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Confluence Conference 2018

Joe Martinez, our Director of Paid Media & Community at Granular, just wrapped up presenting at Confluence Conference for the third year in a row. Everyone in attendance got to learn why they cannot avoid YouTube advertising anymore. Besides learning about the value of YouTube, marketers got to learn all of the targeting options to make[…]

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4 Facts You May Not Know About YouTube Ads

YouTube campaigns in Google Ads seems pretty straight forward, right? You have a YouTube channel. You link it with Google Ads. Then you can promote your videos on YouTube to the exact audience you want. Well not so fast. There are a few caveats you should know before creating your new campaigns. Let’s break a[…]

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SMX Advanced 2018

Joe Martinez, Director of Paid Media & Community at Granular, presented at SMX Advanced yesterday during the ecommerce section. Setting Up and Tracking a Full TrueView for Shopping Strategy There can be more to your ecommerce strategy than Shopping feeds and marketplaces. Joe demonstrated to the crowd how you can use your products to push[…]

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Learn More About YouTube Director Onsite

I’ve been recommending advertising videos on YouTube to clients, colleagues, and industry acquaintances for quite some time. Advertising on YouTube is one of the most affordable and efficient ways to build brand affinity and attract new customers. The issue we hear a lot is getting video content seems like such an expensive and long-winded ordeal.[…]

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SMX West 2018

Joe Martinez, Director of Paid Media & Community at Granular, just finished pulling double duty at SMX West. Check out the slides Joe presented on below. How to Use Feeds to Improve DSA Campaigns and Ads DSA feeds will help accounts easily set up new ways to target their pages. Websites with poor URL structures will[…]

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Writing Ads for Quora

Back in May 2017, Quora Ads opened up for all businesses. The platform has grown from basic topic and website audience targeting to include specific options such as question targeting (BETA) to interest targeting. The platform has become the lowest CPA channel for many of my PPC clients. While I recommend jumping in immediately to[…]

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WMTS 2017

Granular was more than happy to partner with our friends at Cultivate Communications to present one of many seminars at the 2017 Wisconsin Manufacturing & Technology Show. Joe Martinez from Granular spoke to the crowd on how users should be using about AdWords in 2017. He also focused on figuring out the value of your[…]

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Confluence Conference 2017

Joe Martinez, our Senior Manager of Paid Media & Community at Granular, just presented at Confluence Conference for his second year in a row. Marketers in attendance learned how they can utilize Google Tag Manager to build higher-converting remarketing campaigns. By tracking how users interact with your website, we can use event categories, actions, and[…]

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Optimizing for High Converting, Low CTR Campaigns

Editor’s Note: This post is an intro to our webinar for PPC Week by Unbounce. In the webinar on August 15th, we’re going to talk about the opposite scenario of improving low converting pages when you have a higher CTR. Every time I get high converting traffic for my clients, I want more. Besides adding[…]

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Easy Ways to Eliminate Wasted Ad Spend

Whether you have a massive ad spend budget or not, you always want to get the most out of your money. If you’re set to a limited budget, your effort in making sure every penny is being used wisely is even more important. Saving money in AdWords doesn’t have to involve a lot of difficult[…]

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