Biddable World 2014 - On Trial: Is there really a positive ROI in bidding on brand terms?

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On trial: Is there really positive ROI in bidding on brand terms? Martin Pezet Search Marketing Manager – World First

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Martin Pezet's presentation from the September 2014 Biddable World conference at the Institute of Education.

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On trial: Is there really positive ROI in bidding on brand terms?

Martin PezetSearch Marketing Manager – World First

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SEO40%

PPC35%

CRO/Split

Testing15%

Social Media9%

Spending too long in PowerPoint creating

unnecessarily animated slides

1%

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Bidding on competitors…

Bidding on yourself…

Google

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“Bidding on your own brand terms is a waste of time & money”

http://bit.ly/ppctrial - Favourite to agree, Re-tweet to disagree

Twitter: @mpezet

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The case for the prosecution…

(i.e. it’s a waste of time of money!)

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Mandatory cliché phrase – “test, test, test”

“Why don’t we just switch it off and see what happens?”

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I’m lying!I switched it off by mistake and I am

now trying to pass it off as a planned test.

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Less chat, more results (preferably with oversized arrows)

Drop in conversions – 3%

Caveats: Niche market, short test period, uncompetitive landscape…

Drop in traffic – 5%

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Confess your sins! (Last click attribution)

Thou shalt not steal (…other marketing

channels conversions)

Image credit: https://borntobfree.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/confession-box.jpg

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The case for the defence…

(i.e. it’s not a waste of time of money!)

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“Bidding on your own brand terms is a waste of time & money”

http://bit.ly/ppctrial - Favourite to agree, Re-tweet to disagree

Twitter: @mpezet

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Full infographic here: http://www.wordstream.com/articles/google-ads

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Paid & Organic Report - Adwords

590 - PPC 839 - SEO

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Acquisition Channels – Google Analytics

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Mitigating Risk

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Twitter: @mpezet email: [email protected]