Paid ads or paid media channels can do wonders for your business’s success! Although there are various channels to choose from, discovering and selecting the right channels depends entirely on what you are trying to achieve and other factors, such as budget. Keep reading as we discuss a series of questions and ideas to keep in mind when determining the right PPC (pay-per-click) channels for your brand or business.
Determining Business Goals
The most common and obvious business goal for most businesses and brands is to achieve a return on investment (ROI). Aside from ROI, it’s important to understand what you are seeking to achieve in the short term and how you expect paid ads to contribute to this success. Popular and common goals include:
- Selling products online
- Increasing food traffic to brick-and-mortar stores
- Increasing contact form submissions and click-to-calls
- Increasing signups and online accounts
If you have an e-commerce business, it is definitely worth considering platforms and campaign types that feature syncing a shopping feed!
Target Audience
Determining your target audience is also worth noting when it comes to paid ads and channels. Ask yourself, who are you selling to? How can you match up available options for ad platform targeting? If your products are identifiable through keyword research, that would be a great place to begin, as it puts you in a position to reach people who are in immediate need of your products or services. If you are promoting a product or service with super-precise usage, campaign types are more likely to go broader in the targeting process, and are not necessarily an ideal starting point.
Existing Performance Data
Have you ever run paid campaigns before? Or are you starting from scratch? If you have run paid campaigns before, look back and review what channels have performed well and which ones have not. It’s also worth reviewing how those campaigns were set up, so we don’t entirely write off a platform if it hasn’t performed well in the past.
Business Budget
Before deciding on a specific paid ad channel, you should always determine how much you are willing to spend or how many channels you plan to run. Although the ideal budget is subjective for each brand or business, in most cases, you should avoid splitting a low budget across multiple platforms. Instead, you should use a more limited budget on just one channel to get started. In other cases, some platforms require higher budgets to really get the ball rolling!
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