Online Advertising with Adwords and Facebook Dan Belhassen greatBIGnews.com Modern Earth Inc.

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Traditional Online Advertising Downsides – No self service – Typically cost per thousand impressions (CPM) Not results based High cost – Visitors started “ignoring” banner ads

How AdWords is Different Self service Market priced (bidding) Integrated analysis

Better Advertising Google Adwords Facebook

History of Google Advertising Prior to 2000, only had sponsored links

History of Google Advertising Engineers created an early version of adwords – Weren’t sure if people would use it First online order within minutes – “live mail order lobsters” The rest is history – Only 1.48 billion dollars per year in profit

The AdWords Model Small, text only ads

The AdWords Model Pay per performance – Pay per click (PPC) Fully “self service” – Setup and manage the account yourself 24x7 Results oriented – Intensive reporting

Your 1 st Adwords Campaign Step 1: Create a Google Account – Allows you to access AdWords – Can also be used for other services such as Analytics – Google.com/adwords

Your 1 st Adwords Campaign Step 2: Select Languages – Determine which languages to target A visitors “home” language

Your 1 st Adwords Campaign Step 3: Select Geography – What cities and states should your ad be displayed in? – You can select multiple city/state combinations – You can also target other countries

Your 1 st Adwords Campaign Step 4: Ad Text – Three lines Title First line Second line

Your 1 st Adwords Campaign Step 5: Ad Verification – Ad is reviewed against filters Looking for specific terms (swearing) Looking for specific industries (pharmaceutical) – Probably not a problem for this group

Your 1 st Adwords Campaign Step 6: Select Keywords – Potential keywords from your site presented – Select as many keywords as possible “Cast a wide net” – Add in other keywords you can think of Synonyms Common misspellings

Your 1 st Adwords Campaign Step 7: Set Daily Budget – Maximum spend per day – Does not guarantee full spend Depends on other factors

Your 1 st Adwords Campaign Step 8: Traffic Estimator (and bids) – Your goal is to spend as little as possible for best results! – How much are you willing to bid per click? – How much are you willing to pay by month? – How much traffic do you want to receive?

Advanced Adwords

We’ve seen a simple example – One ad – One target geography – One target audience – But, a “good” marketing campaign will be more complex

Advanced Adwords Typically will have multiple demographics – Interest areas – Geography – Motivation

Advanced Adwords Interest Areas – What courses are they interested in? eg: photography, nursing credits, sales training, etc. Is it business or leisure related? – Maybe they don’t know! eg: adventure based leisure activity eg: improving company sales

Advanced Adwords Solution - Multiple campaigns

Advanced Adwords Multiple campaigns – Each campaign can have A daily budget A set of geographical targets A series of ad groups – Each ad group can have Multiple text ads A list of keywords

Advanced Adwords Determine geography – Select by country, state and city – Drill down to specific postal codes – Note – large programs or online programs Set up multiple campaigns to target different courses in different geographies

Advanced Adwords Example campaign set up CategoriesBusinessLeisure

Advanced Adwords Separate into interest groups CategoriesBusinessEntrepreneurSkills Training Large business LeisureFamilyCouplesKids

Advanced Adwords Identify courses (business) Business Entrepreneur Starting a business Marketing 101 Skills Training WHMIS Large business Taking Minutes Corporate Governing

Advanced Adwords For each course, identify keywords – Identify as many keywords as possible (misspellings!) Course (ad group)Keywords Marketing 101Marketing for dummies, small business marketing, marketing for small business, marketing ideas WHMISwhmis, online whmis course, whmis course, whimis course Corporate Governinghow a board operates, corporate board, board governing, taking minutes, roberts rules of order

Advanced Adwords For each ad group (course), create three ads – Try to use keywords in ad – Ads should appeal to different viewpoints/demographics Marketing for Dummies 5 week course Great results! Small Business Marketing Techniques exposed! 5 weeks to more profit! Beat the recession! 5 week course reveals secrets for your business

Advanced Adwords That’s a whole lot of ads! – Right! You would end up with lots of ads – BUT – each week you would find the worst performing ad and replace it with a newly worded ad Keep evolving the ads to increase your conversion rate

Even more advanced… Google content network Allows your ads to be promoted on thousands of websites – You can target which websites your ads show up on

Even more advanced… Google content network Different types of ads – Image ads – Local business ads – Mobile ads – Click to play video ads

Facebook Advertising

Facebook History Originally created by a Harvard student Launched in 2004 Worldwide phenomenon

Facebook Statistics 200 million active users 100 million log in once a day Two thirds are outside of college

The “Myth” Facebook is only used by “kids”

The “Reality” Fastest growing demographic – 35+ years old Facebook users by age range (US) – 13 – million – 18 – million – 26 – million – 45 – million

The “Reality” Facebook users by gender (US) – Female32.8 million – Male24.2 million Facebook users by country – US59.6 million – Canada11.3 million – New Zealand757,540

So.. What are facebook ads? Sample facebook page.. mine

Setting up a simple ad

Designing an effective ad Key difference between Facebook and Search Advertising – Facebook users AREN’T SEARCHING! Don’t expect high click through rates – You need to capture their attention

Example ads From an online case study Which ad got more clicks?

Example ads From an online case study 16 clicks 183 clicks Ad quality is critical!

Tracking results The power of online advertising is the ability to accurately track results Don’t bother advertising if you’re not going to spend time measuring Use Google Analytics to track results –

In summary Facebook advertising can be – Highly targeted – Inexpensive – Easy to setup and use Don’t forget to “evolve” your ads Measure your results

Far more advanced…

Google Television Ads Create a TV ad – Costs about $2,000 to outsource creation – – Sample ad Sample ad Choose where and when to run it! Choose the maximum you’re willing to pay! (CPM)

Google Television Ads

What’s Next? We covered a lot of ground! Start with a simple campaigns – Target your high profit courses & programs There are some excellent books or online resources available Can also hire a consultant

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