Entries Tagged as 'Online'

A Lesson from F1

August 5th, 2008 · Comments Off

Being successful in your own business isn’t too far away from crossing the line first in a Formula 1 Grand Prix, or even winning the World Championship, for that matter.
As poor Filipe Massa proved at the Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend, having the pace to overtake and lead the race almost all the way to […]

Tags: Upselling · Conversion · Approach · Acquisition · AdWords · Sales · Online

Poor Conversion Rates Explained

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

There’s been a common theme for many of the conversations I’ve had with new clients recently: poor traffic conversion rates.
It’s a subject, like many in the world of marketing, that is completely subjective - it will depend entirely on your business, the market sector, your product, your prices, competitors and a whole host of other […]

Tags: Approach · Conversion · Sales · AdWords · Online · Word of Mouth · marketing

“We don’t care about your experience”

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

A guest post by Media Relations guru, Tony Garner, Viva PR.
Web Sites that Work
We live in an exciting age. In some ways it has never been easier to communicate with people and a lot of that is thanks to this T’interweb thingy. Blogs, websites and e-shots are cheap and relatively easy to set up, even […]

Tags: Online · marketing

AdWords Top Placement: Your Advantage

August 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Initially, I was a little sceptical about this change, and I still am. As Google suggests in its post, we’ll have to monitor campaigns over the next few days or weeks (depending on the number of clicks you usually achieve) to see what difference this makes.
Actually, I have established a circumstance where this is beneficial. […]

Tags: CPC · AdWords · Online · Google

New AdWords Formula: Better quality, or more profit?

August 9th, 2007 · 3 Comments

There’s a change coming to the way that Google currently chooses the position of your ad in the pecking order. The whole post makes confusing reading and I’d recommend reading it a couple of times.
It’ll be interesting to see how it pans out. Right now, the placement of your ad is not just based […]

Tags: CPC · AdWords · Online · Google

AdWords Campaign Optimizer: Useless or Useful?

July 31st, 2007 · No Comments

So, how useful is it?
Not least the whole Harry Potter thing, but we appear to be in a wizard-driven society, or at least much of the online experience is. That’s all well and good and many times, like this, it can work well. What it doesn’t do, is give as much flexibility - it’s a […]

Tags: CPC · AdWords · Online · Google

Free Paper on Google AdWords

July 6th, 2007 · No Comments

I finally completed my ‘brain-dump’ of my experiences with Google AdWords.
This is only part of the story, of course. If done well, AdWords will get you visitors. Without putting as much effort in to the rest of the strategy, you’ll end up just paying for visitors to land on your site, and disappear without engaging […]

Tags: CPC · Search · Online · marketing · Google