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Is Your Holiday Paid Search Campaign
Wrapped Up?!
For retailers, holiday business accounts for as much as
40 percent of revenue and profits Source: Retail Metrics
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Agenda!
1 Creating a well-executed paid search strategy !2 Delivering creative offers that resonate!3 How the buying cycle affects your paid search ads !4 Proper allocation of your holiday PPC budget!5 How to stay nimble and quicker than your competitors !6 Overview of Trada!7 Q&A!
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Meet Dan Tisser & Matt Hessler!
Dan Tisser Matt Hessler
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Creating a Well-Executed !Paid Search Strategy !
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Tisʼ The Season!
CPC can jump by 50 to 80 percent for categories such as flowers, gifts, apparel
and consumer electronics.!
• Increased click prices • Increased competition on keywords
• Increased traffic • Increased conversions
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Review Historical Data!
• Examine year-over-year data from previous holiday seasons to review keywords, ads, sites and timing. !
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Other Holiday Strategies!
• Whatʼs under your competitorʼs tree?!• Do a complete competitive analysis!
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Other Holiday Strategies!
Best practices matter more than ever!• Test, test, test!• Review metrics !!
– Keyword ROI!– Landing Pages!– Offers!
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Delivering Creative Offers That Resonate!
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Key Ingredients to A Good Offer!
• Sales promotions!• Gift with purchase!• Free shipping!• Early bird specials!• Limited-time offers!• Guaranteed delivery !
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Seasonal Keywords!
• Long-tail keywords are invaluable!– Use phrase & exact match!– Be cautious with negative keywords & broad
match!
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The Value of Gift Cards!
• Donʼt forget gift cards!!– 69 percent of shoppers plan on purchasing a
gift card in the holiday season.!! !*According to Google Holiday Survey!
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Holiday-Specific Landing Pages!
• Donʼt dump customers on your regular page!
• Place a countdown to Dec. 25!• Let customers know the last day they can
order and still get delivery for the holidays!• Offer discounts off the entire site!• Offer free shipping!
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How the Buying Cycle Affects Your Paid
Search Ads
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Buying Cycle!
Research
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Capture the Early Birds!
• Holiday keywords usage begins in August !• Set your tracking cookies to 30 days to
capture delayed conversions!• Evolve your ads through the !!holiday season !
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Last-Minute Buyers!
• Have a defined product strategy and a defined search strategy • Let them know when the last day they can order • Offer free shipping • Emphasize last-minute offers
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Evolving Your Ads!
Early Birds
Late Birds
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Proper Allocation of Your Holiday PPC Budget
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Determining Spend!
• Examine historic data (if available)!• Determine mix of head vs. longtail
keywords!• Watch what brings in traffic vs. what brings
in conversions!• Decide how much to allocate to big holiday
days!
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Cyber Monday!
Not as popular as you think
Cyber Monday is actually the 12th most popular day of the online holiday season, according to BusinessWeek.
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December 26!
• Have your post Holiday strategy ready to deploy.!
• Prepare your sale-specific campaigns, keywords and creative.!
• Schedule for Dec. 26!
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Dayparting!
• Seasonality changes timing!• What worked last month, wonʼt work in the
holidays!
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How to Stay Nimble and Quicker Than Your
Competitors
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Prepare for Inventory Fluctuations!
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Keep An Eye On Your Competitors!
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Managing Ad Groups!
• Keep a close eye on ad groups, and turn off ad groups when a product is sold out!
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Overview of Trada
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You Can Also Use Trada
The problem: Paid search is hard, time-consuming and meticulous. The holidays make paid search exponentially harder. !
The solution: Get a crowd of experts to work together on your clientʼs campaign.!
Hundreds of thousands of people will search for your products this holiday season. Using a crowd of experts will help you identify the many different ways people will search for your products. !
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You Can Also Use Trada
Tradaʼs crowdsourced model puts dozens of certified experts to work on your campaigns at the same time.!
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Questions? Letʼs Hear Them!!
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How to Contact Trada
Elaine Ellis Marke&ng Manager Email me at eellis@trada.com www.trada.com
Bill Adkins VP of Sales Email me at badkins@trada.com www.trada.com
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