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Why PPC Marketers Should Be Passionate About Their Client’s Business
You know, it’s easy to provide good PPC Tactics to any client, but to be honest, the PPC Marketer must take a more passionate role in the client’s business because if they want to move the “performance needle” they need to understand more than their basic products/services. Whether the PPC marketer inherits an existing account or initiates a new one, the discovery phase of the kickoff call must be more than just basic questions, they … Read entire article »
Filed under: Paid Search in General
SES NY 2010 Blog Coverage – Search Powered Marketing: Harnessing the Voice of the Consumer
Sponsored Session: Search Powered Marketing: Harnessing the Voice of the Consumer Preview/Summary from SES Website: Search and social media are changing the way brands interact with their consumers, and will be even more influential throughout 2010 and beyond. Consumers find and engage with brands in social media, print, radio, tv, and outdoor ads, which in turn influences what they search for. How should advertisers use integrated search and social media strategies to influence search terms and results, improve overall SEO and drive increases in return on ad spend?… more Speaker: Craig Macdonald, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Covario // … Read entire article »
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Search Engine Strategies Conference SES NY, Coverage – Day 1
Session #1: Digital Asset Optimization Moderator: Richard Zwicky, Founder & CEO , Enquisite Speakers: Mark Knowles, President & CEO, Pixelstick, Inc. Chris Boggs, Director of SEO, Rosetta Lee Odden, SES Advisory Board & CEO, TopRank Online Marketing LIVE Summary: This session started off with Mark Knowles where he talked about opportunities and fear. SERP pages were good in the past, but now with mixed media/blended search. Mark also talks about Google’s Patent and how the patent provides details into this blended search platform. So, with this blended search results, the search engines are striving to provide searchers with “real-time” results. He mentioned other colleagues have been effected by this change in the SERPS, and is forcing everyone to look at SERP more holistically, He also mentions “The Second Click” and that all things Google is not good for … Read entire article »
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Should We Take Google’s “View-Through” Conversion Tracking Seriously?
So what is your opinion of Google’s “View-Through” Conversion Tracking? Well, after reading a few blog posts on the subject, the first thing that came into my mind was “how do I effectively convince a client that we should measure this?“. Google interprets these conversions based on our eyes and not with our clicks? Are they trying to monetize something to keep people spending on the Content Network? Well, after reading up on this, I … Read entire article »
Filed under: Google Adwords, Paid Search in General, Web Analytics
An Exclusive Interview with Allen Hammock of LookSmart.com
SemGeek.com is proud to present an Exclusive Online Interview with Allen Hammock, Director of Technical Sales for Looksmart.com. This interview is brought to you in cooperation with the Search Engine Strategies’ Pre-SES New York 2010 Blog & Q&A Coverage. Interview Questions Question #1: Can you tell our audience a little more about your role at LookSmart? Answer: I’ve served LookSmart in various sales, marketing and technical roles since 2004, working to help define our leadership position in … Read entire article »
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Why The Client Discovery Phase Is Most Important for PPC Marketers
Many agencies and consultants handle new clients thru different phases in the relationship. These phases can consist of Kickoff/Discovery, Launch, Auditing, Optimization, Expansion, Testing, and I can go on and on. Moreover, in order for the client-agency relationship to get off on the right foot, there needs to be an unequivocal understanding of everything that there is to know about the client, including the past, present, and future. If the PPC agency does not get … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Strategy, Paid Search in General
Should PPC Advertisers Monetize Twitter Followers As A Viable Conversion Event?
In the PPC world, many of us are eager to monetize anything that has to do with either the possibility of a conversion and/or persuasion points leading up to a conversion, where it all leads back to their PPC efforts. There is nothing wrong with this, in fact, it’s just another stage in the evolution of understanding the power of PPC. However, with the adoption and popularity of more and more businesses utilizing Twitter and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Strategy, Paid Search in General
Why We Need PPC Marketing To Compliment The “Offline” World
The way human beings interact and react to what interests them the most in this world has become a transparent media blitz that has evolved and involved both Radio, TV, Internet, Mobile and Word of Mouth. With regard to the purpose of this blog article, the way people search for things on the Internet has been altered over the years and when our past connection with the media at one time which was separated … Read entire article »
Filed under: Online Strategy, PPC Analysis & Case Studies, Paid Search in General
Why We Should Stop Measuring Our Fees By A Client’s PPC Ad Budget
Regardless of you're personal and professional opinion on whether to charge a client "more" or "less" based a the client's Ad Budget, we must ask the question: Just because one client spends $1,000 more than another, does that mean I am doing less work and I have to compensate myself for that? Am I really gonna spend more time managing a $5000 per month Ad budget than say a $500 budget, especially since my … Read entire article »
Filed under: PPC Analysis & Case Studies, Paid Search in General
Classifying PPC Marketing? Is It An Art Or A Science? Part Deux
In my second and final installment of “Classifying PPC Marketing? Is It An Art Or A Science?”, I will dig a little deeper into the “weeds” of PPC Geekdom to try and identify which tactics and techniques of PPC should and will always be a Science as well as others that are reserved for the Artist respectfully. However, we all must acknowledge one thing. Regardless of anyone’s biased opinion, there is one constant that everyone … Read entire article »
Filed under: Exclusive Interviews, Paid Search in General
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