Have you ever clicked an online ad and thought, “Wow, how did they know?!” As you read email, use mobile apps, and browse the internet, Google will show you ads through their “Display Network.” While personalized ads are based on many factors, the method is almost always remarketing. The best and most highly targeted ads come […]
Continue ReadingThe holiday season can mean big business and it’s coming fast. But while spending rises, so does the competition. Do you have a strategy in place for your PPC and SEO holiday campaigns? In addition to searches for “Thanksgiving recipes” and “best Christmas gifts for dad,” people will also be searching for electricians, plumbers, and other […]
Continue ReadingLast week, the Google Inside AdWords blog announced a change in how they will display sitelinks, callouts, and snippets on mobile ads, which will take effect at the end of this month. Building on other AdWords updates such as expanded text ads, Google will simplify and improve their mobile ads with more useful and informative […]
Continue ReadingDo you know where your customers are coming from? HomeAdvisor, mobile search, the radio? By using call tracking for each of your advertising channels, it’s easy to pinpoint the highest performing campaigns and the lowest performing customer service representatives. Call tracking allows you to attribute success to a specific marketing effort. Some industries rely on […]
Continue ReadingFirst coined by Sean Ellis in 2010 to describe a unique job description, the term “growth hacking” elicits some pretty strong responses—everything from “it’s a scam” to “it’s just marketing.” So, what is growth hacking? To use Sean Ellis’s description, “a growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth.” Born in a scrappy […]
Continue ReadingAfter reading our Facebook Marketing Guides Part 1 and Part 2, you’re probably ready for the more advanced stuff. This guide goes over how Facebook Ads work and how to add Facebook marketing pixels to your site so you can track your website visitors and retarget them on Facebook. Targeted Facebook Advertising There are billions of […]
Continue ReadingWriting is seduction. – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft You don’t have to be a “writer” to write good sales copy. In fact, it’s more formulaic than you might think. Yes, lots of creative thinking goes into memorable and award-winning ads, but if your goal is to simply increase sales, then […]
Continue ReadingIf you’ve ever taken a look at your website’s analytics, you probably know that the vast majority of people who visit your website end up leaving your page and going somewhere else. Only a very small percentage of users will convert. In fact, around 97-98% of your traffic is likely to bounce. That doesn’t necessarily […]
Continue ReadingA landing page is a separate page from your website, designed with a specific goal in mind — to get leads. Landing pages are used for paid advertising, most commonly for pay-per-click (PPC) and Facebook/Social ads. While the term “landing page” is often used to refer to any web page that you “land” on, in digital […]
Continue ReadingUpdate your old ads now! Standard Text Ads disappear on January 31, 2017. Google announced a lot of new updates at its annual Performance Summit in San Francisco earlier this year. There was a lot of focus on mobile (up to about 60% of all search queries), but the most frightening and exciting change was […]
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