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PPC Study – 2019 Google Ads Industry Benchmarks – Search & Display Ads

The following article is based on a case study completed by Wordstream, a company that develops Search Marketing Software for PPC advertisers.  MGR utilizes WordStream tools synced-up with Google Ads and Bing on a regular basis to optimize our clients PPC campaigns. I strongly recommend that you

MGR – Amazon Weekly News – November 6, 2019

MGR Amazon Weekly Update | November 6, 2019 Top News This Week Introducing Amazon Attribution, Finally Brands Can Accurately Track Amazon ROI Across All Marketing Channels FINALLY! The feature that we as a marketing firm and many brands have wanted for YEARS is here at last. Amazon

Your Digital Marketing Advertising Checklist

If you’re relatively new to digital marketing or simply would like to have a single source of information to follow while you create your first advertising campaign, the list below is just for you.  Follow these basic steps and you’ll be be ready to develop new campaigns

MGR – Amazon Weekly News – October 28, 2019

MGR Amazon Weekly Update | October 28, 2019 Top News This Week Amazon Reports Q3 Numbers, and They Are Not Good Amazon reported a YoY increase in revenue, generating $70 billion. But, their profits were a major disappointment, bringing in just $2.1 billion, down 28% from Q3

MGR – Amazon Weekly News – October 21, 2019

MGR Amazon Weekly Update | October 21, 2019 Top News This Week Incumbent Consumer Brands Aren’t Growing, So They’re Buying Smaller Brands Left and Right The large incumbent consumer brands have had all of their growth stolen by what they call “ankle-biting microbrands.” They can call it

Why More Boutique Hotels Should Be Using Airbnb

Airbnb, Inc. announced on September 19, 2019 that it expects to become a publicly-traded company sometime during 2020.  This news came about a month after Airbnb also announced that on August 10, more than 4 million people spent the night in an Airbnb listing, and thus officially

Elizabeth Warren Vs Facebook, Facebook New Ads and Amazon AdCon Recap | MGR Unplugged

Listen now on your favorite podcast platform: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Overcast In this episode, Manuel Gil del Real and David Gil discuss the latest headlines involving Facebook, from Elizabeth Warren’s Facebook Ad test and Mark Zuckerberg’s response defending political free speech, to Facebook’s new ad types and Amazon

MGR – Amazon Weekly News – October 14, 2019

MGR Amazon Weekly Update | October 14, 2019 Top News This Week Is Amazon Unstoppable? An Excellent Deep Dive by Charles Duhigg Preview: In 2017, a few months after Forbes named Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, the world’s richest man, a rumor spread among the company’s

The MGR Lifestyle – How We Achieve Our Work Life Balance | MGR Unplugged

Listen now on your favorite podcast platform: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Overcast In this episode, David Gil and Manuel Gil del Real share with all of you what we think about “work-life balance.”  Is it over-rated, what’s important for us to keep our life fun, and how each of

Reducing Cart Abandonment Through One Page Checkout

If you follow this blog, you already know how emphatic I am about eliminating friction with any type of transaction with your clients.  And I’m not talking about verbal friction, but rather, creating a frictionless environment to get them from point A to point B as easy