Pay Per Click Management
Effective pay per click management can be used to increase
traffic, reduce cost per click and boost profit. A well managed
pay per click campaign can, in fact, make the difference between
profitability and loss. The decision to outsource management of
your pay per click campaigns should therefore be seriously
considered and the pros and cons weighed up before trying to
save money by doing search engine marketing in-house. Some
points you should consider are: 1. Do you have pay per click
management expertise in-house? An agency like AccuraCast could
dedicate account managers, Google Qualified AdWords
Professionals and search engine marketing experts who have years
of experience with PPC campaign management
(http://www.accuracast.com/services/ppc-management/ ). * Does
your company have similar expertise in-house? * Will you need to
hire new employees and train them? * Will you need to train
current employees on pay per click? * How long will it take to
grow and train your in-house PPC management team? 2. Can you
dedicate the time and resources? Setting up a pay per click
campaign and managing it can be a very time-consuming exercise.
Typical campaigns with just 10,000 keywords can take 1-2 full
days to set up and organise correctly, and this does not include
time required for keyword research, competitive analysis or
learning how to use the Google AdWords and Yahoo! Search
Marketing systems. * Have you estimated the set up time
correctly? * Have you estimated the daily campaign maintenance
time? * Have you estimated the campaign management and review
time? * Do you know how much PPC training can cost? * Did you
account for developer time required to build landing pages? *
How much time will your sales and offline marketing team need to
dedicate? 3. Are your PPC managers familiar with marketing
techniques? Pay per click management involves strategic
placement, copy writing, copy testing, split testing, tracking,
visitor analysis, segmentation, convergence of online and
offline marketing and synchronisation of online and offline
sales. * Can your campaign management team write good marketing
copy? * Are your pay per click team excellent at number
crunching? * Will your PPC campaign managers know where to place
your listing ideally? * Do your development, marketing and sales
team work efficiently together? 4. Can your pay per click
management team speak foreign languages? AccuraCast is one of
the few PPC Management agencies
(http://www.accuracast.com/services/ppc-management/ ) that
provides its SEM services in 10 global languages. Very few
agencies can boast of such a wide multilingual offering, and
even fewer individuals would be able to provide the breadth of
coverage our multilingual campaigns can. * Do you sell products
internationally? * Would you like to build and maintain a global
online presence? * Can your marketing team speak in the native
language of your customers? 5. What else could your marketing
team be doing with their time? One of the most important
considerations any company or manager should take into account
when deciding whether or not to outsource is what else could the
in-house personnel be doing with their time. Ideally, their time
should be spent coordinating the various online and offline
marketing activities, devising overall marketing strategies, and
setting marketing goals, guidelines and initiatives that the
agencies can go out and implement for them effectively.
Outsourcing PPC Management All things considered, outsourcing
your pay per click management
(http://www.accuracast.com/services/ppc-management/ ) to a
Google Qualified Company is more often than not a wise decision
if you intend to make online marketing an important part of your
company's overall marketing strategy. If you need help setting
up and managing a comprehensive pay per click marketing campaign
contact us (http://www.accuracast.com/contact/ ), and one of our
friendly consultants will be glad to assist you. Other articles
to read: * Using RSS for search engine optimization
(http://www.accuracast.com/seo-weekly/rss-seo.php ) * Online
search influences offline buying
(http://www.accuracast.com/seo-weekly/offline-search.php ) SEO
Weekly ( http://www.accuracast.com/seo-weekly/ )
About the author:
Before founding AccuraCast, Farhad worked for and provided
consulting services to a number of large and medium sized
enterprises in the UK and USA including 3Com, Proctor & Gamble
and Household (HFC, HSBC). He has over 7 years of experience
marketing products and services online and offline.