{"id":57779,"date":"2016-01-28T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmwsprod.wpengine.com\/?p=57779"},"modified":"2016-01-28T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:00:07","slug":"remarketing-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/blog\/remarketing-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Remarketing Grid: The Science of Ad Retargeting Audience Segmentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My \u201cRemarketing Grid,\u201d which I first shared at the Traffic and Conversion Summit in Sydney in July 2015, is a tool to help you visualize how your remarketing works.<br \/>\nIt applies to Facebook, AdWords, or any other platform and will help you picture the different audiences that you need to target.<br \/>\nTo really get a firm grasp on the Remarketing Grid, this post will be broken into 3 parts.<br \/>\nView the parts of this article by clicking on one of the links below to view the blog post ideas from that section:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Part 1<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 <a href=\"#up\">How to Set Up a Remarketing Grid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Part 2<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"#2\">How to Put The Remarketing Grid into Practice in your AdWords and Facebook Accounts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Part 3<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"#3\">Advanced Remarketing with Google Analytics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Need a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/retargeting-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">primer on ad retargeting? Read this first<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"up\"><\/a>The Typical Remarketing Setup<\/h2>\n<p>Most AdWords and Facebook accounts have a remarketing list that captures all visitors in the last 30 days. This is the default that both platforms provide.<br \/>\nIt looks like this inside your AdWords account:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img1.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img1\" width=\"580\" height=\"82\" \/><br \/>\nLet\u2019s visualize it like this\u2026<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img2.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img2\" width=\"580\" height=\"317\" \/><br \/>\nA typical site visitor will stay on this list (also called an audience) for 30 days, and then at 31 days they\u2019ve \u201cfallen off\u201d your remarketing list.<br \/>\nIt looks like this\u2026<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img3.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img3\" width=\"580\" height=\"273\" \/><br \/>\nThe only way the visitor doesn\u2019t fall off the list is if they return to your site, at which point they get added to the list all over again.<br \/>\nMake sense?<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Remarketing Segmentation: By Behavior\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Here\u2019s where the grid begins to take shape. Start by segmenting your list by behavior. And for our purposes there are 3 groups of visitors.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Not Interested<\/li>\n<li>Interested<\/li>\n<li>Buyers\/Converted<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img4.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img4\" width=\"580\" height=\"315\" \/><br \/>\nWe\u2019re not really interested (yet) in paying for remarketing ads to reach people who\u2019ve already bought, or the people that didn\u2019t like what you have to offer.<br \/>\nSo don\u2019t add those 2 groups to your list.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s what your custom audience will look like in Facebook\u2026<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img5.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img5\" width=\"580\" height=\"183\" \/><br \/>\nWe\u2019ll dig into this in more detail in parts 2 and 3. For now, think of interested visitors as those that have visited a particular part of your site.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re a lead generation site, this might be someone that\u2019s read about your services, or a particular blog post.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019ve got an ecommerce store it might be anyone that\u2019s been to a particular product page, or the checkout page.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s also worth noting that the \u201cNot Interested\u201d group might be half, or more, of your traffic.<br \/>\nSo, NOT showing ads to these people means that your results are likely to increase as only the best prospects will now see your ads.<br \/>\nBy NOT showing ads to the \u201cNot Interested\u201d group you will<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230;improve click thru rates and engagement\u2026<\/li>\n<li>\u2026which improves your quality scores\u2026<\/li>\n<li>\u2026which causes ads to show more often and decreases costs!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Remarketing Segmentation: By Time<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>One of the greatest predictors of future behavior is past behavior and, especially, the RECENCY of that past behavior.<br \/>\nIf you visited the gym and worked out yesterday, you are much more likely to visit the gym again very soon. Much more likely than someone that hasn\u2019t visited the gym in 14, 30 or 365 days.<br \/>\nRecency of behavior can predict just about anything.<br \/>\nIf you smoked today, you&#8217;re more likely to smoke tomorrow than someone that hasn\u2019t smoked in 6 months. If you buy furniture for your home today, you are much more likely to buy more furniture (and soon) than someone that hasn\u2019t bought furniture in over a year.<br \/>\nGet it?<br \/>\nSo, one of the most powerful ways to segment your remarketing audiences is by RECENCY.<br \/>\nHere is the Remarketing Grid segmented by time\u2026<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img6.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img6\" width=\"580\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nThe times in this image are just an illustration, you\u2019ll use whatever timeframes make the most sense for you based on how people buy from you and what your sales cycle looks like.<br \/>\nBut one thing (almost always) remains constant. The most RECENT members of your audience are more likely to buy than those that are less recent.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img7.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img7\" width=\"580\" height=\"308\" \/><br \/>\nIt stands to reason that this group is more likely to buy than the person that left your site 60 days ago or 300 days ago! We therefore want to spend the bulk of our remarketing budget here.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s another benefit to segmenting by time. And that\u2019s changing the creative\u2014the ad that users on the list actually see.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img8.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img8\" width=\"580\" height=\"306\" \/><br \/>\nFor example\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ad Number 1:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Sent to visitors in the 0\u20133 Days audience<\/em>\u2014a standard remarketing ad<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ad Number 2:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Sent to visitors in the 4\u20137 Days audience<\/em>\u2014special offer or discount<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ad Number 3:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Sent to visitors in the 8\u201314 Days audience<\/em>\u2014&#8221;buy 2, get one free\u201d or perhaps changing the style of the ad\u2014a testimonial ad or a social proof ad. And if you still have no luck&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ad Number 4:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Sent to visitors in the 15\u201330 Days audience<\/em>\u2014a deeper discount or an even better offer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only limit here is your imagination.<br \/>\nSegmenting by time also lets you reduce how much you bid over time. If the most recent visitors are more likely to buy, then as recency decreases so do your chances of getting the sale. So it makes sense to pay less for these segments that are less likely to convert.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img9.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img9\" width=\"580\" height=\"321\" \/><br \/>\nIn this case the 0-3 day segment is going to get a much bigger bid than the bottom end, the 15-30 day audience. Fish where the fish are!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Don\u2019t Ignore the Buyers!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>You can remarket with an upsell or cross-sell to your buyers, but you\u2019ll want a separate list for that.<br \/>\nWith this setup we are targeting those that visited our \u2018checkout success\u2019 page (or thank you page) which indicates that they bought something.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img10.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img10\" width=\"580\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>\nYou can show upsell ads to everyone that bought on your site in the past 365 days.<br \/>\nYou can also create a similar audience (called a \u201clookalike audience\u201d on Facebook) where Google compares all the information that they know about those people that bought from you and builds a list of people similar to them.<br \/>\nYou can then show ads to those new groups.<br \/>\nUse similar audiences with caution. A &#8220;previous buyers&#8221; list is a great place to start.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57918\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img11.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img11\" width=\"580\" height=\"324\" \/><br \/>\nA similar audience looks like this in Adwords:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img12.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img12\" width=\"580\" height=\"121\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Using \u201cOccasional Ads\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Here\u2019s a variant of the remarketing grid that we\u2019ve had great results with.<br \/>\nShow your ads for a period of time, and then turn them off for a period of time.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img13.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img13\" width=\"580\" height=\"276\" \/><br \/>\nYou\u2019ll notice that the time frame has changed\u2014again this is just for illustration purposes.<br \/>\nIn the above example, ads will be shown for the first 30 days, and then stopped. At day 60, ads will pop up again for 10 days and then stop again. They show up again at day 100 for another 10 days.<br \/>\nThis helps fight banner fatigue.<br \/>\nAnd people won\u2019t notice when your ads go away, but our brains somehow remember little things like domain names or logos. When the ads pop up again, they get noticed because they\u2019re familiar\u2014but they haven\u2019t been seen for a period of time.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Go Deep in Segments<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Breaking down the \u201cinterested\u201d segment even further can help you pin point an even more qualified audience segment.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img14.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img14\" width=\"580\" height=\"198\" \/><br \/>\nBy using &#8220;Time on Site&#8221; to build a remarketing list (covered in part 3), you only add the most engaged visitors to your remarketing list.<br \/>\nAnother approach is to think about how \u2018deep\u2019 into your site they get. So, people that add a product to the cart is one level, viewing the cart is sign of deeper interest and finally a view of the checkout page is an even larger expression of interest in your product.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img15.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img15\" width=\"580\" height=\"269\" \/><br \/>\nIn this instance we want to show a specific ad to people who viewed the cart between 10 and 15 days ago, but haven\u2019t yet been to the checkout page. You might for instance bid a bit more to show ads to people that have viewed the checkout for that same time period.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57923\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img16.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img16\" width=\"580\" height=\"290\" \/><br \/>\nYour website is going to dictate what \u201cinterested\u201d means. You may have 6 levels or just 1. The time frame may be days or months depending on your products.<br \/>\nApply this Remarketing Grid to your business and see how you can change it so it\u2019s tailor made for your site, your traffic and your profit.<\/p>\n<h2>Part 2: How to Put The Remarketing Grid into Practice in Your AdWords and Facebook Accounts<\/h2>\n<p>This is Part 2\u00a0of my \u201cRemarketing Grid.\u201d It\u2019s focus is to help you visualize your remarketing efforts, which in turn makes setting up the needed elements in Adwords and Facebook that much easier.<br \/>\nIn a nutshell\u2014your site traffic is not all equal and nor should you treat them that way.<br \/>\nThe key to really profitable remarketing is <strong>segmentation<\/strong>.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s get into a bit more detail about how you go about segmenting your traffic into a grid that outlines the more profitable chunks of your traffic. We\u2019ll start with how to do it in AdWords and then cover the same ideas for Facebook ads.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Creating your Remarketing Grid with the AdWords Interface<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Before you start building any remarketing lists, it\u2019s important to factor in audience size to each list you make.<br \/>\nThere are no absolutes other than Google requiring a minimum of 100 people on your list. However if your audience size is less than 1,000, consider expanding the date range &#8212; an audience of less than 1,000 is probably going to be too small to be effective.<br \/>\nLikewise at the other end of the scale, if your audience size is greater than 10,000 then it may pay to reduce the date range to target a smaller segment of your audience.<br \/>\nOnce your lists have enough traffic volume it\u2019s time to segment by behavior.<br \/>\nPart 1 explained that the behaviors we&#8217;re looking for are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uninterested<\/li>\n<li>Interested<\/li>\n<li>Buyers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Remarketing Segmentation: By\u00a0Buyers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This is easy enough and it\u2019s always a little satisfying to know how big your buyers list is.<br \/>\nThe simplest way to do this is to build a list from traffic to your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/optimize-marketing-funnel-pages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thank You<\/a>\u00a0page. This would be the page that people see after purchasing or entering their details. Don\u2019t have a Thank You page? Go make one before reading any further. It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.websavvy.com.au\/have-a-thank-you-page-heres-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">essential<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Remarketing Segmentation: By \u201cInterested\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Interested traffic is the key to the Remarketing Grid. This is the segment that you\u2019re going to get more conversions from, and it\u2019s important to understand how people can show their interest in you based on their behavior on your site.<br \/>\nFor eCommerce it\u2019s fairly straightforward. Anyone that has been to the cart or checkout page is someone that intended to give you business, but something stopped them.<br \/>\nThese lists are going to be simple with large volume eCommerce sites.<br \/>\nFor sites with lower traffic, take one step back. People looking at product or category pages are showing that they\u2019re at least looking for something specific.<br \/>\nLead generation sites don\u2019t have such obvious clues&#8230; but it\u2019s pretty fair to assume that people going beyond the homepage have more than a passing interest.<br \/>\nKey sales pages may be another source of traffic that identifies as \u201cinterested.\u201d<br \/>\n(Part 3 of this series will show you how to use Google Analytics to find more ways to identify and define interested traffic.)<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Remarketing Segmentation: By\u00a0\u201cUninterested\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>By identifying the interested, we\u2019ve also identified the uninterested.<br \/>\nAnyone who isn\u2019t present on any of your interested lists or buyers lists\u2014they\u2019re just not that into you (yet). So don\u2019t waste any budget on them.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Remarketing Segmentation: By Time<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s always been possible to target a portion of people on your remarketing list based on the time elapsed since they were added.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s just been a somewhat complicated process to do so&#8230; until now!<br \/>\nThe trick is to use something called Custom Combinations. \u00a0Never heard of them?<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a fantastic <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/adwords\/answer\/2549111?hl=en-AU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explanation and example of custom combinations<\/a> from Google&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You can reach a custom audience by combining remarketing\u00a0lists in an AND, OR or NOT relationship. Custom combination lists let you create advanced lists out of existing remarketing lists. Say that you want to offer a special price to people who buy three products as a set \u2013 for example, a mobile phone, a headset and a charger \u2013 but these products are in three different URLs. To create a remarketing list of people who visited the three products, you could create one list of &#8220;people who visited the mobile phones page&#8221;, one list of &#8220;people who visited the headset page&#8221; and a third list of &#8220;people who visited the charger page&#8221; Then, you could create a custom combination to reach people who saw the mobile page AND the headset page AND the charger page.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, having run hundreds of Adwords accounts at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.websavvy.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WebSavvy<\/a>\u00a0and having analyzed\u00a0thousands more, I know that custom combos are rarely used and a bit confusing.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s why I created the Grid.<br \/>\nI\u2019m going to use \u2018<strong>all visitors<\/strong>\u2019 here just to clarify the idea of segmenting by time. Once you\u2019ve got this though, ensure you test using \u2018<strong>interested<\/strong>\u2019 lists rather than all site visitors as you\u2019ll usually get better results ( this means more profits). So let\u2019s assume we have 3 lists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All visitors in the past 7 days (all 7)<\/li>\n<li>All visitors in the past 30 days (all 30)<\/li>\n<li>All visitors in the past 90 days (all 90)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the past if you wanted to show different ads, or bid differently based on time, you\u2019d have to create 2 custom combos:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>People on your 30 day list but NOT on your 7 day list.<\/li>\n<li>People on the 90 day list, but NOT on the 30 day list.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In other words:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018all 30\u2019 but not \u2018all 7\u2019<\/li>\n<li>\u2018all 90\u2019 but not \u2018all 30\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still with me?<br \/>\nAs you can imagine, once you start doing this for two or three \u2018interested\u2019 segments and\u00a0your buyers, and then possible with many more data ranges, the number of custom combos starts to get out of control!<br \/>\nThe Grid solves that.<br \/>\nYou still have to create all those lists (You were doing that anyway&#8230; right?)\u2014but now you don\u2019t need to use any combos at all.<br \/>\nWhich brings me to&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Retargeting Segmentation: Excluding Traffic<\/h3>\n<p>We\u2019re going to use something called <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/adwords\/answer\/2549058?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exclusions<\/a> to &#8220;block&#8221; the traffic we don\u2019t want.<br \/>\nSo to target only people between day 7 and\u00a0day 30, we simply target everyone on the 30 day list (all 30) and\u00a0exclude everyone on the 7 day list (all 7).<br \/>\nFor the technically minded&#8230; you can add exclusions in Adwords at the Campaign or Ad group level, which you choose will depend on the structure of your account.<br \/>\nAd group level is probably safest to use unless you\u2019re going to create a new remarketing campaign for every segment\u2014which isn&#8217;t recommended.<\/p>\n<h2>Remarketing Grid at Work: AdWords<\/h2>\n<p>For this example,\u00a0let\u2019s try and\u00a0target people that have viewed the cart page in the past 30 days, but NOT anyone that made it a step further (to the checkout page), and NOT those people viewing the cart page in the last 15 days.<br \/>\nWhy? Well we might be targeting the more recent visitors (for this segment) in a different ad group (and probably bidding more for those).<br \/>\nAnd we might be targeting the more valuable checkout viewers in yet another ad group.<br \/>\nYes, that\u2019s a lot of different segments\u2014every square on the grid is a potential target and therefore a potential ad group. You don\u2019t have to target them all separately, but your campaigns will be more powerful and\u00a0more profitable if you do.<br \/>\nBack to our second example.<br \/>\nWe can picture this using the grid:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pic-1.jpg\" alt=\"pic-1\" width=\"580\" height=\"323\" \/><br \/>\nSo to target this group we could (the old way) create 3 (yes, 3!) Custom Combinations.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Custom Combination of cart 30 but not cart 15 (cart 30-15)<\/li>\n<li>Custom Combination of checkout 30 but not 15 (checkout 30-15)<\/li>\n<li>Custom Combination of those two; \u2028cart 30-15 but not checkout 30-15!!!!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Not the most intuitive way to do this, right?<br \/>\nOr, we could simply create an audience targeting visitors to the cart in the past 30 days (\u2018cart 30\u2019):<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pic-2.jpg\" alt=\"pic-2\" width=\"580\" height=\"442\" \/><br \/>\nAnd then add this audience to our ad group:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pic-3.jpg\" alt=\"pic-3\" width=\"580\" height=\"205\" \/><br \/>\nAnd then scroll down and add 2 exclusions (in this case at the ad group level): \u00a0\u2018checkout 30\u2019 and\u00a0\u2018cart 15.\u2019<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pic-4.jpg\" alt=\"pic-4\" width=\"580\" height=\"210\" \/><br \/>\nMuch easier, right?<br \/>\nTo target any 1 \u2018square\u2019 on the grid, target that audience and\u00a0then exclude the square to the left and\u00a0the square below:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2015-11-10-12.42.43.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot-2015-11-10-12.42.43\" width=\"580\" height=\"146\" \/><br \/>\nThe only constraint is your imagination&#8230; well and the number of people in each segment.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s recap your task list:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Experiment with different segments and time frames.<\/li>\n<li>Build the lists first and keep an eye on the number of people on each.<\/li>\n<li>Test setting up your ad groups and\u00a0running ads to each of those segments.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Remember you can use the grid to show different ads and\u00a0(more importantly) bid different amounts to each segment.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Creating your Remarketing Grid with the Facebook\u00a0Interface<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For all the audiences you\u2019re going to create for the Remarketing Grid you\u2019re going to need to make a custom audience.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll do this in your Facebook Ads Manager &gt;&gt; Tools &gt;&gt; Audiences.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Facebook_1_audiences.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook_1_audiences\" width=\"580\" height=\"134\" \/><br \/>\nThe campaign objective that gives you the most clarity over your remarketing is the \u201cclicks to site\u201d objective.<br \/>\nConversion objective campaigns don\u2019t give you the same control and transparency over your results and they tend to be more effective with larger audiences.<br \/>\nBefore getting too far into these audiences, it\u2019s vital to remember that on Facebook your audience size is going to dictate the time frame and\u00a0the budget you use.<br \/>\nPeople treat their Facebook newsfeed like they would their property.<br \/>\nMost people will tolerate the occasional unsolicited visitor knocking on their door, but if that person keeps coming with the same offer day after day, they\u2019ll be given some rough treatment. Your ads can get the same treatment if they show up too often.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/perfect-facebook-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ad fatigue<\/a> and it happens really fast in Facebook so you\u2019ve got to be aware of it. (Make sure you keep an eye on frequency on any of your remarketing campaigns.)<br \/>\nUnderstanding that, it\u2019s key to have a sizable audience that fits your time frame and never advertise to an audience of less than 100 people for more than 1 day. If you\u2019ve got a 5 day list of 100 people, chances are your ads are going to show up too often and experience some negative feedback!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Remarketing Segmentation: By\u00a0Buyers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Just like in AdWords, you want to create a list of people that have purchased on your site.<br \/>\nTo do this you\u2019ll need the url of the Thank You\u00a0page and create a custom audience of 180 days to that specific traffic. That\u2019s the largest possible time frame for Facebook.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/buyers1.jpg\" alt=\"buyers1\" width=\"580\" height=\"443\" \/><br \/>\nIf you\u2019re an eCommerce site where you\u2019d hope that your buyers are buying more often, create more buyers lists that suit what you\u2019d expect their buying cycle to be.<br \/>\nFor example, in the fashion market, repeat customers may happen every month &#8212; not so much in real estate.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Remarketing Segmentation: By &#8220;Interested&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Much like AdWords you must identify how traffic is showing they\u2019re interested in what you have to offer.<br \/>\neCommerce is going to have more obvious signals, like traffic that has looked at the cart or traffic that has viewed the checkout page. If you\u2019ve got an eCommerce store, use the product sales objective to give yourself the ability to show ads to people who\u2019ve viewed a product, added to cart and so on.<br \/>\nCategory traffic is another great example (see below) as it lets you show an appropriate ad to interested traffic.<br \/>\nLike I said above, lead generation websites can use a new feature called <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/adwords\/answer\/2549111?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Custom Combinations<\/a>,\u00a0where you can create an audience that has been to two or more pages.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/customcombo.jpg\" alt=\"customcombo\" width=\"580\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nIn this example the person will only show up in the audience if they\u2019ve been to the sales page AND the homepage. If you can identify the pages that your traffic are looking at before converting, you should include that in your custom combination!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Retargeting Segmentation: By Time<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The simplest way to segment your audience on Facebook is by time. When you create a custom audience off of your website traffic, the default time frame is 30 days. But that simply ignores the fact that the person on day 29 is significantly less likely to take action than the person on your site yesterday.<br \/>\nYou can have a setup very similar to the AdWords portion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All visitors in the past 7 days (all 7)<\/li>\n<li>All visitors in the past 30 days (all 30)<\/li>\n<li>All visitors in the past 90 days (all 90)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have enough traffic, duplicate this time frame with each of your segments of interested traffic. If you still have loads of traffic, try even shorter time frames, but remember, you\u2019ll need to have unique creative to send to each segment you make.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Retargeting Segmentation: Excluding Traffic<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Where can you exclude and include these lists you\u2019ve made?<br \/>\nIn Facebook it all happens at the Ad Set level. You can choose the custom audience to target and your ads will show to that audience only. But just as important are the audiences you exclude.<\/p>\n<h2>Remarketing Grid at Work:\u00a0Facebook<\/h2>\n<p>Here\u2019s a basic example from an eCommerce store dealing in ladies fashion.<br \/>\nOne of the categories on their site is \u201cTops,\u201d so previously we\u2019ve made an audience that is comprised of people that have been to those pages.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/exclusions.jpg\" alt=\"exclusions\" width=\"580\" height=\"99\" \/><br \/>\nWhen I selected the target audience I also wanted to exclude the buyers from the past 14 days as they\u2019re much less likely to buy again.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re to consider this in terms of the Remarketing Grid, we\u2019re only showing ads to the people who were recently interested and we\u2019re excluding the buyers &#8212;\u00a0Therefore taking up only the center left of the grid an audience that should be profitable&#8230; especially if there\u2019s an incentive in the ad, such as a discount!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-58458 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-2015-11-10-12.43.37.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot-2015-11-10-12.43.37\" width=\"580\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Occasional Ads<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You may want to remind people who are a little more to the right of your remarketing grid.<br \/>\nSetting this up on Facebook is very easy. Simply define a window of people you want to remind to visit your site.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s say you have a slightly longer buying cycle, so create an audience of site visitors from the past 45 days, and another from the past 50. Target your 50 day list and <em>exclude<\/em> the 45 day list, and your all time buyers list.<br \/>\nNow your ads will pop up as nice reminder of your services. Plus, you can take advantage of Facebook\u2019s options to tailor your message or offer accordingly.<br \/>\nThere you have it\u2014setting up your Remarketing Grid using AdWords and Facebook. Everybody still with me? Good, because the best part of all of this is that it can be refined further still in Google Analytics (AdWords only).<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"3\"><\/a>Part 3:\u00a0Advanced Remarketing with Google Analytics<\/h2>\n<p>The last aspect of the Remarketing Grid involves using Google Analytics to get much more detail about your site visitors&#8217; behavior.<br \/>\n(<strong>RELATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/digital-marketing\/website-analytics\/\">Applying Website Analytics to Your Digital Marketing<\/a>)<br \/>\nIf you\u2019ll remember from Parts 1 and 2,\u00a0the key to the Remarketing Grid is identifying visitors that demonstrate higher than average <strong>interest<\/strong> in our products and services, and only using your advertising spend to (re)market to those most interested.<br \/>\nThe key assumption being that the more interested someone appears to be, the more likely they are to buy (or for lead gen sites, sign up).<br \/>\nUsing Google Analytics to identify this \u2018level of interest\u2019 is essential in that it addresses the major shortcoming of both AdWords and Facebook\u2019s remarketing potential. Both use \u2018rules\u2019 to build remarketing lists based on URL activity.<br \/>\nGoogle Analytics, however, lets you create remarketing lists based on a huge variety of visitor behaviors.<br \/>\n(It\u2019s worth pointing out that this strategy can only be used with AdWords, sorry Facebook marketers.)<br \/>\nBefore diving into Google Analytics, let&#8217;s consider mindset. It\u2019s<em> impossible <\/em>to predict what will happen for an individual user to your site.<br \/>\n<strong>But<\/strong> when we observe and measure behaviors of<em> large groups of people,<\/em> we find that similar groups of people tend to act in very similar ways.<br \/>\nFor example, your mobile visitors tend to buy less than desktop visitors, or visitors from one AdWords campaign tend to buy more than those from another campaign\u2014which is why we track CPA and\u00a0use that to set bids in AdWords\u2026 but let&#8217;s not get sidetracked!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Defining Interested Visitors With Google Analytics<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The &#8220;ultimate&#8221; sign of interested behavior, of course, is that someone buys from us\u2014or for lead gen sites, they convert\u2014which typically means they complete some sort of form, or call a number.<br \/>\nThere are dozens of behaviors that might indicate someone is more likely than average to buy. And which behavior you pick will depend on&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your business<\/li>\n<li>What type of product you\u2019re selling<\/li>\n<li>How frequently people buy from you (once or often)<\/li>\n<li>How long the decision-making process is (selling houses is very different to selling car tires)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>The Process<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Before we look at some potential behaviors, a quick note on the process:<br \/>\nWe\u2019re brainstorming ideas (posh marketers call these &#8216;hypotheses&#8217;) and then using our Analytics data to confirm that we might be on to something.<br \/>\nIf it looks like the data supports our crazy idea, we\u2019ll build the necessary remarketing lists. And then roll these out in an AdWords campaign and\u00a0go test the idea with real money in the marketplace.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t expect to win 100% of the time.<br \/>\nYou may find that the best theories bomb in the real world. It\u2019s okay, get over it. Have your beverage of choice and\u00a0jump back in the game.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s examine a couple of behaviors that are most likely to work for a wide range of situations and\u00a0therefore help you the most&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Time on Site \/ Page Depth<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The assumption here is that the longer someone spends on your site, the more pages they\u2019ll view and the more likely they are to convert. Most people leaving after 15 seconds or just 1 page aren\u2019t very likely to buy on their way out.<br \/>\n<strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Advanced GA users: please note this is a simplification and\u00a0you may want to create custom reports for both dimensions.<br \/>\nTo find out how long people spend on your site, you need the &#8220;<strong>session duration<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0report.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll find it under Audience &gt; Behavior &gt; Engagement and\u00a0it looks like this:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img27.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img27\" width=\"580\" height=\"302\" \/><br \/>\nNot particularly helpful is it? It doesn\u2019t show what they actually did!<br \/>\nLet\u2019s try the &#8220;<strong>page depth<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0report (click the blue &#8220;page depth&#8221; link towards the top of the page under &#8220;Distribution&#8221;)&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-59385 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img28-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"583\" \/><br \/>\nPrettier, but still not very useful.<br \/>\nSo we need to create a &#8220;<strong>custom report<\/strong>&#8221; \u2013 don\u2019t worry, you can use mine.<br \/>\nLog into Analytics and\u00a0then paste this link into your Analytics window:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/v7vdP5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/goo.gl\/v7vdP5<\/a><br \/>\nChoose the \u2018view\u2019 you want to apply it to &#8212; you\u2019ll either just have one view, so this is easy, or if you have lots then you probably know what you\u2019re doing, so just pick one for now. You can always add this report to other views later if needed.<br \/>\nOnce inside the report you should see something like this (for ecomm sites).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img29.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img29\" width=\"580\" height=\"217\" \/><br \/>\nIf you have a lead gen site, you\u2019ll want to \u2018edit\u2019 the custom report (using the link right at the top) and then replacing the ecomm fields with goals. See below&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img30.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img30\" width=\"580\" height=\"108\" \/><br \/>\nChange the bottom three blue metrics to either the overall goal values like this&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img31.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img31\" width=\"580\" height=\"108\" \/><br \/>\nor use a specific goal&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>goal 1 completions<\/em><br \/>\n<em>goal 1 conversion rate <\/em>(this is the main metric that matters and\u00a0will be the most useful)<br \/>\n<em>goal 1 value<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve got the report displaying numbers that are useful to you, scroll down\u2026 if you see that conversion rate goes up the deeper someone goes into the site, you\u2019re on to something.<br \/>\nHere we can see that hundreds of people a month go 30 pages deep into this site and\u00a0when they do, they convert at over 10% \u2026 not bad for an ecomm site.<br \/>\nOnce they get over 60 pages in about 1 in 3 are buying. This is a group of people we want to remarket to!<br \/>\nPeople that have acted just like the buyers &#8212; they\u2019ve demonstrated a very high level of interest (looking at 60+ pages!), but they haven\u2019t bought\u2026. yet!<br \/>\nPut an ad in front of these people and\u00a0a large number are going to come back and\u00a0buy.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s like taking candy from a baby. And your client\/boss\/spouse will love you when you invest your ad budget this well.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Creating Your Analytics Remarketing List<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve identified a group of people you want to remarket to, you\u2019ll need to first create the Audience in GA, then add this to an AdWords campaign in the normal way.<br \/>\nFirst go to the admin panel of your analytics account&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img32.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img32\" width=\"580\" height=\"66\" \/><br \/>\nIn the middle column, called \u2018<strong>Property<\/strong>\u2019, look for the \u2018Remarketing\u2019 section and click on Audiences just below that:<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img33.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img33\" width=\"500\" height=\"790\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">You\u2019ll need to choose the AdWords account that you want to send the remarketing audiences to (if you see more than 1 AdWords accounts listed, you\u2019re probably familiar with\u00a0some advanced stuff so no explanation should be needed ;).<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img34.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img34\" width=\"400\" height=\"415\" \/><br \/>\nClick \u2018next step\u2019&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd if this is the first time you\u2019ve done this, click \u2018enable\u2019 when you see the message.<br \/>\nGoogle will automatically create a list\/audience called \u2018all users\u2019. But we know better than to use that, right?<br \/>\nClick the big red \u2018+ new audience\u2019 button&#8230;<br \/>\nNow you need to \u2018define the audience\u2019 you want to build.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img35.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img35\" width=\"580\" height=\"293\" \/><br \/>\nYou have 2 choices. Use one of the recommended audiences, or create one from scratch.<br \/>\nBelow I\u2019ll explain the \u2018user type\u2019 option.<br \/>\nFor now click \u2018create new\u2019&#8230;<br \/>\nThis takes you to the complicated-looking \u2018audience builder\u2019&#8230;<br \/>\nAssuming you\u2019re going to build an audience based on \u2018page depth\u2019 you\u2019ll notice it\u2019s NOT one of those listed under the \u2018behavior\u2019 section. So we need to click on \u2018conditions\u2019 in the bottom right corner.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img36.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img36\" width=\"580\" height=\"241\" \/><br \/>\nIn this case you can see I\u2019ve set the condition to be \u2018page depth &gt; 10\u2019&#8230;<br \/>\nAnyone that meets that criteria will get added to our remarketing list.<br \/>\nClick \u2018apply\u2019.<br \/>\n<strong>NOTE:<\/strong>\u00a0You can probably tell from the \u2018or\/and\u2019 bit on the right that you can add multiple rules. Go wild and\u00a0crazy and experiment with this later\u2026 for now, let\u2019s keep it simple.<br \/>\nNow choose the duration for the list (explained in parts 1 and 2) and name the list (in this case \u201cPage Depth &gt; 10 {30 Days}\u201d) and click Save.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img37.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img37\" width=\"580\" height=\"406\" \/><br \/>\nAnd that\u2019s it!<br \/>\nNow you can go into AdWords and add this list to either a new or existing remarketing campaign.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>User Behavior<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Time to go digging in Analytics for another story.<br \/>\nGo back to your Analytics reports. This time go to\u00a0Audience &gt; Behavior &gt; New vs Returning.<br \/>\nChange the little drop down above the data table to flick from \u2018eCommerce\u2019 to \u2018All Goals\u2019 depending on what you\u2019re tracking.<br \/>\nYou may find stats like this, where returning users are almost three times more likely to buy.<br \/>\nAgain, why not just remarket to these people instead of everyone!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img38.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img38\" width=\"580\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Amount Spent<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>You might &#8212; if you have frequent buyers &#8212; want to advertise to recent purchasers of your products.<br \/>\nIn which case the \u2018level of interest\u2019 might change to be the actual amount spent.<br \/>\nBy segmenting my buyers based on spend, I\u2019m able to bid more on the \u2018whales\u2019 (the ones that spent way more than average) and\u00a0focus my efforts there.<br \/>\nEarly days for this campaign, but you can see that remarketing to recent buyers (0-7 days after they bought) that also spent &gt;$150 led to a conversion rate of 26% !<br \/>\nThe return is equally lovely, $9.94 back in revenue for every $1 spent on ads.<br \/>\nContinuing to remarket to them after a short break (31-90 days after buying), also generated some extra sales (26) and makes the client $3.42 for every $1 they spend on ads.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmarketer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img39.jpg\" alt=\"mike-rhodes-remarketing-grid-img39\" width=\"580\" height=\"174\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Keep Experimenting with Analytics and the Remarketing Grid<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This Remarketing Grid is a fluid beast!<br \/>\nYour job now is to continue brainstorming ideas on which behaviors might indicate someone is more likely to buy from you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which device do they use?<\/li>\n<li>Which browser?<\/li>\n<li>Do iPhone users buy more than Samsung?<\/li>\n<li>Does their country make a difference?<\/li>\n<li>Does their age?<\/li>\n<li>Gender?<\/li>\n<li>What about if they came from Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest?<\/li>\n<li>Are people that download a PDF more likely to sign up?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And remember the only way to know for sure, is to run ads and\u00a0test in what the granddaddy of marketing Claude Hopkins called the \u2018court of last resort\u2019.<br \/>\nIn other words&#8230; spending some money and\u00a0seeing how your prospects and customers behave.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s all about their behavior!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Part 3 of 3, Mike Rhodes breaks down advanced remarketing with Google Analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":73564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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