Knowing your audience is an important part of your marketing strategy. You need to know and understand who you need to target to reach your goals and objectives. Effectively targeting your potential users can lead to decreased costs through personalized content and messaging, user segmentation, and better-qualified leads. Of course, the first step is to find who to target and … [Read more...] about Curate Your Audience to Get Better Results from Your Digital Campaigns
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3 Strategies To Consider When Thinking About Bidding
We all have to start somewhere. Whether we’re launching a new campaign, launching our first campaign, or taking a look at one that has been running for a while, we need to put into focus one of the key portions of the Google auction place, the bid. I’ll outline 3 different strategies and when to best utilize them. There are millions of different situations and caveats so … [Read more...] about 3 Strategies To Consider When Thinking About Bidding
PPC Divination: Forecasting Uncertainty in Excel
You’ve heard it before. Whether it’s a new idea you’re gearing up to pitch, or a request handed down to you from upper management. "Show me numbers!" Thus, you have carefully examined and prepared data that show exactly what has happened in your accounts to-date, what’s worked and what hasn’t, and you are equipped to recommend next steps for future success. You know your … [Read more...] about PPC Divination: Forecasting Uncertainty in Excel
What To Do If Your Black Friday Flopped
While most of America was stuffing their face with Turkey, digital marketers around the world anxiously awaited the ensuing cyber selling free-for-all. Good performance on Black Friday and Cyber Monday can set an account up for record numbers during the holiday season. On the other hand, underwhelming numbers can lead to account uncertainty and a less-than-solid client … [Read more...] about What To Do If Your Black Friday Flopped
Optimizing Amazon Ads During the Holiday Madness
Picture this: it’s the holiday season and you are up to your eyeballs in optimizations with your Amazon Ads. You are not really sure what other strategies will deliver and how to really go about optimizing to best benefit your company or brand - not to mention what your competitors are doing. Whether you’re dealing with finding the perfect keywords, tailoring ads, or optimizing … [Read more...] about Optimizing Amazon Ads During the Holiday Madness
Quora Ads: How to Reach Your Target Audience at Key Moments
Quora is a unique, high-intent advertising platform, ideally suited to reach customers as they evaluate and research a product or service. People come to Quora to ask questions, and to read and share insightful answers. This includes people looking for reliable information about your company, products, competitors, and industry. This provides advertisers the opportunity to … [Read more...] about Quora Ads: How to Reach Your Target Audience at Key Moments
Using Google Data Studio for Auction Insights Reporting
Competitor Insights data is very valuable to a PPC advertiser, but it isn’t always the easiest to collect and manipulate. This blog will give you a quick way to access this data for easy takeaways. Current Methods for Analysis Google Ads Interface This is the most straightforward method – just pop into the interface, select the campaigns you want, then navigate to Auction … [Read more...] about Using Google Data Studio for Auction Insights Reporting
How Google Determines Which Ads To Serve
Before I had ever heard of Pay-Per-Click or Paid Search, I was completely unaware of how it was determined which ads or search results would appear on a page. Now, over four years later, I have a solid understanding of how search results are populated, ads are shown, how display ads follow me around, and so much more. It’s the wonderful world of Digital Marketing led by Google, … [Read more...] about How Google Determines Which Ads To Serve
An Overview On Pinterest Audience Targeting
It is getting harder and harder to ignore Pinterest, especially if you’re in the ecommerce business. Pinterest has been growing steadily every year and user engagement is skyrocketing thanks to Pinterest’s devotion to user feedback that has led to consistent innovation and improvement of the platform. Pinterest’s interface for ads has also steadily improved, offering refined … [Read more...] about An Overview On Pinterest Audience Targeting
What Happened When We Paused PPC Brand Campaigns
Over the years, many companies have debated whether you should or should not bid on your own brand keywords. Some articles suggest you should not waste your money and others believe it is a no-brainer. In this article, we are going to show you exactly what happened after we paused the Brand campaigns. In a previous article Why Brand Ad Campaigns are Important, I discussed the … [Read more...] about What Happened When We Paused PPC Brand Campaigns
How an EU Commission Ruling Can Mean 20 Percent Lower CPCs for Your Google Shopping Accounts
This post is shared with you from Stefan Stopper, Account Strategist at Smarter Ecommerce (@smec), and speaker at Hero Conf London. In June 2017, the EU Commission sentenced Google to pay a fine of 2.4 billion euros. Now, up to 5% of Google’s daily revenue is at stake if they fail to make their Google Shopping channel more competitive. Google is taking aggressive measures to … [Read more...] about How an EU Commission Ruling Can Mean 20 Percent Lower CPCs for Your Google Shopping Accounts
How Much Should I Spend: Aligning PPC Budgets to Goals
“How much money should we spend on PPC this year?” “How many sales can we get with X amount of budget?” “We are looking at expanding into ____ platform, how much budget should we allocate?” In the five years I’ve worked at Hanapin, these types of questions from clients are becoming more and more common. Budget recommendations and planning are not so straightforward as they … [Read more...] about How Much Should I Spend: Aligning PPC Budgets to Goals