# Blog

#### PPC Strategies to Boost Your Bottom Line

21, Apr David Deppner

Presented by David Deppner
Meet Magento New York, October 17, 2017

Competition for online advertising is driving up your costs, and it’s not going to get any easier. What can you do to improve your PPC advertising and get even more profitable? This presentation covers some common misconceptions th...

#### ROI is NOT Profit

02, Oct David Deppner

Would you rather have a 10% return on $100 or a 5% return on$1000?

\begin{align} 100 \times 10\%_{ROI} &= 10 \\ 1000 \times 5\%_{ROI} &= 50 \end{align}

If you have to pick one or the other, you’d pick the \$1000 investment at the lower ROI. In the real world, though, we can usua...

#### How Digital Marketers Misunderstand ROI

25, Sep David Deppner

I recently had the "pleasure" of working with a marketing consultant who tried to improve performance for a mutual client by focusing intensely on achieving a high ROI across every one of their marketing channels. This type of thinking is very common in the ecommerce and online advertising world......

12, Oct David Deppner

Presented by David Deppner
Meet Magento Poland, September 19, 2016

This presentation explores the evolution of AdWords over the past decade and a half, diving into the key factors that are pushing up costs steadily over time. We'll discuss how Google's self interest and how they've structured the...

09, Nov David Deppner

Direct response advertising through AdWords probably has an ROI greater than any other investment opportunity available to an ecommerce merchant. It’s far greater than most people realize. The real return on investment is obscured by the way traditional cost accounting records the transactions and reports on them on a monthly basis. It’s easy to get distracted by tax accounting rules and forget the fundamentals of solid financial decision making.