#PPCChat Roundup - Behind the Scenes of Paid Search

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What does “ethical marketing” mean to you? Q2 Q2: Are there tactics you’ve seen that you consider unethical and if so, why? How much do the ad platforms influence ethical vs unethical behavior? And do you find ad platforms themselves to be ethical or unethical or a bit of both? Q4  Have you ever been in a position where you’ve been asked to do something unethical by a client/boss? How did you handle it? Q5 What, if anything, can we do to make the world a more ethical place without sacrificing the pragmatic need to make a living? v Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - ⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What is a horror story regarding a platform (performance, support, etc.) that you have experienced? Q2 What is a horror story regarding a client that you have experienced? You can fuzzy up details to protect the “innocent” if need be! Q3 What is a horror story regarding a mistake you made in PPC? Q4 What is your biggest challenge in lead gen PPC right now? Has it changed in the last 6 to 12 months? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - ⁠⁠linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Is the Q4 season a big deal for the accounts you manage? If so, why and if not why not? Q2 Do you have anything new that you are trying for this year’s Q4 season? Q3 How are clients and stakeholders as we head into Q4 this year - are they excited, nervous, etc.? Q4 What is your gut feeling on how Q4 will be this year - strong, weak, similar to 2023? Q5 Are you running into any issues yet with your Q4 strategy? If so, how are you solving them? Q6 What are your biggest concerns in Q4 for your accounts and/or in general? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - ⁠⁠linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Are you currently using any AI-generated content in your PPC (ads, assets, videos, images, landing page content, etc.)? If so, what are you using and how is it going? If not, why not? Q2 Do you think you can discern AI-generated content, images or video in ads or landing pages? What, if anything, makes it stand out to you? Q3 Do you have a reaction to AI-generated content when you recognize it in advertising or on landing pages? If so, what is your reaction? Q4 What do you think are the best use cases for using AI in PPC (meaning for content, images, etc. not automation within platforms)? Q5 Are there things you wish AI could do for PPC that it does not yet do? Q6 What are your biggest concerns about AI-generated content and images/videos in PPC? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - ⁠linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup

#ppcchat Anu Adegbola chats with in-house Paid Search expert Brooke Osmundson, about the latest updates in Search Marketing, giving PPC-ers advice on how to approach PPC in 2024" Q1 How much would you say you’re keeping up with all the updates from Google, Microsoft and the world of Ai Q2 With all the people worrying about enhanced CPC’s, how have you felt about it and how should people approach it? Q3 Do you use performance max and how are you finding it? Q4 How do you use Ai - How often do you find yourself in Chat GTP, Claude or do you have an alternative? Q5 What would you say to paid search advertisers who feel that Ai may take their jobs? Q6 How do you keep yourself interested in the new Ai updates happening? Q7 Has your workload changed and who are the people you need to push back on? Q8 How important is it to actually know the business goals? Q9 What advice have you been given that was not for you? Q10 How do you deal with imposter syndrome? Q11 What are the important things you want to hear when an agency is pitching to win business? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What do you think the ideal workload is for a PPC professional - how many accounts can one person reasonably be responsible for and on how many platforms? Do you have a hard limit on how many accounts you will manage at once? Q2 What have you done if you find yourself with an unreasonable workload? Q3 Do you have any standard operating procedures (SOPs) in place for setting up and/or managing PPC accounts? If so, generally what is included in yours and if not, why not? Q4 How do you handle a client or stakeholder adding to your current workload? Particularly if what they want to add will push you past your reasonable limit? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup Julie F Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) on X

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Are you taking into consideration political advertising in the U.S over the next six weeks and how it might impact your PPC campaigns? Q2 Have you noticed that holiday seasons are being started earlier this year and is this impacting your PPC strategy in any way? Q3 With economic conditions being tight around the world, are you making adjustments to your current and or 2024 holiday strategy? Q4 Are you sensing any trends in advertising as we head into fall and then holiday season? Q5 What are your biggest concerns from now, until the end of 2024 regarding PPC? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup Julie F Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) on X

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What is your most controversial or unpopular opinion? Q2 What is a controversial or unpopular opinion that you vehemently disagree with that you see out there being touted? Q3 What popular PPC opinion do you really disagree with? Q4 Is there any PPC take you’ve seen recently that really got you thinking? Q5 What is your most hopeful or optimistic PPC take? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup Julie F Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) on X

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Do you think the PPC industry as we know it is dying - yes, no or not sure? Do you think the current PPC skillset is dying - yes, no or not sure? Q2 Why do you think the PPC industry as we know it is dying or not dying? Q3 What do you think our jobs will look like in 5 years? Q4 What are the PPC skills of the future? And how do you feel about learning them (if you don’t already have them!)? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup Julie F Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) on X

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Smart versus manual bidding, what is your position on which strategy to use and under what circumstances? Q2 What is your position on using PMAX and under what circumstances? Q3 SKAG or STAG, what is your position on which strategy to use and under what circumstances? Q4 Do you think you have biases towards platforms? If so, which ones and why? Q5 Do you have a natural trust or distrust of advice or recommendations from platforms? Does it vary by platform and why? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup Julie F Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) on X

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Were any of your accounts impacted and if so how? Are they now back to normal and what are your general thoughts on the situation? Q2 What are your thoughts on the newly delivered ruling against Google in the antitrust case? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup Julie F Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) on X

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5 pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 With Google’s announcement that they will not be deprecating third-party cookies in Chrome, what are your thoughts about it? Q2 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is focusing on surveillance pricing and currently investigating this practice, what do you think about this? Q3 What do you think about the FTC’s claim that hashing doesn’t make customer's data anonymous? Q4 What are your thoughts on the latest in keyword matching in Google Ads and how things are prioritised? Q5 Open AI is test launching a search engine, what are our thoughts? Q6 Have you seen the flack Google has been receiving for their AI commercial currently running during the Olympics and if so is it justified?  Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup Julie F Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) on X

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Have you ever been micromanaged in your PPC work? Q2 What are the most annoying or frustrating ways in which you’ve been micromanaged in your PPC work? Q3 Do you have anything in your prospecting process that helps you screen for potential micromanagers?? Q4 How do you handle or manage it when you're being micromanaged in your PPC work? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 What are the KPIs that you are most often asked to track? Q2 What are the KPIs that you are most often asked to optimize toward? Q3 What KPI(s) do you think are the most important to track and/or optimize toward and why? Q4 What KPI do you think is the most misunderstood by either PPCers and/or clients/stakeholders? Why do you think it is misunderstood? Q5 What KPI would you like to see go away forever, never to be spoken of again and why? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1: What are your general thoughts on bidding on brand terms in search? Q2: Are there any situations or circumstances when you think it is an absolute MUST to bid on brand terms? Q3: Are there any situations or circumstances when you think it is an absolute must to NOT bid on brand terms? Q4. What do you think is the most misunderstood aspect of bidding or not bidding on brand terms for PPCers? Q5. What do you wish clients or stakeholders understood better about bidding on brand terms? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Have you heard about Google Ads moving a set of advertisers off of credit card billing? If so, what  are your thoughts on this? Q2 How is your overall trust in ad platforms these days? What influences your trust in an ad platform? Q3 Which platforms do you find most and least trustworthy and why? Q4 What could ad platforms do to regain and/or build more trust with advertisers and PPC pros in your opinion? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1: Have you heard and/or read about Google automatically pausing “low activity keywords”? Q2: Do you have any or many keywords in your accounts that meet this criteria? If so, do you have a lot or not that many? Q3: What are your thoughts on Google automatically pausing these types of keywords? Q4. Do you plan to re-enable paused keywords? Why or why not? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup

Q1 What level of importance do you place on the post click (landing page) experience for accounts that you manage? Q2 For accounts you manage, do you have any level of control or input over what is on the landing page, how it looks, etc.? Q3 Are your clients or stakeholders concerned about their landing pages/post click experience? If so, what are their biggest concerns? Q4  What are the biggest or most common issues you encounter on landing pages for the accounts you manage? Q5 Do you have a tool or platform you like to work with for creating better landing pages/post click experiences? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Do you feel like there are more, less or the same amount of things you have to explain to clients and stakeholders about PPC today than in the past? Q2 What are you explaining most frequently these days? Q3 Which ad platforms are the most confusing or confounding to have to explain to clients or stakeholders lately? What has been the most confusing or confounding element you’ve had to explain recently? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup

#ppcchat Slack discussion that runs on Tuesdays at 5pm GMT - Led by Julie Bacchini (@NeptuneMoon) Q1 Have you read the new metric definitions from Google Ads? What are your thoughts? Q2 Do you think these changes in definitions are paving the way for anything in particular or is this just Google being Google? Q3 Now that you have seen the warning that seems to say that ad strength might impact your ads ability to serve, and Ginny’s response saying nothing has actually changed, what are your thoughts or concerns on this front? Q4 How/do you think  goal posts are being moved relative to Google Ads right now in your opinion and experience? And what, if anything, would you love to see changed on that front? Thank you for listening! Please help grow the podcast - and rate/review on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Podcast & more - linktr.ee/ppcchat_roundup