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August 17, 2023August 18, 2023

New Features and Reporting Added to Goole Ads Before the Holiday Season

Google Ads has just announced a major update that will bring new features and capabilities to advertisers and marketers. These are some of the most exciting changes and how they can help you grow your business online.

- Google is expanding and promoting Performance Max. This is a fully automated campaign type that uses Google’s machine learning to optimize your ads across all Google inventory, including Search, Display, YouTube, Gmail, and Discover. You can set your goals, budget, and audience, and with a close eye let Google do the rest. Performance Max campaigns are designed to help you reach more customers and drive more conversions, while saving you time and resources. Performance Max has been very successful for our eCommerce clients, but we are still testing the overall viability for lead gen.

- Google is also expanding its insights and reporting tools to help you understand your customers better and measure your performance more accurately. You can now access the new Insights page, which shows you the latest trends and opportunities in your market and industry. You can also use the new attribution reports, which show you how your ads influence customers across different channels and devices. These tools can help you make smarter decisions and optimize your campaigns based on real data.

- Additionally, Google is enhancing its creative solutions for Google Ads to help you deliver more engaging and relevant ads to your audience. You can use the new Video Builder tool, which lets you create professional-looking video ads in minutes, using templates and assets from your existing campaigns. You can also use the new dynamic remarketing feature, which automatically generates personalized ads for your past visitors based on their browsing behavior and preferences. These features can help you increase your brand awareness and loyalty and drive more sales if you have a large enough audience segment generally of 1000 plus visitors or converters.

These are just some of the new features and capabilities that Google Ads has announced in its major update. There are many more improvements and innovations that you can explore and try out for yourself. If you want to learn more about how Google ads and working with a Google Partner can benefit your business, contact McCord Web Services for a free consultation. Google Ads is constantly evolving and innovating to help you grow your business online. Don’t miss this opportunity to take your advertising to the next level with a Google Partner.

November 13, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg, Here’s the Problem with Facebook

If we could chat with Mark Zuckerberg about how he could improve profits for Facebook, We would want to chat about Facebook pay per click advertising.

As professional Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising account managers, who manage over $3.5 million in ad spend for clients, we think we know what we are talking about.

• It is excruciatingly difficult to connect client advertising accounts to a manager profile. Time typically to connect, if you even can, is over 3 hours. Clients can simply not figure out how to approve our access. It is not a simple process.

• If you can connect the ad building application does not allow you to easily set up conversion tracking.

• Once you have a manager account, to add additional employees to help with management is nearly impossible. You have to tunnel through many levels of access. And then once connected, you cannot understand why suddenly they cannot login and review accounts. Impossible!

• With a manager account, you are barraged by hackers. I will routinely have numerous bogus login attempts to my manager account. I have had to confirm my profile, validate several times with Facebook and then turn on draconian security in addition to 2-step verification. I continue to get hackers trying to access my account. A manager account is rife with attempts to gain control of the account and associated advertisers for nefarious purposes.

• Clients want to spend on Facebook. We alone have over 6 clients who if we gave the go ahead would start advertising on Facebook, but the problems are so severe that we will not take on new clients.

• Facebook is not honoring the daily budget/30-day budget. When you set a daily ad spend for $50 and the account is routinely spending over $120 a day without a look to adhere to a 30-day ad spend, it puts our reputation on the line. We stopped taking new clients when this happened to one key account.

• Clean up the system and improve ad quality. We had one client with a low ad spend generate $14K in revenue monthly on Facebook for his industrial supply store. But, suddenly out of the blue he has no revenue and is spending more on clicks than he is generating. Why? What happened. Facebook has no answers and there is no one really to call to ask a question why. The drop was sudden and mysterious. When Google has conversion tracking issues – we account managers know and understand that the data will catch up. For Facebook, we simply cut the budget to a very small daily number hoping to get answers sometime in the future. What a bad way to manage business Facebook!

Mark Zuckerberg, if you don’t know how Google Ads works for account managers, you need to find out. Make Facebook advertising easy to use and allow managers easy set up and management and your pay per click business can grow and generate real profits for Facebook.

We would definitely move clients into Facebook, it is not a hard sell, but with problems like this, you can count on your profits continuing to decrease.

For information about McCord Web Services and our Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising account management services, visit our website www.McCordWeb.com.

October 10, 2016October 8, 2016

When It Comes to AdWords Management More Expensive is Not Better

Google Partner Badge — McCord Web Services is a Google Partner.

As a Google Partner and AdWords Certified Professional for over ten years I can easily say that I know AdWords.

What makes the difference in my services and those of others in the industry?

Personal attention. Although we have a specific program, as your account manager I am accessible. If you have questions, I will have the answers. I have personally found that our degree of personal attention and communication when your program is first set up and running is very important.
We have a specific process for AdWords setup. I have found from experience that working your account daily during the first four weeks allows for better testing and quick identification of what works for your account and what does not. It is the nimble and proactive attention that helps your account get started in performing for you fast. Others may only work your account once a week or once a month.
We have an hourly rate. Other services will bill 10% or more of your ad spend with a minimum charge. For example one firm I know of charges $699 a month even if your ad spend is $2,500. They only check your account once a week and are not available by phone but once a month. We on the other had bill $799 for set up and first four weeks of account management and then $300 the second four weeks, and follow a pricing grid from $185 to $425 for our management fee monthly based on your ad group numbers and ad spend. Prices come out lower for most clients than with other services.

I told one client who started with another firm and then stopped their services, due to non-performance, and came to us that I could charge him more if he felt that was the deciding factor of AdWords account management capability.

My feeling is that you can pay more but will not get the same high level of quality service as we provide for Google AdWords with other service firms. There is a reason why Google considers us in the top 5% of all Google Partners – it’s performance for our clients and attention to even the smallest details. Find out for yourself why with a free consultation.

February 17, 2016February 12, 2016

You’ve Got to Pay to Boost Posts on Facebook

Thumbs Up — Do You Like the Facebook Boost This Post Button?

Facebook advertising – it just does not happen magically with the click of a “Boost This” button in your business’ Facebook timeline. I was chatting with the owner of a start up recently and she mentioned that she was advertising on Facebook (at least she thought she was) but missed the connection between paying and playing.

First, I do like Facebook advertising for some businesses. It is easy to set up, easy to manage, and for the typical business owner, they do not need an account manager.

Here’s where my colleague went wrong with Facebook advertising. You MUST enter in a credit card into your own personal profile for your business Facebook account which is treed off of your personal page first. Then on your Facebook business page, when you click “Boost Post” you can select the advertising and cost you want to spend and other criteria to run a small pay per click promotion, but until you enter your credit card at the personal page level, you can click “Boost This Post” until your finger is sore and get no results.

It sounds simple, but you would be amazed at the confusion that the boost button causes others who are not well versed in the arena of pay per click.