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Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

How to Keep Your Ad Cost Down Even As More Competitors Jump On Board  | Ep. #795

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In episode #795, Eric and Neil Discuss how to keep your ad costs down. Tune in to hear how you could be saving money instead of losing it! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00;27] Today’s Topic: How to Keep Your Ad Cost Down Even As More Competitors Jump On Board [00:41] It is a given that no matter what, more people will sign up to use social media sites. [01:25] Ad costs will go up the more people get on board. [02:05] Keep in mind, that whether it is Google or Facebook, the goal of every ad platform is to show the results with the highest quality, not who paid the most. [03:00] It’s all about the keywords you use! [03:15] Whichever generates more clicks, generates more income. [03:26] Always test your copy and see what works. [04:02] Eric recently look at some of his ads: the cost per acquisition for image ads was $12, while video was $4-5. [04:22] You have to have good messaging that is targeted at your audience. [04:35] You need to test over and over. [04:43] In the early days of advertising, some people posted images of breasts to get a higher click-through rate. These days, you need to have relevant images and content. [05:28] Rotate your ad images and update your copy. [05:43] When people ran ads on TV and Radio, they found that their CPC’s went down drastically because people were seeing them everywhere. [06:16] That’s it for today! [06:20] Go here to see how many downloads the show is getting. Also rate and review to help Eric and Neil meet their goal of 1 Million downloads per month. They will throw a live event once they reach their goal. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from

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entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any

0:11.4

marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school

0:14.5

with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.

0:19.4

All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.

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great way to improve your load time. Welcome to another episode of Marketing School.

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I'm Eric Sue, and I'm Neil Patel.

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And today we're going to talk about how to keep your ad cost down

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even as more competitors jump on board.

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So I guess when you look at Facebook,

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when you look at Google, Neil,

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and any of these platforms out there,

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what is given, what's gonna happen

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no matter what with these platforms?

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There's gonna be more people signing up.

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It doesn't matter if you're in a good economy or a bad economy, more people are going to

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use them.

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