Attribution-fu: Slides and video
31 Jan, 2014
PPC Timothy Johnson // 7 Jun, 2013
Building Successful Low Budget PPC: Ad Extensions
In charge of building your first PPC account? Don’t have a lot of time or money to spend within AdWords? Well you came to the right place. We’re in week five of our six-part blog series in which Portent PPC Strategists Chad Kearns and Tim Johnson lay down the knowledge on best practices for achieving PPC success. Follow along… Read More
Random Ian Lurie // 6 Jun, 2013
You Are Not Stupid
Words are powerful. If you’re like me, 10, 11, 40 times a day you mentally slam your head in a drawer and say “That was STUPID.” That’s the wrong word. 99.99999% of the time, you can replace ‘stupid’ with ‘experimenting.’ You didn’t do whatever it was that blew up in your face, failed, imploded, left… Read More
PPC Michael Wiegand // 4 Jun, 2013
New Product Listing Ads Dashboard
Last October before the big Product Listing Ads (PLA) transition, in my panicked wisdom, I crafted a PLA Dashboard. It wasn’t pretty, and there wasn’t much to it, but it did help me keep a better eye on my PLA campaigns and improve them short-term. The dashboard looked like this: Since then, Google Analytics has introduced a… Read More
PPC Timothy Johnson // 31 May, 2013
Building Successful Low Budget PPC: Crafting Engaging Ads
In charge of building your first PPC account? Don’t have a lot of time or money to spend within AdWords? Well you came to the right place. We’re in week four of our six-part blog series in which Portent PPC Strategists Chad Kearns and Tim Johnson lay down the knowledge on best practices for achieving PPC success. Follow along… Read More
PPC Timothy Johnson // 24 May, 2013
Building Successful Low Budget PPC: Keywords
In charge of building your first PPC account? Don’t have a lot of time or money to spend within AdWords? Well you came to the right place. We’re in week three of our six-part blog series in which Portent PPC Strategists Chad Kearns and Tim Johnson lay down the knowledge on best practices for achieving PPC success. Follow… Read More
Ryan Moothart // 23 May, 2013
Meet the PPC Team (Star Trek: TNG Style)
Here at Portent, we have many Internet marketing teams: SEO, content, and design, just to name a few. But the best team, objectively speaking*, is the PPC team. *This is completely subjective as I am a member of the PPC team. That does not mean what I say is not the truth. We are a… Read More
Featured Ian Lurie // 21 May, 2013
How Google Ruined Marketing
Marketing wasn’t supposed to be a zero-sum game. Your competitor bought a TV commercial, you bought a TV commercial. They bought radio time, you bought radio time. Even if they bought every available second of radio time on one station, you could buy time on another, or go to a completely different medium. That promoted… Read More
PPC Chad Kearns // 17 May, 2013
Building Successful Low Budget PPC: Understand your Campaign Settings
In charge of building your first PPC account? Don’t have a lot of time or money to spend within AdWords? Well you came to the right place. Over the course of the next six weeks, Portent PPC Strategists Chad Kearns and Tim Johnson will be laying down the knowledge in a six-part blog series detailing… Read More
Featured Steve Gahler // 16 May, 2013
Manage Stuff, Lead People: How to Turn Workers into Leaders
We’ve all seen it happen. An employee is doing killer work, initiating great ideas, and displaying a willingness to take on larger projects. The employee is quickly promoted to a manager position. But while this top employee has excelled at the tactical parts of the job, he or she has never managed a team before.… Read More
Marianne Sweeny // 15 May, 2013
3 Google Algorithms We Know About & 200 We Don’t
When I meet with clients or present at conferences, I am always asked: “How do I rank high on Google for (insert keyword-phrase-du-jour)?” I give the standard answer: “Only the search engineers and Google can tell you and they aren’t talking.” Inevitably, the questioner looks dejected, mutters a slur on my credentials, and walks away. … Read More