What up! In today’s installment of, “Some Insights Into Things & Stuff”, we’ll cover some insights we here at Hanapin have come across in regards to Bing’s in-market audiences, as well as their branded “Microsoft Audience Network”. For reference, most of the findings I will speak to come from my work on an account that operates in the education vertical. What Are … [Read more...] about Some Insights Into Bing’s PPC Audiences
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How We Train PPC Experts
I work with a team full of lifelong learners. It is a requirement to work at Hanapin. Gotta have that thirst for knowledge. Something happens, though, when you have a diverse team with varying depths of PPC knowledge: one-size-fits-all training doesn’t work. One-size-fits-most doesn’t work. This is a problem I ran into when I sat down with my colleague to construct our training … [Read more...] about How We Train PPC Experts
Surfing the Waves of Creative Destruction
This post is shared with you from Anders Hjorth, Digital Marketing Strategist at Innovell & speaker at Hero Conf London. AI is disrupting the Search Industry It is only fair that I start with a confession: Facebook thinks I am German. So they serve me German language advertising. I am many things, Danish national, French resident, Estonian e-resident. I also speak several … [Read more...] about Surfing the Waves of Creative Destruction
Quora Ads: How to Reach Your Target Audience at Key Moments
Quora is a unique, high-intent advertising platform, ideally suited to reach customers as they evaluate and research a product or service. People come to Quora to ask questions, and to read and share insightful answers. This includes people looking for reliable information about your company, products, competitors, and industry. This provides advertisers the opportunity to … [Read more...] about Quora Ads: How to Reach Your Target Audience at Key Moments
Google Sheets Query Function Need-to-Knows For PPC
If you are a hard-core Excel only user this article is not for you. While Excel is powerful especially combined with Power BI, sometimes Google Sheets is the answer. In an industry such as digital marketing where everything we do is online, highly collaborative, and shared with outside clients Google Sheets has its benefits. We have a lot of clients with special needs when it … [Read more...] about Google Sheets Query Function Need-to-Knows For PPC
How to Build an In-Platform Facebook Ads Funnel
Many advertisers today are looking for ways to create their sales funnels within platforms for several reasons. It helps reduce friction, keeping users within the platform and eliminating issues with conversion-rate optimization and bounce rate once the user lands on a webpage. It also avoids issues with using potentially sensitive customer data to build a funnel, a topic … [Read more...] about How to Build an In-Platform Facebook Ads Funnel
How We Gained $21,000 More in Revenue by Changing One Color
Do you cringe when someone says, “button color?” Do you automatically shut down when a test is recommended to you that seems like just a minor change? Today I want to encourage you to shift your mindset. What may seem like a “minor” change to you may bring $21,000 more in revenue to your company. Now it doesn’t seem so “minor,” does it? You may hesitate testing something as … [Read more...] about How We Gained $21,000 More in Revenue by Changing One Color
I used the Budget Optimizer in Facebook for 30 Days, here’s what happened…
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…
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
Drive Prospects Down the Funnel with Chatbots
Chatbots are all the rage, but are you using yours to its full potential? Having a chatbot on your site allows for quick communication, improved customer service, and can push users to specific landing pages. Are you getting everything out of your chatbot that you could be? Or, are you skeptical of chatbots? Wondering how successful they actually could be? Are they worth the … [Read more...] about Drive Prospects Down the Funnel with Chatbots
How We Used Ad Customizers to Decrease Our Client’s Cost-Per-Lead By 34%
It’s no secret that I love ad customizers. They allow you to write dynamic ad copy that changes depending on who is searching. Even more importantly, they stand out from your competition. For example, if we know that a product takes longer to ship to Florida vs. California, we can customize the ads in each location to include the shipping time. Or, if our inventory always … [Read more...] about How We Used Ad Customizers to Decrease Our Client’s Cost-Per-Lead By 34%
AOL: Does it add value to your Bing PPC account?
AOL's partnership with Bing affects your ad performance in Bing, whether you know it or not. I recently checked AOL's performance in a Bing account and found some surprising data that I'd like to share. To say I was surprised at the results is an understatement. My AOL findings make me more confident that Microsoft's more recent advertising move, acquiring LinkedIn, will also … [Read more...] about AOL: Does it add value to your Bing PPC account?