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    Empirical CTO, first-time PPC user. Here is my website. Advice? Process?

    Posted by seohelper on August 8, 2020 at 1:36 pm

    During my career in AI as a CTO, I have built technology for B2B and B2C users like natural language understanding, chat bots, and large scale analytics. What I have never done is gone through the process for selecting efficient, inexpensive, optimized keywords for a new business.

    In particular, as an entrepreneur, I am interested in using PPC early in the company formation process, while the ideas are still taking shape. These early customer leads, surveys, and A/B testing can be very valuable. These have me investigating customer funnel and lead generation services as well.

    As a concrete example, here is a site for a new software project my group has in development:

    **Wildfires | Evacuate while there is still time.**

    **Immediate, continuous** **wildfire** **analytics and predictions drawn from satellite and verified sources. Full service logistics and evacuation plans, and warning when to act.**

    [https://wildfire-analytics.blnry.com/yqw](https://wildfire-analytics.blnry.com/yqw)

    The next step is 1. SEO and 2. Google / Facebook Ads selection. Honestly, how do I do this well?

    sillygoosegoose replied 3 years, 7 months ago 1 Member · 3 Replies
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  • DirkStraun2

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    August 8, 2020 at 1:46 pm

    I’d start with FB based on your example vertical – you could probably get pretty cheap emails here. Would want to start with wide targeting doing geo testing, and as the pixel gets more data, switch to lookalikes (probably higher %s because of the geo narrowing)

    Need to think about your target cost per email / desired action and work backwards

  • Rodendi

    Guest
    August 8, 2020 at 2:05 pm

    Oh boy.

    This is quite a topic. The good news is, as a CTO I’m sure you’re up to the challenge.

    The bad news (or potentially good news) is there’s no one sized fits all approach to how it will work best for you.

    SEO, PPC and all the permutations of it are tools you can use to apply the principles of consumer behavior and consumer psychology.

    Before you start playing around with any of the tools, you need to go back and learn the first principles.

    Learn why people buy (to solve a problem, avoid pain, or gain pleasure) and what that means in context (what is your target demographic looking to gain?).

    I highly reccomend you start by establishing a strong background in consumer psychology specifically.

    These days, people are looking for brands that are a reflection of them, and their existing beliefs.

    Good marketers can sell to these people. Great marketers can convince them that a brand is an extension of them.

    I’ll let you guess which group brings in a higher LTV customers.

    Once you understand what drives people to buy, you need to understand the competitive landscape.

    Learn about competitive analysis – specifically to highlight where you differ from the competition.

    In other words, what value do you bring that your target market is looking to gain that your customers don’t.

    SaaS founders are usually great at telling me what makes their product different from others.

    But they aren’t great at telling their target customers why they should give a damn.

    Don’t be like that. Connect your USP (unique selling proposition) back to the psychological forces urging them to buy.

    Then and only then, once you understand those principles, get into messaging.

    Get breakthrough advertising. It’s fucking pricy, but it will help.

    Learn how to tailor copy. Its not enough to know your USP and know how it will solve problems or provide benefit for your target market.

    You need to be able to tell them that in a way they understand.

    You also need to connect with their underlying need.

    Too many SaaS/tech companies don’t do this!

    They are content to say “my product does this, and this which is why you should buy” rather than “You have X problem, and here is how my product will help you solve it”.

    Once you understand all this stuff, then SEO, PPC and all that really boil down to the following steps:

    1: Find people that have a problem that your product solves (PPC Prospecting, SEO)

    2: Convince them that you can solve it better than than what already is out there (SEO, Email Marketing, PPC Remarketing, Social)

    3: Close the deal.

    4: Maximize customer LTV by upselling additional offers from the core offer. This means understanding what other problems your target demo may have. (Email, PPC remarketing, SEO occasionally).

    This is a huge topic and I’m barely hitting the surface here, but I hope this gives you more direction to get going.

    Good luck!

  • sillygoosegoose

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    August 9, 2020 at 12:59 pm

    This is a very unique product, but before going forward with running ads, make sure the entire customer journey provides knowledge that is needed by the urgency of your product. Alerts are good, but you might need to share through messenger or email content daily to educate your consumer. Other wise, you’ll be just wasting your time acquiring emails that will never become familiar to the user and when the emergency occurs your messages will be ignored.