Archive for the ‘Pay-per-Click’ Category

Facebook’s Sub-Par Advertising Management Experience

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
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As The Web Shop’s resident PPC ninja, I get to spend the majority of my Internet-Ad-Management time using Google AdWords’ management interface to create and oversee the advertising I am responsible for on the internet. As such, I feel kind of spoiled: their interface is simple and powerful, and almost negates the need for using a 3rd party campaign-management tool.

..And then there’s Facebook’s Advertising Management interface.

Don’t get me wrong in my intentions of writing this post. I don’t mean to say that advertising on Facebook is a bad thing, quite the contrary actually. Facebook presents a valuable and important opportunity for all

I’m on the Wordstream Blog!

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
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A bit of shameless self promotion here; a recent interview I did with Wordstream Internet Marketing has been published to their blog. After receiving above average scores in their PPC Grader tool, I was asked to spill the beans a bit on my PPC success, so make sure to take a look! You can see the interview here.

Knowing Where to Start with your Google AdWords Campaign

Friday, October 21st, 2011
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John recently wrote an interesting article entitled “Is your (AdWords) campaign a donation to Google?” that touched on the issue of making a relatively small investment into an AdWords campaign, and not giving it the proper attention (and spend) it requires to drive leads or sales for your business. Those of you who read John’s article and decided to ramp up your AdWords efforts have probably met with an issue that always presents itself when a PPC campaign is being “fixed”: where do I start?

The Importance in Who You’re Not Looking For

Friday, September 30th, 2011
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A common question I get asked by people who are unsure of whether or not they should go into social media, (or even online marketing,) is “why should I be present on social media or online marketing when, on average, only a small portion of people are even present there?” It’s a tough question to answer from a marketing perspective, but I feel like there is a side to social media, (and online marketing,) that most people don’t consider: avoiding people that you’re not looking for.

Is your Google Adwords campaign a donation to Google?

Monday, September 19th, 2011
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I find it interesting when we talk to smaller clients and we discuss Google pay per click advertising and they say that they are running a campaign themselves.  The next question always leads to budget and they say that they are spending $50 per month.  My first thought is that Google is so smart to make their pay per click service so easy for companies to setup and appear to run themselves.