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Ads that answer to a number.

The part you pay to turn on. Ads put you in front of people searching right now, while the slower work builds.

  • A budget worked out from what a customer is worth
  • A landing page built for the ad
  • A report that says what a lead cost
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The fastest way to get in front of someone who needs you today.

An ad campaign puts your business in front of someone searching right now. It can also spend a lot of money without telling you what happened.

The difference is the boring parts: knowing what a customer is worth before setting a budget, sending clicks to a page built for that one search instead of your homepage, and tracking calls and forms so every dollar has a result next to it.

We run campaigns with those parts done. You see what was spent and what a lead cost, in a report written for an owner rather than a marketer.

What Managed Ads Include

  • A budget from what a customer is worth

    Worked out first, rather than a round number.

  • Google or Meta

    Wherever your buyers actually look, starting with one and measuring it.

  • A landing page built for the ad

    So people land on the exact thing they searched for.

  • Call and form tracking

    So leads get counted instead of guessed at.

  • A plain report

    What was spent, what a lead cost, and what we would change.

The budget starts from one number: what a customer is worth to you.

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An ad is only half the campaign. The page it lands on is the other half, and the one that does the convincing.

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From Budget to First Call

The math before the money, then one campaign built properly.

The math before the money

What a customer is worth, what a lead can cost, and the budget that follows from it. If the math does not work, we say so before anything is spent.

When Not to Buy Ads

Not the right fit if the budget cannot survive the learning weeks, because the first month buys data as much as leads. And not the right fit if the site the ad lands on cannot close. Ads only bring people. The page still has to convince them, and if it cannot, we would rather fix that first.

Not sure which one you need? Tell us the problem and we will say which of the six fixes it.

All Six, Side by Side
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Questions People Ask About Paid Ads

How much should we spend?

It depends on what a customer is worth to you and what a lead costs in your market. We work the number out with you on the first call.

Google or Meta?

Whichever one your customers use to find what you sell: Google for people searching right now, Meta for people who do not know they need you yet. We start with one.

Do we need a landing page?

Yes, and we build it as part of the campaign. Your homepage is built for everyone; the landing page is built for the one thing the ad promised.

How do you count leads?

Calls and form fills get tracked back to the ad that produced them, so the report shows leads rather than clicks.

When do we see results?

Leads can arrive in the first days, but the first few weeks are for learning what a click and a lead cost in your market. Judge the campaign at the end of the first month.

Not the One You Needed?

The other five, each with its own page.

Tell us what a customer is worth to you.

That one number is where the budget starts. We come back with what it supports and what we would run first.