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Practical guides from our paid media team on forecasting results, cutting wasted spend, and running Google Ads, Meta and streaming campaigns for service businesses, franchises and events.
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Google Ads for Car Washes: How to Sell More Memberships
How to run Google Ads for a car wash: radius targeting, weather-timed budgets, membership tracking and the cost per new member you can afford.
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RemodelingHow Remodeling Contractors Get More Booked Consultations
Where kitchen, bath and home remodeling leads come from, how to qualify them, callback speed, and how much a booked consultation is worth to a contractor.
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RoofingRoofing Google Ads: How to Get More Roof Inspections
How to run Google Ads and Local Services Ads for a roofing company: storm-timed budgets, keyword structure, call tracking and cost per booked inspection.
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Auto repairAuto Repair Shop Marketing: How to Get More Cars in the Bays
How auto repair shops and oil change centers get more customers: Google Search and Maps, reviews, Local Services Ads, first-visit offers and lifetime value.
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Real estateReal Estate Facebook Ads and the Housing Special Ad Category
What the Meta Housing special ad category means for real estate agents, what targeting is allowed, and how to run seller lead ads that work within the rules.
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ForecastingHow to Forecast Google Ads Results
A step-by-step method to forecast Google Ads leads, cost per lead, revenue and ROAS before you spend, using search volume, click costs and conversion rates.
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ForecastingHow Much Should You Spend on Google Ads?
How to set a Google Ads budget from your lead goal, cost per click and conversion rate, with a worked example, a free calculator and rules for scaling.
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ForecastingWhat Is a Good ROAS?
A good ROAS depends on your margin. Learn how to calculate break-even and target ROAS, why averages mislead, and how to set ROAS goals in Google Ads and Meta.
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ForecastingAI Advertising Forecasting: What It Can and Cannot Predict
How AI forecasting works in paid advertising, what it predicts well, where it fails, and how to evaluate an AI marketing forecasting tool before trusting it.
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Find and fix wasted ad spend.
12 Places Your Google Ads Budget Leaks
The 12 most common causes of wasted Google Ads spend, from missing negative keywords to bad tracking, and how to fix each one.
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Wasted SpendGoogle Ads Audit Checklist
A practical Google Ads audit checklist covering tracking, settings, keywords, bidding, Performance Max, ads and landing pages, in the order to check them.
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Wasted SpendIs Performance Max Wasting Your Money?
Six signs Performance Max is spending on branded searches, weak placements or low-value conversions, and the settings that fix each one.
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Sell more tickets with paid ads.
How to Sell More Festival Tickets with Paid Ads
A paid advertising playbook for festivals and events: forecast attendance, sequence channels, use urgency, track ticket sales and avoid last-minute waste.
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Event MarketingWhen to Start Promoting an Event
A week-by-week paid advertising timeline for events and festivals, from announcement to event day, with how to split budget across each phase.
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Event MarketingFacebook Ads for Events
How to run Facebook and Instagram ads for events: campaign objective, ticket purchase tracking, audiences, retargeting and creative that sells tickets.
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Advertising for franchises and multi-location brands.
How to Allocate a Franchise Marketing Fund
How franchisors can split the brand marketing fund between national brand work and local lead generation, measure results per location and report to franchisees.
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Franchise MarketingHow to Structure Google Ads for Multiple Locations
How to structure Google Ads for franchises and multi-location businesses: campaigns by location, budgets, location assets, landing pages and per-location reporting.
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Choosing and judging an agency.
How Much Does PPC Management Cost?
PPC management pricing explained: percentage of ad spend, flat fees, hybrid and performance-based models, what is usually included, and how to compare agencies.
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Choosing an AgencyWhat a Real Marketing Agency Guarantee Looks Like
Why no honest agency can guarantee leads or revenue, what a service guarantee should promise instead, and the questions to ask before trusting any guarantee.
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