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  1. Blackman

    Managed VPS Hosting - Best Providers?

    WEB DESIGN 
    @rpeck90 , thanks for your help. In terms of server spec, what would you say would be sufficient enough for my requirements, i.e. WooCommerce store running Wordpress, roughly 200-300 visitors/day (hopefully more soon), about 150-200 transactions/month, and at the moment it's just 1...
  2. Blackman

    Managed VPS Hosting - Best Providers?

    WEB DESIGN 
    Surely, there are some Fastlaners here using VPS hosting? Would appreciate any input to point me in the right direction. Thank you
  3. Blackman

    Managed VPS Hosting - Best Providers?

    WEB DESIGN 
    Happy New Year 2024, everyone. I've been using Hostgator's shared hosting for the last 10 years and generally speaking, I haven't really had any issues with them, because reliability and speed wasn't too much of a concern for me... Now when I'm running an e-commerce website and spending money...
  4. Blackman

    Ecom Youtube Challenge - Building a channel with 120 videos in 120 days

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Hey @Phikey , I know it's a bit of a broad topic, but what's your choice/recommendation when it comes to web hosting for e-commerce sites? I've been on Hostgator's shared hosting plan for many years and never felt the need to upgrade, because I'm not getting much traffic (approx. 100...
  5. Blackman

    Ecom Youtube Challenge - Building a channel with 120 videos in 120 days

    GOLD! HOT! 
    @Phikey Glad to see you're doing well. I've watched tons of your Google Ads videos when I was setting up my e-commerce store and they're pure gold, as they're tailored specifically for e-commerce. I think I need to re-read this thread again and check out your channel, as I've probably missed...
  6. Blackman

    [NEED GOOGLE ANALYTICS 4?] GA4 + Google Ads, GTM, Conversion tracking help

    MARKETPLACE 
    Hi Senecal, do you know how to set up Universal Analytics or GA4 to see all the search queries triggered in Google Ads? As you probably know, the search terms report in Google Ads dashboard doesn't show all terms that resulted in clicks (only those with "significant volume"), so I've been...
  7. Blackman

    Lead Gen for Local Service Businesses

    HOT! MARKETING 
    Andy, I wish you were right, but nothing's changed since then - see screenshot below from the last 10 days of my shopping ads campaign. Out of 404 clicks only 189 search terms are actually displayed, so the remaining 215, which is more than half of the total is considered as insignificant due...
  8. Blackman

    Lead Gen for Local Service Businesses

    HOT! MARKETING 
    No, not using a Smart Campaign, just a regular campaign with full control. I'm running Shopping Ads and I can see the search terms that have triggered my ads, same as I would with a search campaign, but as you probably know, the displayed results are limited and only show search terms with...
  9. Blackman

    Lead Gen for Local Service Businesses

    HOT! MARKETING 
    @Andy Black Andy, I'm not sure if you use the "Search Queries" function for Google Ads in Google Analytics, but I recently noticed that I can no longer look up the terms that triggered my ads and resulted in a click. We know that Google has dramatically reduced the data that they display in...
  10. Blackman

    Ask me anything about eCommerce (Ongoing)

    GOLD! 
    I've watched loads of Sam's videos from Key Commerce on YouTube, which were very helpful, you can find them here > https://www.youtube.com/c/MrSamBaldwin/videos There's also tons of Google Adwords content here on the forum from Andy Black, which he's been posting over the last few years. Here's...
  11. Blackman

    Ask me anything about eCommerce (Ongoing)

    GOLD! 
    Going to have to bump this thread, but it's full of gold, so I'm sure no one will mind... I'm running an e-commerce store with about 15 products and promoting it via Google Shopping Ads. I'm slowly scaling to more and more products, but I've got a habit which I developed many years ago, and I'm...
  12. Blackman

    Behind the Scenes of My Online Store Which Generated €246,811.88 Net Sales in 15 Months

    NOTABLE! EXECUTION 
    I decided to add Stripe as another payment option on my store after reading your thread - it can only make things better. With Paypal, you also have the option to pay with your credit/debit card without registering an account, but I think a lot of people believe that you need to have an account...
  13. Blackman

    How to determine customer acquisition cost before launching the product?

    IDEA 
    That's not necessarily good news - it could mean that selling your specific product via Google Ads just doesn't work out in terms of numbers, so that's why no one does it. Are you sure none of them advertise it? It's quite unusual to have a product that doesn't come up under Google's shopping...
  14. Blackman

    How to determine customer acquisition cost before launching the product?

    IDEA 
    The CPC of $1.2 is way too high for the revenue generated, considering a 6% conversion is also a quite decent number. It might be worth looking at other sellers in your niche by searching relevant keywords. Are they making use of Google Ads? At what price point are they selling? If you're...
  15. Blackman

    Behind the Scenes of My Online Store Which Generated €246,811.88 Net Sales in 15 Months

    NOTABLE! EXECUTION 
    Hi @Dimitron , A great write-up, thanks for sharing your story. I recently launched an e-commerce store myself earlier this year and currently promoting it via Google Shopping Ads to get some sales. Totally understand what you mean about low conversion rates - it's a really difficult to...
  16. Blackman

    Lead Gen for Local Service Businesses

    HOT! MARKETING 
    You've got benchmark CTR as well and I don't think these metrics are specific to shopping ads, I believe they apply to search as well. Out of interest, try looking up this metric (under "Competitive Metrics" in columns) for one of your campaigns and compare your average CPC with the benchmark...
  17. Blackman

    Lead Gen for Local Service Businesses

    HOT! MARKETING 
    @Andy Black , I've recently noticed a strange difference between my average CPC and benchmark max CPC - see screenshot attached. How is it possible that I'm paying so much for my clicks, when according to Google the benchmark max CPC for similar products/keywords is almost x5 lower than what...
  18. Blackman

    23 Year Old w/19 Employees: Just Did $5m in 2021, *OFFICIALLY A MILLIONAIRE* - AMA

    GOLD! HOT! EXECUTION 
    Hey mate, well done and props to you for sticking with it over the years. I'm in e-commerce myself, but just barely getting started and I'm interested in your sales/marketing channels. Since I've got a completely brand-new store, I'm utilising Google Shopping Ads to get relevant traffic to my...
  19. Blackman

    Ask me anything about eCommerce (Ongoing)

    GOLD! 
    Definitely go with Wordpress, if you're comfortable with basic web design/blogging skills and can customize a theme yourself. There are plenty of Wordpress themes available online (preferably paid with support) for all kinds of niches, so if you can get a ready theme and then just tweak it...
  20. Blackman

    Ecom Youtube Challenge - Building a channel with 120 videos in 120 days

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Yeah Andy, unfortunately that seems to be the reality of Google Shopping Ads, unless I'm doing something wrong? Clearly, after coming from working with local lead gen campaigns where I had full control over keywords/ads, this is the complete opposite. The good thing is that you don't have to...
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