Pay Per Click Advertising is presently one of the most effective internet
marketing techniques. For most companies using PPC it is the
most effective technique, rivaled only by search engine optimization.
The PPC programs offered by Yahoo Search Marketing and
Google Adwords look deceptively easy to create.
And it's true that a reasonably intelligent person can set up a workable campaign
themselves after reading the long instruction manuals provided by Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing.
Yahoo Search Marketing "conveniently" makes their manual available only after you've created an account with them,
buy you can read Adwords' here.
So, if it's so easy, why would you want professional PPC management?
Do-it-yourself PPC advertising is just like do-it-yourself carpentry.
Any reasonably handy person with a few basic hand tools can make a chair.
Would you want that chair in your living room?
If you've created your own PPC programs, are you sure that you:
- Targeted all of the relevant search terms?
- Avoided all of the irrelevant search terms?
- Have the optimal bidding strategy?
- Have correctly designed and analyzed your A/B tests?
Aderit's Principal, Doug Bates was one of the very first PPC managers that Google designated as a Google Adwords Professional.
We run PPC campaigns for almost every client we have.
Take a look at Case Study #1 to see what happens when
Aderit turns around a home-made PPC program.
What does it cost?
First, ask yourself how much business you're missing because you are not advertising
on all of the appropriate terms or because you don't have well-written ads.
Then ask yourself how much of your advertising is wasted because it is running on
inappropriate terms.
Our typical client's improved PPC advertising earnings usually cover our initial
fee in just a month or two, and our ongoing fees for maintaining this performance
in the rapidly changing PPC marketplace are usually less than the money being
wasted in our clients' previous sub-optimal bidding and targeting.
Plus, you don't have do the work yourself, or keep up with the constant changes
the PPC programs make, or read those long instruction manuals.
Yes, that's all great you say, but give me a number.
It depends on the complexity of your business. At the small end, for a simple,
narrowly focused business with only one basic product line or service our management fee may
be as low as $400 per month. Large, complex business are, of course, much more, commonly upwards
of $2,000 to $5,000 per month or more.
For PPC and other advertising management services we philosophically disagree
with the common practice of charging a managment fee based on ad spending or
click volumes, as these billing methods reward the advertising management firm
for maximizing spending and click volumes rather than maximizing your business success.
The virtue of such methods are that they are easy to explain and calculate, but Aderit's
focus is in providing marketing success, not simple billing methods.
Sound interesting? Ask now for your free marketing analysis,
or contact Aderit to get a PPC expert working on your PPC programs right away.
Want to do it yourself? Start by signing up with Yahoo Search Marketing. Get a $25 credit on your new Overture self-serve account.