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Service 01 / Google Ads

Most Google Ads accounts are bleeding budget on clicks that never call.

We're a paid-media shop for local service businesses. Search, Performance Max, retargeting, and full conversion tracking that ties every dollar to a booked job, not a click. We don't run Meta. We charge flat fees, never a percent of your spend. Nick personally runs every account.

4.2× Avg. client ROI
10× Top-client revenue, 24 mo.
$1.2M+ Ad spend managed
40+ Service businesses scaled
The diagnostic

In 9 out of 10 audits, we find the same four leaks.

If you've never had a real operator look at your account, here's what they'd see in the first hour.

01 / Leak

Search-term hemorrhage

A meaningful share of your spend is going to queries that will never book a job. Negative keywords haven't been touched in months, sometimes ever. The account is paying Google to send you the wrong people.

02 / Leak

Conversion-tracking theater

A "conversion" pixel firing on form view, page scroll, or button click instead of an actual submitted lead. The campaign optimizes against a ghost signal, the dashboard looks healthy, and the phone stays quiet.

03 / Leak

Bid strategy misaligned with the goal

Bidding for clicks when the real goal is a booked job. Smart Bidding can't help if the signal it's fed is wrong. Most accounts are running auto-bidding strategies they were never set up to honor.

04 / Leak

Performance Max as a black box

No asset-group structure, no brand exclusions, no audience signals, no negative-placement list. Google decides who your ideal customer is. Spoiler: it isn't always who you'd pick.

The work, made visible

What "we audit your account" actually means.

This is the exact GAQL query we run on every new account, week one. It surfaces the top 50 search terms spending more than $50 over the last 30 days with zero conversions. Within a day, those are negative keywords. That's it. That's the first hour.

-- The wasted-spend query we run on every new account
1SELECT
2  search_term_view.search_term,
3  metrics.cost_micros,
4  metrics.clicks,
5  metrics.conversions
6FROM search_term_view
7WHERE segments.date DURING LAST_30_DAYS
8  AND metrics.cost_micros > 50000000   -- $50
9  AND metrics.conversions = 0
10ORDER BY metrics.cost_micros DESC
11LIMIT 50

Most agencies will tell you they "audit your account." Ask them to show you the query. If they can't, they're running a checklist that hasn't been updated since 2019.

How we run it

Six pillars. Every campaign covers all of them.

01

Search campaign management

High-intent keyword targeting across the buyer journey. Tightly themed ad groups, copy written for the call, bids pulled back where they don't convert and pushed where they do.

02

Performance Max with guardrails

Not a black box. Asset-group structure, audience signals, brand exclusions, and a negative-placement list that gets updated every two weeks.

03

Retargeting that doesn't annoy

Segmented audience lists, tailored messaging, frequency caps. Bring warm prospects back without turning your brand into the popup-ad villain.

04

Full conversion tracking

Phone calls, form fills, live chat, purchases. Every conversion point instrumented and attributed before a single ad goes live. If it doesn't track, it doesn't count.

05

Continuous A/B testing

Ongoing ad copy, headline, and landing-page tests. Winners get scaled. Losers get cut. Every campaign cycle compounds the learnings from the one before.

06

Negative keyword management

Wasted spend is the silent budget killer. We build and refine the negative-keyword list weekly so the budget reaches buyers, not browsers.

Nick and Chris standing in front of a whiteboard reading 10x in 24 months for Ole Man RB's Tree Service
Featured case

Ole Man RB's Tree Service.

10×
$3,150/mo  →  $83,656/mo peak  ·  24 months

Built a full Google Ads + GA4 stack from scratch on a tree-service account that had been running on autopilot. Two years of weekly optimization later, they're a category leader in their service area, with the campaign still in our seat.

See the full case study
Nick and Emilia reviewing campaign performance on a laptop together
Inside the work

Every campaign decision goes through Nick and Emilia. There is no account-manager layer, because we don't believe in one.

What you get

A campaign that runs on a system, not vibes.

What's included, every month

  • Full campaign build and account structure
  • Ad copy creation, 3 to 5 variants per ad group
  • Conversion tracking setup across every touchpoint
  • Weekly optimization sprints (bids, keywords, copy)
  • Negative-keyword list built and updated weekly
  • A/B testing with winner implementation
  • Google Analytics 4 integration and goal tracking
  • Monthly plain-language performance report
  • Bi-weekly strategy calls with Nick or Emilia
  • 24-hour response time, guaranteed

What it actually changes

More qualified inbound calls and form fills

Higher-intent prospects ready to buy, not just browsing.

A cost-per-booked-job you can plan around

Predictable, trackable acquisition cost, so you can make confident hiring and capacity decisions.

Returns that compound, not plateau

Month 6 outperforms month 1. Every optimization cycle builds on the one before.

Full visibility into what's working

Every keyword, every ad, every dollar attributed and explained in plain English.

A few things we won't do

The stuff most agencies won't tell you until after you sign.

We won't

Charge a percent of your ad spend.

Percentage-of-spend is a conflict of interest. If your agency makes more when your budget goes up, guess what they're going to recommend. We charge flat fees, every engagement.

We won't

Hide what we're doing.

Every client gets real-time portal access to the same dashboards we look at internally. No black-box reporting, no "trust us" optimization decisions. The data is yours from day one.

We won't

Ship a template campaign.

Every account gets a custom strategy informed by your industry, your geography, your seasonality, and your historical data. We've scaled enough businesses to know one size never fits.

Free audit

Get a real teardown of your Google Ads account.

30-minute call. We share screens. We run the query above on your account live. We tell you the top three wins and whether we're the right fit. You walk away with the audit either way.

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