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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5 Steps For Creating A Solid PPC Competitor Strategy
Analyzing the PPC competitive landscape can help provide key insight into performance trends and determine how your ads stack up to competition. By not taking the time to analyze PPC competitors, you could be missing out on huge gaps in your program that could leave your account vulnerable to deep-pocketed competitors driving up costs and stealing impression share. Below, we … [Read more...] about 5 Steps For Creating A Solid PPC Competitor Strategy
Flash Series: Using Auction Insights for Competitive Advantage
More about this 20-Minute Webinar When it comes to competitor analysis, there is no such thing as too much information. Auction Insights in Google AdWords is a particularly useful tool and can help you not only understand who your competition is, but how you can tailor your strategy to get a more competitive advantage. In this flash webinar, Jeff Allen, President of Hanapin … [Read more...] about Flash Series: Using Auction Insights for Competitive Advantage
Why You Need To Constantly Be Innovating
As account managers, we are constantly faced with the challenge of keeping our fingers on the pulse of the latest PPC innovations. It’s always to our advantage to hear about new products and features and to think about how that relates to our current client base. Experience has shown us that if we don’t do it, someone else will certainly step in front of us and do it for us. … [Read more...] about Why You Need To Constantly Be Innovating
Creating Better Client Facing Reports With Excel
One of the most effective ways to relay information to your client is via Excel. The plus side is that it’s easy to pull data from most PPC platforms into Excel. The negative side is that it’s not so easy to make this data easy to digest. By taking the time to create a template that you can plug data into, you can save precious time that you can spend on analysis and … [Read more...] about Creating Better Client Facing Reports With Excel
How To Fix Lead Quality Problems
Remember the first time you received an email in your inbox that a user filled out the form on your landing page? Suddenly, your PPC campaign was actually working. After all the prep work, the stress and hassle of setup you were actually getting leads from real live people. It was time to start making some sales! Or was it? With every follow up sales call the lead had … [Read more...] about How To Fix Lead Quality Problems
[New Webinar with iSpionage!] 3 Advanced Ways to Get More Out of Your PPC Competitive Intelligence
Over time, your competition changes. Some competitors grow, some of them don’t, and some of them are newly born and rising fast. In order to stay ahead of the game, you must stay updated on who your competitors are, what keywords they are bidding on, and discover which of these new keywords can be profitable for you. In this live webinar on Thursday, November 12th at Noon EST, … [Read more...] about [New Webinar with iSpionage!] 3 Advanced Ways to Get More Out of Your PPC Competitive Intelligence
Make Better Projections With Excel’s “What-If” Analysis
Paid search is a dynamic marketplace. Resources fluctuate, competitors come and go, and business goals change. In order to keep up, you must make continual estimations between where you are and where you could be. While it’s easy to calculate gross differences, it becomes trickier once you must deal with dependencies or analyze multiple scenarios. In this article, we’ll … [Read more...] about Make Better Projections With Excel’s “What-If” Analysis
Yahoo Reaches New Agreement With Google
On October 19, Yahoo filed regulatory paperwork with the SEC that revealed a new arrangement between the search engine and Google. The apparent goal of the agreement is to aid Yahoo’s search business, on both desktop and mobile devices. The agreement outlines the following as services that Google will provide: Web search results Search ads Image search services In the … [Read more...] about Yahoo Reaches New Agreement With Google
Flash Series: 3 Advanced Ways to Get More Out of Your PPC Competitive Intelligence
More about this 20-Minute Webinar Over time, your competition changes. Some competitors grow, some of them don't, and some of them are newly born and rising fast. In order to stay ahead of the game, you must stay updated on who your competitors are, what keywords they are bidding on, and discover which of these new keywords can be profitable for you. In this webinar, Joe … [Read more...] about Flash Series: 3 Advanced Ways to Get More Out of Your PPC Competitive Intelligence
Another Deep Dive Into Auction Insights
Last month I reviewed a new metric based off of Auction Insights, Rank Above Share. This month we have an updated version of diving into Auction Insights to find who your true top competitors are in search. Let's go ahead and review what statistics are available to us when downloading an Auction Insights report: Impression Share – How often the participant receives an … [Read more...] about Another Deep Dive Into Auction Insights
Three Things I Learned About Our Lead Generation Clients
I was recently checking out Hanapin’s very own Carrie Albright’s post on what she’s learned from a year’s worth of hourly ppc data across e-commerce accounts. This post inspired me to find out what I can learn about user behavior in lead generation ppc accounts, and how that behavior varies on weekends vs. the workweek. Having access to lead-gen accounts across multiple … [Read more...] about Three Things I Learned About Our Lead Generation Clients
