Media training 101 for small businesses

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Great news: you just scored a big press interview to promote your business. The story will expose your brand to the perfect new audience and drive meaningful traffic to your website. So…don't blow it. Yes, just as quickly as the excitement for the opportunity arrived, the realization that you now have to do an interview sets in. I get it—press interviews can absolutely be intimidating. The resulting coverage represents a significant opportunity to acquire new customers, drive sales, or raise awareness, and you want to be sure to represent your brand well and really compel the audience to check out your company. On top of that, you have to contend with adrenaline and nerves in the moment. You may be thinking, "So many other business owners are so polished and articulate in their interviews. How am I going to pull that off?" Deep breath. A successful interview is usually the result of good media training: preparation and practice in advance of an interview. I've tr...
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How to increase your advertising ROI with Google Ads and Zapier

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No matter how much you spend on Google Ads, you want to know you're getting the most value for your money when it comes to digital ads. But figuring out and then optimizing your advertising ROI can be difficult and time-consuming.

Zapier's newly updated Google Ads integration makes the process of running ads and then tracking the results a lot simpler. With features that make reaching the right audiences and measuring actual conversions more straightforward, this integration is designed to maximize results—not your workload. Here are three ways you can use Zapier and Google Ads together to get more out of your online advertising.

Seamlessly import leads from anywhere so you can reach them more effectively

If you want to increase conversions from remarketing ads, it's important to keep your customer lists in Google Ads up-to-date. But your leads are constantly changing, which means you may have to import new leads or update those lists every day—which can quickly become time-consuming, especially if you're working with a high volume of leads.

That's why we built the Add Contact to Customer List with Email action into our Google Ads integration. With this action, you can seamlessly import leads into Google Ads from other sources, whether that's your CRM, marketing automation platform, or an online form. Zapier will automatically add new leads from your chosen source to a customer list in Google Ads as contacts, so you don't have to spend time manually managing your lists.

Measure offline conversion events so you know what's working

A critical part of increasing your advertising ROI is understanding when a lead becomes qualified, and when someone converts and turns into an actual customer. But this information often lives in other apps. If someone submits a lead on your website and then signs a deal with you days later, the important transaction details are stored in your CRM.

Correlating conversion information with Google Ads can be labor-intensive, but it's key to honing your bidding and remarketing. To make it easier, Zapier's Google Ads integration offers a Send Offline Conversion action. This action will automatically send your conversion information to Google Ads whenever an offline conversion (like a lead qualification or sale) occurs. With this feature, you can bid better (especially if you're using Google's Smart Bidding solution) and improve your advertising ROI as you receive more valuable leads.

See it in action

For Fattmerchant, a leading payment technology company, Zapier's Google Ads integration makes understanding ROI much more straightforward and easy.

To determine which campaigns were generating a higher volume of sales-qualified leads (SQLs), Fattmerchant used Zapier to connect their CRM with Google's offline conversion tracking solution. The setup took under ten minutes, enabling Fattmerchant to automatically import their offline ad conversions in real-time.

Now, the company can bid more effectively and strategically shift advertising budgets in real-time to capture more qualified leads, which has resulted in a 50 percent increase in SQL volume.

"The Google-Zapier integration is such a time saver," says Eric Simmons, a Digital Marketing Specialist at Fattmerchant. "We set up in minutes, and now my offline conversions get piped into Google Ads instantly."

In 2020, most businesses face similar challenges. You know you need to advertise with Google Ads, but you also want to make sure you're getting the most out of every ad dollar you spend. Zapier's new Google Ads integration offers features designed to help you understand and maximize your advertising ROI—so you can see exactly what's working.

Ready to learn more? Check out this video on how to use Zapier and Google Ads together >



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