Launchpad Blog – Steve Bell on PPC
Welcome to The Launchpad channel—a source of little-known information for paid search advertisers, based on years of data and hands-on experience. These posts come from someone who’s actively working in the field of paid advertising — creating, testing, optimizing, using the latest SEM & reporting tools every day — not just talking about the theory at conferences. No one we know of, with this level of real, hands-on SEM experience and workload, would normally have the time to write posts this detailed.
Our goal is to point you in the direction that best maximizes the return on your paid search advertising investment, backed by our analytics-driven, statistically supported experience with paid search. Whether you’re managing Google or Microsoft Shopping, PMax Search, Display/Audience or Video campaigns, the LaunchPad blog’s articles and videos are designed to help you improve performance, reduce wasted ad spend, and scale results.
The majority of the content here is created by Steve Bell, an accomplished Silicon Valley engineer, computer scientist, and business development/marketing expert. Today, having successfully owned and operated a PPC-only agency since 2015, Steve’s a hands-on expert who has utilized Google AdWords and Bing Ads aggressively since their introduction.
This blog serves as a companion to Blasfoff Advertising’s YouTube channel “The Launchpad Channel – Steve Bell on PPC.”
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