#342 - Google Ads for Growth: How to Build, Test, and Scale Campaigns | DTC POD: How The Best Brands Are Built podcast

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Episode description

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Episode description

Shri Kanase is the founder of Yoru Marketing, a boutique agency that specializes in Google Ads for e-commerce brands. Prior to this, he successfully scaled his e-commerce brands to over $3.5 million in four years. With extensive first hand experience, Shri has guided 23,000+ store owners via his YouTube channel and established one of the fastest-growing blogs in the e-commerce and PPC space.

In this episode of DTC Pod, Shri shares his insights on developing effective Google Ads strategies for e-commerce brands. He covers key topics such as initial campaign setup, Google Ads learning phase, keyword targeting, budgeting, ad placement focus, and ongoing optimization. Shri also discusses his "TPS approach" for testing, ensuring profitability, and scaling successful campaigns.

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On this episode of DTC Pod, we cover:
1. Ad Platform Differences
2. Google Ads Keyword Strategy
3. Algorithmic Learning Period in Google Ads
4. Budgeting for Google Ads
5. Google Ads Bidding Strategy
6. Testing and Scaling Google Ads Campaigns
7. Google Ads Placement Strategy
8. Google Ads for YouTube
9. Google Ads Campaign Optimization

Timestamps
00:00 Shri Kanase’s boutique marketing agency
03:51 Fundamentals of Google Ads
07:35 Launching a Google Ads campaign for the first time
10:43 How to do keyword research for Google Ads
13:55 Google Ads budget and bidding strategy
19:01 How and when to reward or punish Google algorithm
21:10 Best practices for Google Ads placement
22:45 Creating effective Google Ads creatives
24:49 Tips for running Google Ads campaign on Youtube
26:51 Feed-only approach to Performance Max campaigns
29:52 TPS approach: testing, profitability, scaling
34:46 How to win with Google Ads in 2024

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Past guests & brands on DTC Pod include Gilt, PopSugar, Glossier, MadeIN, Prose, Bala, P.volve, Ritual, Bite, Oura, Levels, General Mills, Mid Day Squares, Prose, Arrae, Olipop, Ghia, Rosaluna, Form, Uncle Studios & many more.

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