Paid Ads
Meta ads — Facebook and Instagram — run by the person who built your site. Google Ads when the search intent is there. Set up properly, reported honestly, cancel any time.
WHY ADS?
SEO and your Google Business Profile put you in front of people already looking for what you do. It's the highest-intent traffic there is — and it's capped by how many people happen to be searching this month.
Paid ads work the other way round. Meta puts your work in front of people who weren't looking, on Facebook and Instagram, and hands you a lever you can pull the week you need more work. Google Ads sits in between: paying to appear on the searches you haven't earned organically yet.
Most businesses want both. Ads bring volume now, the organic work compounds — so you're not renting your entire pipeline forever.
What You Get
The Meta pixel and Conversions API wired to the events that actually matter to your business. If the tracking is wrong, everything downstream is guesswork — including the numbers the platform optimises against.
Your photos, your jobs, your products. We write and cut the ads — you don't need a videographer on retainer. The ad that wins is usually the honest one.
A small number of real tests each month — audience, offer, creative — each with enough budget behind it to mean something. Keep what works, kill what doesn't, write down why.
Ads fail on the page more often than in the ad account. If we built your site, that page is part of the job. If we didn't, we'll tell you what needs to change before you spend a dollar sending traffic to it.
What you spent, what came back, what changes next month. No 40-slide dashboards, no impressions dressed up as results.
How It Works
We look at what's already there: the ad account if you have one, the tracking, what's been tried, what your customers are actually worth to you.
Tracking, audiences, and two or three creative angles live inside the first two weeks. We start with the offer most likely to work, not the cleverest one.
The first month mostly buys data. You get a straight read on what it says — including if the answer is that the offer or the budget is the problem.
Budget moves to the winners, losers get cut, and we keep a test running so there's always a next winner in the pipe.
Demand you can turn on
Meta ads across Facebook and Instagram, plus Google Ads where the search intent is there. Add them to any plan, or run them on their own.
Managed
$1,000/mo
Plus ad spend · $500 setup
Performance
$0/mo
Plus a share of what the ads make
Custom
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Bigger budgets, more moving parts
Ad spend always goes directly to Meta or Google on your own card — we never mark it up. Local and service businesses start at $1,500/mo in spend; e-commerce starts at $3,000/mo, because purchase optimisation needs far more conversions before the platform learns anything useful. The one-off $500 setup covers tracking (Meta pixel and Conversions API), audience build, and your first batch of creative.
FAQs
Both — they're the same system. Meta Ads Manager places ads across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and the Audience Network from one account, and we choose placements based on where your customers actually respond, not on which app sounds better.
Enough for the platform to learn. Meta optimises based on how many conversions it sees, so a budget producing two or three leads a week teaches it very little and your results stay random. On the call I'll tell you honestly whether your budget fits what you're selling — and if it doesn't, what to fix first.
The first month is mostly buying data. Expect a real read by 60 days and a stable setup by 90 if the numbers support it. Anyone promising a winning campaign in week one is either lucky or not telling you the truth.
Not always. Ads can run to a site I didn't build. But the page the ad points at decides most of the outcome, so if it's slow or unclear I'll say so up front rather than spending your money proving it.
You do. It's set up under your business, on your payment method, and it stays yours — with all the data, audiences and history — if we ever stop working together.
No. Ads stop the day you stop paying; the organic work keeps earning. They do different jobs, and most businesses do best running both once the site is right.
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Book a 30-minute call. If ads aren't the right move for your business right now, I'll tell you that instead.