My PubCon Florida deck on how to navigate budgets and leverage marketing channels so marketing is all about return on ad spend. Includes Google ads, Bing, Display, and Facebook.
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I am a bounty hunter of happiness and profit
(& a Star Wars nerd)
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• Am focused on the business
metrics of my stakeholders (clients).
• Know when to invest and when to
hold back.
• Live for the thrill of winning for my
stakeholders.
This means I:
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Talking Money is Hard – Talking Profit is
Easy
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By the end of this session, each of you will have
the tools to be a fellow bounty hunter of
happiness and profit
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What We’ll Be Covering
➔ Baseline/Questions to Ask
➔ Poor Performance Caused by
Lack of Budget
➔ Can’t Spend the Budget
➔ Account is Winning
➔ Casestudy
Navah Hopkins
Services Innovation
Strategist
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Are There Hubs of High-Value Customers, or Are
They Truly Spread Out?
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Are Phone and Website Leads Equal? Do
Conversion Rates and Auction Prices Align?
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• Impression Share
• Auction Price
• Conversion Rate/Value
Three Trails Good
Hunters Follow:
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Most Advertisers Struggle to Achieve 50%+ of
Available Impressions
Based on
2973
accounts
with at least
$.01 in
search
spend
Average
impression
share is 47%
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Search Auction Prices
Vary by Industry – don’t
bring a blaster to a
lightsaber duel
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If You Know You Have An Easier Time Winning on
Mobile/Desktop, Don’t Be Afraid to Focus There
Mobile:
4.39% CTR
$34.79 CPA
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✓Location Targets
✓Duplicate Keywords
✓Structure of the Campaign
✓Match-types of keywords
✓Bidding strategies
Raising Budget is a
Last Resort – Check the
Following First:
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If Not, Assess if You Can Get The Traffic With
Different Search Ideas
Based on $369
spend between
October 25th and
November 23rd 2017
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Check The Search Terms For The Real Heroes!
3% cheaper
& perfect
conversion
rate!
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Broad Keywords Can Drag Your Budget into
Unintended Auctions
162%
More
Than
Average
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If they’re all too high, find out if clients can live
without that Traffic
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• Use extensions to communicate
valuable ideas without paying a
premium.
• Bid adjustments can focus the
budget.
• Lumping strategic initiatives
together can cause all to fail.
Not all profit centers
are equal:
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Daily Budgets Needed For AT LEAST One Lead
Based on 2018 Average CPC
Monthly
budget will be
30.4 X daily
budget
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• Be transparent about industry costs
and whether budget expectations
are realistic.
• Offer options that work within the
requested budget.
• Give realistic timelines for growth
When crafting marketing
budgets/assessing clients:
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• Too many targets
• Bids and auction prices not aligned
• Search volume isn’t there for
“important” keywords
Here are the most
common culprits:
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There’s only
so many
signals a
budget can
accommodate
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Number of ad groups can also choke a budget: 5-7
is the golden ratio!
60% of
impressions
Budget
will only
go to
“winners”
instead of
everything
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Bid to budget ratio is only
part of the equation: if the
bids are too low, you won’t
even enter the auction
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While it is true Google can up to double your
budget, you can’t bank on it delivering premium
volume if you’re consistently under bidding
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• Turn important low volume
keywords into site links/callouts
• Make a low budget “experiment”
campaign to house these ideas
• Ask the client if they’d be open to
content marketing being
responsible for those ideas.
Here are three easy
solutions:
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But we’re bounty hunters of profit and
happiness…there’s always more to be had
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• Can your client handle more leads
or are they at capacity?
• Is this seasonal – should we invest
now, or hold for next season?
• Should the budget go to existing
initiatives, or would you rather
expand to new platforms/parts of
the business?
Before we continue:
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Here is what I look for in a winning campaign
Consistently
above 75%
impression
share!
Campaign live for at least three months
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A great way to expand is to layer in display!
In-market display
ad with affinity
content!
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Display Average CPC’s Are Cheaper – Build Your
Perfect Audience to Be Picked Up By Search
Remarketing
10%
conversion
rate vs 4%
conversion
rate
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Display Can Bring Users Your Branded and
Remarketing Search Campaigns are Poised to
Pick-up
$496
Monthly
Budget
168550
Monthly
Impressions
701
Monthly
Clicks
*Average monthly budget, impressions and clicks across
4000 accounts (no budget over $50 and no budget under
$1)
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Don’t Forget About Facebook!
26% Of Clicks Result In A
Conversion (Spark Central)
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• Average CPC is $1.72, but this is
determined by how many folks
click on your ad!
• Budgets can be ad set or
campaign level – choose the level
of control that suits you!
• 19% of time spent on mobile is
on Facebook.
Facebook Budgets
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By running campaigns on other networks, you can
expand your Google market:
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New Campaigns Are Expensive – the
first 1-2 months of a campaign will be
about data acquisition
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• Quality of leads
• Return on ad spend
• Volume of leads (as long as quality
isn’t impacted)
• Year over year growth
• Growing the value of a customer
Clients will care about:
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If we want to grow the budget, we need to speak
their language
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• Built trust by identifying and
eliminating wasted spend brought
in by broad terms and tangential
searches.
• Focused budgets by geos served
and replicated winning structure
across those areas.
• Layered in display to educate
markets on why their approach to
training works.
How did we achieve
victory?