PPC Management Services
that pay for themselves.
Google Ads and Meta ads managed by one specialist who has run more than $4.3 million in paid media since 2019 — for ecommerce brands and lead generation businesses across the United States.
A 20-minute walkthrough of what your account is wasting and what to fix first. No pitch deck, no retainer required.
What PPC Management
actually includes.
PPC management is the ongoing work of running paid search and paid social campaigns so that every dollar spent returns more than a dollar back.
At Running Digital Group that covers five things: keyword and audience research, campaign build and structure, conversion tracking that actually fires, weekly bid and budget management, and creative testing.
We manage Google Ads and Meta ads for ecommerce brands and lead generation businesses anywhere in the United States. You keep ownership of your ad accounts, your data and your pixels — always, including after we stop working together.
Paid media, search and the pages
that convert them.
Pick one channel or run them all together. Every campaign is built around your return on investment.
Google Ads
Search, Shopping, Performance Max and YouTube. We rebuild account structure around what converts, then manage bids weekly rather than monthly.
Facebook & Meta Ads
Campaigns built around creative testing, because on Meta the creative is the targeting. Audiences, pixel and CAPI setup, offer testing and scaling.
SEO & AI Search
Technical fixes, content that answers real queries, and the structured data that gets you quoted in AI answers.
Ecommerce Advertising
Shopping feeds, catalogue ads and the margin maths behind them. We work to contribution margin, not just ROAS.
Email Marketing
Flows, campaigns and list growth in Klaviyo and similar platforms. The cheapest revenue is traffic you already paid for once.
Web Development
Landing pages built to convert paid traffic. Most underperforming ad accounts are a landing page problem in disguise.
Built for two
kinds of business.
We are not a full-service shop that also does ads. Paid media is the business, and it is run by the person you speak to.
Ecommerce brands
You sell products online and you know your margins. We run Shopping, Performance Max and Meta catalogue campaigns against contribution margin, not vanity ROAS.
Typical fit: $20k–$500k monthly revenue, Shopify or WooCommerce, at least one product with margin to scale behind.
Lead generation businesses
You sell a service and you need the phone to ring with people who can actually buy. We filter out the tyre-kickers and track leads through to booked work, not form fills.
Typical fit: home services, professional services, healthcare, education, franchise and multi-location operators.
How a campaign
gets built.
Four steps, in this order, every time. Step two is the one most agencies skip.
We go through your existing accounts and find the waste: wrong match types, broken conversion tracking, budget sitting in campaigns that never convert. You get the findings whether or not you hire us.
Nothing gets scaled before measurement is trustworthy. Conversion tracking, server-side events where needed, and agreement on the number we are both judging this by.
Campaign structure, audiences, creative and landing pages. We start deliberately narrow on the segments most likely to convert, then widen once the data earns it.
Bids, budgets, search terms and creative reviewed every week. A report that shows spend, results, cost per result and what changed — in plain language.
Results, with
the numbers attached.
[Cost per lead cut from $180 to $64]
[Over 5 months at $12k/mo spend]
[3.2x blended ROAS at 2x the previous spend]
[Q3 2026]
[61% more booked jobs year on year]
[12 months, 4 locations]
PPC management questions,
answered.
The eight we get asked most, before anyone signs anything.
What do PPC management services cost?
Most agencies charge either a flat monthly retainer or a percentage of ad spend, typically 10–20%. We price on the work the account needs rather than a fixed percentage, so a straightforward lead gen account costs less to run than a 2,000-SKU Shopping feed. There is no long-term contract and no setup fee. You will get a number on the first call, not after a three-stage proposal process.
How long before PPC campaigns work?
Paid search can produce leads within days of launch, because you are buying existing demand rather than building it. Reliable performance data takes longer: expect two to four weeks before optimisation decisions are based on enough conversions to trust, and about 90 days to know what the account is capable of at scale.
Should I run Google Ads or Meta ads first?
Start with Google Ads if people already search for what you sell, which is most lead generation businesses. Start with Meta if you need to create demand or your product is visual and impulse-friendly, which covers most ecommerce. Most accounts eventually run both, with Google capturing intent and Meta building the audience that creates it.
Is PPC better than SEO?
They answer different questions. PPC buys visibility immediately and stops the day you stop paying. SEO compounds slowly and keeps working, but takes six months or more to show meaningful return. Businesses that need leads this quarter start with PPC; businesses building a durable channel run both, and use PPC keyword data to decide what to write for SEO.
What is a good ROAS?
There is no universal number, and anyone who gives you one is guessing. Break-even ROAS is 1 divided by your gross margin: at 25% margin you need 4x just to cover product cost, while at 70% margin 1.5x is profitable. We set the target from your margin before launch, which is why the first conversation is about your numbers rather than ours.
Do I keep ownership of my ad accounts?
Yes, always. Your Google Ads account, Meta Business Manager, pixels, conversion data and historical performance stay yours, including after we stop working together. We work inside your accounts rather than running you through an agency-owned one, so nothing has to be rebuilt if you leave.
How much should I spend on ads to start?
Enough to produce roughly 30 conversions a month, because below that neither the platform’s algorithm nor a human has enough signal to optimise. Work backwards: if your cost per lead is $80, that is around $2,400 a month. Spending less is possible but slower, and the learning takes longer than most businesses have patience for.
What makes Running Digital Group different from a larger agency?
You work directly with the person managing your account. There is no account manager relaying questions to a media buyer you never meet, and no junior taking over once the contract is signed. The trade-off is honest: we take on fewer accounts than a large agency, so there is a limit to how many clients we can run at once.
Find out what your account
is wasting.
A free 20-minute audit of your Google Ads or Meta account. You get the findings either way.
Or call (973) 769-1591 · andy@runningdigitalgroup.com
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