Paid Advertising
Spending more on Google Ads every month and getting less back?
You've run ads before. The dashboard showed activity, then the returns shrank — you spent more and got less, and nobody could tell you which dollar produced which deal. The platform usually isn't the problem; the infrastructure around it is. We rebuild paid accounts that are bleeding budget — fixing the conversion tracking, restructuring the campaigns, and message-matching the landing pages — across Google Ads, Meta, and LinkedIn, all optimized for revenue instead of clicks. We took one NJ roofing account from a $912 cost per lead to $197 in 90 days, with every dollar tracked from ad click to closed job.
“We're spending more and getting less. I don't know how that makes sense.”
— Business owner spending $20K/month on Google Ads
Sound Familiar?
You've run ads before — maybe yourself, maybe an agency, maybe both. The first months felt promising: clicks, leads, activity on the dashboard. Then the returns started shrinking. You raised the budget and got less back. The agency asked for more time, more creative, more spend. The report looked fine while the phone stayed quiet.
Here's what usually happened: the account was optimized for the wrong thing. Clicks instead of conversions. Traffic to your homepage instead of a page built to capture that buyer at that moment. The platform was working — the infrastructure around it wasn't.
One owner told us he could park his $20K monthly ad spend in a savings account and earn more than his PPC was generating. He wasn't wrong — his agency was counting clicks while his revenue went backward.
Google works. Meta works. The gap is almost always between the click and the conversion: landing pages that don't convert, tracking that doesn't attribute, and campaigns that aren't segmented by intent. Fix those three and the same budget produces a completely different result.
How We Do It Differently
We don't start with ad spend. We start with infrastructure. The first 2-3 weeks are conversion-tracking setup, landing-page builds, audience research, and competitive analysis — before a single dollar hits a platform. This is the part most agencies skip, because it doesn't produce impressions they can put on a report.
Month 1: Fix the Foundation
Custom landing pages for each campaign segment. Call tracking with source attribution. Conversion tracking — server-side Conversions API and Enhanced Conversions — that follows the lead from ad click to closed job. Negative-keyword lists built from real competitive analysis. We launch deliberately conservative: establishing baselines, not burning budget.
Month 2-3: Optimize With Real Data
Now we have data — not vanity metrics, but which ads produce which leads and which leads become revenue. We cut what doesn't work, scale what does, and build retargeting audiences from your best converters. Smart Bidding finally has clean signal to optimize against.
Month 4+: Compound
Retargeting audiences grow, creative gets refined from performance data, and each month builds on the last. One NJ roofing account we rebuilt went from a 1.29% CTR producing 21 conversions a quarter to a 15.62% CTR producing 196 — same Google Ads platform, same NJ market — because the infrastructure was right and the data compounded.
What We Deliver
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Full-funnel campaign strategy across Google, Meta, LinkedIn
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Creative production — ad copy, images, video, landing pages
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Audience research and targeting architecture
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Conversion tracking and attribution setup
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Weekly optimization and bid management
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Monthly performance reporting tied to revenue
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Emerging platform readiness — AI advertising (ChatGPT, SearchGPT) as platforms open to mid-market advertisers
The Proof
A NJ roofing company came to us with a $15K/month Google Ads account producing only 21 conversions a quarter — a 1.29% CTR, a $912 cost per conversion, and a stack of misconfigured conversion actions that made real performance impossible to read. Same NJ market, same platform: we shipped a new Next.js site with a server-side Conversions API, retired the misconfigured Primaries, and ran weekly URL rotations to defuse a competitor URL-spam campaign.
90 days later: CTR went 1.29% → 15.62% (5X the NJ roofing benchmark). Cost per conversion went $912 → $197. Conversions went 21 → 196. Same Google Ads platform — different infrastructure underneath.
It's the same pattern across the portfolio: a Brooklyn Mercedes-Benz dealership went to 2.5X first-party leads at a 38% lower cost per lead by replacing rented third-party leads with a tracked first-party system. Every paid dollar stays auditable to the campaign — not impressions, not clicks, but tracked leads and tracked revenue.
That's why the clients who see these numbers on their monthly reports are the ones who stay, because dollars in and dollars out is the only scoreboard that matters.
Is This For You?
✓ Good Fit If...
- ✓You have an ad budget of $3K+ per month (or are willing to invest that)
- ✓You want to know exactly which dollar produced which deal
- ✓You've tried ads before and the results didn't match the promise
- ✓You're ready to invest 2-3 months in building the infrastructure before scaling
✗ Not the Right Fit If...
- ✗You want leads tomorrow with no setup period
- ✗You're comparing us to $500/month ad management services
- ✗You don't have a way to follow up on leads quickly (within 5 minutes)
What You Can Expect
9X conversions in 90 days for one roofing client ($912 to $197 per lead)
Predictable monthly lead flow replacing feast-or-famine cycles
Full attribution from ad click to closed revenue
Compounding performance as audiences and creative mature
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