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Episode 16: Role of UX in a site’s marketing effectiveness with Farhad Khan

We can all agree that websites should persuade visitors to buy our products & services, right? There is a whole field that focuses on how websites do this, called User Experience (UX). 

To find out what marketers need to know about UX, I talked with Farhad Khan, an Ottawa-based expert on UX. He started out working as a software engineer for high tech companies and then formed a Web development agency called Grype Solutions in 2009. He has since received Ottawa Business Journal’s Top 40 under forty distinctions and has also started a podcast called The ButterFly Effect. 

Listen for his description of how design impacts a site’s marketing effectiveness, what jobs your website has, using your analytics tool to see how visitors flow through your site, making each page on your site interesting, and where sites are going when it comes to personalization.

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People & Products Mentioned

 

 

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Episode 15: Ad Fraud and what you can do about it

This episode looks at the impact of fraudulent traffic on digital marketing. We’ll talk about how big a problem it is for publishers, ad platforms and advertisers. We will step through what advertisers can do to make their campaigns less vulnerable to attacks by fraudsters, and give thoughts on how to give your non-marketing colleagues reasons why it’s still good business to advertise, in spite of problems with ad fraud.

Shownotes:

Ideas and Products mentioned in the episode

Humans Account for Less than 40% of Global Web Traffic.

Pixel Stuffing (see ‘pixel stuffing’)

Ad Stacking 

Misrepresentation ad fraud (video) 

Ad injections

Google Data Centres

Ad Fraud Bots reported by White Ops 

IAB.canada

Media Rating Council (MRC)

TAG standards

Blade Runner Voight-Kampff machine 

Polygraph Machine    

Ads.txt

Google Tag Manager Conversion Linker (Video) – incorrectly called it Conversion Looker in the audio.

Anti-drug PSA 

Arthur Andersen & Enron conflict of interest

Script to find How much of your traffic uses adblockers

People mentioned in the episode:

Bob Hoffman (adcontrarian) 

Mark Schaefer 

Scott Stratten

Gabe Leydon 

Augustine Fou 

Reboot:

To see invalid traffic numbers and percentages in your Google Ads account:

  1. login to your account and navigate to the campaign level
  2. Click the Columns icon and add the invalid interaction data columns
  3. If there are clicks you consider invalid that are not reported, you can request an invalid traffic investigation. Details are at the bottom of this page: https://www.google.com/ads/adtrafficquality/what-you-can-do.html

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Episode 14: The Role of Content throughout the funnel, with Lindsay Oliver

Disclaimer: The company featured here is not a sponsor of the show, nor have I affiliated with them. They simply bring a perspective that I think you’ll get some use from.

This episode takes us through the case of a company that seized the chance to market their product using content, tailored to each buyer’s vertical and funnel stage. Hear how they:

  • Implemented the email communications and marketing content into their Marketing Automation tool.
  • What kind of marketing resources they needed to build and maintain the platform
  • How to customize content for different audiences, without making too much work for yourself 
  • How to present dashboard data such that management understands how you use the budget to create content and what business-related numbers that influence.

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Ideas and Products mentioned in the episode:

People mentioned in the episode:

Reboot:

If you haven’t yet built content, use the attached Content Planning Template

If you have content on your site and you are auditing its marketing effectiveness, use some of the templates shown here:

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Episode 13: How Content Experience Makes the Whole Funnel Work, with James Taylor

content experience

This is part of a series on Elements of Every Funnel. Today we will focus on the kind of experience we create with our content.

This is the fifth in our five-part series on Making the Whole Funnel Work. An experience is created with the content you write; but content alone does not an experience make. You can’t just throw together a collection of words and expect it to do anything. Here I talk with a web copy expert on how to craft content that provides a positive experience for the user. In my interview with James Taylor, you’ll hear the 12 steps he follows for creating content that measurably improves the number of users who engage and become leads.

Show Notes: 

People/Things mentioned in the show.

Episode Reboot: 

Here is James’ 12-step checklist for Creating WebPage and Blog Post content

Content checklist
Content checklist

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Episode 12: How Traffic Makes the Whole Funnel Work

traffic

This is part of a series on Elements of Every Funnel. Today, our focus will be on acquiring traffic.

People/Things mentioned in the show:

Bob Hoffman (Ad Contrarian)

Browser Protocols like ITP

Jay Baer

Display and Retargeting Platforms:
Google Ads

Perfect Audience

AdRoll/Rollworks

Rapp Media/InSkin Media Research

Social Ad Platforms:
LinkedIn Ads

Twitter Ads

Mark Schaefer 
Scott Stratten 
Kamila Gornia

Native Advertising Platforms:
Taboola
Outbrain
Triplelift

Justin Mares & Gabriel Weinberg, authors of the book “Traction” 

Perry Marshall

For more on this topic, check out Episode 2: https://www.funnelreboot.com/ep2/

Episode Reboot: 

Check out the Acquisitions report in your Google Analytics.

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Episode 6: Top Paid Search Updates of 2017

2017 recap Top Paid Search Updates

2017 recap Top Paid Search Updates
In this episode, a panel of PPC specialists give their verdicts on the changes made by Google, Bing and others during the year.

Shownotes:

Panelists: Doug McCaffrey, Olga Gladycheva, Pierre Levasseur, being moderated by Glenn Schmelzle

Updates made by Paid Search platforms that we cover:

  • Custom Intent Audiences
  • AI Attribution models
  • Review & Promotion extensions
  • Ad variations
  • Modeling conversions via GCLID
  • IF function in Ads
  • Account Health score
  • AdWords Experience UI
  • Cross-device remarketing
  • Nearly Exact Exact Match
  • Youtube ad restrictions
  • GSP stops reading emails
  • AdWords + Google Optimize

Funnel Reboot tip:

Stay up-to-date through the Google Ads blog

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Episode 3: Dealing with Digital Conversations

dealing with digital conversations

brad geddes

Shownotes:

One of the ways that digital has changed marketing is in how buyers converse with sellers. the experiences we deliver actually facilitate a conversation where they buyer talks him or herself into either buying or engaging with sales.

Links Mentioned:

Robert Collier (great article here on the Collier Principle and Collier’s bio)

Cluetrain Manifesto, Ch 4 “Markets are Conversations”

Brian Clark “Educate people enough to do business with you”

Don Peppers & Martha Rogers books

Joe Pulizzi and the Content Marketing Institute 

Funnel Reboot:

Imagine you’re not a marketer for your product, but rather the person who it’s intended for.

  • Get a keyboard or notepad out and write down all questions you’d need satisfied before you’d feel ready to buy the product. If nothing’s coming to mind, you can pretend to be someone who has bought from you. A client you personally know, so you can picture what they’d say.
  • Now, go to your website and other online properties, and check off each question that those sources answer. Do you have any unchecked questions when you’re done? Those are the gaps in the conversation.
  • Make a plan to turn this rough list into a set of content topics you’ll cover , to give buyers the kind of experience that leads to a sale.
photo credit: Flickr Esben Fjord