Author: Glenn Schmelzle

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Episode 8: Top Paid Search Updates of 2018

paid search updates 2018 recap

This episode looks at 2018’s Top Changes in Paid Search Marketing. We have three PPC Professionals who reviewed the long list of features that PPC platforms made in 2018 and cut it down to a handful that are having the largest impact on B2B companies. Hear what we think are the best and worst changes made this past year, and what advertisers should to in reaction to them.

2018 Top Paid Search panel

Special thanks to two people who know their way around all the major PPC platforms, Pierre Levasseur and Olga Gladycheva, for joining as guest panelists in this episode. The updates covered include:

  • Google Analytics Audience Report
  • Bing Native Intent Ads
  • Responsive Search Ads
  • Smart bidding Display campaigns
  • Click to Message Email Forwarding
  • Bing’s new LinkedIn targeting abilities through Microsoft Audiences
  • Google Ads Removal of some Budget Limits
  • Custom Intent Audiences for Display/Retargeting
  • New Script GTAG.JS in Response to Browsers dropping cookies
  • Google Ads Suggested Ad copy
  • Smart display campaigns
  • Increased targeting of mobile traffic on display campaigns

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Episode 7: Integrating CRM and Marketing Automation into your Funnel, with Ed Goffin

Ed Goffin of Pleaora Technologies talks about CRM and Marketing Automation

In this episode, we hear from a company that’s successfully using two enterprise applications to run sophisticated digital marketing programs.

Shownotes:

Ed Goffin works at Pleora Technologies and can be reached at [email protected]

They use Salesforce as their CRM and Pardot for Marketing Automation.

 

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Episode 5: Dealing with how work’s changed with digital

Dealing with how work’s changed with digital

Shownotes:

This episode covers the way we work in digital. As the pace of work has sped up, we’re using more agile methods to plan our resources. As automation and artificial intelligence enter, we’re deciding how it gets used in our marketing stack. We are also figuring out how our organizational culture fits with this, so everyone can focus on a funnel that efficiently converts visitors into buyers.

This Episode’s Links:

turtles all the way down
turtles all the way down

Scott Brinker’s Book, “Hacking Marketing”

Jim Sterne http://twitter.com/jimsterne

Christopher P. Berry http://twitter.com/cjpberry

 

This Episode’s Reboot:

Read the Agile Manifesto at
http://agilemanifesto.org/

Photo: Thomas Edison and ‘the muckers’ in front of the Menlo Park laboratory

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Episode 4: Dealing with how digital is measured

Dealing with how digital is measured

Shownotes:

This episode is about how digital has changed how we measure marketing. We’ll cover the explosion of data brought by the Internet. We’ll look at how to clean and filter data so only the right kind is used for analysis. We’ll talk about tools for analyzing and reporting data, for sharing data with core areas of our business, and also for insights we ourselves get out of it. Finally, we’ll see how more leads can be generated by analyzing how buyers respond to our content.

Links mentioned:

Urchin Software  (acquired/rebranded as Google Analytics)

Robert Rose

Difference between Stock and Flow numbers

Renaissance Men

Eric Peterson’s Big Book of Key Performance Indicators (author’s full-text release)

This Episode’s Reboot:

I’m going to recommend that you review your own KPIs. You can even benchmark them against some external KPI libraries out there. First time I learned these things existed, I was fascinated. There’s kpilibrary.com, free-kpi.com, smartkpis.com and others. These are all great places to get inspiration for choosing the KPIs that matter to your own organization.

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Episode 1: Dealing with Digital, starting with You

dealing with digital starting with you

This is the first in a 5-part series on how digital marketing’s different. This episode examines how to do digital marketing well, we likely need to change our mindset and our skills.

Shownotes:

“This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and even it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends.”   These words belong to journalist Edward R. Murrow. Though he was describing television, it might as well apply to the primary medium of our digital age. The Marketing discipline in the Internet-era is wildly different than that of the TV-era. This episode asks how those of us in marketing have had to shift our thinking in this new era. What mindset and skills do we need to deal with digital?

Links to People/Things Mentioned:

Seth Godin

Terry O’Reilly

“The Hard Thing about Hard Things”, by Silicon Valley VC Ben Horowitz

Andrew Chen’s Law of Clickthroughs

Paul Roetzer author of the “Performance Marketing Blueprint”

This Episode’s Reboot:

Check out the skills inventory list from The Marketing Performance Blueprint (reprinted with permission). It gives a breakdown of the 15 skill areas that you can use to Assess your own abilities.

skills inventory assessment