source: Product Manager HQ For many digital marketers, when we hear "split testing," we immediately think of A/B testing creative variations across advertising platforms. This usually means taking two nearly identical ads, which differ only by one variable (e.g. headline), and running them simultaneously in a campaign to determine which variation has the "winning" performance. … [Read more...] about Facebook Split Testing 101
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Video is Not Hard: Fearlessly Feed Your Funnel with YouTube Ads
What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you think of YouTube ads? Does your heart rate shoot up a little? Palms sweaty, knees weak, …Mom’s spaghetti? Thinking to yourself, “Video is just too hard. I can’t do it”? We have 3 words for you: YES. YOU. CAN. Plus 3 more: AND. YOU. SHOULD. YouTube ads can bring a host of concerns for marketers everywhere. We know it's … [Read more...] about Video is Not Hard: Fearlessly Feed Your Funnel with YouTube Ads
Are Coupons and Promotions Worth Your Time?
Who doesn’t love a good sale? You see a commercial, receive a mail-flyer, or an email and it immediately catches your attention when something is said to be “on-sale”. While these methods are still going strong, coupons and promotions in the digital realm are as well. Personally, I am more apt to view and research a product that has any type of sale language than I am a product … [Read more...] about Are Coupons and Promotions Worth Your Time?
AdWords is Dead, Long Live Google Ads: Google Simplifies its Marketing Brands
Google announced yesterday (June 27, 2018) that it is rebranding its advertising suite of products, consolidating some services and revising others. The reasoning behind the change, as Google's official announcement of the consolidated networks points out, is multi-fold: ...marketers have more opportunities to reach consumers across channels, screens and formats. Advertising … [Read more...] about AdWords is Dead, Long Live Google Ads: Google Simplifies its Marketing Brands
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
10 New Ways to Optimize Paid Search with Call Intelligence
Improving your paid search results is an ongoing challenge - CPCs are constantly rising, and finding new areas for optimization can be increasingly difficult. A critical, but often overlooked part of an SEM strategy is focusing on call conversions. Mobile search drives billions of calls to business each year, and calls convert at a higher rate than digital leads. When … [Read more...] about 10 New Ways to Optimize Paid Search with Call Intelligence
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
Up and Running with AdWords Add-on for Google Sheets
We can all agree that having data is good. Having data stuck behind an interface is not good. Data in the interface isn’t easy to manipulate. This makes more difficult to analyze and incorporate your data into a tool or template. Thankfully a new add-in has come along to save the day and directly export data from AdWords into Google Sheets. Of course you could have pulled this … [Read more...] about Up and Running with AdWords Add-on for Google Sheets
Facebook Dynamic Creative Tool: A Breakdown and How-To Guide
How to Use Facebook's Dynamic Creative Tool source: Facebook Split testing Facebook ads got you down? Do you have tons of great images and copy variations just waiting to be used, but you don't know how you could possibly A/B test them all? Great news! Facebook has a time-efficient, automated tool for determining the best combinations of all of your creative assets. In … [Read more...] about Facebook Dynamic Creative Tool: A Breakdown and How-To Guide
Life After A/B Ad Testing: A Retrospective
Last August, Google switched up the options for ad rotation settings. We all saw it. And we all, for the most part, adjusted the settings to suit our needs, (I say "for the most part" as I to this day onboard clients with the unsupported "Optimize for Conversions" selected). Mary wrote a great piece, The End of 2 Ads Per Ad Groups. Google said, "This is changing!". We said, … [Read more...] about Life After A/B Ad Testing: A Retrospective
The Top 25 Most Influential PPC Experts of 2018
The final list is ready. Are you ready? Every summer, we release our newest edition of the Top 25—it’s a nice way to honor some of the hardest workers in our tight-knit PPC community. This year, we had over 25,000 votes! BEFORE YOU SCROLL DOWN, READ THIS FIRST! While we love the vast amount of participation we receive for this competition, it came to our attention that not … [Read more...] about The Top 25 Most Influential PPC Experts of 2018
A Buyer Persona Based Approach to Mapping Your Customer Journey
Buyer personas represent your prospects and customers as a concept. The ability to meet their needs and answer their questions to the fullest is a clear competitive advantage. Therefore, a persona-based approach is used by many marketers to enhance customer experience, improve targeting accuracy, and harness behavioral analytics to their business objectives. Buyer personas … [Read more...] about A Buyer Persona Based Approach to Mapping Your Customer Journey
