Google Ads for budgets under $2,000 a month, managed the way small budgets deserve: manually, carefully, and with zero tolerance for wasted clicks.
Big-agency playbooks applied to a $1,500 budget
Smart bidding guessing with too little data
Every wasted click hurts twice as much
Google’s automated bidding needs volume to learn. Below roughly 15 to 30 conversions a month, Target CPA is not optimizing, it is guessing with your money. A $1,500 a month account on tCPA is letting an algorithm train itself on data it does not have.
We run small accounts on manual CPC or Maximize Clicks with tight guardrails, on purpose, until conversion volume earns automation. It is more work for us. That is the point. Most agencies flip on smart bidding because it is less work for them.
The gym we took from $219 to $9.49 per lead needed 33 out-of-area negative locations. A small budget cannot afford clicks from people who will never drive to you. Presence-only targeting, then negatives, then check the location report weekly.
Sending paid clicks to your homepage is a leak you cannot see. One page, one offer, one form. We build these when the current page is the bottleneck.
Small accounts drown quietly in near-miss searches. A weekly search terms review with ruthless negatives is the cheapest optimization in PPC, and the most skipped.
Run the arithmetic before you sign anything, ours included. Say clicks in your market cost $6. A $1,000 budget buys about 165 of them. A decent landing page converts 8 to 12 percent, so call it 15 leads. Close a third at an average job of $1,500 and that is roughly $7,500 in revenue against $1,000 in ad spend and a $700 management fee. Worth it.
Now change one number. If your average job is $150, the same math loses money, and no agency can manage its way around that. In that case do not hire us. Raise your ticket, fix your pricing, or put the money into SEO, which compounds instead of renting clicks. And if your budget is above $2,000 a month, you have graduated: see our Google Ads management services.
If the verdict says it does not pencil out, believe it. We do.
or call (864) 436-8680
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Multi-location and high-spend accounts run up to $1,300 a month, quoted flat before you sign anything. Full plan details are on our Google Ads management page.
Tell us about your business and budget and we will send back an honest read, including whether the math works at all.
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Flat $700 a month. No contracts. You own the account.