A few weeks back I wrote about the consultative approach and how it can be used to manage PPC accounts more strategically. Our key stakeholders expect us to be a strategic business partner who proactively pushes their business forward through the use of paid search. What they don’t want is a reactive partner who’s just ‘awaiting orders’ before proceeding ahead with tasks and … [Read more...] about Tips For Being More Strategic With Your Clients
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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
6 Simple Physical Store Tactics To Boost Your Black Friday PPC Sales This Season
Black Friday sales have existed long before ecommerce was recognized. For over 50 years, stores have tried and tested ways to ensure they make the most out of the valuable footfalls, even without the luxury of measurability that PPC provides. Though many online advertisers are sharpening their toolkits to prepare for the weekend, too often, I find that ecommerce marketers … [Read more...] about 6 Simple Physical Store Tactics To Boost Your Black Friday PPC Sales This Season
5 Steps For Creating A Solid PPC Competitor Strategy
Analyzing the PPC competitive landscape can help provide key insight into performance trends and determine how your ads stack up to competition. By not taking the time to analyze PPC competitors, you could be missing out on huge gaps in your program that could leave your account vulnerable to deep-pocketed competitors driving up costs and stealing impression share. Below, we … [Read more...] about 5 Steps For Creating A Solid PPC Competitor Strategy
AdWords Releases New Shopping Metric For The Holidays
AdWords announced yesterday that a new metric called Click Share has been released for Shopping campaigns, just in time for Black Friday. Similar to impression share, the purpose behind this metric is to show where bid adjustments and ad relevancy can be improved to increase traffic. This metric can be found on the product groups tab that we discussed last week. How Does … [Read more...] about AdWords Releases New Shopping Metric For The Holidays
Creating Better Client Facing Reports With Excel
One of the most effective ways to relay information to your client is via Excel. The plus side is that it’s easy to pull data from most PPC platforms into Excel. The negative side is that it’s not so easy to make this data easy to digest. By taking the time to create a template that you can plug data into, you can save precious time that you can spend on analysis and … [Read more...] about Creating Better Client Facing Reports With Excel
Index Census And Trends Data For PPC Performance Insights
The best RFP question I’ve read said something to the extent of, “how do you explain performance swings without always blaming external factors when things are bad but taking all the credit when things are good?” As with most answers PPC Managers give, the answer is “it depends.” But indexing PPC data to external sources can shed light on relative performance. Thus, helping … [Read more...] about Index Census And Trends Data For PPC Performance Insights
Another Deep Dive Into Auction Insights
Last month I reviewed a new metric based off of Auction Insights, Rank Above Share. This month we have an updated version of diving into Auction Insights to find who your true top competitors are in search. Let's go ahead and review what statistics are available to us when downloading an Auction Insights report: Impression Share – How often the participant receives an … [Read more...] about Another Deep Dive Into Auction Insights
Three Things I Learned About Our Lead Generation Clients
I was recently checking out Hanapin’s very own Carrie Albright’s post on what she’s learned from a year’s worth of hourly ppc data across e-commerce accounts. This post inspired me to find out what I can learn about user behavior in lead generation ppc accounts, and how that behavior varies on weekends vs. the workweek. Having access to lead-gen accounts across multiple … [Read more...] about Three Things I Learned About Our Lead Generation Clients
Diminishing Returns in PPC – When Doubling Your Budget Doesn’t Mean Doubling Your Profits
“We’ve been cleared for double the budget per month for PPC next year…” That’s music to an Account Manager’s ears, right? Well, it would be – except it’s generally followed by: “…and we’ve set goals for twice the revenue to match.” Oh boy. That could be possible, but it’s also more than likely highly improbable. Most PPC accounts have the bulk of their spend in Google or … [Read more...] about Diminishing Returns in PPC – When Doubling Your Budget Doesn’t Mean Doubling Your Profits
The Pre-Holiday Planning Guide You Can’t Afford To Miss
Although you may still be recovering from your banner Back to School year, I regret to inform you that it’s not time to relax just yet. That’s right, it’s time to prep for your 2015 Holiday Season! Any seasoned ecommerce vet will tell you that if you’re not ready by September, you’re already getting left behind. Although we’re midway into September, I’m going to give you a … [Read more...] about The Pre-Holiday Planning Guide You Can’t Afford To Miss
Final Solution For Exact Match In Shopping Ads
Editor’s Note: This article is a part of our Hero Conf London Guest Post Giveaway. Based on a combination of pageviews, shares and editorial review from the PPC Hero writing staff, a winner will be chosen from the finalists we post throughout the week. Today’s post comes to us from PPC Specialist Petra Vetrovska (@vetrovka). Some keywords are important, more important than … [Read more...] about Final Solution For Exact Match In Shopping Ads
