Have you been exploring the Amazon advertising space, and come across Amazon DSP? Wondering if it’s for you and for your accounts? You might already be happy with your current buying strategies, but there are net new opportunities to reach customers just waiting to be found in Amazon DSP. So we’re here to show you what Amazon DSP is, who it will benefit, and the incremental … [Read more...] about Drive New Customers and Incremental Gains with Amazon DSP
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What Is A Good Click Through Rate (CTR)?
What is a good click-through rate? It’s the age-old question asked by PPC managers and clients alike. Though we can agree that higher is better, much debate remains as to what constitutes a good vs. subpar account CTR. Below, I’ll give a definitive answer, though I acknowledge that many factors are at play. Additionally, I’ll be answering this question only regarding Google … [Read more...] about What Is A Good Click Through Rate (CTR)?
INTRODUCING Hero Academy: A Brand New Training Resource for Digital Marketers
At Hanapin, we live, breathe, and love PPC. It’s what we do for clients and what we’re passionate about. We've been producing PPC Hero since 2007 and Hero Conf, a conference series dedicated to our fellow PPC enthusiasts, since 2012. And now, we're excited to introduce our newest initiative - Hero Academy. Hero Academy is a video series that offers short and basic how-tos for … [Read more...] about INTRODUCING Hero Academy: A Brand New Training Resource for Digital Marketers
4 Steps To Saving Money & Lowering ACoS on Amazon Advertising
How do I lower my average cost over sale (ACoS)? This is the question I hear most often when working on Amazon Advertising accounts for clients. It can be a challenging question to answer as there are often several factors going into the ACoS. However, in my time managing Amazon accounts I’ve come up with a simple 4-step Excel tool that lowers overall cost and helps decrease … [Read more...] about 4 Steps To Saving Money & Lowering ACoS on Amazon Advertising
How I Lowered Brand CPA By 90% While Increasing Conversions
At this point, keyword targeting can seem a little antiquated and probably the most univocal part of account management. I tend to view keywords as more supplemental to a mixed bag of strategies, campaign types, audience targeting, and more. However, while they may seem straightforward on the surface, we must still remain vigilant as match type evolution can cause some … [Read more...] about How I Lowered Brand CPA By 90% While Increasing Conversions
Highlights From Google’s Keyword Planner Update
Whether you are building out your first campaigns for an account or making optimizations to one you have managed for years, the Google Keyword Planner is a great tool for every digital marketer to have in their back pocket. I have always found that when working on any Google Ads account, any tool that allows me to gain insight into the audience I am targeting is a great one. I … [Read more...] about Highlights From Google’s Keyword Planner Update
Critical Questions to Ask When Marketing Across Channels
When it comes to integrated marketing campaigns, there are about three brain-fulls of questions you need to be thinking about. How do you make sure you’re getting the right information? Are you measuring the right things? How should I be reporting the metrics that come from different channels? How does it all work together? If you and your agency (or agencies – you and your … [Read more...] about Critical Questions to Ask When Marketing Across Channels
3 Key Elements to Form Optimization
We all know that if you have lead gen forms, they are an important piece of the conversion rate optimization puzzle, but why does this piece often have a high impact on CRO? Forms are typically close to or tied to final conversion. Beyond this, they often play a role in guiding users through the conversion funnel. For example, a form to sign up for a blog would be … [Read more...] about 3 Key Elements to Form Optimization
Amazon DSP – Taking over the Programmatic World
To the B2C advertiser, advertising on Amazon seems like a no-brainer. High Intent users ready to buy, with 75% of shoppers expressing that they regularly use the channel to make online purchases. However, over the last couple of years, Amazon has been evolving its advertising solution to beyond their owned properties and have quietly created a powerful Demand Side Platform. … [Read more...] about Amazon DSP – Taking over the Programmatic World
The Top 25 Most Influential Experts of 2019
It's that time of year again! The time to release our newest edition of the Top 25 and honor some of the hardest workers in our tight-knit PPC community. There is a complex formula that goes into calculating what makes someone truly influential in our industry. You can read more about the methodology on how we arrived at the rankings below the infographic. The scores took into … [Read more...] about The Top 25 Most Influential Experts of 2019
“All I Want for Christmas is an Apple Editor”: Campaign Build and Bidding Tips for Apple Search Ads
Apple Search Ads is super useful. It’s unlike most app marketing platforms because of the level of control you can leverage with keyword targeting while maintaining ease of succinct messaging through screenshots and copy you apply on your app’s page. Conveniently, this is the only landing page and ad copy source that you will ever need, which is great because it’s the only … [Read more...] about “All I Want for Christmas is an Apple Editor”: Campaign Build and Bidding Tips for Apple Search Ads
Paid Search Basics for Events
Digital Advertising for events can be a tricky business, especially on the paid search side. Either the company you advertise for is running the event or attending the event which will dictate how you approach your strategy. You need to fill person quotas, need to drive traffic to the event page, and need to make sure your ads generate interest surrounding the event. This means … [Read more...] about Paid Search Basics for Events
