The Paid Social Marketer Newsletter - 01.30.2025

Balance AI and manual tactics to scale ecommerce and boost conversions

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Nandini Sehgal
January 30, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

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📊 REPORT

Fospha's latest research reveals the true halo effect of top marketing channels on Amazon revenue. It's a must-read for any brands selling on Amazon in 2025.

Sector Spotlight 🎥

For 2025, scale your ecommerce brand with Google Ads by integrating automation and manual strategies. Begin with Performance Max campaigns, optimize product titles, and enable product ratings. Manage bids and budgets efficiently, and expand campaign structures strategically for advanced growth. Balance AI with human oversight for optimal results.

In 2025, leveraging TikTok alternatives becomes crucial for eCommerce marketers seeking enhanced consumer engagement and platform performance. Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and Fanbase provide distinctive monetization opportunities and audience engagement strategies. Evaluate content goals and resources to strategically select platforms that drive actionable strategies and innovative solutions in paid social marketing.

The article outlines pivotal digital marketing trends, including short-form video, AI-driven advancements, social commerce, evolving influencer tactics, and privacy-focused initiatives. Additionally, it highlights AR/VR potential, gamification, conversational marketing, sustainability drives, and data analytics, offering U.S. eCommerce marketers innovative strategies for optimizing consumer engagement and platform effectiveness in paid social contexts.

Navigating competitive eCommerce realms requires agile PPC management. Utilizing varied ad campaigns and strategic optimizations enhances conversion rates and ROI. Success extends beyond metrics; intangible gains, such as heightened brand visibility, significantly impact marketing effectiveness and drive sustained consumer engagement, crucial for those innovating in U.S. paid social marketing landscapes.

Influencer Corner 📣

Sam Carter on LinkedIn: I've witnessed firsthand the struggle brands face in understanding ad spend impact, especially across channels like Amazon.

It comes down to 1 core issue.

It's simply not possible with user-level attribution for brands to track what's going on in Amazon.

This leads to challenges in understanding the halo effect of top-of-funnel ads (on e.g. Youtube, Meta, TikTok, Snapchat) on Amazon sales, and comparing the ROI of Amazon Ads to other platforms.

Barry Hott on LinkedIn: Stop overthinking your ads!

Too many marketers obsess over finding that “one magic element” that makes an ad work.

While compelling storytelling matters (it absolutely does), success often comes down to unexpected factors you can’t predict:

• A random detail in the frame
• The comment section taking off
• Something you only notice AFTER the ad goes viral

Jessie Healy on LinkedIn: Is bad product page copy blocking your customers from buying?

Spoiler alert - it probably is (I see it in 80% of pages I look at).

Steal my checklist to harness consumer psychology and persuade more customers to RUN to your checkout: 🏃‍♀️

Performance Pulse 📈

Creating a marketing budget involves six key steps: define business goals, establish a sales cycle, identify outside costs, understand market positioning, select strategies, and research pricing. Ensure budget allocation focuses on high-return channels yet remain adaptable to market trends, integrating innovative "moonshot" strategies for growth.

Google's enhancements to Performance Max provide marketers with greater campaign control and insights. Updates include campaign-level negative keywords, brand exclusions for Search and Shopping ads, and demographic targeting. These features aim to improve transparency and effectiveness, addressing advertisers' calls for more control over AI-driven strategies in digital marketing.

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