Pay-per-click advertising, also known as PPC or Google Adwords can be an effective way to draw prospects to your site. There are people out there, right now, looking for the very product or service you sell! Many small business owners make the mistake of thinking they can just turn on this type of paid advertising and they will have new customers instantly. In addition to setting up the ads themselves, there is a ton of foundational work that must be done if you want your advertising to be effective. If you skip these steps, you may be prematurely calling your campaign a failure. We recently set up some PPC ads for Branding Compass, our software that gives automated expert branding advice. We worked with our partner at Horizon Digital Marketing to help set up and monitor the campaigns, but before we turned them on, there was a huge list of items we needed to finalize. Allow 2-3 weeks to prepare… Continue Reading »