In this monthly post, we bring you the latest from all of the major platforms. General What: Reacting to COVID-19 Resources: Prior to getting into platform-specific updates, it's essential to address COVID-19 and its impacts on the industry. The resources below were compiled from a recent Hanapin/Brainlabs email blast, and are an excellent source of industry trends, strategic … [Read more...] about March Updates to Paid Advertising Platforms
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Nominate The Paid Media Experts Who Have Been Influential In Your Career
Every year, PPC Hero releases a list called The Top 25 Most Influential PPC Experts. This year will not be different! The purpose of this list is to highlight those who have dedicated their time, energy, and expertise over the last year to empower the rest of us to excel at our jobs. And right now, amidst the uncertainty, is as good of a time as ever to celebrate those … [Read more...] about Nominate The Paid Media Experts Who Have Been Influential In Your Career
The Complete Amazon Plan: 7 Steps to Success
Succeeding on Amazon isn’t just about optimizing product listings or running low ACoS PPC campaigns. You need a complete process for research, launch, optimization and expansion. These 7 steps outline the full process for getting a brand off the ground on Amazon. Market ResearchProduct ResearchProduct OptimizationBrand StoreDiscoveryRefinementExpansion Step 1 - Market … [Read more...] about The Complete Amazon Plan: 7 Steps to Success
B2B Paid Strategy: In It for the Long Run
As many of you know, B2B companies have longer customer cycles. They can range from a month to six months to a year. It is important when crafting your digital B2B strategy that you are focused on that long term return rather than the short term return, which means that you might have to adjust expectations and goal KPIs in the interim. In my experience, taking the time to lay … [Read more...] about B2B Paid Strategy: In It for the Long Run
From Last Click To Position-Based: An Attribution Test
An Attribution Test “Whodunit” is more than just a popular detective narrative, it is an important question in PPC as well. Attribution seeks to answer that question. So, choosing the right model for your account is important. In this blog, we’ll cover a quick overview of Google’s attribution, what led us to consider testing a different attribution, what changes you can expect, … [Read more...] about From Last Click To Position-Based: An Attribution Test
A Quick Look at Walmart Media and Spiceworks
Our general group chat is often teeming with questions like “who’s using Walmart Media?”, “DM me if you’ve been running on Spiceworks”, “does Safari have a UI?” This has been making me curious so I went nosing around for those sweet, sweet, deets. Below are some of my impressions and takeaways for these platforms: Safari We all know how I feel about Apple Search Ads, but … [Read more...] about A Quick Look at Walmart Media and Spiceworks
How To View Google Ads Data In Google Analytics
Connecting Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts offer several benefits to digital marketers. Analytics is a truly powerful and robust platform that will allow you to gain additional insight into what your customers do on your website post-click. Google Ads is a pay-per-click model, and understanding the full picture of how your customers interact with your website is … [Read more...] about How To View Google Ads Data In Google Analytics
Google Ads B2B Full-Funnel Strategy Outline
For any platform, having a full-funnel marketing strategy is ideal. Not only does it help you get a better idea of how you are reaching users and on what level, it also gives you an idea of how long your general sales cycle is. In this blog, I am going to cover what a full-funnel strategy looks like for Google Ads, from the content you will need at each level to the types of … [Read more...] about Google Ads B2B Full-Funnel Strategy Outline
How to Address Low Search Volume Keywords in Google Ads
You’ve done it! You built your first Google Search campaign after many hours of planning, projecting, and strategizing. The ads and keywords are all uploaded and visible in the interface, and you are performing your final QA. But then it hits… you open the campaign only to find out that Google has flagged many of your keywords as ‘low search volume’ and won’t trigger ads for … [Read more...] about How to Address Low Search Volume Keywords in Google Ads
The Grind! How to Rank Higher on Amazon
Oh, what a grind it can be to filter through reports to identify the winning and losing keywords, then update campaign settings, create targeted manual ads, include negative keywords and even update product listings sometimes. But hey, it works! This is one of the most common optimization strategies on Amazon today and it is also one of the most efficient ones. It involves … [Read more...] about The Grind! How to Rank Higher on Amazon
Paving Our Way Towards Automated Bidding
Google has made it clear that automation is in our future and that it is better to learn how to utilize these tools now and learn how to use them in our accounts. I am going to describe how one of our accounts had tried automation several times before, but we never saw long-lasting results. Our team decided to brainstorm that we were moving towards a world where manual bidding … [Read more...] about Paving Our Way Towards Automated Bidding
Marketing On Amazon [Report] – My Top Takeaways
Innovell has recently released Marketing On Amazon, a 67-page report based on months of interviews and in-depth surveys. I've read the entire report and want to share my top takeaways with you. I've segmented my takeaways by roles: marketing technicians and marketing strategists. Before diving in, I'd like to mention that the first 100 marketers to get this report via … [Read more...] about Marketing On Amazon [Report] – My Top Takeaways
