Like anything, mastering the fundamentals of pay-per-click account management requires both practice and perseverance. Lin-Manuel Miranda did not write Hamilton in a day, or even a year. In fact, more than a decade after Miranda first picked up the biography by Ron Chernow and years after its Broadway opening, the Hamilton story continues through Hamildrops, […]
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Starting any new job is difficult: Getting a lay of the land from office desk maps, realizing who is in charge of what, and discovering the ins and outs of whatever industry in which you’ve chosen to work. I was ruminating on my early days working in digital marketing and the stress it brought me
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Frequently enough I find myself staring at my weekly or monthly reports going cross-eyed, trying to make sense of the data and how it’s been influenced by changes throughout the month. As marketers, we know all of the details of our strategy and are constantly thinking about what effects will come based on the changes
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All businesses want to make money – it is the point of business. With every initiative a business launches, it does so with the purpose to drive revenue. And every year, it hopes to drive even more revenue. Year over year growth is imperative for a business to be sustainable. As account managers, we are
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If you develop mobile games, the majority of your revenue likely comes from in-game advertising or microtransactions, and both of these happen post-download. In 2018, an average of 1,800 games/mo were launched on the IOS app store alone. With this sort of competition, users have more options than ever to find a game they want
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Many companies have B2C and B2B offerings; in some cases their digital marketing efforts will coincide and in other cases they won’t. Often times B2C and B2B efforts could collide. I have a client that is a company with both B2B and B2C divisions, with two separate ad accounts. Budgets, conversions, goals, and KPIs are
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One of the guiding principles I utilize for Account Management is taking a beat to consider: If a competitor digital agency took a look at my accounts, what would they say to my client to try and win the business? Albeit a bit paranoid in nature, it’s a useful lens to view your work as
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As PPC marketers, it is easy to think that lead gen and B2B are the same. B2B vs B2C can seem similar, especially in the lead gen arena, but typically there are still some key differences to buying a consumer service vs a business product or service. Some simple examples are: Consumers typically don’t get
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For the longest time, I and the PPC industry as a whole, have defaulted and still in a lot of circumstances still default to a Google Paid Search first strategy. Google Ads is still the number 1 platform, and is still required in any digital marketing strategy. It can produce great results, but in some
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During a recent dive into an auction insights report for one of my clients, I noticed that one of our top paid search competitors was declining in impression share. Our Search dominance was prevailing and I proudly looked down on the competitor <10% stat. I was excited to share the news with my client, but
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