Black Friday sales have existed long before ecommerce was recognized. For over 50 years, stores have tried and tested ways to ensure they make the most out of the valuable footfalls, even without the luxury of measurability that PPC provides. Though many online advertisers are sharpening their toolkits to prepare for the weekend, too often, I find that ecommerce marketers … [Read more...] about 6 Simple Physical Store Tactics To Boost Your Black Friday PPC Sales This Season
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Making The Case for Attribution: Prove The Entire Value Of PPC To Your Stakeholders
My Google rep recently shared a study with me that stated people spend an average of 5 hours per day online and visit over 10 different sources before converting. For instance, potential customers in my PPC accounts are spending ever-increasing amounts of time on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and review sites like Yelp. They’re researching and discussing … [Read more...] about Making The Case for Attribution: Prove The Entire Value Of PPC To Your Stakeholders
AdWords Redefines “Conversions” – Are You Still Tracking What You Thought You Were?
One of the main ways to ensure your PPC campaigns are meeting goals is to use conversion data. As obvious as this may sound, Google hasn’t always made it easy because they report on many different flavors of “conversion” and they have changed the naming conventions and definitions a few times in the last 3 years. With their most recent change to the definition of “conversions” … [Read more...] about AdWords Redefines “Conversions” – Are You Still Tracking What You Thought You Were?
Facebook Audience Insights: Advanced Guide To Creating Personas
How well do you know your Facebook audience? Are you capitalizing on Facebook’s insights to better understand your audience? Facebook Audience Insights is a powerful tool that combines Facebook native data and third party providers (Datalogix, Acxiom, Epsilon, BlueKai) to help marketers uncover deep insights about their audience. In this article, we'll share how to find, … [Read more...] about Facebook Audience Insights: Advanced Guide To Creating Personas
Your Chance At Making A Good Impression
By doing a quick Google search, we can see there are numerous results on best ways to make a first impression, ranging from “how to” to “how long you have.” These articles also feature on the “why." For example, “Why is it important to make a good first impression”? This article from Forbes highlights that you have seven seconds to make a good first impression. It focuses on … [Read more...] about Your Chance At Making A Good Impression
Your Guide To Setting Up Gmail Ads
For a newer article on this topic visit: Gmail Ads Made Easy: The Perfect Guide To Getting Started According to Google, based on the current growth since 2014, 96% of adults use email and 56% of these users use Gmail as their provider. Within the Google Display Network (GDN), you can use Gmail Ads (formally known as Gmail Sponsored Promotions) to reach targeted … [Read more...] about Your Guide To Setting Up Gmail Ads
Trust-Based PPC Marketing
Do you remember Domino’s Pizza before 2009? If not, I don’t blame you. Their stock hit an all-time low in 2008, and a YouTube video showing employees doing disgusting things with the food left the company’s image at an all-time low. It was a wake-up call for the company to make a change in both product and branding. How did this move help Domino’s get back to a positive … [Read more...] about Trust-Based PPC Marketing
8 Ridiculously Easy Tactics You Can Implement Today For Better Client Relations
As account managers, doing the actual PPC work is only part of our job. While the tactical side is imperative, we must also effectively communicate with clients in order to produce better results and mutually grow accounts. The combination of great work and stellar client relations yields happy clients. In this post, we'll look at 8 easy to implement tactics that you can employ … [Read more...] about 8 Ridiculously Easy Tactics You Can Implement Today For Better Client Relations
PPC Account Audit Survival Guide: Part 2
In our previous article, we discussed ways you can audit account performance. In this article, we are going to discuss additional auditing options for campaigns, ad groups, and keywords. Campaigns All Settings At the campaign level, there are other settings you might want to be aware of in case a previous manager had settings that might not be aligned with the account’s … [Read more...] about PPC Account Audit Survival Guide: Part 2
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
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
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
