Customer Lifecycle Goals: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Decide whether Google Ads Customer Lifecycle Goals fit your business, and avoid settings that inflate ROAS or exclude valuable prospects.
Jyll Saskin Gales is a Google Ads coach, teacher and consultant. She advises agencies, business owners and in-house marketers, training them to get the best results from Google Ads. She hosts the Inside Google Ads podcast, her own “Inside Google Ads” and “Google Ads for Beginners” courses, and wrote the bestselling book “Inside Google Ads: Everything you need to know about Audience Targeting.” Jyll worked at Google for 6 years and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Decide whether Google Ads Customer Lifecycle Goals fit your business, and avoid settings that inflate ROAS or exclude valuable prospects.
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