Holiday sales are the ultimate chance for companies to boost profits and make it back into the black with paid search promotions. In this webinar presentation, we gathered four ecommerce experts that divulged their secrets on what you absolutely need to have and how to make your paid search campaigns super successful this holiday season.
The panel included Purna Virji from Bing, Jose Rodriguez from Google, Matt Umbro, founder of #PPCChat, and Carrie Albright, from Hanapin.
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Retail’s Biggest Opportunity
is in the Smallest Moments
I-need-some-
ideas Moments
Inspiration
Which-one’s-
best Moments
Research
I-want-to-buy-it
Moments
Purchase
11. Performance trends for your KWs/vertical
Deep keyword and audience insights
Competitive landscape
Read up – PPC Hero, Insights, Moments
#thinkppc
Understand the lay of the land
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In the past five years, foot traffic
in retail stores has declined by
57%, but the value of every visit
has nearly tripled
Searches for “near me”
have doubled in the
past year
Mobile’s share of online
retail purchases
has grown to 34%
1. ShopperTrak 2015 holiday, US retail sales; 2. Mastercard Spendpulse 2010-2015, US retail sales; 3. Google Trends, Search for "near me", U.S., 2015 vs 2014
4. Google Analytics Meta Analysis from May ‘14 to May ‘16. Data is US only.
57%
3x
2x 34%
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TrueView for shopping
YouTube is the #1 Video
Site for influencing purchase
decisions
Source: 1. Google/Ipsos Connect, Mobile Video Study, 2016, n=2397, among adults 18-54 who watch online video. 2. Google/Millward Brown Digital Google Image Search Study; Clickstream
data; Feb 2016. 3. Google Data, anonymized, aggregated searches that trigger a Shopping ad, US, Nov. 2015.
Showcase Shopping Ads
40% of all shopping queries
show broad intent
Shopping ads on Image Search
87% of shoppers who research
images for apparel and footwear use
image search