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Introduction
Perpetua's Recommendations provide suggestions to improve performance based on your specific strategies and the performance of your goals. In order to see and apply Perpetua's Recommendations, you will first need to create a strategy.
How Do I Create a Strategy?
To create a strategy, navigate to the Recommendations tab, and then select Strategies.
From here, you will see all of the available strategies that you can activate in Perpetua with a description of each strategy. Choose the strategy that you want to receive Recommendations for and select "Get Started" or "Add."
Depending on the Strategy you have created, you will see different required inputs.
Strategy Name
You can call your strategy anything that you want, and you can change this at any time. We recommend a name that indicates to you what you are trying to achieve with the strategy or what goals will be in it.
Inputs
Some Strategy types will require many inputs, while some may not have any. If you have any questions about what you should be adding in these fields, please reach out to your Data Strategist or to hello@perpetua.io.
You can also change these Strategy inputs at any time, at which point your current recommendations based on the old inputs will be removed, and you will have new recommendations within 6 hours.
Goals
You will need to select which goals you want the strategy to apply to (this can be changed in the future), there are a few different ways to do this.
A) You can click the specific goals you want added to that strategy and press "Set Selected".
B) You can click on the Select All option (as seen in the screenshot below) and all current + future goals will be added to this Strategy.
🚨 Note 🚨
Certain Strategy Types restrict the use of the same goal in multiple strategies. For instance, the Strategy Type: "Always-On Budget Optimization" follows this rule.
If you need to remove a goal from a strategy that encompasses all current and future goals, select it from the list. Doing so will remove the goal from the previous strategy, which will then include "All Other Goals" instead of "All Goals."
Available Strategies
The current available strategies are:
What Happens When I Turn on a Strategy?
Once you have turned on a strategy, Perpetua's ad engine will start to generate recommendations for you. It can take up to 6 hours for your first recommendations to show up.
Turning on a strategy will NOT automatically make any changes to any of your goals. This means that there is no risk in turning on a strategy to see what recommendations it provides. If you don't agree with the recommendations that you are being shown, you can choose to reject them, take certain goals out of the strategy, or turn off the strategy altogether.
Recommendations will vary based on the strategy selected for your goals.
You will have the option to Accept, Decline or Edit & Accept each recommendation.
If you choose to Approve, Dismiss, or Edit and Accept,
If approved, this change will be automatically made to your goal. If you dismiss, you will not see a new recommendation for this goal based on that specific strategy for 7 days.
🚨 Note 🚨
If you don't want to see recommendations for a specific goal anymore, the best thing to do would be to remove this goal from the strategy.
Review Generated Recommendations
Once generated, recommendations will be projected on your Perpetua account from the Recommendations tab, and also from the deep-dive goal dashboard of the goal you applied the strategy(ies)) to.
Recommendations Tab
Navigate to the Recommendations tab, where your active strategies are listed on the left side of the screen. Upon clicking a specific strategy, any related automatically generated recommendation(s) will be displayed.
Deep-Dive Goal Dashboard
Access the goal to which you've applied a strategy, and you'll find the recommendation(s) displayed on the right-hand side control panel.Review and take action on all the recommendations provided for that goal directly from here. If additional strategies are applied to the goal, simply click on "View All" to expand the panel.
How Do I Modify or Delete a Strategy?
You can edit any of your active strategies at any point in time. Keep in mind that any change to a strategy (aside from the strategy name) will cause all current recommendations on that strategy to be removed, and it may take up to 6 hours to generate new recommendations.
To make changes to a strategy (or to delete it), go to the "Strategies" tab under "Recommendations". Click on the three dots located on the right side of a strategy. From there, you'll have the option to either delete the strategy or edit it.
🚨 Note 🚨
Delete strategies cannot be restored, but you can create a new one with the same goals and inputs.
FAQs
What if I Have a Specific Strategy I Want to Implement?
If there’s a strategy you’d like to see in Perpetua that we don’t currently offer, we’d love to hear from you! To submit your idea, please reach out to our Support team through live chat and they can file a feature request on your behalf.
What Happens to Recommendations When I Make Changes to a Goal?
If you make changes to segments within your goals (budget or target ACoS), the active recommendations for that segment will be removed as they may no longer be applicable. It will then take 5-7 days for new recommendations to populate based on the changes you have made.
Why Doesn't Perpetua's Ad Engine Automatically Make These Changes?
Perpetua's AI-powered ad engine works to optimize your campaigns based on the ACoS target that you have set. Recommendations will help you to implement more advanced strategies where you need to have a human in the loop to make specific decisions. This includes increasing budgets and changing the strategy on specific products or keywords to help execute on a larger objective for your business.
Article last updated May 2024. If you find this information to be out of date, please contact hello@perpetua.io.