Once upon a time— April 2013 specifically— in Austin, Texas many little PPC Heroes gathered to build their knowledge of all things PPC. What resulted was a mindblowing series of presentations, panels, workshops and social events that kept the folks gossip wheel spinning for months on end. When Hero Conf 2013 was in full swing, I stayed in the loop through posts on our site … [Read more...] about Dear Diary, Hero Conf 2014 Is Gonna Change My Life
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Increase Search Term Insight With Bing’s “Zero Clicks” Update
Lately, Bing has been implementing changes to enhance the insights and ease of account management. A couple weeks ago, we let you know about updates to Bing report statistics and metrics. Yesterday, we shared new Bing campaign features that allow you to access information more easily. Today, we are sharing a seemingly minor change in Bing that can have a substantial impact. … [Read more...] about Increase Search Term Insight With Bing’s “Zero Clicks” Update
Vote for Round Two! Search Marketing Madness Continues
The first round of voting closed on Friday and we’re moving onto round two for this year’s search marketing madness! Congratulations to all of the contenders that were able to make it to the next round of the tournament. There was a lot of great action in round one including close races in the Software section between Marin and Kenshoo with Marin pulling out ahead and between … [Read more...] about Vote for Round Two! Search Marketing Madness Continues
What You’re Missing in the Bing Report Center
As part of this month's PPC Hero series, we're diving in to the little known, oft-neglected, and unknown reports that you can use to turbocharge your PPC performance. I don't know about you, but "little known", "oft-neglected", and "unknown" definitely sounds like the Bing Report Center to me. But I'll caution you: ignore this resource at your peril. You can make up for 99% of … [Read more...] about What You’re Missing in the Bing Report Center
Be Even More Liked With This Guide: The Five Laws of Great Social Ads
PPC marketers aren't the only ones who are often tempted to conclude "if this strategy worked over here, it should work just as well over there," but we might be the ones who need to be most skeptical of that thought process. Our PPC ads are finely tuned, tested, and optimized marketing machines, and in the land of search engine marketing, we like to stick with a good thing … [Read more...] about Be Even More Liked With This Guide: The Five Laws of Great Social Ads
Turn A Lazy AdWords Report Into A Money Making Tool
As PPC Heroes, we like to think we’ve got all sorts of magic stuffed up our sleeves. Truth be told, there are plenty of approaches we use that may be less common to the outside world. That’s why this week’s *Series Topic* is just that: Underutilized Reports. This week we’ll go over reports we use in AdWords, Bing, Facebook, and Analytics that we find to be particularly useful … [Read more...] about Turn A Lazy AdWords Report Into A Money Making Tool
Google Trends: Why You Can’t Ignore The Wave Of Change Anymore
As PPC Heroes, we like to think we’ve got all sorts of magic stuffed up our sleeves. Truth be told, there are plenty of approaches we use that may be less common to the outside world. That’s why this week’s *Series Topic* is just that: Underutilized Reports. This week we’ll go over reports we use in AdWords, Bing, Facebook, and Analytics that we find to be particularly useful … [Read more...] about Google Trends: Why You Can’t Ignore The Wave Of Change Anymore
Search Marketing Madness is Back! Vote for Round One
Let the madness begin! It's officially tournament time and Search Marketing Madness is back. This week is round one and we'll commence today with all four regionals - Best PPC Conference, Best PPC Blog, Best PPC Software, and Best PPC Manager. The best part? The winner of the tournament gets a FREE registration to our favorite PPC conference (okay, so we might be a little … [Read more...] about Search Marketing Madness is Back! Vote for Round One
3 Facebook Reports You Should Be Running
As PPC Heroes, we like to think we’ve got all sorts of magic stuffed up our sleeves. Truth be told, there are plenty of approaches we use that may be less common to the outside world. That’s why this week’s *Series Topic* is just that: Underutilized Reports. This week we’ll go over reports we use in AdWords, Bing, Facebook, and Google Analytics that we find to be particularly … [Read more...] about 3 Facebook Reports You Should Be Running
Celebrating Crayola Crayon Day on March 31
March 31, 1903 marked the first day Crayola Crayons came into the market. The first Crayola crayons came in a box 8 and sold for 5 cents. Today, the original makers of the crayon, Binney & Smith, produce about 7 million crayons every day in 120 colors. There are 23 reds, 20 greens, 19 blues, 16 purples, 14 oranges, 11 browns, 8 yellows, 2 grays, 2 blacks, 1 white, 1 gold, … [Read more...] about Celebrating Crayola Crayon Day on March 31
Mobile App Exclusions – How Flappy Birds Tanked My Display Campaign.
As I’m sure most of you are aware, with the roll-out of Enhanced Campaigns we are all now opted into tablets and mobile for AdWords campaigns. While you can set bid modifiers to -100% to opt out of mobile with full browsers, you are not able to do so for tablets. This can be a real bummer for some accounts but this is nothing new. The reason I bring up this topic, is because in … [Read more...] about Mobile App Exclusions – How Flappy Birds Tanked My Display Campaign.
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