The Challenge

Prior to working with Diogenes Solutions, the team at Gakken focused their efforts on Amazon Marketing with no Success usually just opting for automatic Amazon PPC campaigns that were costly and not profitable.

To position itself as a Top selling children’s book company, Gakken would have to prioritize targeted manual PPC campaigns. They would need to focus on ASIN targeting competitor products. Book targeting needs to be conservative in bidding and hyper targeted.

The Gakken team sought me out as the right person to take on the challenge.

The goal was to refine Gakkens PPC targeting with manual Selection, identify high-impact keywords, Categories and Products as well as display ads to fill topic gaps throughout the funnel, and ultimately, grow traffic and conversions.

Plate Crate wanted to scale and take their business to the next level but had not had success previously when trying to scale.

Samsung operated in a highly competitive market for mobile phones. In Asia, there was always stiff competition with Chinese phone makers, and of course, Apple. For their flagship phones, it was necessary to stand out from the competition, with unique and highly visible formats in a cluttered, highly competitive environment, but it was even more important to approach the campaigns with a strong conquest approach.

Snagajob is a leader in the job boards space. I was brought on as a contractor to help them with digital media buying for a new service they were offering. Snagajob Workers allows people to apply to Snagajob, then select shifts they want to work with local companies. On-demand shifts with weekly payouts. I helped determine budgets for various channels, determine what efficiency goals were expected, what channels we should be in, then executed the media buying and optimized to bring down 'cost per applicant' as much as possible.