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DTC 583 - Easy SEO, Ex-Googler Ben Kruger’s Side Hustle, and Custom Event Data Wednesday, June 19, 2024 Good morning, TikTok is rolling out new innovative tools for advertisers. They are launching AI-generated avatars and a translation tool called AI Dubbing so brands can dub content in over ten different languages and reach a wider audience. 🌎 This means that it’ll be easier than ever for advertisers to find a multilingual spokesperson for their ad videos. Here’s what you’ll find in today’s DTC: 💡 Learn how customer reviews on your PDPs can help with your SEO strategy. 💰 Ex-Googler Ben Kruger shares how his ad experience helped him scale his side hustle selling microphones. 🔢 And…did you hear? GA4 just dropped a new feature which makes it easier to analyze all your customer data. 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[Book a call with priya.ai]( to chat about their manual integration process. *Sponsored SEO HACK 💡 How Customer Reviews Can Help Your Search Rankings If you want to SEO optimize your product pages but are short on time, then here’s a trick. Have your customers do your SEO for you instead. Sounds too good to be true? It really isn’t. Adding keywords to your website can simply be done by giving customers the ability to leave reviews. Many customers will describe the pain point they were experiencing before they used your product, and their detailed descriptions can help add more long-tail keywords onto the page. Here’s a look at one of [Hush Blanket’s]( PDPs as an example: [Hush Blanket’s PDP page] The company uses branded keywords like ‘Hush blanket’ in the URL and relevant keywords like ‘cooling sheet’ and ‘bamboo sheet set’ in their product title and description. However, customers are contributing related keywords to the review section as well. This best-selling product has over 2,000 reviews from happy customers who describe it using phrases like “best cooling sheets” and “best cooling sheets for hot sleepers” so it can rank for those terms. The takeaway? Adding reviews to your site not only adds social proof but can also help with your organic SEO by contributing more relevant keywords and text to the page. 💡 You can also mine these reviews for new keywords if you are tweaking your website copy or looking for blog post ideas. - Compile a list of keywords you’re seeing repeatedly in your customer reviews. - Use an SEO research tool like [Ahrefs]( or [Semrush]( to check monthly search volumes and competition to see if these are terms you want to pursue. - Then, tweak your website copy or create new content to move the needle. DIRECT MAIL 👀 Think Digital Is The Only Way To Get Personal With Your Audience? Think Again. 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[Book a Demo]( *Sponsored PODCAST 🎧 Ex-Googler Ben Kruger Shares His Entrepreneur Journey In this episode of the pod, we are joined by Ben Kruger, a former Google Ads rep who decided to quit his job and start a profitable side hustle dropshipping microphones. Ben shares his journey from Google to becoming a DTC entrepreneur and the key tactics he used to scale his business and maximize profitability. Ben explains: “All performance marketers should care about is the result, which is usually profit or hitting a new customer acquisition goal.” In this podcast, we cover: - Knowing when to change your ad strategy: Why Ben shifted his ad strategy from Google to Meta Ads plus the results - Why cost caps are so important: We discuss how Ben uses cost caps in his ad campaigns to ensure profitability. - Practical Learnings: We reflect on the most valuable lessons Ben learned from running his own business. 👉 You can listen to the full episode with Ben [here](. 🌐 IN THE SOCIAL SPHERE Google just announced that they will now support custom event data import. What this means is that business owners can now combine their Google Analytics data with external data sources for more comprehensive reporting. Can't view the image? [Click here]( ⚡ QUICK HITS 💸 Cut your add-to-cart costs in half and increase ROAS by +30%. How, you ask?! With minisocial. [Start your campaign to get content that converts](. * 🎉 CELEBRATE THIS! 💋 June 22: National Kissing Day, National Chocolate Eclair Day, National Onion Ring Day 🚿 June 23: National Pink Day, Let It Go Day, National Family Owned & Operated Businesses Day, National Hydration Day 🧚 June 24: International Fairy Day, Farmer Day, Upcycling Day 🧒 June 25: National Strawberry Parfait Day, Please Take My Children To Work Day, National Catfish Day 🛶 June 26: National Canoe Day, World Refridgeration Day, National Chocolate Pudding Day 😎 June 27: National Handshake Day, National Ice Cream Cake Day, Sunglasses Day ☀️ June 28: National Climate-Smart Skin Awareness Day, National Tapioca Day, National Food Truck Day, International Body Piercing Day 📰 NEWS - Amazon [teases early Prime Day deals ahead of the big sales event in July](. - U.S. government [sues Adobe for ‘trapping’ customers in pricey subscriptions without disclosing important plan terms](. - SKIMS [taps Bridgerton actress Nicola Coughlan to be the star of their newest campaign](. - Runway AI [unveils a hyper-realistic Gen-3 Alpha video model generated by only using text and image prompts](. SPONSOR DTC 📥 Got a B2B Biz? Join dozens of B2B companies finding demand-gen success through our niche community of 160k brand leaders and founders this year. [Talk to our team to learn more](. Have you heard our latest podcasts? - 🎤 Ex-Googler Ben Kruger on [New Side Hustle Selling Microphones]( - ⚡ [AKNF 413:]( How Over-Automation Limits Your Scale on Amazon - 🍬 Michael Fisher on [Rotten’s Go To Market Strategy]( - 🚀 [AKNF 411:]( Crushing the Drop Model on Meta Ads + Q4 Planning - 🍳 Cam Bush on [Hexclad’s Omnichannel Strategy For 9 Figure Scale]( - 🛒 [AKNF 409:]( Master Pre-Purchase Upsells with Aves - 🏆 Van Oakes on [How To Boost Your Sales with Strategic Giveaways]( Don’t forget to [rate the DTC Podcast]( on Apple (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) DTC Newsletter is written by [Rebecca Knight]( and [Frances Du](. Edited by [Eric Dyck](. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up [here](. Please note that items in this newsletter marked with * contain sponsored content. 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