PPC
Pay per click advertising refers to running on campaigns on search engines, social media sites, trade desks, and other sources of digital advertising on the web.
PPC Post Archives
MSP Google Ads Costs and Pricing
You’ve heard Google Ads can generate leads quickly, but you’re not sure how much to budget, what kind of results to expect, or whether it’s really worth the spend. Many MSPs step into paid search with high hopes and vague expectations, only to be disappointed when the numbers don’t line up. Google Ads can be…
MSP Advertising Strategy: 3 Fundamental Approaches to Drive Real Growth
Is your MSP making effective use of your advertising budget, or are you weighed down too much by bottom of funnel advertising tactics that leave you in a perpetual cycle of high costs per lead. Low quality leads, and leads that require a blood sacrifice to close. Too often, MSPs invest in advertising with high…
Case Study: Sourcing 30+ Email Opt-Ins Per Month For Cybersecurity SaaS Startup Via Google Ads
In this case study we’ll share how we helped a Cybersecurity SaaS startup source roughly 30 email opt-ins per month via Google Ads to help fuel their email marketing efforts and power their growth. Client Background The client is a Cybersecurity SaaS startup providing a data storage solution that helps government contractors quickly comply with…
Case Study: TNHS Generates 30 Leads In 6 Months For DC Metro MSP
In July of 2024 a Washington D.C. metro based MSP reached out to Tortoise and Hare Software for help with some of their advertising campaigns. This MSP was working with a previous agency that the MSP was not happy with and had generated no results in 6 months of advertising spend. They found Tortoise and…
What MSPs Should Know About Retargeting: Turning Window Shoppers into Revenue
As a managed IT service provider (MSP) looking to scale your revenue and eventually sell your business at a premium, you need a robust marketing strategy. One often overlooked but highly effective tactic is retargeting. If you’ve dabbled in digital marketing, you’ve likely heard of retargeting, but do you know how to leverage it to…
GovTech SaaS Paid Search Advertising Case Study
In today’s post, I would like to take a moment to break down some of the results we were able to generate for a GovTech SaaS via paid search advertising. I have to keep things somewhat high-level and ambiguous in this post due to contractual privacy reasons. About The GovTech SaaS The company we managed…
Effective Keywords For Your MSP To Bid On
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) understand the value of Google Ads in attracting potential clients actively seeking their services. However, the path to success in this competitive advertising landscape involves not just selecting keywords but honing in on those with strong commercial intent. In this blog post, we’ll explore the strategic selection of keywords that have…
Is LinkedIn Ads A Fit For Your MSP?
When considering options for marketing your MSP, no doubt you’ve considered using LinkedIn Ads to generate more leads and sales opportunities. LinkedIn is after all, probably the largest collection of B2B professionals on the internet, and your prospective customers are almost certainly interacting on the platform. LinkedIn Ads can certainly be an effective tool, but…
Multi Arm Bandits And PPC Machine Learning
In today’s post, we’re going to be talking about a common PPC machine learning algorithm of which some variant is leveraged in part by many pay per click platforms called a multi arm bandit. We’ll talk about how they compare to simple A/B tests and why understanding the types of algorithms these platforms use is…
Best Practices For Responsive Search Ads
If you’ve been running paid search campaigns on Google Ads lately you’ve almost certainly noticed that responsive search ads are now the standard. Google is leaning heavily into automation and machine learning and fighting the current is not only less effective, but it’s also now not even possible in some cases. Expanded text ads have…
How To Set A Budget For Paid Search
In this post, we’re going to break down how to set a budget for paid search to run lead generation campaigns for your B2B tech org. Let’s assume for the purposes of this post that you are seeking to set a budget that will effectively establish a pay-per-click lead generation pipeline and target approximately 10…
How Do I Advertise My MSP? A Short Guide
Marketing is one thing but advertising is another. You may have your logo and branding in order, a polished website, pamphlets, brochures, t-shirts, stickers, and other swag, but at a certain point, that stuff doesn’t move the needle anymore. If you want to start expanding the reach of your MSP and finding new clients you’ve…
The Ultimate Guide To Paid Search On Google Ads For Managed Service Providers
Generating leads for your MSP can be a challenge. You spend so much time managing employees, making sure customer support tickets are answered, procuring hardware, and defending against cyber threats, there’s hardly time to worry about networking and doing things like posting on social media. However, you’d like to grow faster, and due to some…
The 5 Second Test For PPC Landing Pages
I’ve been having a lot of conversations recently about optimizing websites for lead generation and explaining a concept called the 5 second test. The 5 second test is a design usability test that aims to help usability testers evaluate and prove the effectiveness of user experiences designs. The idea is that you show someone a…
LinkedIn Ads Rolls Out New JavaScript Event Based Conversion Tracking
I was poking around in a couple of LinkedIn Ad accounts today, while working on some campaigns and got a notification that there was a change to conversion tracking behaviors. I popped on over to the conversion tracking and noticed that there was a new option to enable event based conversion tracking via a JavaScript…
The PRESTO Landing Page Copywriting Framework
Creating a landing page that converts can be a challenge. There’s a lot that goes into it, but one of the most important aspects of that is the copywriting. It would be a significant challenge to create a landing page that converts that uses 0 copy and only design, but it would be much more…
How Much Can I Spend On Google Ads?
One of the first questions I get when talking about google ads is how much is a click? It’s a fair question, but asking it is the wrong way to think about advertising via Google Ads. This is an expense focused question and the whole purpose of engaging a Google Ads management agency or getting…
10 Reasons Why Your MSP Needs Google Ads
As a managed service provider, you offer a great service to your clients that helps them run their business more effectively, securely, and frees up their time. The problem is, if they can’t find you then they can’t hire you. Businesses might not even know exactly what they are looking for, much less how to…
Google Ads Case Study – Adding 1.5 Million Revenue In 1 Year For A SaaS
In this post we’re going to walk through an eCommerce SaaS google ads case study. We’ll walk you through how we took one lucky eCommerce software as a service (SaaS) provider with a 5 figure monthly ad budget, from being a company with account maintenance challenges, room for improvement on their returns, and questions on…
5+ Essential Google Ads Campaigns For Your Ad Account
Advertising your business on Google Ads is a fantastic way to drive traffic to your website and generate leads for your company. Many companies don’t know where to start when it comes to creating campaigns, or structuring their account in general, so today I wanted to go over a few of the essential Google Ads…