Twitter Targeting Tactics - say that 10 times in a row! While the title of this post may have you tongue-tied, below I plan to clearly define the importance of including Twitter Ads in your 2016 digital marketing strategy and targeting tactics. According to Forrester US Digital Marketing forecast from 2014 to 2019, Social Media investments will grow faster than any other … [Read more...] about Don’t Miss These 5 Twitter Targeting Tactics In 2016
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10 Simple Predictions For The Ever-Evolving World Of Pay Per Click In 2016
This year has been a dynamic one in the world of paid search as many platforms have released a number of updates and new features. For most retailers, a new and exciting change was the ability to have a Black Friday and a Cyber Monday structured data as an ad extension. On the other hand, Bing has also made an array of changes to their advertising platform in 2015, with the … [Read more...] about 10 Simple Predictions For The Ever-Evolving World Of Pay Per Click In 2016
Nice To Meet You: Making Good First Impressions With Ads
Good ads are like a good handshake welcoming someone into your brand. Without the right combination of words, extensions, and customizers, your ad becomes a passing wave as your potential customer scrolls past. Be too aggressive with your words and the ad becomes a choking bear hug, ultimately turning someone away from your brand. So what is the right combination? How can we … [Read more...] about Nice To Meet You: Making Good First Impressions With Ads
How To Optimize For Velocity
You may as well not call, you know you are going right to voicemail. But you do anyway because this is your job..... or maybe more is riding on it and this is your company. You are calling back the leads from your PPC campaign, and every single one of them has lost interest. Are they avoiding you? Have they gone with a competitor? You are frustrated and feel like … [Read more...] about How To Optimize For Velocity
Understand Your User Flow: Creating Funnel Charts In Excel
Advertising isn’t always a one step process. There are often multiple steps along the pathway from visitor to purchaser. Each step along the path presents an opportunity to lose a potential sale or lead, making it vital to examine each touchpoint. Funnel charts can help clarify the numbers to analyze performance by step. If you are losing too many potential leads at the … [Read more...] about Understand Your User Flow: Creating Funnel Charts In Excel
How We Increased Android App Installs By 5% In 6 Weeks
One of the biggest challenges for direct response marketers is meeting conversion volume while staying below the target CPA. Typically, those are two different metrics that we all strive to hit with our campaigns. It can be even more difficult on mature campaigns that are well optimized. With these types of campaigns, you're really looking for those marginal gains to improve … [Read more...] about How We Increased Android App Installs By 5% In 6 Weeks
Bidding Methods For Platforms Outside Of Google
If you are a consistent reader of PPC Hero, then you've read up on in-depth bidding strategies for the Search Network in Google and Bing. But what are the best strategies to utilize on other platforms? How should we be bidding on the traffic being received from our ever growing Facebook budget? How about managing the money in Pinterest? Or what are best practices for bidding on … [Read more...] about Bidding Methods For Platforms Outside Of Google
Facebook Audience Insights: Advanced Guide To Creating Personas
How well do you know your Facebook audience? Are you capitalizing on Facebook’s insights to better understand your audience? Facebook Audience Insights is a powerful tool that combines Facebook native data and third party providers (Datalogix, Acxiom, Epsilon, BlueKai) to help marketers uncover deep insights about their audience. In this article, we'll share how to find, … [Read more...] about Facebook Audience Insights: Advanced Guide To Creating Personas
Your Chance At Making A Good Impression
By doing a quick Google search, we can see there are numerous results on best ways to make a first impression, ranging from “how to” to “how long you have.” These articles also feature on the “why." For example, “Why is it important to make a good first impression”? This article from Forbes highlights that you have seven seconds to make a good first impression. It focuses on … [Read more...] about Your Chance At Making A Good Impression
Make Better Projections With Excel’s “What-If” Analysis
Paid search is a dynamic marketplace. Resources fluctuate, competitors come and go, and business goals change. In order to keep up, you must make continual estimations between where you are and where you could be. While it’s easy to calculate gross differences, it becomes trickier once you must deal with dependencies or analyze multiple scenarios. In this article, we’ll … [Read more...] about Make Better Projections With Excel’s “What-If” Analysis
Trust-Based PPC Marketing
Do you remember Domino’s Pizza before 2009? If not, I don’t blame you. Their stock hit an all-time low in 2008, and a YouTube video showing employees doing disgusting things with the food left the company’s image at an all-time low. It was a wake-up call for the company to make a change in both product and branding. How did this move help Domino’s get back to a positive … [Read more...] about Trust-Based PPC Marketing
[Industry Report] 70% of advertisers reported increases to their PPC budgets in 2015
The cornerstone of PPC has always been search, however the overarching theme from the past few years is a sharp increase in technologies and platforms utilized by marketers to aid the performance of their overall PPC efforts. With the continued popularity of conversion rate optimization strategies, more sophisticated capabilities within search and expanded targeting in social … [Read more...] about [Industry Report] 70% of advertisers reported increases to their PPC budgets in 2015