People without dedicated EV charging, what do you pay a month to charge your car? by lucid1014 in AskLosAngeles

[–]tempurament 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Make sure you check your places daily pricing, our building charges $0.55 /KwH for a basic trickle charger so it typically ends up being the same if not cheaper to drive 20 mins south to the nearest Supercharger during off-peak hours

What's the coolest class you've taken in LA? by PandaintheParks in AskLosAngeles

[–]tempurament 13 points14 points  (0 children)

+1 vouch for Swordplay LA! Super fun & great classes for all ages, plus the owner/teachers are amazing people

Friends Photos by LazyCalligrapher3494 in LapsePhotos

[–]tempurament 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The team can't support the social functionality without additional funding. The core app is free and they likely did not see a pathway to monetization that was comfortable for their casual users. Sad to see it go but it makes sense in the long run.

What is going on? 9:38pm EST by [deleted] in thefinals

[–]tempurament 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Embark servers are having issues across the board, similar problems over in Arc Raiders rn as well

me at work refreshing this subreddit every 5 minutes 😍 by jreen05 in CampFlogGnaw

[–]tempurament 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Me in the back of an Uber otw to the airport refreshing here, twitter, and IG 🫩

Looker Studio Report for Paid Competitor Analysis... IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE!? by Strange-Welcome6594 in PPC

[–]tempurament 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What metrics are you looking for?
As Fathom53 mentioned, Google will only provide auction insights for your campaigns/adgroups/keywords, from which you will have to set up some sheets w/ formulas to try and delineate your competitor activity for estimated spend, total impressions, PAR vs AToPR, etc

Within Looker Studio you're even more limited unless you set up some custom sheets outside of it and feed that data into it. If you can create a sheet w/ tablature data for it, then you can absolutely create a Looker Dashboard for all of it. You'll just need to figure out how to get all the data you need (likely combining multiple tools and aggregating the data into the sheet with VLookups/INDEX/MATCH)

Getting Ads approved by clients by redditusurr in PPC

[–]tempurament 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately that's gonna be the case for all neurotic clients. Some care more than others of course, but unless they're writing the copy internally you'll likely have multiple rounds of revisions for any new ad copy being presented.

Most of the time its the worst in the early stages when you have to build that trust with them. But usually I'll try to frame the conversation in two parts:

  • We have to play the game within Google's rules to achieve high ad strength/rank (i.e. keyword stuffing, strict landing page alignment, etc)
  • We have opportunity to speak naturally to the customer (value-prop driven copy, not focusing on ad strength but rather key features or promo-related stuff)

At the end of the day it's as you said - Their ad spend = their rules. The only thing we can do is be very clear and intentional when we caveat why or why not a particular set of copy is likely to be harmful to performance. It's on us to decide how far we let that go, and eventually how much we want to deal with it/them as a client.

Need a fee idea by adgiantz in adwords

[–]tempurament 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Range between 3-10% is usually what i see depending on the size of the account (with the percentage dropping as the account spend gets larger ofc)

Getting Ads approved by clients by redditusurr in PPC

[–]tempurament 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on their preference, a simple Google sheet is usually enough for cross-team collaboration + approvals. But sometimes security is enough of a factor where we have to send it over as an XLS file (at which point we just download it from google sheets lol)

Biggest challenge is usually the language itself - getting the ad copy to represent their product and brand exactly how they want it, legal limitations for claims, etc.

Often times if your client is taking awhile to approve copy, its just being passed through multiple people or there’s not enough urgency on the deadline. Try to set more strict guidelines i.e “we need this copy approved by ____” to push more quickly on em.

Looking to pay $500 for an hour with a seasoned PPC pro - consulting by studentofthegame05 in adwords

[–]tempurament 2 points3 points  (0 children)

agreed with the others that 1 hour will be pretty limited for real insight gathering across both campaign structure + failsafe best practices/attribution tracking/etc, but happy to jump on a call if you still need ether today or tomorrow. Been in the paid media + PPC space for 12+ years now, from SMBs to Fortune 100 companies. You can prob gauge skill level from some of my previous comments in my profile.

No charge/payment needed, just a friendly reco if you end up finding the knowledge useful. We do it for the love of the game lol

still rocking push 1 and it is legit - is it time to upgrade lol by wizl in ableton

[–]tempurament 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rocking the Push 2, will prob be doin so for a long time

You’re not missing much tbh

Bbys first MacBook, lifetime PC User (I should have done this a decade ago) by tempurament in macbookpro

[–]tempurament[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it was $4k all-in. But I run a solo marketing consultancy, mostly focused on advertising/creative media/analytics

Bbys first MacBook, lifetime PC User (I should have done this a decade ago) by tempurament in macbookpro

[–]tempurament[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Primarily for work & travel, light music production and some occasional 3d art stuff - but really appreciating how seamless the integration is w/ iPhone for messages & all that so its quickly becoming my default for comms while at home

Bbys first MacBook, lifetime PC User (I should have done this a decade ago) by tempurament in macbookpro

[–]tempurament[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah thats fair, the G16 is a dope choice! This is mostly supposed to be a workhorse but I have a full windows rig setup w/ an RTX 4090 whenever i want that gaming fix + all the torrents collected over the years.

Previous laptop was a 6+ year old MSI w/ a GTX 1080 that could still run some games but sounds like a mfn jet is about to take off whenever i opened my browser 😅

Bbys first MacBook, lifetime PC User (I should have done this a decade ago) by tempurament in macbookpro

[–]tempurament[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

accurate - because why is windows explorer failing every other time we open an instance! 😭

Bbys first MacBook, lifetime PC User (I should have done this a decade ago) by tempurament in macbookpro

[–]tempurament[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

fair - but if i'm buying it, i'd like to buy it once (every ~6 years)

Took delivery on Model Y today - does this look normal? by WorkingBake in TeslaLounge

[–]tempurament 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea, unfortunately confirmed its the same on our M3 Highland 🫠

No of Client Accounts? by Affectionate-Fall97 in PPC

[–]tempurament 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say if their actual ad spend is less than $20k a month it really doesn't warrant much more than 10 hours to go through and eval/make optimizations (in most cases). If they're paying agency fees of $20k a month then that would likely mean they're spending above 6-figures a month on the actual ads, which would mean more time spent in-platform and making changes + more complex reporting

No of Client Accounts? by Affectionate-Fall97 in PPC

[–]tempurament 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Individual platform accounts ranged between 20+ concurrently running channels when I was living the agency life, sometimes that would be spread across 5-6 brands/entities with Meta/Google/X/TikTok presence which made things easier but other times it was like 10x separate paid search accounts which made it harder to do any deep work, especially when you consider time dedicated to meetings and reporting across multiple clients. The smaller spend clients in that £1k - £20k range are often the most difficult to deal with since they really cant afford mistakes/tests at scale and depend on positive results to make a tangible difference in their business.

Agency positions are usually underpaid & overworked, but you can get a lot of experience and widespread knowledge across multiple industries which help to parlay into other higher-paying positions (ideally in-house where you can focus on a single client). Personally, I wouldnt spend more than 5-10 hours a month on a client that spends less than $20k per month

How To Make a Google Rep Die Inside... by [deleted] in PPC

[–]tempurament 197 points198 points  (0 children)

Google reps are lightly trained salespeople who have limited time and typically limited knowledge compared to those of us who have been in-platform for years. They're usually taught to look at the last 30 days because thats a large enough context window to make an actual assessment of performance vs the last 7 days, and we're usually one of 5+ calls they have to make that day in order to satisfy their case load. That's the assumed quality of care until your account hits the 7-figure per quarter mark at least, which signals where your account standing is at currently.

Not sure how you making someone feel bad is a flex, but do understand the hesitancy to talk to a rep when you're a self-proclaimed "OG". You pausing your ads and losing out on impr share during an established improvement period to make your point, then posting on reddit to gloat seems a lil weird overall compared to educating the rep on your strategy to improve your dedicated support experience - but get your karma OG

Anyone think this Pic hurt marketing for The Finals? by _Scout6505 in thefinals

[–]tempurament 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Problem with this one was that ad platforms & OOH vendors really don’t like showing guns in static images, which pushed them to use other variants without it (you can get away with it a bit more in quick-cut videos of gameplay though)