Over the past year, I've started to truly embrace a new life motto: if it takes less than ten minutes to do, do it now. When it comes to optimizing a PPC account, ten minutes is a drop in the bucket. As digital marketers, we are left forever seeking those 0.01% incremental gains in hopes that soon enough they will amount to radical improvements. With that said, determining … [Read more...] about The Top Ten Tips For Effective Dayparting
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Maximize Efficiency With Dayparting in Small Accounts
Working in PPC is all about making the most of what you have. Whether it’s maximizing clicks on a budget, meeting (and surpassing) your Cost per Conversion goals, or just massaging your keyword bids to find the optimal position for your ads, efficiency is what it’s all about. This is doubly so for a small account, where every last cent matters. Sure, the stakes may be lower … [Read more...] about Maximize Efficiency With Dayparting in Small Accounts
When To Create New PPC Campaigns
The world of paid search is unique for all account managers, every account, and so forth. No two accounts managers are identical in the way that they strategize and no two accounts are identical in terms of what optimizations and changes should be made. With that being said, generalizations can be made and then altered with the account in mind. In this post, we will discuss … [Read more...] about When To Create New PPC Campaigns
Launch Your Podcast Campaigns on AudioGo
Podcast listenership has blown up over the last couple of years. With more than 50% of the US population listening to podcasts for the first time there’s a large opportunity for advertisers to enter this market. According to Hanapin’s State of PPC, only 4% of marketers are advertising in this channel. I’ve already mentioned some great platforms to get started advertising … [Read more...] about Launch Your Podcast Campaigns on AudioGo
First Page Search Bids: Should You Go All In?
The number of insight-driven tools Google and Bing have given us over the years has grown. As someone who loves to assess risks ad nauseam, bid simulator metrics have been a real treat for me. But I have found that the standard options they offer don’t always jive with how I like to plan. When looking at keywords that are living below the first page, I want to understand the … [Read more...] about First Page Search Bids: Should You Go All In?
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
9 Tips To Reduce Cost-Per-Lead
Here at Hanapin, all of my clients are focused on lead-gen, so you can probably guess that cost-per-lead (CPL) is a primary metric I focus on and goal-set for, if not the KPI for the account. If you also manage accounts that rely on generating quality leads for a low CPL, this post is especially for you! I’d like to offer some quick tips for reducing CPL, as well as offer some … [Read more...] about 9 Tips To Reduce Cost-Per-Lead
5 Things to Make You Better at PPC Marketing
I Love Us I love the PPC community. We are funny, smart, and, for the most part, do our work without much hubris. And one of the greatest things about PPC Hero is this: we are dedicated to making the funny, smart, humble PPC community better. PPCers are very much interested in knowledge-sharing and the old adage “a rising tide lifts all boats”. So in this post, I am going to … [Read more...] about 5 Things to Make You Better at PPC Marketing
Ultimate Guide to Paid Search Acronyms & Terminology
Whether you’re new to the game or a seasoned account manager, PPC terms and acronyms can be difficult to digest at times. The sheer volume of terms, acronyms and technicality is enough to make even the boldest of individuals cry. The folks here at PPC Hero believe it is important to provide our readers with as much information possible, so we’ve decided to compile a … [Read more...] about Ultimate Guide to Paid Search Acronyms & Terminology
How To Setup An Apple Search Ads Campaign
Since launching in October 2016, Apple Search Ads has become a huge force in the app download world. Apple Search Ads ranks directly behind Facebook and AdWords in total non-gaming app downloads. In April, Apple Search expanded into three new English speaking storefronts: United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Within a year of launching, Apple Search Ads has … [Read more...] about How To Setup An Apple Search Ads Campaign
Getting To The Point – How To Create Actionable PPC Reports
While PPC nerds certainly love their data, sometimes we can (admittedly) go overboard. We throw every metric, dimension, and number we can think of into a report, maybe add in some notes, sometimes changing the formatting, and call it done. Some clients like this strategy as they want to be able to see every single piece of the data. Others, not so much. In today’s post, … [Read more...] about Getting To The Point – How To Create Actionable PPC Reports
5 Lessons Learned From Running International PPC Accounts
I currently manage ads in 6 continents across 32 countries with ad copy spanning 5 different languages. I speak one language. Well, to be fair, I speak more than just one language. Years of Spanish class has led to the proficiency of a "soon-to-graduate higher schooler with senioritis." Furthermore, my PPC international experience has given me a pretty strong pulse of the … [Read more...] about 5 Lessons Learned From Running International PPC Accounts