Yeah, But…It’s So Easy to Run PPC Campaigns
We hear this going through business owners’ and marketing executives’
minds a lot when presenting the idea of managing their PPC campaigns
for them. Many of them seem to have a fear of allowing someone outside
of their organization (or maybe even someone on the inside) to take over
control of something they may feel they already have control over. This
is an understandable feeling, especially if their campaigns are making a
profit.
They most likely feel that since they’ve built something that’s working, why risk having someone else mess it up?
Combine this with the fact that PPC platforms have put forth a lot of
effort to make it easy for anyone to set up campaigns, and you can see
why it might be hard to believe that letting someone else manage your PPC campaigns (while paying them a fee) is necessary. [tweet] Therefore, they become yeah, butters.
Because
it is. It can literally take 5 minutes to give your campaign a name,
establish your audience with some keywords or interest categories, write
your ad and hit enable. With a few clicks, you can be sending loads of
traffic to your site just like that.
The problem is that although the interfaces of most platforms are easy to use, the systems that the platforms run on are complex.
Given all of the buttons, bells and whistles that comprise the “control
room” of the typical interface, when you go below the surface of
creating a campaign, it can start to feel like you’re sitting in an airplane cockpit.
Gaining the knowledge that will allow you to make the systems run with the most possible efficiency is NOT easy. What I mean is…
Making PPC campaigns is easy. Maximizing their potential is not easy.
The
“yeah, butters” are much more likely to let you review their account at
the beginning than take over complete management. Routinely when I do
these reviews, I find many of the same mistakes being made over and over
again because part-time
I-do-it-on-the-side-as-I-also-run-my-business people only have the time,
energy and most likely knowledge to do what is easy. Some of these mistakes include…
Yeah,
butters typically don’t keep up too well with feature changes in the
PPC platforms, and who can blame them? It’s even hard for a full-time
professional. Just take a look at some of the following questions you
should be able to answer for recent Google AdWords changes only. If
you’re a yeah, butter and you are scratching your head with most of
these questions, it may be time to hand over the reigns to a
professional manager. Your competition may already have and
could be leaving you in the dust–or you’re missing the opportunity to
leave them in the dust.
I
won’t keep going, but you can see how a part-time PPC manager can fall
behind very quickly. Although PPC is like an engine that keeps running, it’s definitely not a set-it-and-forget-it type of project. [tweet] Without proper care and maintenance, you’ll eventually run out of gas.
In the PPC world, it might be easy to throw up some campaigns, but the power is in the knowledge. Yeah, butters simply don’t have the time or energy to stay on
top of the game. And please don’t take the bait that a Google
representative can help make you successful. Everyone knows they have
their own motives. Ultimately, they are too centralized and
profit-driven to be on the front lines of PPC best practices and to
always do what’s ultimately best for YOUR business.
I know it sounds weird since they created and manage the platforms, but the online PPC community continually proves itself to be the experts that have to inform the world of what’s right and true.
Heck, I even recently had to teach a Google AdWords representative
about a new feature in AdWords he had never heard of after I asked him a
question about it. I got my answer from another PPC professional
online.
If you want the best for your business through the PPC
channel, hire a professional that lives and breathes PPC daily, pulling
from the collective wisdom of the front lines. If you do, we promise to
stop calling you a “yeah, butter.”
Find out more about the Yeah, But series and links to other posts in this series.
Mike Fleming specializes in Analytics and Paid Search for Pole Position Marketing, a leading search engine optimization and marketing firm helping businesses grow since 1998. You can follow Mike on Twitter at @SEMFlem. Mike enjoys playing, writing and recording music along with playing basketball to get his workout in. He resides in Canton, Ohio with a girl who threw a snowball at him one day…then married him.
Mike and the team at Pole Position are available to help clients expand their online presence and grow their businesses. Contact them via their site or by phone at 866-685-3374.
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