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Introduction to Digital Ads

In this course, you'll learn about the benefits of digital advertising, types of campaigns, and how to pair the ad medium with the campaign objective. Vendasta's advertising experts can build, run, and manage campaigns on multiple platforms—and set up call tracking, landing pages, and banners for your clients.

Learning Goals
  • Understand digital advertising and the types of campaigns available
  • Know the key benefits of digital advertising for SMB clients
  • Pair the right ad medium with campaign objectives: awareness, engagement, or conversion
  • Set correct expectations for launch timelines, billing, and campaign performance

📱Digital Advertising

Vendasta's advertising experts can build, run, and manage campaigns on multiple platforms including Google, Bing, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Display. They can also set up call tracking, build landing pages, and create banners for your clients.

Campaign types

TypePurpose
Search CampaignServe ads to potential customers when they're searching for services or products
Social AdsStrengthen social presence, find more customers, drive conversions
Display CampaignVisually appealing banners with client's brand in front of online customers
Dynamic Facebook AutoDisplay dealership inventory to customers who've shown intent to buy
YouTube CampaignTarget customers seeking information or willing to interact with the brand

Benefits of Digital Ads
  • Scale: Digital advertising allows you to scale
  • Target: Reach your ideal audience at the right time
  • Measure: It's easy to track and measure ROI
  • Insights: Gain insights on your audience

🎯Pairing Ad Medium With Objective
  1. Identify the advertiser's objective
  2. Common campaign objectives: Awareness, Engagement, Conversion
  3. Pair the ad medium with the objective

Different ad types suit different objectives. Search works well for conversion. Display and YouTube can drive awareness. Social supports engagement and conversion.


📋Setting Expectations

When reselling Digital Advertising, set expectations with clients. Here's what you should know:

Campaign launch

Turnaround time: 10 business days to launch after we receive the completed order form, required access, and collateral. Reach out to our team if you have questions about the order form.

Billing

You'll be billed both the setup fee and first month fee upon activation of a new campaign. The anniversary date for following months is set one month from the campaign launch date. View purchases in the Billing page in Partner Center.

Campaign performance

We constantly measure results and make optimizations. Typically, the first month is not the best—we're still learning about the audience and analyzing early results.

Communications

Your assigned Marketing Strategist is your primary point of contact for anything related to your client's campaign. They'll direct you to advertising specialists if needed.

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In Practice

Your client wants more leads. You pair a Search campaign (conversion) with Display (awareness) for retargeting. You submit the order form and collateral. You set the expectation: 10 business days to launch. You explain they'll be billed setup + first month at activation, and that the first month is typically a learning phase. Your Marketing Strategist reaches out. Campaign launches. You're the expert.


Key Resources

Order FormLaunch
Complete for launch. 10-day turnaround.
BillingPartner Center
Setup + first month at activation.
Marketing StrategistCommunications
Primary contact. Campaign support.

Knowledge Check

Knowledge Check

Test your understanding with 5 random questions from a pool of 5.


Well done! You're ready to sell and set expectations for Digital Advertising with confidence.