Anyone who has used PPC as a channel for lead generation knows that there are two things that are always at the top of everyone’s mind – lead volume and lead quality. Without the volume, the sales team doesn’t have enough prospects to call. However, if you’re not providing quality leads, then the sales team is spending time calling prospects who aren’t truly interested in their … [Read more...] about How De-Selecting One Checkbox Completely Changed An Advertiser’s Lead Quality
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AdWords Customer Match: Advertising To Your Email Database
Google recently announced the ability to target ads based upon email addresses. This feature, called Customer Match, allows you to show specific ads to searchers who are logged in with their email address in the Google, YouTube or Gmail. This strategy is useful when you have an email database and want to show highly targeted ads to leads or existing customers at specific … [Read more...] about AdWords Customer Match: Advertising To Your Email Database
[New Webinar with Wordstream] What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!
4 Insights PPC Advertisers Need To Know Featuring PPC Hero blogger, Chadd Powell and Navah Hopkins from Wordstream The typical small business spends $1,200 a month on PPC & wastes over 25% of their budget! This is generally due to haphazard approaches to account structure & quality score. Are you wasting dollars? Join us on Thursday, October 29th at 1pm EST as Hanapin … [Read more...] about [New Webinar with Wordstream] What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!
Get To Know Your Audience Insights
AdWords now allows advertisers to gain more insight into the users who comprise their remarketing audiences. To view these insights, simply navigate to "Shared Library > Audience" and select a list. From here, navigate through the report via the tabs at the top of the page (Top Insights, In-Market Audiences, Affinity Audience, Demographics, Locations, and … [Read more...] about Get To Know Your Audience Insights
How Programmatic Display Can Give Your Clients The Boost They Need
At this point in the ever-changing digital marketing world, most of us have either worked on programmatic display campaigns for our company and/or clients or have at least heard about how programmatic is a strong marketing channel. To understand the power of programmatic, you must first educate yourself on the various targeting options and “data sources” provided by the … [Read more...] about How Programmatic Display Can Give Your Clients The Boost They Need
[New Whitepaper!] Everything You Need To Know About Ad Extensions
Search ads are no longer just about headlines, description lines and display URLs. Ad Extensions now also play a huge part in the appearance and success of ads. Not only do they create more reasons to click your ad (like relevancy), they improve visibility and give a better return on investment. If you aren't using extensions, you should be. If you need a break down on what … [Read more...] about [New Whitepaper!] Everything You Need To Know About Ad Extensions
Google Rolls Out RLSA To AdWords Shopping Campaigns
With the holiday season fast approaching, paid search advertisers received an early gift as Google introduced RLSA to AdWords Shopping Campaigns. Although advertisers have long since enjoyed the many benefits of Remarketing Lists for Search Ads, this update effectively extends their application to both Shopping ads (PLAs) and Local Inventory ads (LIAs). The increased reach … [Read more...] about Google Rolls Out RLSA To AdWords Shopping Campaigns
Understanding The Shift Toward People Based Marketing
Before we all became digitally savvy using multi-devices in an online world, one of the key methods of effective marketing was direct mail. Sending letters, brochures, and pamphlets with your marketing messages directly to consumers’ doors was the norm. The benefit of this form of marketing was that you could ensure the right person was receiving the right message at the right … [Read more...] about Understanding The Shift Toward People Based Marketing
How Does Match Type Impact Performance?
One of the first lessons you learn in PPC is the different keyword match types. They are the building block of query matching, but we don’t often evaluate them as a group. Some don’t even bother with multiple match types and sway to only using one match type or the other. They may use exact match exclusively and have extremely large keyword lists (because specificity breeds … [Read more...] about How Does Match Type Impact Performance?
Why We Blog Every Day
Before joining the Hanapin Marketing team, I wondered why PPC Hero blog posts were published on a daily basis. I always found the posts to be relevant, but it seemed like content oversaturation. Was there really enough PPC content to post every day? Since beginning at Hanapin, I’ve found that answer to enthusiastically be “yes,” but more importantly, I’ve come to understand the … [Read more...] about Why We Blog Every Day
[New Flash Webinar!] What Marketers Need To Know About Programmatic Buying
According to Business Insider, total US programmatic ad revenue will top nearly $15 billion this year and be a majority (52%) of non-search digital-ad spend. Yet, despite programmatic’s growing dominance of the digital sector, there still appears to be a lack of knowledge about the space with both brands and agencies. In this webinar, expert Liam Brennan discusses several myths … [Read more...] about [New Flash Webinar!] What Marketers Need To Know About Programmatic Buying
What Is A Good Conversion Rate?
We are in the midst of many different sports seasons right now, but the one that seems to grab a lot of attention is football. And I’m talking “pigskin” football, not “GGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLL” football. Today we’re going to compare a good conversion rate to the inner-workings of a football team. In keeping with the football theme, let’s start with our first of four … [Read more...] about What Is A Good Conversion Rate?