I thought I would put a tips thread up to see when your Adwords accounts had a "Breakthrough" and what it was you did to achieve it. Also, please let us know how your account changed after you implemented this change.. When I noticed that my daily budget was being spent day after day, I decided to lower my keyword bids and sacrifice my average position. The result was a huge increase in daily clicks and lowering the CPC while maintaining or improving CTR.
I've only just started on this path so I'll be interested to see the replies to this Rach - typingmums.com
YSM is definitely worth trying. You can have $50 free balance from many hosting and other services. That can be redeemed the first time you signup with YSM. However the minimum CPC is $ 0.10. Begining with may YSM is trying to put emphasis on quality as well as bidding value which is similar to ADWORDS and a good thing.
I have not been a fan of YSM but the new features letting you pick what states your ads show has provided a more cost effective use of YSM.
Tamarack, the new YSM lets you target specific DMS's which is a huge for targeted advertisers. Helps out a lot!
That worked well for me too. I am currently not using them, just paused, but I know trying different ads helps as well. We often think our own ideas are great, but until you try different ones you really don't know how good it can be. I get a really good conversion rate from yahoo ads.
I have not. I use google analytics to see what is working best. When marketing I only try to get the visitors to join the site.