Steve Bell
Steve Bell | Director
Steve Bell is an engineer/computer scientist, and serial tech business entrepreneur. He’s founded Blastoff Advertising in 2016, and serves as it’s Director. “I’m very much involved in all aspects of the day to day hands-on work”, he says, “we’re setup that way, and that’s where the fun is”.
Armed with an MS/CSEE, Steve began his career designing telecom, datacom systems into digital and analog integrated circuits, earning two U.S. patents along the way. He was deeply involved in the formation of Ethernet, Token Ring, and FDDI networking standards, and served as the Financial Officer of the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance.
In 2000, he sold his Wi-Fi startup, the Silicon Valley Networking Lab (SVNL) to HP-Agilent. Leading up to that, during the search engine wars of the 1990s, he became fascinated by how search engines work, and built his first Google Ads campaign in 1998, when Google was still a startup.
“I’ve always been drawn to computers, networks, and mathematics on the technical side of things, as well as marketing and advertising on the business side,” Steve says. “Paid search sits right at the intersection of all that.”
He describes PPC as a never-ending chess match, with rules that are rarely published and constantly changing. “Like golf, you never quite reach the mountaintop,” Steve explains. “But if you’re cut out for this work, you’ll never stop trying to improve–or helping businesses unlock sustainable revenue growth.”

Client Testimonials

  • Steve And His Team Are Masters At Google Ads

    Blastoff’s expertise can be described as TOP of Tier-1. Steve and his team have mastered Google Ads and no doubt they can take on any challenge/demanding project.

    Not only has he helped our business, he has also taught us valuable information. Very happy to have found him and looking forward to our next steps together.

    Grozdan Drakovitch

    Sofia ~ Bulgaria

    Grozdan Drakovitch
    Grozdan Drakovitch

  • Blastoff’s Work Is Invaluable

    Steve and his team at Blastoff have really turned our paid search advertising efforts around with concrete results. We’re receiving significantly more conversions than we did in the past, at a cheaper cost per conversion than we were accustomed to. As a former Silicon Valley product marketing pro, Steve’s also quick to learn more about the particulars of your industry, to increase lead quality.

    Hannah Lodge, VP

    ALTA Language Services, Inc.

    Hannah Lodge
    Hannah Lodge

  • Deep Domain Expertise

    Steve and his team at Blastoff Ads are superior to anyone I have worked with over the past 12 years, including a number of top San Francisco Bay area agencies.

    Blastoff Ads delivered measurable results quickly, and helped me understand the value of increasing our budget to better optimize our campaigns. This strategy resulted in a 3x ROI improvement. Hats off. First-class all the way!

    Brandon M Dhaenens, Director

    Dental Finance

    Brandon M Dhaenens
    Brandon M Dhaenens

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