One of the guiding principles I utilize for Account Management is taking a beat to consider: If a competitor digital agency took a look at my accounts, what would they say to my client to try and win the business? Albeit a bit paranoid in nature, it’s a useful lens to view your work as objectively as possible. Having run through this exercise countless times, here are a … [Read more...] about Could Another Digital Agency Easily Steal Your Clients?
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Understanding B2B Lead Flow For PPC
As PPC marketers, it is easy to think that lead gen and B2B are the same. B2B vs B2C can seem similar, especially in the lead gen arena, but typically there are still some key differences to buying a consumer service vs a business product or service. Some simple examples are: Consumers typically don’t get offered product or industry related content Leads are typically lower … [Read more...] about Understanding B2B Lead Flow For PPC
How to Best Use Facebook’s Campaign Budget Optimization Feature
Facebook has continued to release the campaign budget optimization option to advertiser accounts. If you cannot find this setting during the campaign set up process, you’ll likely have to wait a bit longer for the feature to be available in your account. Campaign budget optimization is another automated tool in Facebook that allows advertisers to set a goal result and budget at … [Read more...] about How to Best Use Facebook’s Campaign Budget Optimization Feature
5 Ways To Help Your New Digital Marketing Manager Be Successful
The benefit of hiring a marketing manager can potentially be offset by the training required for the position. Your manager is not only learning the ins and outs of their new employer, but also the nuances of the digital marketing objectives. To ensure that the marketing manager is thoroughly prepared to carry out the desired responsibilities, here is a checklist of … [Read more...] about 5 Ways To Help Your New Digital Marketing Manager Be Successful
Most Common Mistakes of Automated Bidding
In the past year, I have seen a huge shift in the bidding approach utilized by those around me. Traditionally, most of my fellow co-workers swore by manual bidding methods. I'm not talking about one-off "gut feeling" changes, but complex bid matrixes factoring in seasonality, recent performance, and projected trends. Despite the success of these methods, the frequency in which … [Read more...] about Most Common Mistakes of Automated Bidding
Set Up Creative Testing in Apple Search Ads
Apple Ads is a great platform to target new users efficiently, however, their targeting is less than preferable to advertisers who rely on detailed custom targeting. With the upcoming Holiday season, where inevitably new phones will be purchased as gifts, it’s more important than ever to ensure you’re taking advantage of creative testing in Apple Search Ads. You’re probably … [Read more...] about Set Up Creative Testing in Apple Search Ads
4 Reasons I Prefer Facebook Ads over Google Ads
For the longest time, I and the PPC industry as a whole, have defaulted and still in a lot of circumstances still default to a Google Paid Search first strategy. Google Ads is still the number 1 platform, and is still required in any digital marketing strategy. It can produce great results, but in some industries that have more obscure keywords and when higher results are … [Read more...] about 4 Reasons I Prefer Facebook Ads over Google Ads
How Much Should I Spend: Aligning PPC Budgets to Goals
“How much money should we spend on PPC this year?” “How many sales can we get with X amount of budget?” “We are looking at expanding into ____ platform, how much budget should we allocate?” In the five years I’ve worked at Hanapin, these types of questions from clients are becoming more and more common. Budget recommendations and planning are not so straightforward as they … [Read more...] about How Much Should I Spend: Aligning PPC Budgets to Goals
What Constitutes Discrimination for Digital Employment Ads?
In the past, we’ve posted about the complicated intersection of civil rights law and digital marketing. It’s an interesting topic, largely because it’s an area where there is very little settled law. Since the marketing technologies available on platforms like Google Ads and Facebook are relatively new, courts do not have decades of precedent to rely on. This can leave digital … [Read more...] about What Constitutes Discrimination for Digital Employment Ads?
UAC Optimizations in 5 Steps
If you are like most marketers, automation can make you nervous. Universal App Campaigns are one of the simplest campaigns to set up in Google Ads. Simple is a word you like to hear, but how do you know Google will target the right users? How do you maximize performance and ensure you are getting quality conversions? 1) Form a Strategy Forming a strategy is a given for any … [Read more...] about UAC Optimizations in 5 Steps
New Interface, New Syntax: Automating Rules in Google Ads
As every digital advertiser should know by now, AdWords has officially rebranded to Google Ads. Whether you are pro-change or anti-change with Google’s advertising services, there is one certainty - You have to change regardless. That in mind, there have been a ton of updates recently with name changes, new offerings, shuffled offerings, the completely new UI, and the list goes … [Read more...] about New Interface, New Syntax: Automating Rules in Google Ads
Max Clicks For Budget-Limited Campaigns: A Case Study
What bidding strategy will perform best for a given campaign? This can be a tricky question. While aggregate data as well as common sense can provide some answers, absent a crystal ball no one can say how any given campaign will perform with a particular automation strategy until it is actually tried. As such, I designed an experiment to run for 8 lead generation campaigns for … [Read more...] about Max Clicks For Budget-Limited Campaigns: A Case Study
