PPC Advertising Services.
Every click accounted for.
All the way to the sale.
Most paid media reporting tells you what happened inside the ad platform. It rarely tells you which clicks turned into customers. We build the tracking before the campaigns, so every line in your report traces back to something that actually happened in your business.
You pay for the center. The rings decide what it was worth.
What do PPC advertising services actually cover?
One answer, then the three things you are really buying.
PPC advertising services cover the planning, building, running and reporting of paid ad campaigns where you pay each time someone clicks. The work is not the ads. It is deciding which searches and audiences are worth paying for, proving which clicks turned into customers, and moving budget toward the ones that did.
The definition, stated once- PPC management
- Paid media management
- Paid search and paid social
- Performance marketing services
- Pay-per-click advertising
Reaching people who can buy
The right search, the right audience, the right moment. Reach on its own is cheap. Reach that converts is the expensive part, and it is the part that needs deciding weekly.
Knowing what the click did
A conversion that fires twice, or fires on a page view, will quietly teach the platform to buy the wrong traffic. Measurement is not admin. It is the input every bid decision runs on.
Deciding where the next dollar goes
Automation will spend your budget somewhere whether or not it is working. Someone has to read the result and choose. That choice is what the management fee pays for.
Why most paid campaigns underperform
Rarely because paid advertising does not work. Usually because of one of these four.
Clicks get more expensive every year
Rising click costs eat the budget before the pipeline moves.
Tighter intent matching, better quality signals and stronger creative relevance, so a smaller share of your budget goes to clicks that were never going to convert.
Plenty of leads, almost none of them real
Volume looks healthy in the report and nothing closes.
Targeting, message and landing page pulled into line so the form is filled by people who can actually buy, and the platform learns from those, not from the rest.
Launched once, then barely touched
Campaigns go live, and the next real decision is made a month later.
Search terms reviewed every three to five business days, negatives added before waste compounds, and bids moved on conversion data rather than at the end of the month.
Three platforms, three versions of the truth
Every channel claims the same sale, so nobody can say what worked.
One tracking setup across every channel we run and one report built on it, so the budget split is argued from numbers that agree with each other.
A click is an expense until something is done with it.
Everything that decides whether paid advertising is profitable happens after the click. That is the part most accounts leave running on defaults.
See What That InvolvesWhat a PPC management agency should do for the fee
Everything below sits inside the monthly fee on every account, including the parts of performance marketing services that build ROI-focused PPC campaigns rather than just busy ones.
Account strategy and channel mix
Which channels get budget, in what order, and what each one is being asked to do.
Conversion tracking and ROI measurement
Tags, events and conversion actions built and tested by us, then verified before launch.
Keyword and audience research
What you should be paying for, what you should not, and the negatives written before day one.
Campaign build and structure
Grouping, match types, bidding and budget split configured deliberately, never left on defaults.
Ad copy and creative direction
Written per placement and tested on rotation. Video and image production is quoted separately.
Landing path review
Where the click lands, and what is losing people on it. Design and build are quoted separately.
Weekly optimization
Search terms, placements, audiences, bids and budget, reviewed on a fixed cycle.
Reporting and an optimization log
One report across every channel we run, plus a record of what changed and why.
Which channel should get the budget first?
There is no rule of thumb worth trusting here, so we work through five questions instead.
Keyword research answers it in a morning. Real search volume means search advertising can carry the account. No search volume means no amount of budget will create demand that is not being typed.
Higher priced, research heavy decisions tend to reward channels where the buyer arrives already comparing. Lower priced, easily understood products often move faster where the buyer was not comparing anything.
Some things are decided the moment someone looks at them. Others are decided on specification, availability or price, where an image adds very little.
Paid social consumes creative faster than any other channel, and it stalls without a supply of it. That is a resourcing question before it is a targeting question.
A budget split across several channels at once often gives none of them enough conversion data to optimize on. Concentrating it is usually the faster route to knowing anything.
The two channels most accounts are built on
Search, Shopping and Performance Max
Strongest whenThere is measurable demand being typed for what you sell, and a clear action worth counting when someone arrives.
- High intent search terms, with the wrong ones excluded first
- Shopping and feed work for product catalogs
- Automated campaign types kept on a short leash
- Remarketing to people who came and did not convert
Facebook, Instagram and Advantage+
Strongest whenThe audience can be described precisely, there is creative to keep testing, and you have first-party data worth building audiences from.
- Feed, Stories and Reels placements built for each format
- Retargeting and customer list audiences, not prospecting alone
- Catalog and shopping campaigns for product businesses
- Pixel and Conversions API set up together, not one or the other
Everything else, honestly: LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok and Reddit come up often, and whether they earn a share of your budget depends on the account and the objective. We would want to see both before recommending one.
Spending more is easy. Spending better is the job.
Visual2ActionBring the account you have, or the budget you were about to commit. Thirty minutes, and you will know whether paid advertising is the right next move for you.
Schedule a Strategy CallWhat you pay for, and when you pay it
Two separate costs, and no published figure that would be wrong for most of the people reading it.
Your ad budget is separate, and it is not ours. It reaches the advertising platform at cost, every month, with no markup on it and no commission taken from it. The audit that starts a takeover is included, not billed.
Why we do not publish PPC advertising packages
A click in one industry costs several times what the same click costs in another. A tier built for the cheap one is useless in the expensive one.
Platform mix, number of locations, catalog size and how complex the tracking has to be all change how much work the account is.
A bigger budget is quoted at a bigger figure. The difference is that it is agreed in writing first, and it does not recalculate itself each month.
Most agencies bill this as a percentage of ad spend, commonly 10 to 20 percent of it. We quote against what your account actually needs and put that figure in writing before anything starts, so the number you approve at the beginning is the number on the invoice at the end.
- Strategy, research and channel decisions
- Campaign build, restructure and ongoing optimization
- Ad copy for search, and creative direction for social
- Conversion tracking build, testing and maintenance
- Reporting, the optimization log and the review call
- Video and image production for paid social
- Landing page design and build
- Photography and product shoots
- Changes to your existing website
You can supply any of these yourself at no extra cost, or we quote them in writing before any work starts.
How to choose a PPC advertising company
Six questions worth asking anyone before you hand over an ad account, including us.
Three steps from this page to a campaign worth funding
Thirty minutes on what you sell, what a customer is worth, and whether paid is the right lever for you yet.
If something is already running we audit it first, at no charge, and tell you honestly what is worth keeping.
Channels, tracking, build work and the fee, written down before anything starts or any budget moves.
What people ask before they commit a budget
The cost questions first, because that is what everyone actually scrolls for.
Cost and commitment
How much does PPC advertising cost?
There are two separate costs: the ad budget you pay the advertising platform, and the management fee you pay the agency running it. Published market rates for management sit at roughly 10 to 20 percent of monthly media spend, usually with a minimum, plus a one time setup fee covering research, tracking and campaign build. We quote against your account rather than against a formula, and the figure is agreed in writing before anything starts, so the number you approve is the number you are billed.
There is no single correct number, because a competitive term in one industry can cost several times what the same term costs in another. That is why we scope the account first and quote against what we find, rather than publishing a figure that would be wrong for most of the people reading it.
Do PPC agencies charge a percentage of ad spend?
Most do, and the common published range is 10 to 20 percent of monthly media spend, often with a minimum fee attached. We quote a figure instead of a formula: a one time setup fee in month one, then a monthly management fee from launch onward, which from month two is the only recurring charge. Your ad budget reaches the platform at cost with no markup on it.
The management fee is quoted against the account and the spend level it covers, so a larger budget is quoted at a larger figure. The difference is that the figure does not recalculate itself every month. It is agreed in writing, it holds until a new one is agreed, and any change is quoted and approved by you before it applies.
What if we already run ads in house or with another agency?
Then there is no setup fee. Taking over a live account starts with a short audit at no extra charge, because the build work has already been done and charging you twice for it would be indefensible. Only the management fee applies from the first month.
The audit tells us whether the existing structure is worth keeping, and we say so honestly. Sometimes the answer is that the account is fine and the problem is the landing page or the offer, and that is a more useful thing to hear than a rebuild quote.
How long does it take to see results from PPC advertising?
Sooner on some accounts than others, and anybody who gives you a fixed date for it is guessing. It moves with how competitive your auction is, how often people in your market buy, and how much traffic the budget can actually buy in a month.
What we can tell you is that the early weeks are not dead time. That is where the account finds out what your market really costs and which searches are worth paying for, and waste starts coming out as soon as there are search terms to read. Every decision made later is built on what that period produces.
Early weeks: what your market costs, and what to stop paying for. Around 30 to 60 days: usually enough conversion data to change bidding and targeting with confidence. After that: decisions get made on evidence rather than assumption.
Who owns the ad accounts and the conversion data?
You do. Accounts are created in your name, or kept in your name if they already exist, and we work inside them with the access level you grant.
If you do not have ad accounts yet, there are two ways to start and neither is a condition. We can create them in your name, which is the cleaner option because everything belongs to you from the first day, or we can run the campaigns from our side to begin with and hand the accounts across whenever you want them. Whichever suits how you work is the one we use.
Either way, the campaign history, audience lists and conversion data are yours if we ever stop working together, and removing our access takes one click on your side. Nothing is held in a system you cannot log into.
Do you offer white label PPC for agencies?
Yes, as a separate service on its own terms. Agencies reselling paid media under their own brand have different requirements to a business buying it directly: campaigns run inside the agency's own ad accounts, reports carry the agency's branding, and we never appear in front of the end client.
Everything about how that arrangement works, including the money side, is on the white label PPC page rather than this one.
How the work runs
What is the difference between PPC advertising and paid media management?
PPC describes the pricing model, where you pay each time someone clicks your ad. Paid media management describes the work: planning the channel mix, building and structuring the accounts, writing the ads, tracking what happens after the click, and deciding every week where the next dollar should go.
In practice the terms are used interchangeably, and both describe what is on this page. The distinction that matters more is whether the work stops at the click or continues past it, because everything that decides profitability happens after the click.
Should a business start with search ads or social ads?
Neither is the default, and the honest answer comes out of five things: whether people are already searching for what you sell, how considered the purchase is, whether the product sells by being seen, whether there is creative to keep feeding it, and how much budget there is to concentrate in one place.
The tidy version of this question, that search is for intent and social is for awareness, sends a lot of businesses to the wrong channel. Retargeting, audiences built from your own customer list and shopping campaigns on social capture demand that already exists, in the same way search does. Search, meanwhile, cannot manufacture demand that nobody is typing.
No search volume for what you sell: search will not carry the account on its own. No supply of creative: paid social stalls however good the targeting is. A small budget: pick one channel and give it enough data to learn from.
How do you stop budget being wasted on the wrong clicks?
Search term reports are reviewed every three to five business days and negative keywords are added before the waste compounds, rather than being cleaned up at the end of the month once the money has already gone.
Automated campaign types make this more important, not less, because they will find their own queries and placements if nobody is checking. The review also covers placements, audiences and devices that are spending without producing anything.
Search terms: every three to five business days. Placements and audiences: weekly. Budget split across campaigns: weekly, against conversion data.
What reporting do you get, and how often?
One report covering every platform we manage, on a monthly cycle, with a review call to go through it. It leads with cost per lead, cost per acquisition and month over month revenue contribution. Platform metrics like click-through rate and cost per click appear underneath as context, not as headlines.
Every report carries an optimization log: what changed in the account during the period, and the reason for each change. If performance drops sharply between reports you hear from us with findings and a plan within one business day, rather than waiting for the next scheduled call.
Do you advertise on platforms beyond search and social?
Paid search and paid social are the core of every account we run, and they are where most budgets should start.
Beyond those, platforms like LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok and Reddit come up regularly and the honest answer is that it depends on the account and the objective. We would want to see both before committing to a channel, because adding a platform that cannot be measured properly costs more than the media itself.
What should you expect from a PPC marketing agency?
You should expect to see the work, not just the outcome. That means access to your own accounts, a record of what was changed and why, and a report that leads with cost per lead and revenue contribution rather than impressions and click-through rate.
You should also expect to be told when something is not working. An agency that only reports the metrics that went up is telling you half of what happened in your account, and the half it leaves out is usually the half that costs money.
Tell us what you sell, and what a customer is worth
Those two answers decide almost everything else. Send them over and we will come back with what we would do first, and what it would cost.
- 12+ years running paid campaigns across search and social
- A short audit first if something is already live, at no charge
- Scope and fee written down before any budget moves
- A reply within one business day
Would rather talk it through? Book a 30-minute call and pick a time that suits you.
Paid media brief
Six fields. Enough for us to come back with something specific rather than a template.
