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Preparing for Growth

Advertisers are keenly aware of the value in engaging consumers and the immeasurable growth it creates for the search marketing and pay-per-click (PPC) solutions.  Identifying new keyword phrases, high search volume terms, and enhanced landing pages designs involves aesthetics and function to effectively target audiences.  As these global markets expand, affiliates, business owners, and agencies/SEM consultants must find the best PPC and search marketing tools to yield a greater result.The growth of the Internet in developing countries will drive search marketing on a global scale. A study released by McKinsey & Company surveyed executives on their motivations with the online channel.  63% of participants thought the footprint of the Internet in developing countries could increase the search marketing audience by the billions.Are you developing your PPC campaigns to take advantage of this growing trend?If not, here are a few tips:Identify keywords and keywords phrases in your market niche and benchmark against your competitorsOptimize landing pages and ad word combinationsMonitor your competitors daily to quickly adapt your campaigns to remain competitiveWe provide a complete list of tutorials and insights as to how you can achieve success with your PPC campaigns:  Click hereThe opportunity is yours for the taking!
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Harnessing Competitive Intelligence to Win New Business

To an independent PPC consultant, agency, or business development professional, competitive analysis is an important component for new business pitches or presentations. Gathering research and data specific to a prospect can be time consuming.  iSpionage tools enable you to quickly gather competitive data to incorporate into work-winning presentations.
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Using Competitive Intelligence to Find the Most Profitable Niche

Whether you are an affiliate marketer or a small business owner, being able to understand the competitive landscape is important in uniquely differentiating your product/service online.  The same principle applies in creating effective internet marketing campaigns. Our Keyword and Domain Research tool is designed to identify and target your most competitive keywords to incorporate into your online campaign, saving you valuable time and money in the process.Once you have signed up to try our software, follow these 3 steps to discover your most profitable niche:Create a ProjectEnter 1-2 KeywordsAnalyze the ResultsIt’s that simple.For the complete tutorial, click here.Guest Blogger
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Actionable Intelligence

ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE (Chapter 1) Whether you’re a small business owner or an internet marketing guru, understanding the competitive landscape will enable you to compete more intelligently. Knowing what your competitors are doing, how they are positioned in the market, and how they are promoting their business online allows you to uniquely position your company/product/service. Investigate before you act. The same rules apply as you consider executing a pay-per-click campaign. You must monitor and analyze the competitive space before you execute a PPC campaign.
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New look on the iSpionage homepage

I just wanted to let you know about changes to the iSpionage. First, our website has been updated to make it an easier and more informative read. We added "Benefits" and "Features" and "Pricing" tabs right on the home page so that you don't have to dig around for the information that you want quickly.
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What is Your Competitor Paying for Their PPC Ads?

Sorry I've been M.I.A for the last 2 weeks... Leon & I have been furiously preparing for the launch tomorrow (Yes – I still have 1 hour left in today – Monday). Unit the 1:00 pm launch (EST), here's a great conversation that I had yesterday with a Marketing Department Head and former colleague...
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iSpionage is Going Nuclear…

on Competitive PPC Advertising After one of our Search Marketing Agency users told us how he used iSpionage to become a PPC superpower, we're SERIOUSLY considering taking iSpionage off the open market. First, we need to verify that his actions are not a fluke. Intermediate and novice users beware – this employs the use of AdWords Editor and can potentially blow out your budget in a few minutes with a very high CTR. I'm also personally testing our user's system and am contacting some of our PPC expert iSpionage users to get their feedback on employing the strategy below.
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Keyword Hell!

Did you ever buy into a craze, only to pay for it later? I did. Today, I'm talking about the 1,438 long-tail keywords that I researched in Google Analytics (you know – for performance) AND pushed into AdWords through AdWords Editor. If done right, long-tail keywords are fantastic.
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Your Most Important Customer is…

Google Actually let me rephrase that - Google SHOULD BE your #1 pay-per-click (PPC) customer. When advertisers & business owners (i.e. you & me) start running AdWords, it is in our best interest to embrace what Google wants. And just like our favorite customers, once we know their likes and dislikes, we find that they WANT TO reward us by driving campaign costs down and conversion rates (i.e. revenue) up.
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