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The Google Ads Specialist’s Guide to Lift Studies

The Google Ads Specialist’s Guide to Lift Studies

If you spend your days deep in Google Ads, you already know the underlying frustration of in platform reporting. Those standard conversion columns only tell half the story. Your dashboard…
Inside My Tech Stack – Microsoft Clarity

Inside My Tech Stack – Microsoft Clarity

I want to share one of my absolute favorite new tools for navigating the digital marketing world right now….because the fact is, we can no longer measure success entirely by…
Is Profit Margin Bidding Ruining Google Ads?

Is Profit Margin Bidding Ruining Google Ads?

Every ecommerce brand eventually reaches a critical turning point in their digital marketing maturity. They look at their Google Ads dashboard, see a massive revenue number, look at their actual…
Optimize Google Ads With Campaign Experiments

Optimize Google Ads With Campaign Experiments

In the world of digital advertising, guesswork is a recipe for wasted budget. You wouldn’t launch a product without testing it, so why should your Google Ads strategy be any…
Why In-Platform Ad Tracking Is Dead

Why In-Platform Ad Tracking Is Dead

If you manage paid media budgets across multiple channels, you are intimately familiar with the daily dashboard discrepancy. You open your Meta Ads manager and see fifty conversions. You open…
Which Google Ads KPI’s Matter and When

Which Google Ads KPI’s Matter and When

If you log into your Google Ads account today and open the columns modifier, you are immediately hit with a wall of over a hundred different data points. From “Absolute…
How To Master Google Ads Data Exclusions

How To Master Google Ads Data Exclusions

When you activate Smart Bidding in a Google Ads account, you surrender manual control over individual keyword bids and transfer the responsibility of auction valuation to a machine learning algorithm.…
Why ROAS Alone Can Kill Profits

Why ROAS Alone Can Kill Profits

Most ecommerce store owners focus on ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) when measuring their Google Ads performance. It makes sense. it’s an easy number to track. But ROAS alone doesn’t…

Heidi Sturrock

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