Honest Review of PPC Coach
Pay Per Click marketing (PPC) can be very profitable, but if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can easily lose your shirt. There are people doing PPC out there that are literally making millions of dollars a year doing this. However, PPC can be very tricky, especially for those new to the game. If you don’t closely monitor your campaigns, you’ll see your budget get drained very quickly. This is where joining a service like PPC Coach really helps. PPC Coach is a monthly membership site that teaches you everything you want to know about PPC. From finding the best keywords to creating your landing pages and tracking your campaigns, PPC Coach will help you out.
PPC Coach is a monthly subscription service. For $50 a month youll get access to the PPC-Coach membership site and one new method each month. When you first signup, you’ll get access to the Month 1 method. The method described will also include the exact merchant offer to use, although youll want to choose your own to avoid saturation.
Currently there are 1425 members and 52,000 posts in the forums. The forum is quite lively and everyone is very friendly and helpful. PPC-Coach and Coach v2.0 are quite active on the forums as the PPC “mentors”. Other members like Harry1970 and SteveL have written great threads that include some great advice. By becoming an active member of the community, I think the forums is where you’ll be receiving the most value out of your PPC Coach membership.
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On the PPC Coach main page, you’ll have access to the videos. These videos are Camtasia screencasts created and narrated by PPC Coach himself. I really like the fact that Coach shows real life examples which he uses to explain the topic he’s describing. Most of the videos range from 15-20 minutes long, and they cover everything from keyword research, to creating landing pages, to using the PPC-Coach tools, and more.
The tools are another reason why PPC Coach is so valuable. Landing Site Generator is a php script that allows you to create landing pages for your campaigns almost automatically. All you need to do is tweak a few variables in the script and your landing page is ready to go. This is a really good way to get started with the Month 1 method.
PPC Coach tracker is an invaluable tool for tracking all your campaigns. You’ll need to install this script on your own site. Among other things, it allows you to figure out which keywords are converting for you so you can squeeze the most money out of your campaigns. There are other tools as well, but the last one I wanted to highlight is the Content Network Generator tool. This tool is great as it allows you to spit out keywords and adgroups and import them into Adwords super quickly. It really will save you a ton of time.
There are some things that PPC Coach could improve on. For one thing, the main site itself does not look all that appealing. Its kind of spartan and a little disorganized. A lot of the info on the main site is kind of sparse. For example, the Quick Start Guide is kind of useless. I wish it had active links to some of the great content on the forums.
I also think that prospective members would appreciate a trial period for the service. If you don’t happen to like what you see with your PPC Coach membership, there currently is no way to get a refund for that initial $50. Still, I think you’ll find the quality of PPC Coach to be good enough that you’ll probably stick around for awhile.
The PPC Coach membership is aimed more towards the novice PPC marketer. The month 1 methods aren’t really new as I’ve seen them described before on other sites. Experienced PPC marketers will still get a lot out of the PPC Coach tools, and of course there’s the great community.
PPC Coach is definitely well worth the membership. You’ll learn all the basics of PPC, gain access to all the tools and the great PPC Coach community to help you out. That’s really all you need to get started. So give PPC Coach a shot, and start making some money today.