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.

Adobe had an opportunity to engage creative and marketing professionals on the LinkedIn social media platform to drive interest in its products. Adobe had an account on LinkedIn, but there was no established strategy or approach to grow the community or foster engagement. Adobe wanted to create and implement a LinkedIn strategy to connect with and engage its audience.

Michelle wanted to build a Podcast and Instagram community around learning the French language as an adult, as she was living in Paris and found it difficult to access easy resources which would help her acquire fluency faster. She particularly wanted to focus on high quality audio resources.

She wanted to spend $0 in paid marketing, and build the community organically.

Ryman, the stationery retailer, wanted to run a Back to School/Uni campaign but wanted to improve on the previous year results which was planned by an influencer agency. They were measuring sales but their target was also awareness.