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Kenneth is a growth marketer at Rent the Runway leading SEM among other channels. Previously he was the SEM lead for Walmart eCommerce’s Electronics & Entertainment business, overseeing tactical direction, executing optimizations and responsible for the category’s P&L.
KENNETH C.
Ally developed a CPA revenue model to deliver guaranteed conversions for Olay’s skincare product portfolio. She also scaled their e-commerce affiliate campaign from $0 to 5-figures/month in net revenue, while Google Ads spend from $0 to 5-figures/month.
Ally G.
Jason 10Xed SiriusXM’s paid search program from a monthly budget of $50k to over $500k — all in one year.
JASON B.
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What is paid search marketing?
Plain and simple, paid search marketing means paid search ads, bought from search engines like Google and Bing.
Sure, pay-per-click advertising can get expensive, but the ROI on a well-executed program is high, given that many of these programs help to convert prospects already in the research phase for your solution.
Paid search marketing experts combine analytical skills with creative research and excel at projects like:
- Boosting campaign click-through rates
- Optimizing paid search campaign landing pages on your website
- Managing bids, ad formats and paid search advertising budgets
- Building strategies around branded and solution-relevant keywords
Paid search marketing — also known as search engine marketing (SEM) or PPC marketing — is one of the oldest and most trusted ways for digital marketers to reach potential customers at the right time.
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How we define paid search marketing and vet for high-quality paid search talent
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Warning: Amateurs often botch paid search marketing.
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Paid search marketers need these 5 skills.
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A paid search marketing expert can rebuild your strategy.
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It’s most cost-effective to hire a freelance paid search expert.
Warning: Amateurs often botch paid search marketing.
Placing ads at the top of search engine results pages (SERPs) is one of the foundational elements of digital marketing and PPC management. If done well, it’s extremely effective – if.
In fact, if you run well-optimized, relevant SEM campaigns, Google actually rewards you with lower costs and higher visibility.
But those are big ifs. It’s easy to botch paid search campaigns, which is why you need an expert PPC specialist.
If you’ve tinkered with search engine marketing and found it expensive or heard other people talking about how expensive it is, it’s probably because they’ve chosen a “set it and forget it” model. Google dings you for that, and it increases your costs. This is true whether you’re an e-commerce company trying to get in front of buyers, or a B2B company trying to get clicks to your landing page on priority keywords.
Most amateurs don’t understand the incentives built into Google Adwords or the variety of PPC advertising tools on the market — and that translates into higher costs and lower return on ad spend (ROAS).
There’s a real science to effective paid search advertising campaigns and the algorithms they run on, and you need to find an “SEM scientist.”
That’s where Marketers Finder shines. Our expert freelance network has top-notch search engine marketing consultants who can plan and execute your next paid search campaign.
- Listing optimization: Before any marketing strategy is in place, true Amazon marketers should be able to optimize product descriptions and landing pages for conversion with product titles, images, key features, descriptions and reviews.
- Paid advertising: Amazon uses a PPC model, so Amazon marketers need to know how to manage advertising costs and create compelling product display ads, video ads, Amazon sponsored product ads, and custom headline search ads, so users click through and buy.
- Amazon SEO: Amazon isn’t just an e-commerce website, it’s a popular search engine with its own algorithm and search engine optimization techniques. Expert Amazon marketing freelancers need to be on top of algorithm changes and know how to optimize individual product descriptions and listing pages for search terms to boost product discoverability and relevance, and increase sales for an Amazon account.
- Promotion management: Using Amazon’s various promotional features effectively can lead to significant sales increases, so Amazon marketers need to identify and implement promotional pricing and product targeting opportunities using coupons, lightning deals, and early reviewer programs. They can also run promotions for holidays from Prime Day to Black Friday.
Paid search marketers need these 5 skills.
Paid search marketing experts need a variety of skills to be successful. Here are a few of the most important ones, all of which MarketerHire vets for:
- Data analysis (and Excel chops): Strategists need to know how to make sense of metrics and data to identify what aspects of a paid search campaign need tweaking for optimal return on investment (ROI). This often involves exporting results into a master spreadsheet and uncovering underlying patterns. Knowing your way around Excel is a very useful skill for SEM marketers.
- Campaign planning and optimization: Understanding the ins and outs of Adwords, Bing Ads, or Yahoo Ads is absolutely critical to create and execute campaigns. That means understanding the Pay-Per-Click model (PPC), the Cost-Per-Click model (CPC), the Cost-Per-Thousand-Impressions model (CPM) and knowing how to optimize them for click-through rate (CTR) and less spend.
- Retargeting: After a user has engaged with an ad on another channel — whether it’s a display ad, a paid social media ad, or an Amazon ad — paid search marketers know how to retarget them with SEM. Note that ad copy will play a big role here in effectiveness, too.
- Keyword research: Expert SEM marketers know how to identify search term trends and opportunities via keyword research, using tools like Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Ahrefs and SEMRush.
- Communication: Search engine marketing specialists don’t operate in a vacuum. They need to be able to communicate and collaborate with SEO experts, content marketing managers, and growth marketers to ensure a tight digital marketing strategy and effective marketing campaigns.
- Deep channel expertise: All specialists need to have deep marketing channel expertise, but this is especially true for paid search marketers. They’ll need to make sense of quality scores, negative keywords, ad rank, ad groups, ad extensions, match types, text ads, and more, all of which can sound like a foreign language to amateurs.
A paid search marketing expert can rebuild your strategy.
If you have an agency or small in-house team dabbling in paid search with limited success, it’s time to hire a paid search specialist who can help you place ads on strategic SERPs, supercharging your traffic and growth.
They can dig into what you’ve tried so far, make recommendations, and even build your SEM strategy from the ground up. They can also collaborate with your existing team to create an ad management strategy aligned with your overarching business goals.
Could you instead simply hire a PPC consultant to better manage your agency, your in-house team, or your existing paid search program? Probably.
It’s most cost-effective to hire a freelance paid search expert.
Building a marketing department with a team of specialists costs hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. This is expensive, often wasteful, and for smaller businesses, downright impossible.
So, how does a business like yours looking to make the most of SEM find the right person for the job in the most budget-efficient way?
Historically, it hasn’t been easy. There were some 60 million freelancers in the U.S. alone in 2019, and even more have gone freelance in the wake of the pandemic. This is especially true for expert paid search marketers and account managers, many who prefer to work their own hours rather than full-time. Running PPC campaigns and other types of paid search ad campaigns requires initial setup and research, but from there, a big part of the job is managing bids, and optimizing results.
That’s why many small businesses outsource their SEM and PPC advertising needs to agencies. Unfortunately, many of these marketing agencies price their services very optimistically.
The more cost-effective thing to do: Hire a freelance PPC ads expert on an hourly basis, so you only pay for the time you need. In reality, most agencies are hiring freelancers themselves — because top-tier marketing talent, especially in paid search, goes freelance.
“The very best technical marketers, from a Facebook and Google standpoint — they don’t like being stuck with one company,” former ZipRecruiter CMO Ed Fu told MarketerHire.
With the widespread availability of high-speed internet and the rise of remote workers, more freelancers and consultants enter the market every day. They can give you the expertise you need at a price your business can afford.
The trouble is, being able to source and hire quality freelance talent has been difficult. MarketerHire changes that. We take the headache out of finding the right freelancer with pre-vetted, personalized matching based on your project.
This saves you time, money, and uncertainty — because you know they’ll get the job done efficiently and effectively.