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What’s a common budget strategy in traditional marketing organizations?

  • Fully flexible budgets based on stock price performance
  • No set budget for a time period or initiative
  • Fixed annual budgets that do not change even if demand fluctuates throughout the year
  • Quarterly budgets that do not need approval to increase

The correct answer is:

  • Fixed annual budgets that do not change even if demand fluctuates throughout the year.
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What is the value of running a true A/B test with campaign experiments?

  • A/B tests can help marketers understand if their trial campaign drove user action that wouldn’t have occurred otherwise.
  • In an A/B test, trial campaigns run at the same time as the original campaign, controlling for external factors (e.g. seasonality) that may otherwise bias results.
  • An A/B test runs one campaign at a time, allowing a true ramp-down period between each testing timeframe to declutter results.
  • An A/B test is designed to test multiple variables at one time, allowing advertisers to learn and quickly adjust their campaigns based on findings.

The correct answer is:

  • In an A/B test, trial campaigns run at the same time as the original campaign, controlling for external factors (e.g. seasonality) that may otherwise bias results.
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An art supplies store catering to a large local student population is setting up a Performance Max campaign with the intent of driving more customer visits to its in-person location. What should its marketing team establish as a goal when creating its Performance Max campaign?

  • Product and brand consideration
  • Local store visits and promotions
  • Website traffic
  • Brand awareness and reach

The correct answer is:

  • Local store visits and promotions.
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An organization hoping to grow its online sales is testing out different campaign optimizations intended to connect them to more potential customers. What value do these experiments have for organization?

  • They allow for the measurement of changes on campaigns and permit marketers to easily revert back to original campaigns, if needed.
  • They guarantee results that are statistically significant by randomly choosing how much Search traffic will be diverted to an experiment.
  • They let marketers test Google Ads campaigns’ effectiveness against that of traditional media campaigns like TV or print ads.
  • They can help the organization figure out whether proposed changes can help them achieve their intended marketing objective.

The correct answer is:

  • They can help the organization figure out whether proposed changes can help them achieve their intended marketing objective.
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You’re a digital marketing manager for a large children’s clothing retailer that maintains a flexible budget for all campaigns. What best practice should you follow to see the best results from your budgeting flexibility?

  • Creating a different budget for campaign experiments and unanticipated market changes
  • Capping budgets at the average daily spend as a means of curbing unneeded spending during seasonal periods
  • Changing performance targets monthly or quarterly as needed to optimize AI-driven solutions
  • Utilizing shared budgets and portfolio bid strategies to get the most out of AI on a flexibile budget

The correct answer is:

  • Utilizing shared budgets and portfolio bid strategies to get the most out of AI on a flexibile budget.
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What’s the use in running a true A/B test with experiments?

  • By letting marketers know whether or not a trial campaign drove user action that wouldn’t have otherwise taken place, it gives marketers a fuller understanding of user behavior.
  • By running simultaneous to an original campaign, a trial campaign controls for external factors, like seasonality, that might otherwise introduce bias.
  • By running individual campaigns one-after-another, an A/B test gives room for enough of a ramp-down period between tests that results can be decluttered.
  • By testing more than one variable at a time, an A/B test provides advertisers with information they can use to quickly adjust their campaigns.

The correct answer is:

  • By running simultaneous to an original campaign, a trial campaign controls for external factors, like seasonality, that might otherwise introduce bias.
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What are Responsive Search Ads good for?

  • They limit a marketer’s ability to compete in more auctions and match to more queries.
  • They manually select the best combination of headlines and assets based on their review of data.
  • They are a time-saver that allow for the creation of one ad with a number of headline and description assets.
  • They cater to different device sizes, allowing advertisers a wider reach in regards to potential customers.

The correct answer is:

  • They are a time-saver that allow for the creation of one ad with a number of headline and description assets.
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Which of the following is regarded as a best practice for creating a campaign experiment?

  • Focus each test on one variable at a time and use different tests to assess the effects of more than one change.
  • After an experiment has ended, examine performance over a timeframe that includes a ramp-up period.
  • Select two or three metrics to assess campaign performance and determine the winner of a test.
  • Use a different approval process for new ads during experiments so that experiments can be conducted more expeditiously.

The correct answer is:

  • Focus each test on one variable at a time and use different tests to assess the effects of more than one change.