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AI Has Become Terrible at Fixing Paid Search (What to Do Instead)

AI Has Become Terrible at Fixing Paid Search (What to Do Instead)

Heidi Sturrock , June 2, 2026
There is a growing trend in paid search right now. Marketing teams and agencies are handing over their high level problem solving to tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and the…
Is Profit Margin Bidding Ruining Google Ads?

Is Profit Margin Bidding Ruining Google Ads?

Heidi Sturrock , May 14, 2026
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…
Boost Ecommerce Sales With Google Business Agent

Boost Ecommerce Sales With Google Business Agent

Heidi Sturrock , May 14, 2026
The Shift in Online Retail Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence in online retail right now. Every time you open LinkedIn or read an industry newsletter, someone is trying to…
How to get Google Reviews and Boost Product Sales

How to get Google Reviews and Boost Product Sales

Heidi Sturrock , May 5, 2026
If you run an ecommerce store or a local business, you already know that trust is the currency of the internet. When a potential customer searches for your brand or…
How Advertisers Succeed When AI Makes the Buying Decision, Not Humans

How Advertisers Succeed When AI Makes the Buying Decision, Not Humans

Heidi Sturrock , April 29, 2026
Digital marketing and ecommerce have historically prioritized the user interface. Companies have poured billions of dollars into A/B testing website themes, button colors, landing page layouts, and lifestyle photography to…
ChatGPT Self Serve Ads Are Here. Here’s How To Crush It.

ChatGPT Self Serve Ads Are Here. Here’s How To Crush It.

Heidi Sturrock , April 28, 2026
Since February 9, 2026, the digital advertising world has been holding its collective breath. That was the day OpenAI officially injected sponsored placements into ChatGPT, marking the most seismic shift…
Optimizing Your Google Product Feed With Video

Optimizing Your Google Product Feed With Video

Heidi Sturrock , April 15, 2026
Google just delivered one of the most exciting updates to e-commerce advertising we have seen in years. Yesterday, on April 14, 2026, Google officially announced the annual Merchant Center product…
Does Google Ads Allow Brand Bidding?

Does Google Ads Allow Brand Bidding?

Heidi Sturrock , April 6, 2026
This has happened to me more than once. A client opens a web browser, types their company name into the Google search bar, and hits enter. Instead of their own…
Should You Care About Google Ad Strength Scores?

Should You Care About Google Ad Strength Scores?

Heidi Sturrock , April 1, 2026
Every person who runs Google Ads knows the feeling. You spend hours writing the perfect ad copy. You know exactly what makes your customers click. You paste your carefully crafted…
Optimize Google Ads With Campaign Experiments

Optimize Google Ads With Campaign Experiments

Heidi Sturrock , March 25, 2026
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

Heidi Sturrock , March 23, 2026
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

Heidi Sturrock , March 23, 2026
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…

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