Today’s shoppers are researching and searching for products in more ways than ever before, across multiple platforms and devices. And every day, hundreds of millions of them use Google to search for the products they want and need. This creates a lot of opportunities to get discovered by potential customers—but to get the results you want, it’s important to get in front of the right customers at the right time.
That’s where Performance Max campaigns come in. They’re designed to allow retailers to access new inventory, formats, and audiences across all Google channels, including YouTube, Search, and the web. Performance Max campaigns will help maximize your reach and meet more customers wherever they’re shopping with the Google channel. Using the Google channel can be a game changer for your marketing strategy—like it has been for businesses includingPono Woodworks,The Ollie World,andXena Workwear.
How to get started:
After installingGoogle channel, you can easily connect your store to Google Merchant Center and begin creating new Performance Max campaigns.
Thisthree-step guideshows you everything you need to know to get set up and to start creating Performance Max campaigns.
Why run a Performance Max campaign?
Performance Max Campaign is a goal-based campaign type that builds on top of your existing organic and paid strategy. Running a campaign empowers your business to:
Once you’ve got your products connected, you can launch a campaign, track traffic and your sales all in Google Merchant Center. By connecting your products, they will also appear infree listingsto help you drive incremental traffic and reach even more shoppers at no additional cost to you.
Success stories
As busy business owners, these Shopify merchants were looking to grow their stores without devoting a ton of time to setting up, monitoring, analyzing, and adjusting marketing campaigns. Using the Google channel was the perfect solution, allowing each merchant to easily launch campaigns and leverage Google’s smart technology to save time, while achieving impressive results
Pono Woodworks
Brett Gontarek ofPono Woodworksstarted his Shopify store to bring his sustainable wood products online and reach customers across the world. While his experience was in woodworking, not marketing, he knew that Google was where people go when they’re looking for new products. So to get his products discovered by shoppers across Google, he installed Google channel and created a campaign—and it didn’t take long for him to see results.
For every dollar Brett spent on his ads, he was getting $12 back in sales—a 1,200% return on investment.His online sales quickly grew by 106%, with sales from the Google channel accounting for a third of his business.
I figured I could afford the cost of a latte a day to try it out.And it was worth it. The results of those first campaigns were mind-blowing.
—Brett Gontarek, Owner, Pono Woodworks
The Ollie World
The baby product market is full of noise, and Hindi Zeidman, founder and CEO ofThe Ollie Worldand creator of the Ollie Swaddle, needed a way to cut through it. She knew she had to get it into the hands of tired caregivers who could benefit from the helpful sleep product.
帮助小型企业中脱颖而出ig players in their industry, Hindi and her team turned to Shopify’s Google channel and launched their first campaign. To their delight, they attracted over 4,000 new customers and saw a28x return on advertising spendin six months—all without having to manually tend to the campaign.
The great thing about campaigns is that they really run themselves.They allow us to just sit back and make sure all the products are achieving a good return.
—David Poppell, Ads Manager, The Ollie World
Xena Workwear
As a maker of safety boots and other professional personal protective equipment for women, the team atXena Workwearfaced two challenges from the start: they needed to find and reach a niche audience, and they needed a way to demonstrate both the style and practicality of their products.
Xena Workwear CMO Eugene Furman knew thatGoogle Shopping Feedcampaigns provided a highly visual shopping experience, using product images to catch the attention of shoppers. He decided to use Google channel to help sync and manage his products. After a few clicks, he was able to sign in to his Google Ads account and set up Shopping campaigns. The results were impressive: more than 90% of the shoppers the campaign drew to the Xena Workwear site were new customers, and the campaign delivered up to an8倍return on advertising spend.
I loved that the setup process was so simple…If you have a special product thathas a really unique look to it, the returns on Shopping campaigns are just phenomenal.
—Eugene Furman, CMO, Xena Workwear
Get started with a campaign
Performance Max Campaigns are a powerful way to reach more relevant customers. Google helps you find ways to improve your ads over time so that you can spend your time and energy focusing on what’s most important—running your business.
For more information about launching your campaign in Shopify, visit thefollowing Help Center articleand installGoogle channel.
* Source: Google/Ipsos, Global,Global Retail Study,February 2019.