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		<title>AdWords DIY - Do I? Part Deux</title>
		<link>http://emarketing.surfacing.com/2006/01/17/adwords-diy-do-i-part-deux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 06:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>The Basics</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s continue. In the last post, I had just finished telling you why you shouldn&#8217;t use the services of an AdWords Professional such as myself or one of the other Surfacing AdWords Pros. Now I&#8217;ll tell you why you SHOULD.
Let&#8217;s continue from where we left off.
Having an adwords professional helping you is NEVER a liability, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s continue. In the <a title="AdWords DIY - Do I? Part 1" target="_blank" href="http://emarketing.surfacing.com/2006/01/16/adwords-diy-do-i/">last post</a>, I had just finished telling you why you shouldn&#8217;t use the services of an AdWords Professional such as myself or one of the other Surfacing AdWords Pros. Now I&#8217;ll tell you why you <em><strong>SHOULD</strong></em>.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s continue from where we left off.<a id="more-9"></a></p>
<p>Having an adwords professional helping you is <strong>NEVER</strong> a liability, but by now you can already see that there is an obvious tradeoff between the amount of time you MUST dedicate to your online campaigns and the amount off money you can save by <em>going your own way</em>. This may permit you to dedicate a larger amount of money to your campaign, rather than paying for the assistance of a professional.</p>
<p>However, what if you <em>do</em> have the necessary budget to launch a significant campaign? Is that budget simply wasted? Is it better to DIY? <em><strong>Of course not!</strong></em></p>
<p>The most important downside of managing a campaign entirely by yourself is that you&#8217;ll be running your campaign without the dedicated experience an adwords pro can provide.</p>
<p>An AdWords Professional can save you a lot of time, and we use that time wisely. Without the ad system learning curve to overcome, your online campaigns can show results faster through our expeience. This saves you money two ways:</p>
<ol>
<li>You and your employees are left able to dedicate more time to doing business rather than managing a campaign. With our assistence in creating your campaigns, all you need to do is refine them.</li>
<li>Less budget is spent on marginal aspects of your campaign right from the start.</li>
</ol>
<p>And this all leads to one of the best reasons to let an AdWords Pro oversee your campaign: all that money saved from being wasted on underperforming MIStargeting means more advertising is being delivered to the people you&#8217;re after: legitimate potential customers.</p>
<p>So like I said to start, <em>You can go your own way.</em> But do you really want to?</p>
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		<title>AdWords DIY - Do I? Part 1</title>
		<link>http://emarketing.surfacing.com/2006/01/16/adwords-diy-do-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 04:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Like Fleetwood Mac says, You can go your own way. But do you really want to?
I manage Google and Yahoo ad accounts for clients, and let me tell you&#8230; You might.
Surprised?


I&#8217;ll be honest with everyone here, and I doubt you&#8217;ll see anyone else admit this simple truth:
A lot of the success of Google&#8217;s adwords, or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like Fleetwood Mac says, <em>You can go your own way.</em> But do you really want to?</p>
<p>I <strong>manage</strong> Google and Yahoo ad accounts for clients, and let me tell you&#8230; You <em>might</em>.</p>
<p>Surprised?<a id="more-7"></a></p>
<p><a title="View product details at Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=surfacingcom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html%253fASIN=B00006JL1Z%2526tag=surfacingcom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=/o/ASIN/B00006JL1Z%25253FSubscriptionId=07CACDS1XHA9YYWE4YR2" /></p>
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<p>I&#8217;ll be honest with everyone here, and I doubt you&#8217;ll see anyone else admit this simple truth:</p>
<blockquote><p>A lot of the success of Google&#8217;s adwords, or any internet ad program for that matter, boils down to the amount of money you&#8217;re willing to spend to see a return on investment.</p></blockquote>
<p>Also, historically speaking, the more money you&#8217;re capable of investing in advertising, the more able and likely you are to turn a campaign over to qualified individuals.</p>
<p>So the less money money you have, the less effectiive your campaign is, right? WRONG. Well, sort of. <img src='http://emarketing.surfacing.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>The main factors in the success of an online ad campaign are:</p>
<ul>
<li>The amount of time dedicated to setting up the campaign properly and (especially) tweaking it as it progresses.</li>
<li>Your targeting scheme - keywords, geolocation selection</li>
<li>Your budget choices - how you choose to spend the money you&#8217;ve dedicated to the campaign.</li>
</ul>
<p>Having an adwords professional helping you is <strong>NEVER</strong> a liability, but by now you can already see that there is an obvious tradeoff between the amount of time you MUST dedicate to your online campaigns and the amount of money you can save by <em>going your own way</em>. This may permit you to dedicate a larger amount of money to your campaign, rather than paying for the assistance of a professional.</p>
<p>The most important downside of managing a campaign entirely by yourself is that you&#8217;ll be running your campaign without the dedicated experience an adwords pro can provide. That experience can protect you from bad keywords and overly inflated per click prices  <em>and</em> get your campaign moving more quickly - time is money, after all!</p>
<p>Now, what if you <em>do</em> have the necessary budget to launch a significant campaign? Is that budget simply wasted? Is it better to DIY? <em><strong>Of course not!</strong></em></p>
<p>But perhaps that&#8217;s a topic best left for a <a target="_self" title="AdWords DIY - Do I? Part Deux" href="http://emarketing.surfacing.com/2006/01/17/adwords-diy-do-i-part-deux/">later date</a>.
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