Finding your ideal audience is the end of the rainbow for digital marketers. The more we can know about the users behind the screen, the better we can customize our messaging and capture their interest in our brands and their dollars. We’re always trying to reach our best customers and last week, Bing announced two new open betas to help us do just that: In-Market Audiences and … [Read more...] about Bing Ads Releases New Audience Features
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4 Custom Affinity Audiences To Try For Display Advertising
For the sake of this post, let's pretend I own a new company that develops and sells golf clubs. As a new company in a competitive market, I strongly feel the need to invest in Display advertising in AdWords to build awareness. People aren’t going to search for my company’s products if they don’t know they exist. I've tried keyword and interest targeting, but most of the … [Read more...] about 4 Custom Affinity Audiences To Try For Display Advertising
Using Excel Regressions To Better Understand KPIs
A group of us here at Hanapin recently participated in a free 21-Day Excel Course directed by renowned Microsoft Excel expert Dr. Wayne Winston. The course itself felt slow at first, but ultimately revealed several Excel capabilities I’d never known. Most exciting of these, to me, is the capacity to regress multiple variables without an advanced statistical software (such as … [Read more...] about Using Excel Regressions To Better Understand KPIs
Why I’m Excited For The New Google Attribution
You may or may not have read my post last year about how to use AdWords attribution models, but Google is stepping up their already impressive reporting game and combining their reporting tools to give you one solid platform that incorporates Analytics, AdWords, and DoubleClick. If you own a PPC strategy for your client or company, chances are you use more than one channel … [Read more...] about Why I’m Excited For The New Google Attribution
How To View Bing Spend In Google Analytics
Using Google Analytics data to track performance and find optimization opportunities is crucial for successful PPC campaigns. Getting Bing data to import into GA is simple with Bing’s auto-tagging. Bing campaign spend, however, does not automatically import into GA. If you are using cost per conversion or ROAS data to analyze performance in GA, you’ll need to get the spend data … [Read more...] about How To View Bing Spend In Google Analytics
Bing Ads Expanded Device Targeting Just Got Better
Late last year, Bing Ads announced an update to device targeting by adding desktop as a new option, broadening bid modifier ranges, and allowing complete opt-out for tablet. Those big changes were rolled out global to everyone just in time to finish out the holiday season. We all know with the magnitude of changes that some slip by. Have you been taking advantage of the … [Read more...] about Bing Ads Expanded Device Targeting Just Got Better
Is Your Responsive Design Meeting The Needs Of Your Mobile Visitors?
The “rise of mobile” continues to be a hot topic for marketers. It’s important to understand where people are spending their time and where advertisers are spending their money. So, how much time are people spending on their phones? Four hours. That’s how much time people are spending on their mobile phones today. According to eMarketer, mobile now accounts for about 60% … [Read more...] about Is Your Responsive Design Meeting The Needs Of Your Mobile Visitors?
Level Up: A Deep Dive into Problems with Conversion Tracking
You might have your blinders narrowed in on the conversion, but it’s time to take a step back. Arguably more important than the conversion itself is the conversion journey. When you take a look beyond the conversion, both before and after, this perspective can open up your eyes to the patterns that occur, and help you tie your conversions back to revenue. In this new … [Read more...] about Level Up: A Deep Dive into Problems with Conversion Tracking
Tips For Using Facebook Lookalike Audiences
Lookalike audiences have been a standard tool for digital marketers for quite some time, but they don’t always get top marks for performance. While having an audience created for you is great, it can be difficult to understand exactly what you should be doing to optimize them. While there is a lot of automation in the creation of lookalikes, you as a marketer do have a fair … [Read more...] about Tips For Using Facebook Lookalike Audiences
3 Tips To Improve ROI For Paid Search
If you are ever told that the goal of an ecommerce account isn’t to improve ROI, you are probably being lied to. Generating more revenue is the driving factor behind the majority of businesses and the marketing efforts they push. It may not be the be-all end-all with other goals such as newsletter sign-ups and calls, but it’s vital. How can you improve ROI? If the answer was … [Read more...] about 3 Tips To Improve ROI For Paid Search
Guide to URL Tracking In Google Analytics
8/12/2020 What is URL Tracking? URL tracking is the process of adding unique identifiers to your final URLs. If you aren’t tagging your URLs for tracking in either Google Analytics or your analytics platform of choice, you are losing out on helpful information. When you manage pay-per-click campaigns in conjunction with other online marketing efforts, it is extremely … [Read more...] about Guide to URL Tracking In Google Analytics
The Best of the Best Industry Updates of 2017
You have probably seen the insane amount of updates that platforms have been rolling out in 2017 so far. From search to social to display, there have been some awesome new tools to play with in your marketing strategy. Now, you might have seen all the updates as they came out and thought I WANT TO USE THEM ALL! But which ones are worth giving your precious time and effort … [Read more...] about The Best of the Best Industry Updates of 2017