The budget
Charged per click, straight from your card
- You set the ceiling and it is never exceeded
- The account is in your name from day one
- You can see every penny in the account yourself
- Stop any day and the spending stops with it
Google Ads · work now, not next quarter
«We ran ads. Nothing came of it»
Ads are the fastest way to be seen and the fastest way to waste money. The difference is almost never the size of the budget — it is what you are bidding on.
Google Ads puts you above the results for searches you choose, and charges you when somebody clicks. It is the one channel that can bring work this week — and the one that stops the day you stop paying.
Where the money goes
Every stage loses people. The job is not to stop that — it is to lose the right ones early, before they cost you a click.
Shown to people searching. Negative keywords decide who never sees you — and save more than clever bidding does.
Clicked. This is where the money actually leaves: you pay here whether or not anything follows.
Read the page. If it answers a different question from the ad, the click is already lost.
Got in touch. The only number on this page that pays a wage.
We look at the campaign
every 3 days
That is the shape of a working account. A broken one loses everything at the second stage and nobody notices, because the report shows impressions.
The percentages are the shape of the funnel, not a promise. Yours will differ by trade and by town.
What the ratio looks like
The only comparison that matters: what went out, and what came back.
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Spend
Enquiries
cost per enquiry — the figure we manage against, and the one that goes in the report
From our own account, in Ukraine. We show it because it is real, not because your numbers will match it.
Who charges you for what
This is the question British businesses ask first, and it deserves a straight answer.
Charged per click, straight from your card
Us
A flat monthly fee, agreed before we start
If an agency takes a cut of your ad spend, its interests and yours point in different directions. That is not an accusation, it is arithmetic.
The work
Six things, and the first two save more money than the rest combined.
Which work you want more of, and which you would rather not have. That decides everything downstream.
The searches you must never pay for. This list grows every week and is where most wasted spend lives.
An ad can only be as good as what it lands on. If the page is the problem, we say so instead of raising the bid.
Budget follows the searches that produce calls. What spends without producing gets cut — and you see what was cut.
So the report can say «enquiries» rather than «clicks». Without it nobody can tell working from wasteful.
Spend, enquiries, cost per enquiry. No quality-score chart, no impression count.
How fast
Ads or search
They are not competitors. They answer different questions, and the wrong one is expensive.
If you need work next week, ads are the honest answer and we will say so. If you are paying for ads to make up for a profile that does not work, that is an expensive way to fix the wrong thing — and we will say that too.
Questions
Not covered here? Email us and we'll answer in plain words.
No, and this is worth being clear about. The budget goes to Google and is charged per click. Our fee is separate, flat, and agreed before we start — it does not rise when your spend does.
No. A percentage would mean we earn more when you spend more, and we would rather not have that pulling at our decisions.
Yours, in your name, from day one. You can see every penny in it yourself, and if we stop working together nothing needs transferring.
There is a floor below which the numbers are noise rather than data — it depends on your trade and how much a click costs in it. We will tell you if we think yours is under it, before you spend anything.
No. We can tell you what we see in your market and manage towards it, and show you the figure every month. Anyone promising a number before looking at your account is guessing.
The spending stops the same day. That is the nature of ads, not a flaw — and it is exactly why the profile and the site should carry the steady part.
Other services
Paid clicks bring people now. What they land on, and whether you are found without paying, are two other jobs.
Next step
Leave your details, or just email us. We will look at your listing in Google and say what would make a difference and what is not worth paying for.
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