Brick-and-mortar businesses depend heavily on foot traffic and local shoppers. In a cutthroat retail world, physical businesses need a competitive edge. Paid search ads can be a great way to give you that edge and boost your revenue. However, using them effectively to get potential customers to walk through your doors after an online visit isn’t easy. When you can’t rely on … [Read more...] about 6 Tactics to Dominate Local PPC
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Juggling B2B & B2C: C Where You Need to B
Many companies have B2C and B2B offerings; in some cases their digital marketing efforts will coincide and in other cases they won’t. Often times B2C and B2B efforts could collide. I have a client that is a company with both B2B and B2C divisions, with two separate ad accounts. Budgets, conversions, goals, and KPIs are vastly different for each. The difficulty lies in the … [Read more...] about Juggling B2B & B2C: C Where You Need to B
Marketing Events In Facebook
One of my favorite accounts to run strategy for is one where we market job fair events to a specific type of qualified job-seeker. The job fairs occur in target cities throughout the U.S. and we run 3-week flight campaigns in the lead up to every event with a registration form as the conversion goal. Typically, we’re launching 2-4 campaigns a week due to the rolling nature of … [Read more...] about Marketing Events In Facebook
Best Practices for LinkedIn Sponsored InMail Campaigns
On LinkedIn, you can advertise your product or services to more than 560 million active professionals. LinkedIn is a unique social media advertising platform, because the audience intent is very different from other social media websites and apps like Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat. People on LinkedIn are professionals browsing content relevant to their careers, and … [Read more...] about Best Practices for LinkedIn Sponsored InMail Campaigns
Marketing Optimization Week – Feb. 20-23!
You optimize your ppc ad copy, you’ve been reading about AI and you’re continuing to pump out high value content. You do all the things any good digital marketer should do. But, somehow, you’re not getting the results you used to. In the back of your mind, you know why. Competition is fiercer. Audiences are savvier. Between pay to play, machine learning, automation, … [Read more...] about Marketing Optimization Week – Feb. 20-23!
AdWords Grant Policy Changes
In case you haven’t heard the news, there are new policies in effect that will govern the use of Adwords grant money. These new policies went into effect on January 1st and effect all accounts that use grant money. There are several changes that happened which everyone needs to be prepared for. I will go into those changes and some tips to deal with them but it seems like … [Read more...] about AdWords Grant Policy Changes
How To Setup A Campaign In Quora Ads
The hunt for higher conversion volume at a lower cost is the eternal struggle for everyone in digital marketing. Like Sisyphus from Greek mythology, digital marketers are constantly fighting an uphill battle to increase conversions while lowering CPCs. This challenge forces savvy digital marketers to look beyond the crowded auctions of Facebook and Google to find new … [Read more...] about How To Setup A Campaign In Quora Ads
The Ultimate Guide to PPC Marketing
What is PPC? Introduction by Roger Cooney "PPC" - which stands for Pay-Per-Click - is a digital marketing channel whereby an advertiser pays only after their advertisements are clicked, sending either a visit to their website or a piece of data of value. Historically, the term PPC has been used interchangeably with Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Guide to PPC Marketing
How to work with Sensitive Data Accounts
What do you do when you are told by the ever-present Google that you can’t use remarketing lists or other audiences in your paid search strategies? You work with out a strategy and suggest that remarketing could help engage users who have been on your site but did not convert the first time around. You get the tag placed, the list is built, and then Google disables your list … [Read more...] about How to work with Sensitive Data Accounts
A Guide to Remarketing in the SteelHouse Advertising Suite
As digital marketers, we have a strong understanding of remarketing’s value. Our most successful competitors are taking advantage of remarketing opportunities in AdWords, DoubleClick, AdRoll or Criteo. But what happens when your site’s unique monthly visitor total is too low for Criteo campaigns to be successful? How about when Google or AdRoll policies become a roadblock? … [Read more...] about A Guide to Remarketing in the SteelHouse Advertising Suite
Always Remain Congruent In Your PPC Efforts
All clients are different and value specific metrics more than others. One of the metrics I hear about the most is conversions. As a paid search marketer, I spend my time driving traffic to our desired landing pages, but I can’t force the user to convert. That’s when I go to our trusty CRO department and ask if we can work together to try and get our conversion rate up. Our … [Read more...] about Always Remain Congruent In Your PPC Efforts
2017: The Year You Launch Your Video Ads
I was reading an article recently about Generation Xers and how they consume content on YouTube and how to best engage with this coveted consumer cohort. The article noted that Gen Xers, who were born between mid-1960 and late 1970s, are predominantly using YouTube for trips down memory lane, for news content and for DIY videos. I am a Gen Xer and I agree with this theory, but … [Read more...] about 2017: The Year You Launch Your Video Ads
