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– Who do you think knows more about marketing than me? Or even more about marketing than other marketers? Sure, people like me and other marketers, we know a lot of information, but there’s someone who has a lot of inside information.
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Hey everyone, I’m Neil Patel, and today, I’m going to share seven marketing lessons I learned from a Google employee. (upbeat music) Before we get started, make sure you subscribe to this channel and if you’re on YouTube, click the alert notification, that way when I go live, you’ll get notified.
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The first lesson I learned was to research new markets. I always created content in the English market until a Google employee told me that I should create content in German, French, Portuguese, Hindi, these are all regions where they lack content. Sure, in English, it’s a competitive space, but I see in a lot of these regions, even though they’re still competitive markets, they’re nowhere near as hard as to rank in the English markets.
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So look at your customer base, look at where they are, consider translating and transcribing your content. That was the first lesson I learned. In other words, expand globally. You can get so much more search traffic just from that one thing.
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The second lesson I learned is expanding globally doesn’t guarantee traffic. I used to, when I first did this, I would just translate all my content. I quickly learned from this employee that I needed to transcribe my content, adjust it to that market. You need to do keyword research, that’s why tools like Ubersuggest, we have keyword advice for every single country in different languages because it’s different in every single region.
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So use it to understand what people are looking for and then adjust your content, translate, and transcribe it from there.
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What I’ve found is if you create bad translated content and you place it out, and when you do this, it can actually hurt your rankings for all your whole site, all your languages because if you’re using metrics, like your click-through rates, your bounce rates, are terrible, what’ll happen is, your English site will start ranking lower and lower as well. Hence, you need to transcribe your content and make it super relevant or else your whole site gets hurt. The third lesson that I learned, payment plans are a great way to make money. Now in most English markets, we look at payment plans as, hey, people are paying us money and there’s a good chance you’re not going to do all six payments, 12 payments, whatever the number you’re charging them, there’s a lot of drop-off, you lose cash. What they ended up telling me, and I learned this from them, this is really wise, in some regions, the credit card companies and banks offer payment plans.
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So, in Brazil, for example, when you do a 12-pay, the credit card companies may charge you 6%, but they guarantee that you’re going to get all 12 payments and they even give you the money up front and they collect it from their end users each and every single month. If they don’t pay, you still get your money up front, you don’t have to give anything back to the credit card companies. So in certain regions, you can do things like payments plans. Sure, in the United States, payment plans aren’t as lucrative, but in other countries, payment plans are amazing because when someone subscribes to a payment plan, they actually have to continue with every single payment. Just like if you bought a car in the United States, you need to make your monthly payments or the car’s going to get repossessed. So look at the different payment plans that different companies offer, and that’ll give you ideas on which regions you can make the maximum amount of money for because by reducing the upfront costs and having payment plans, you should be able to drive in many more sales.
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The fourth lesson that I learned is by being omnichannel your CPAs go down.
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A lot of us use things like SEO, pay-per-click, and we stop there. You may even use Facebook ads, you may even use radio ads, television ads, billboard ads. But what I found is when you leverage them all at the same time, your CPAs go down. A good example of this is, when I was working with Expedia, they ended up showcasing how when they were using multiple channels for advertising and marketing, in other words, omnichannel, their CPAs across the board went down, their advertising became much more affordable. Everyone’s already familiar with the brand Expedia and they did this, when their brand was already established. It was a little, simple thing, but that made a huge difference.
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So with your marketing, consider going omnichannel because even if some of these other channels don’t produce as good results, by leveraging them all at the same time, your overall cost for each of the channels should go down. The fifth lesson I learned from the Google employee, old is new. We all try to keep creating new content. I used to do that where I used to create one blog post a day, but now, I just write one blog post a week, but I update 90 blog posts a month. I have a team of three people, all they do is update my old content. Lesson I learned from this employee, Google loves fresh content more than old, outdated content. Hence, a lot of times you’ll see new content getting pushed out there and you rank higher at Google in the short-run and then it goes down, which is normal. And there could be a wide variety of reasons for why, but in general, when you update your old, outdated content, create a better user experience, expand upon the content, make it way better for them, remove the dead links. All that stuff sends signals to Google that hey, we should rank this old content higher and higher. If you don’t do that, what you’ll find in many cases, your old content keeps dwindling down and your rankings go lower and lower.
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The sixth tip, branding is everything. Eric Schmidt once had a quote and he talked about how brands are the solution. And what Eric Schmidt was saying is, hey, look, when you’re trying to figure out what sites are good versus bad, look for the brands, it’s a indicator.
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You already know that Nike is Nike, or CNN is CNN, or BBC is BBC, you can trust those brands. Big brands are very unlikely to do anything that can jeopardize their brand for a quick buck. Small companies are more likely to do something to jeopardize their brand to make a quick buck because hey, let’s face it, they don’t really have a brand. So the bigger the brand you build, the higher your rankings. And Google’s looking for things like how many brand queries are you getting on a monthly basis? The more you get, the better off you are. So how do you improve your brand queries? Well, it’s a rule of seven. When someone sees your brand and interacts with it seven times, they’re much more likely to keep coming back and remembering your brand. So a simple way, collect emails and send out email blasts every time you have updates or new blog posts, make sure you go out there and leverage push notifications, there’s tools like Subscribers.com where people come to your site, they can subscribe, you can keep pushing them to get them to come back every time you have a update or a new post. And then the third way I love doing it is using messenger bots, Facebook Messenger bots, to be specific. So things like MobileMonkey, ManyChat, every time that you have a new blog post or update, you can send out a blast, the open rates are insane, the click rates are insane, it’ll keep getting people to come back time and time again.
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And the last tip, and this one, I experienced first hand, make sure you have feet on the ground.
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Even Google, a digital company, did you know they do grassroots marketing campaigns? Like they had a bus go all around the United States helping businesses create their website, that’s the example of a grassroots, offline campaign. The reason that’s important is people need to interact with you, your brand, your company. And if you just do online campaigns, they’re not going to really get that interaction. If people at Google, which is a digital company, have tested out and tried things like pop-up shops, they do things like have a bus go all around the United States and help small businesses, that tells you that traditional, offline marketing still works. Don’t forget to leverage it, it’s powerful. Things like sending postcards in the mail. Yeah, back in the day, it was really popular, nowadays, people are like, that can’t do well, well, it’s still effective. Hence, you’ve still got all that junk mail. If it wasn’t effective, people wouldn’t keep sending that stuff to you time and time again. Now if you need help growing your traffic, your revenue, check out my ad agency, Neil Patel Digital. Thank you for watching, make sure you subscribe to this channel, like the video, share it, tell other people about it. Again, thank you. who do you think knows more about marketing than me or even more about marketing than other marketers sure people like me and other marketers we know a lot of information but there’s someone who has a lot of inside information hi everyone I’m Neil Patel and today I’m gonna share seven marketing lessons I learned from a Google employee before we get started make sure you subscribe to this channel and if you’re on YouTube click the alert notification that way when I go live you’ll get notified the first lesson I learned was to research new markets I always create a content in the English market until a Google employee told me that I should create content in German French Portuguese Hindi these are all regions with a lack content sure in English it’s a competitive space but su in a lot of these regions even though there’s still competitive markets they’re nowhere near as hard as to rank in the English markets so look at your customer base look at where they are consider translating and transcribing your content that was a first lesson I learned in other words expand globally you can get so much more search traffic just from that one thing the second lesson I learned is expanding globally doesn’t guarantee traffic I used to when I first did this I would just translate all my content I quickly learned from this employee that I needed to transcribe my content adjust it to that market you need two keyword research that’s how it tools like uber suggests we have keyword advice for every single country in different languages because it’s different in every single region so use it to understand what people are looking for and then adjust your content translate and transcribe it from there what I found is if you create bad translated content and you place it up and when you do this it can actually hurt your rankings for all your whole site all your languages because if your user metrics like your click-through rates your bounce rates are terrible what will happen is your English site will start ranking Lauren lower as well hence you need to transcribe your content and make it super relevant or else your whole site gets hurt the third lesson that I learned payment plans are a great way to make money now in most English markets we look at payment plans as Hey people are paying us money and there’s a good chance they’re not going to do all six payments twelve payments whatever the number you’re charging them there’s a lot of drop-off you lose cash what they ended up telling me and I learned that from this is really wise in some regions the credit card companies and banks offer payment plans so in Brazil for example when you do a 12 pay the credit card companies may charge you 6% but they guarantee that you’re gonna get all 12 payments and they even give you the money up front and they collect it from their end users each and every single month if they don’t pay you still get your money up front you don’t have to give anything back to the credit card companies so in certain regions you can do things like payment plans sure in the United States payment plans aren’t as lucrative but in other countries payment plans are amazing because when someone subscribes to a payment plan they actually have to continue with every single payment just like if you bought a car in the United States you need to make your monthly payment so the car is gonna get repossessed so look at the different payment plans at different companies offer and that’ll give you ideas on which regions you can make the maximum amount of money for because by reducing the upfront cost and having payment plans you should be able to drive in many more sales the fourth lesson that I learned is by being omni-channel your CPAs go down a lot of us use things like SEO pay per click and we stop there you may even use Facebook Ads you may even use radio ads television ads billboards but what I found is when you leverage them all at the same time your CPAs go down a good example of this is when I was working with Expedia they ended up showcasing how when they were using multiple channels for advertising and marketing in other words omni-channel their CPAs across the board went down their advertising became much more affordable everyone’s already familiar with the brand Expedia and they did this when their brand was already established there’s a little simple thing that that made a huge difference so with your marketing consider going Omni channel because even if some of these other channels don’t produce as good results by leveraging all at the same time your overall cost for each of the channels go down the fifth lesson I learned from the Google employee old is new we all try to keep creating new content I used to do that where he said create one blog post a day but now I just write one blog post a week but I update 90 blog posts a month I have a team of three people all they do is update my old content lesson I learned from this employee Google loves fresh content more than old outdated content hence a lot of times you’ll see new content getting pushed out there and you rank higher at Google in the short run and then it goes down which is normal and there could be a wide variety of reasons for why but in general when you update your old outdated content credit better user experience expand upon the content make it way better from remove the dead links all that stuff send signals to Google that hey we should rank this old content higher and higher if you don’t do that what you’ll find in many cases your old comment keeps dwindling down and your rankings go lower and lower the sixth tip branding is everything Eric Schmidt once had a quote and you talked about how brands are the solution and what Eric Schmidt was saying is hey look when you’re trying to figure out what sites are good versus bad look for the brand it’s an indicator you already know that Nike is Nike or CNN CNN or BBC is BBC you can trust those brands big brands are very unlikely to do anything that can jeopardize their brand for a quick buck small companies are more likely to do something to jeopardize a brand to make a quick buck because hey let’s face it they don’t really have a brand so the bigger the brand you build the higher rankings and Google’s looking for things like how many brand queries are you getting on a monthly basis the more you get the better off you are so how do you improve your brand queries well it’s a rule of seven when someone sees your brand that interacts with it seven times they’re much more likely to keep coming back and remembering your brand so a simple way collect emails and send out email blasts every time you have updates or new blog posts make sure you go out there and leverage push notifications there’s tools like subscribers calm where people come to your site they can subscribe you can keep pushing to get them to come back every time you have an update or a new post and then the third way I love doing is using messenger BOTS facebook Messenger BOTS to be civic so things like mobile monkey many chat everytime that you have a new blog post or update you can send out a blast the open rates are insane the click rates are insane it’ll keep getting people to come back time and time again and the last tip and this one I experienced firsthand make sure you have feet on the ground even Google a digital company did you know they do grassroots marketing campaigns like they had a bus go all around the United States helping businesses create their website that’s an example of a grassroots offline campaign the reason that’s important is people need to interact with you your brand your company and if you just do online campaigns they’re not gonna really get that interaction if people like Google which is a digital company have test it out and try things like pop-up shops they do things like have a bus go all around the United States and help small businesses that tells you that traditional offline marketing still works don’t forget to leverage it it’s powerful things like sending postcards in the mail yeah back in the day it was really popular nowadays people like God can do well well it’s still effective hence you still got all that junk mail if it wasn’t effective people wouldn’t keep sending that stuff to you time and time again now if you need help growing your traffic your revenue check out my ad agency neil patel digital thank you for watching make sure you subscribe to this channel like the video share it tell the people about it again thank you