Pay Per Click Ads – Do You Make This Common Mistake?

I was chatting with a client just now about his Google AdWords campaign – he was asking why the ads seem to take a few days to work.

That was easy – it’s something I see a lot.

You’ll have a solid ad spend on day 1, but you don’t make any sales for 3 days.

You keep up the ad spend and finally start getting some sales on day 4.

So why didn’t those first ads work?

They Did Work

Those first ads did work.

You see, what’s happened is that the buying cycle behaviour of the target market was such that they take 4 days to buy (something pretty common for many markets in my experience).

If we had of stopped that client’s pay per click ad spending after 3 days (as some people do) his sales might have looked something like this:

Day 1: 0 sales
Day 2: 0 sales
Day 3: 0 sales
Day 4: 8 sales
Day 5: 2 sales
Day 6: 1 sale

Different Strokes For Different Folks

It can take different people varying amounts of time to move forward to buying. And that time can sometimes be a lot longer than you think.

So if you’re running pay per click campaigns, ensure you give the campaign enough time to work.

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