Making Wholes From Parts

 After launching my Google Ads campaign, I had some action on my website. I got an email from someone who used the form on my “Contact Me” page. I was so nervous and excited! I read the email ready to fulfill whatever order this customer had. They wanted me to cancel their tv subscription because they didn’t like the streaming service. Ha-ha! I was so confused as to why this person thought I was a tv streaming service. So, I went to my Google Ads campaign. There I was able to see the top search that led people to my website was the keyword “up faith and family”. I searched that keyword and I was led to a faith-based tv streaming service. I emailed the lady back with the website link that sent her to that service. Hopefully, it was helpful to her. I had my first interaction with someone who had “used” my website! It wasn’t the interaction I was hoping for, but I do think it has helped me analyze several things about my campaign and my website. I am now going to add some negative k...

     Earlier this week one evening I was having a hard and emotional evening. My boys had gone to bed and I let myself cry in my room. After a few minutes of crying, my youngest son came back into my room (he had forgotten to put some toys away and so my husband had him come pick them up). Before he went back upstairs to his room he came and checked on me. We talked for a few minutes. In our conversation, he says to me, “Mom. I love you. I love Jesus. Do you know why I love Jesus?” I responded, “I don’t. Why do you love Jesus.” “Because Mom, Jesus is a God of Miracles.” This simple conversation based on the simple faith of my son brought a lot of peace to my heart. Jesus is a God of miracles.      I felt very overwhelmed this week. I felt the pressure to finish my website to the point where it is perfect! I couldn’t deliver. There is no way I can make my website perfect when it needs to be perfect. I feel like it needs to be perfect now. I am putting a lo...

       I felt like what we learned about this week, Ads & Ad Groups, was very useful. I felt like learning about and practicing creating better Google Ads will be a very effective skill to have. One part that I really liked was the Ad Strength Box that had the wheel inside that let you know how well you were doing. It ranged from “poor” to “excellent”. In the readings, we were encouraged to aim for that wheel to be between “good” and “excellent”. I really appreciated this feature because it gave me a progress report on my efforts instantly. It helped me feel confident in my work. I’m really excited to utilize that feature in the future.      I noticed during my week, that my mind kept coming back to this wheel. I felt like a failure this week. I just felt like I was only hitting “poor” on my strength wheel. It was very discouraging.      Also, this week in Come Follow Me we were asked to read John 15. As I read over this chapter, I n...

I’m sure I have said it before, but Tyler affectionately refers to me as a “Babbling Brook”. I tend to talk on and on. When I do that, I also over-explain things.  In my learning this week of Google Ads and Keywords one thing I noticed to be very important is to be clear and concise. A Google Ad campaign is more effective with clear and concise phrases and keywords. It will help get your website to the right customers. I can see how this skill would be very important. I trust that over time, with practice, I’ll be better at coming up with the right phrases and keywords. I am reminded of this scripture Ether 12:27 “And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.” It is hard for me to be clear and concise in my writing. I worry th...