Running your first ever Google Ads campaign? Well, it is a great idea to invest in Google Ads. In fact, I consider it an excellent choice because Google Ads can help your business grow. However, the process of formulating a Google Ads campaign has to be carried out immaculately so that it can produce profitable results. But you do not have to worry about anything. I am going … [Read more...] about Your First Google Ads Campaign: Everything You Should Know
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Guide To Google Ads Performance Planner
On May 13, Google Ads announced a new tool in the UI called Performance Planner. The Performance Planner helps advertisers optimize campaigns by suggesting an "ideal plan" by "spreading spend in the most effective way among campaigns in the plan." Performance Planner is easy to use and certainly helpful, but it should be used with caution. What Does Performance Planner … [Read more...] about Guide To Google Ads Performance Planner
6 Tactics to Dominate Local PPC
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
70/20/10 PPC Budgeting
Budgeting for clients is an uphill battle. It is also a challenge deciding how you want to spend your client’s budget, how to figure out the amount to allocate towards a certain platform, and then to develop a reasoning for your recommendation. There’s a method that I have fallen back on, that many at Hanapin utilize for their accounts. It is the 70/20/10 budgeting rule. This … [Read more...] about 70/20/10 PPC Budgeting
Brand Attention: The metric you are not thinking about
Every day we roll into our office, open our accounts and face new challenges to move the needle for our clients. We do all the things that we have been taught, learned by mistake, and processes that typically have always worked. But what happens beyond that? Our metrics are looking strong, but the client is concerned that they are not growing in the way they have expected. … [Read more...] about Brand Attention: The metric you are not thinking about
Master Your Cross-Channel Paid Social Strategy
With so many paid social options to invest in, it can be hard to understand (and convince to your boss) how your strategy can work across many different channels. How do you customize your creative to each platform, but have a consistent message that carries through? How do you put together a strategy that achieves the same overarching goal, but meets the audience requirements … [Read more...] about Master Your Cross-Channel Paid Social Strategy
Google Recommendations: Are they Helping or Hurting my Paid Search Strategy?
Let’s face it. There are plenty of rabbit holes to dig into when going through your Google Ads account. Collecting data, recognizing the trends for optimization and other paid search strategy efforts often do not come as quickly as we’d like. The problem? As digital marketers, time is not always on our side. We are expected to bring in results in a timely manner but some … [Read more...] about Google Recommendations: Are they Helping or Hurting my Paid Search Strategy?
Scroll, Scale, Save: Using SEO Data for Smarter Search Query Analysis
This guest post is brought to you by Kim Jones, PPC Team Lead at Seer Interactive. Coming to Hero Conf 2019? So is our EVP of Digital, Larry Waddell, and he’ll bringing you a way to do smarter Search Query Analyses during his 10-minute lunchtime talk on April 23rd. After his chat, we’ll have a handful of Seer data strategists on site to help you DIY. But in order to … [Read more...] about Scroll, Scale, Save: Using SEO Data for Smarter Search Query Analysis
Google Remarketing Strategies That’ll Work Every Single Time
So, let’s say you set up killer search campaigns on Google Ads. You’re bringing in the most qualified traffic, your click-through-rate (CTR) is through the roof, your conversion rate is 30%, your boss is happy, and you are feeling pretty good. Sure, the other 70% of your visitors left without converting. However, according to Invesp CRO, the average conversion rate in the … [Read more...] about Google Remarketing Strategies That’ll Work Every Single Time
Display Topic Targeting: 3 Reasons Why You Should Do It
Between social media and some of the new tools Google has been rolling out, we’ve been able to get greater insight into who our customers are rather than simply what they’re searching for. Topics are something that often seem to escape the hype of things like in-market audiences, custom audiences, and whatever the next big thing Google rolls out. While they do have their … [Read more...] about Display Topic Targeting: 3 Reasons Why You Should Do It
How to Hire the Right Paid Media Professional for Your Business
Going through the hiring process is hard enough for traditional advertising fields. Getting the right candidate is crucial and can make or break entire departments. The process is even more difficult for a rapidly evolving and growing field like paid media, a field that demands specific skills and abilities that aren’t often easily reflected in a candidate’s degree. So: how … [Read more...] about How to Hire the Right Paid Media Professional for Your Business
What Your Marketing Team Can Get Out of Hero Conf [+Program Guides]
Hero Conf is a mecca for paid search. That means that the topics covered are exclusive to paid advertising, whether it be Google ads, Facebook ads, Youtube, programmatic, display, mobile, app marketing, remarketing, etc. But the thing is, even if only a small part of your job (for anyone on your team) includes managing your brand's paid advertising, you will get a ton of value … [Read more...] about What Your Marketing Team Can Get Out of Hero Conf [+Program Guides]