10. Who the hell am I?
● Practical SME/Startup direct marketing for about 25 years.
● Mini life peak came in 2007 with the highest Adwords CTR in the world.
● Set up Oxford Learning Solutions in 2008.
Key Point: I have spent a lot of my own money on this
11. What can you use Adwords for?
● Market Research
● Driving Sales
Don’t bother with an MVP until you have tested the market
12. Adwords vs Search Engine Optimisation
● Similar to choosing between a tea clipper and a container ship
● Don’t try to compete unless you have a good Lifetime Customer Value
● If you have a prospect conversion machine, Adwords is GREAT:
Adwords allows you to employ people and grow a business
13. Super Simple Setup
● Account creation really is simple
● Follow most of the instructions, but choose “Search Network Only”
● Keep the daily budget LOW, but bid HIGH, initially
● Set a conversion goal (get the script from Tools/conversions)
● Split test your adverts
Get started with a small amount of money
14. Once you have data...
● Check the actual search terms people use
● Check the conversion rates
● Add the good ones as exact match with [brackets]
● Stop the bad ones by putting in negative keywords or modified broad
search
● Work out whether this might be a potential winner for you
Negative keywords are your best friends
15. Optimisation - to drop cost and increase reach
● You can now begin to drop your bid
● Keep refining your keyword lists
● Keep testing different advert copy for each adgroup (NB. Sample Size
Calc)
● Try different landing pages for each adgroup
● Test mobile-only adverts
● Build site stiction to improve your sales and CTR
At this stage, read a decent book on it (e.g. Perry Marshall)
16. Understand Your Customer’s Journey
● Customers go through a development journey:
Awareness - Exploration - Understanding - Comparison - Purchase
● Choose where you want to step in
● Understand what that means for cost and message
● Mould your message throughout to fit that moment
Get inside your customer’s head
20. The Plan
1. What’s Possible with Facebook Ads
2. Laser Targeting (Exercise)
3. ‘The Facebook Content Loop’
4. Getting Creative - What Works
5. The 4 Big Trends You Need To Use
32. When To Run What (Ad Goals)
● Start with Clicks to Website until you’re getting
at least 10 conversions per day for a couple of
weeks. You’re educating Facebook.
● Then switch that campaign to a Website
Conversions campaign once Facebook has
learned who converts for you. It will now
optimise for those people.
45. Thank You!
If you’d like to find out more, check out my blog over at
LeadGenSocial.com.
If you’d like me and my team to help you with your
strategy and manage your campaigns for you, then
head over to RoarLocal.com.