Google Mind Tricks?

[killercopy]

I just watched a video sent to me entitled Google Mind Tricks. Basically, it's a $97 program to teach you how to target Gmail, citing that they will soon be raising the price to $1,000 for the program with the possibility of a $10,000 seminar.

I've been using this method for a long time. Not sure what you get for $97 or $1,000, but advertising on Gmail is an easy process.

If you aren't familiar with it, basically google scans your emails and provides relevant/targeted ads in your Gmail inbox based on what you and your friends/family/associates are talking about in email.

For example, if you write to your aunt that your New Year's resolution is to quit smoking, google will read this and plaster a bunch of "stop smoking" ads in your in box.

A few years ago, politicians attempted to ban this...but as it seems, Google prevailed (as always).

The great things about this is that the conversions using this method are phenomenal...way better than normal adwords (at least for me). You are basically putting your ad in front of people's "private" conversations.

To target Gmail, you need to get into your adwords account and go to "content network" and to managed placements (this is where you decide where your ads show).

Once you get there, you need to type in mail.google. (com) not gmail. (com)

Hope this helps...

[Sara Young]

Thanks for posting this. I was just wondering if anyone has been successful with gmail...

[Sissy76]

I've seen the video as well & was thinking that surely this is an advertising platform you can easily sign up to and figure out for yourself.

Thanks for posting.

Cheers,
Sissy

[C0DeZeR0]

Me Too Nice ...

[jkovats]

Next thing you know we will get ads in this thread about this program you mentioned because Google is watching us. They truly do run the world.

[pcpupil]

Dont anyone pay for any program that supposed to teach you this.
I just watched the video from a person in the adwords dept at google that explained everything from start to finish.
Its not hard to do and go to google and look it up.
Maybe utube also.
All you do is click on the section in adwords where you want your ad to be displayed.And pick gmail.
It can be on the right side,or at the header at the very top.
Matt

[Sean A McAlister]

Seems this is a hot topic.....

refer to this post for the video tutorial (same as the OP pointed out but with visuals)

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/168443-sneaky-tricky-unknown-way-advertise-gmail.html#1637656

[Steve Ranger]

Ryan Deiss was selling this.

It's a neat little trick.

[Gclunis]

Wow, I have always seen those ads but I never actually thought of how it do it. Thanks alot for this post it gave me alot of ideas for when I start my ppc campaign. Just one question, are the cpc rates higher for that type of ppc marketing?

[mfleisch]

Killercopy.. thanks for the info. This is the first time I've heard about this. Have you testing the results from your ads showing through this method? What type of click through rate and conversions are you getting. I would think that results are similar to what you would find with other content network ads.