I won't waste your time. These techniques are for slightly more advanced users. I will go straight to specifics.
Rescue Technique #1
\"chicken Soup\"
Always use keywords matching options. Using broad match, exact phrase match and exact matching will result in different costs, different click through and ultimately different results. Generally, I would recommend setting all 3 matching all options to test and see which works best.
Rescue Technique #2
Research your keywords. Do a thorough research if your audience/customer, competitors, product/content and keywords. Armed with this knowledge select keywords that are most relevant to your product/content with reasonable demand and some competition (not an overly saturated one)
Rescue Technique #3
Use Adwords' adgroups. How do you do this? Take for example, "chicken soup base" and "recipes for chicken broth". These are 2 distinct phrases yet they are referring to the same product. If you group them under the same adgroup and dump all the keywords in, this would reduce click through rates and drive costs up. Instead set up an ad group just for "recipes for chicken broth" and in this group can be other words like "recipes for mango cream broth" and the other group will have words like "vegetable soup base" etc...
Rescue Your Adwords Campaign Now! Apply These 3 Little Known "Life Saving" Techniques
Dylan has been giving out a free report titled Secret Google Tactics It explains to a good extent how you can use Adwords and Adsense to earn some income online.
He has also come out with a piping hot book called Clickbank Profit Machine It is still in pre-launch but you can still take a look at the website. The proof from 2 users who applied his techniques, you got to see them to believe it!
http://www.secretgoogletactics.com
http://www.clickbankprofitmachine.com/index2.htm