5 'Big Rocks' to Kickstart your 2018

Getting straight into the thick of things off the back of holidays is hard. 

 

So here are five ‘helicopter’ items you can look into to set yourself up for a fantastic 2018 before diving into the day to day details!

1: Affirm your Goals

The new year is a great time to re-evaluate your goals - both Macro and Micro conversions to make sure there is still alignment with business goals for the year ahead. 

 

Do your current goals still make sense? Or are there new macro or micro conversions that you should be making use of this year? 

 

Are the Values associated with your macro and micro conversions giving your Programmatic algorithms the conversion signals they require? You are using Values for all your Conversions aren't you?

2: Get your PPC house in order

2017 saw an enormous influx of new bright, shiny PPC objects to play with.

 

Amongst all the busyness of last year, have you taken advantage of all the new features that were released for your channel/s? 

 

Or could your existing ad features/settings do with a revisit to ensure they’re being maximised? 

3: Refresh your Dashboards, Scripts & Alerts

No one ever likes making mistakes but we've all had budgets over or underspent, KPIs missed or items that slipped through the cracks - sometimes not even our fault.

 

What dashboards, scripts and/or alerts could you put in place to notify yourself of particular events so that you would have real-time awareness in case the same left-field events pop up again?

4: Set yourself up to learn

Speaking of notifications, the start of the year is a great time to curate what you put in front of your eyes and ears.

 

Are you subscribed to PPC thought leaders' blogs, podcasts, social & youtube channels?

 

Better still, go deeper and pre-download great marketing & advertising Audiobooks.

 

For the ultimate, enrol in a course or two.

5: Study Blockchain

Finally, for anyone in digital, its been hard to avoid cryptocurrency mania. 

 

Beyond the mad speculative investing, there actually is some fascinating work being done in the digital marketing and advertising space using blockchain tech.

 

Given Blockchain is going to be the buzzword for 2018 - time invested away from the hype and into the tech will surely be rewarded.