A more recent addition to Facebook’s panoply of automation tactics is Budget Optimization. This feature frees advertisers from having to manually set budgets at the ad set level. Instead of setting an arbitrary daily spend for each of your ad sets, this tool optimizes your ad set budgets on an opportunity-by opportunity basis in real-time to meet your campaign goals. Pretty … [Read more...] about I used the Budget Optimizer in Facebook for 30 Days, here’s what happened…
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What it Means to Provide Value as a Digital Marketer
Value. It’s a concept that we all understand in theory, and we have all certainly faced this question in our professional lives: “What value do you bring?”. It can be a tricky question to answer, and to even begin to answer it we first must have an understand of this word “value”. This is the cliché part where I include a Merriam-Webster definition of “value” Source It’s a … [Read more...] about What it Means to Provide Value as a Digital Marketer
Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO): Why You Need It
It’s a question that sometimes gets asked, and I would love to talk about three common types of pushback we frequently encounter to explain its importance. In short, it’s safe to say that every account needs CRO somewhere in the master plan. But First, the Driving Forces of My Perspective First, I’ll give a quick recap of our program to provide context for my perspective. At a … [Read more...] about Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO): Why You Need It
Launch Your Multi-App Marketing Strategy
There are several things to consider when launching an app, however, the game changes when you decide to launch a second app. If you’re a brand that is considering a multi-app marketing strategy take these things in mind. Audience Who is your main audience? How does it differ from your other apps? By now you should know who your primary audience consists of, and have taken your … [Read more...] about Launch Your Multi-App Marketing Strategy
In-Market Audiences: Bing’s Latest Targeting Feature
Bing Ads recently released a new intent based audience targeting for search campaigns called in-market audiences. These new in-market audiences are designed to allow advertisers to target users that Bing determines are ready to make a purchase. Bing Ads’ in-market audiences are now available for search campaigns in the U.S. market. What are they? Bing Ads’ in-market audiences … [Read more...] about In-Market Audiences: Bing’s Latest Targeting Feature
3 Methods for Training PPC Teams
To Nerd, or Not To Nerd My whole life, I have been a nerd. From elementary through high school, I took advanced classes. I had a free period in high school and chose to fill it with an independent study. I played violin in the orchestra. I read books for fun. I raised my hand in class, always. I never really had a problem with the label of "nerd". So when I became a PPC Nerd … [Read more...] about 3 Methods for Training PPC Teams
The 5 Pillars of Programmatic Strategy
Programmatic is an ever expanding sector that advertisers are exploring in an effort to reach more of their customers in an efficient manner. To many people, the world of programmatic is a new and daunting arena that can leave advertisers not knowing where to start. When asked how we develop programmatic strategy, I always provide the same simple methodology. It involves five … [Read more...] about The 5 Pillars of Programmatic Strategy
Leveraging Custom Intent Audiences on YouTube
In the middle of March, Google announced they would be extending custom intent audiences to YouTube and also launched TrueView ads with more prominent calls to action. This is a potential big win for anyone currently advertising or thinking of advertising on YouTube. In my experience, it has always been a bit more difficult to drive action with YouTube for a variety of … [Read more...] about Leveraging Custom Intent Audiences on YouTube
My Top Failures as a PPC Account Manager
No one sets out to fail. Yet nearly everyone sets out to learn. This contradiction had me thinking reflectively over the last couples of weeks as I quickly approach the end of my 3rd year with Hanapin. I'm truly in awe at how much has happened during that time within the industry, and how seamlessly those around me appear to transition from one phase to the next. And that's … [Read more...] about My Top Failures as a PPC Account Manager
Why You Should Test Target ROAS Bidding for Shopping Campaigns
For many Ecommerce businesses, AdWords shopping campaigns can make up a large share of PPC traffic, and often a significant proportion of overall revenue. The importance of these campaigns can sometimes provoke paralysis on the part of digital marketing managers; it’s easy to adopt the attitude of “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it” when the prospect of even a small dip in … [Read more...] about Why You Should Test Target ROAS Bidding for Shopping Campaigns
The Lowdown on Display Select Keywords
When you think of keyword research or keyword optimizations, your mind automatically thinks about Paid Search. An underutilized way to use keywords is also to include keywords in your Display campaigns. This is called Display Select Keywords and they are an efficient way to expand targeting options on the Google Display Network (GDN) based on search intent and likely hood to … [Read more...] about The Lowdown on Display Select Keywords
LinkedIn Targeting – How to Create Targeted Audiences That Scale
LinkedIn has more than 430 million members... and there are about as many ways to target them on the platform (not really, but there are a lot of targeting options!). It’s easy to fall into the trap of heaping as many targeting layers as you can in order to sculpt that perfect audience of qualified people. But this ends up being an exercise in how to exclude as many people as … [Read more...] about LinkedIn Targeting – How to Create Targeted Audiences That Scale
