These kinds of posts are always dangerous. I try to avoid them, to be honest, because it's difficult to walk the tightrope of tact and truth. You either end up sounding like a giant jerk that hates everyone, or you fearfully dance around feelings so much that you don't ever really say what is on everyone's mind. The purpose of this post is not simply to gather … [Read more...] about You may be a potential nightmare PPC client if…
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Kicking Off and Maintaining CRO Client Relationships
Kicking off any type of relationship can be overwhelming. A conversion rate optimization (CRO) relationship is no different. You have many different aspects to juggle when you’re beginning and maintaining these relationships, including: Verticals Industry types KPIs Client personalities Site structure The list goes on and on. We’re always striving to be more of … [Read more...] about Kicking Off and Maintaining CRO Client Relationships
5 Heroes of Hero Conf London 2016
This post comes to us from our friend Ruth Derby, a Paid Advertising Executive at The Tomorrow Lab. Her post was originally shared here. Hear more from Ruth on Twitter - @ruthcowan5. (Note: This post has been lightly edited from its original version) Last [year], I had the opportunity to attend Hero Conf London at etc.venues, St Paul’s. Spending two full days in buzzing … [Read more...] about 5 Heroes of Hero Conf London 2016
Why Manual Bidding Will Slowly Ride Into The Sunset
Throughout the evolution of AdWords, we have seen so many rollouts and changes to how we manage our campaigns and strategy. Removal of close variant controls, the removal and then re-introduction of device bidding, ETA’s, the dread of changing to the new UI. Despite all of this, one thing has always remained a constant: Control of our bids and the choice to use automation if … [Read more...] about Why Manual Bidding Will Slowly Ride Into The Sunset
Automate Your Manual Bidding Strategy Using Supermetrics
One of the most important parts of our job as PPC’ers is bidding. We place bids to win auctions to gain conversions and leads. A big part, then, of our PPC strategy is optimizing bidding. There are several bidding strategies out there, but they can be simplified down to two categories: automated bidding and manual bidding. Automated bidding can be helpful, especially in … [Read more...] about Automate Your Manual Bidding Strategy Using Supermetrics
How to Deliver PPC Data with Confidence
Have you ever attended a conference or a training session and thought to yourself, “this message just makes everything click into place?” This week I attended an optional training session at Hanapin about how to deliver presentations with ease and confidence. The topic intrigued me because who wouldn’t want to learn as many tricks as possible to improve future presentations and … [Read more...] about How to Deliver PPC Data with Confidence
Did I Do That: Using the GA Effect Tool For Statistical Significance
I’m going to run a scenario by you, let’s see if this sounds familiar: “We launched display a few months ago, has this had an impact on our search traffic?” “Is direct conversion volume affected by ___?” Like Steve Urkel, you might be wondering… What’s your next step in any of the above situations? One option is to pull a simple report showing the appropriate … [Read more...] about Did I Do That: Using the GA Effect Tool For Statistical Significance
Automate Your Budget Projections Using Supermetrics
I don’t know about you, but I am always looking for ways to make my job easier. Anything that makes my day-to-day tasks take a little less time so I can focus more on learning and strategizing PPC is good to me. Recently, I began to utilize Supermetrics, an add on to Google Sheets. Supermetrics can automatically pull in data from across your PPC platforms, (AdWords, Bing, … [Read more...] about Automate Your Budget Projections Using Supermetrics
Kickoff The Relationship That Your Ads Spark Using Your Landing Page Copywriting Skills
In PPC we strive to put the right message in front of the right user at the right moment. This is essentially our formula for success. We’re fully aware that irrelevant ads will be ignored and possibly even judged for being so off-base. Exhibit A: I recently traveled to Vancouver. Going into this international trip, I knew that Uber and Vancouver weren’t quite on speaking … [Read more...] about Kickoff The Relationship That Your Ads Spark Using Your Landing Page Copywriting Skills
How To Utilize PPC Brand Building Strategies
When working with clients, you are going to be asked how to increase brand impression share. Clients love seeing conversions and revenue but making sure that your brand name is on top of the search results is another important metric that could lead to sticky conversations. Increasing brand impression share is not an easy task because sometimes your impression share is in the … [Read more...] about How To Utilize PPC Brand Building Strategies
3 Ways To Improve B2B Lead Quality
Working towards lead quality is always a work in progress, but there are some specific ways we can improve the quality of leads. Cassie wrote a post in 2014 that gave 5 tips to help lead quality through broadening targeting options. In this post, we will focus on ways that may drop lead volume, but boost our main goal of “quality over quantity”. This helps us work towards a … [Read more...] about 3 Ways To Improve B2B Lead Quality
Google Releases New Maximize Conversions Smart Bidding Strategy
Optimizing bids can be the bane of many PPC’ers. We use bid sheets, formulas, macros, and other fun strategies to ensure we are winning the auction and garnering conversions. Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could set up our AdWords campaigns to automatically optimize for conversions or a conversion value without having to do manual adjustments? That is what Google is attempting to … [Read more...] about Google Releases New Maximize Conversions Smart Bidding Strategy
