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Grasshopper is a Google Engage Agency

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising with Google (called Google Adwords) can be a fast, adaptable strategy to profitably attract new customers. In September of 2012, Grasshopper Marketing was certified by Google as an Engage Adwords Agency.

This means Google endorses us an effective provider of PPC strategies, and it means our clients have access to PPC related resources and benefits, including:

  • Dedicated PPC account manager with Google
  • Training for a growing list of new features
  • Adwords credit for initial PPC campaigns

How does Google Adwords work?

In basic terms, it allows a business to set and manage a daily maximum advertising budget and a maximum amount per click. This means costs can be controlled tightly, helping to maximize advertising ROI.

Google PPC also gives you control of keywords to target, ad location, time of day or week that ads run, ad content, website landing pages and devices to target (iPhones, for instance).

But PPC success is not automatic. Campaigns with incorrect settings and haphazard management don’t maximize profit at best, and lose money at worst. For every well run account, there’s a business using Adwords the wrong way, losing money, and spreading the word that PPC “doesn’t work.”

The truth is, it does work. But profitable PPC campaigns take time and analytics expertise, along with a thorough grasp of the Adwords system. And since small businesses rarely possess such internal know-how, it’s generally wiser for them to research, find and select a company that delivers excellent PPC campaign services.

If you’d like to learn the basics on running good PPC campaigns, check out How to PPC.

 

Or if you don’t have the time to do it yourself, give us a call, and we’ll be glad to discuss how our agency can make a PPC strategy profitable for your business.

 

 

 

 

 

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