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

  • Invaluable Knowledge & Killer Ad Campaign

    I operate a nutrition supplement business, which can be a tricky sector on Google search. I cannot emphasize enough how deeply grateful I am for Steve’s dedication and support.

    He restructured our campaigns to utilize a combination of Google PMax and Shopping, and completed a precision optimization of our Shopping feed.  He also brought our campaigns onto Microsoft Ads to reach more consumers.

    I place my faith in Steve and his ability to help our brand flourish!

    John Xu, Owner,

    A Quality of Life Nutrition

    John Xu

  • Top Of Tier 1

    Blastoff’s expertise can be described as TOP of Tier-1. Steve and his team master Google Ads and no doubt they can take on any challenge or demanding project. Very happy to have found him.

    We’re a venture capital funded real estate startup. Blastoff found the time to understand our business model, user acquisition funnel and ultimately the customer psyche.

    Michael Cho

    Serial Entrepreneur Singapore,

    Michael Cho

  • Steve Is The Best

    After using several Adwords agencies we finally found “Blastoff Ads.” Steve is the best. He is doing a fantastic marketing campaign for us. He is always approachable, very quick to respond and knows his stuff, unlike many other people/agencies we have worked with or spoken to in the past.

    Elliot Savitz

    Law Offices of Elliot Savitz

    Elliot Savitz

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