated by Amazon, Microsoft Ads, Google, Oath. SEO is free search engine optimized organic traffic, think Yahoo, Google … [Read more...] about Paid and Organic are Indistinguishable
Solve Attribution Woes: Adjust Your Settings & Expectations for a More Comprehensive Marketing Strategy
Very rarely in my PPC life do I bring up the subject of attribution with clients, colleagues, or industry friends without seeing a look of pain cross a face that may have been perfectly congenial a moment ago. Much teeth-sucking and drink sipping ensues when the difficult topic of attribution enters the discussion. We all fear we aren't properly attributing our conversions … [Read more...] about Solve Attribution Woes: Adjust Your Settings & Expectations for a More Comprehensive Marketing Strategy
We Want To Hear From You
Hero Conf's content is formed and molded by the brilliant ideas and inner workings of skilled digital marketers like you. Our thought-leaders are in the trenches daily, innovating and applying the newest trends in paid media to in-house or client accounts all over the world. If leading the charge in paid advertising speaks to you, we want you to speak for us. With your … [Read more...] about We Want To Hear From You
Fall 2019 Updates to Google Merchant Center
Google quietly rolled out several updates to Google Merchant Center in August 2019, which you may have missed if you weren’t paying close enough attention. While these updates were minor in nature, as advertisers it’s important to find ways to leverage new features as they are rolled out to continue bringing innovative ideas to grow our clients’ businesses. I’m going to recap … [Read more...] about Fall 2019 Updates to Google Merchant Center