The PPC Company That Grows Small and Mid-Size Businesses
Stop spending. Start investing.
PPC Masterminds is a pay-per-click management company in Redondo Beach, California. Since 2012 we have run paid campaigns for more than 250 businesses, most of them owner-run companies spending a few thousand to a few hundred thousand dollars a month. We publish our pricing, we work without contracts, and a senior specialist handles every account. If you are comparing PPC companies, this page tells you how to judge one, including us.
What a PPC Management Company Should Do for You
Strip away the sales language and a PPC company has four jobs. Put the budget on the searches that turn into customers and keep it off the ones that do not. Send every click to a page that does its job. Then prove, with numbers you can check, that the first three happened.
Here is each of the four, in order. The platforms, the process, the pricing and the questions below are all ways of asking whether a company does them well.
Results From Companies We Manage
Leads doubled and the cost per lead halved.
Bookings up 3.5 times, cost per booking down 65 percent.
Voyage Jordan case study
A new luxury luggage brand that was profitable on paid traffic in month one.
TotenCarry case studyThirteen more are on the client results page, sorted by industry, with the reviews behind them on the testimonials page.
How to Judge a PPC Company Before You Hire One
Most PPC companies look alike on a sales call. These seven questions separate them, and we answer each for ourselves so you can hold us to it.
- Who will actually work on the account?
Ask for the name. Many companies sell with a senior person and hand the account to a trainee the week after. Here the specialist who audits your account is the one who manages it.
- Do they publish their pricing?
If a company will not tell you what it charges until it has qualified you, it is pricing to what it thinks you can pay. Ours is on the pricing page: management from $2,500 a month, with what is and is not included.
- Is there a contract?
A twelve-month term protects the company, not you. Our clients have been on month-to-month terms since 2012.
- Whose name is on the ad accounts?
If the accounts belong to the company, so does your history. Ours are created under your login and remain yours.
- What does the report lead with?
Clicks and impressions can be inflated at will and say nothing about revenue. A report should open with cost per lead or cost per sale and the return on the spend.
- Will they show you the account?
A company that keeps you out of your own account has something in it. You hold a login to every account we manage.
- Do they say no?
A good PPC company will tell you when a keyword, a channel or a budget is a bad idea, and when organic search would serve you better than paid. We turn work away when we can see it will not pay, and we say why.
What We Manage
How an Engagement Runs
- Audit, free.
We go through your existing accounts, or your market if you have none, and write up what we found and what we would change. Request it here. The write-up is yours either way, hired or not.
- Rebuild.
Tracking first, then account structure, keywords and negatives, ads and landing pages, in that order, because a campaign built on broken tracking cannot be judged.
- Launch and the first 30 days.
The first month is about removing waste and confirming the numbers. We do not promise results in week one, and we are suspicious of companies that do.
- Optimize.
Weekly work on search terms, bids, ads, budgets and pages. We keep a change log in the account, so any movement in the numbers can be traced to a cause.
- Scale.
Once cost per lead holds, we add budget, campaigns and channels in that order, and we tell you before each step what we expect it to do.
Pricing: Published, So You Can Compare Us Before You Call
Management starts at $2,500 a month. Ad spend is billed to you by Google, Microsoft or Meta, never through us. Our pricing page spells out the fee, its exclusions and the exit terms. There is no contract. If you want a projection first, the free PPC calculator turns a budget and a conversion rate into clicks, leads and cost.
Why Businesses Choose This PPC Company
Paid campaigns have been the whole business since 2012. We are not a web design shop or an SEO firm that added PPC to the menu.
You know who runs your account, and it does not change without you being told.
Compare us on price before you talk to us, and leave whenever you want.
The reviews are quoted verbatim on the testimonials page, typos and all.
Some businesses should not run paid search yet. If that is you, the audit will say so.
Questions About PPC Management Companies
Still unanswered? Ask on the audit call, and our CEO answers it himself, for free.
What does a PPC company do each month? +
Reviews the search terms the ads showed for, adds negatives, adjusts bids and budgets, tests ad copy, checks the landing pages and the tracking, and reports what a lead or a sale cost. We work on accounts weekly, not once a month before the report.
What does management cost at PPC Masterminds? +
The fee starts at $2,500 a month. Ad spend is billed to you by the platforms, never through us, and the pricing page breaks the fee down line by line.
Is there a minimum term? +
None. Clients have been month to month since 2012, and the ad accounts stay in your name if you leave.
Which platforms do you manage? +
Google Ads first, Microsoft Ads alongside it, Meta for Facebook and Instagram, and Shopping. Amazon and Pinterest campaigns on request.
What is the difference between a PPC company, a PPC agency and a freelancer? +
Mostly the label. What matters is who works on the account, how they report, and whether they will show you the account itself. Here a senior specialist runs your account and you can open it at any time.
How soon do we see results? +
Tracking fixes and wasted spend come out in the first weeks. A fair read on cost per lead takes two to three months of data, and we tell you what we expect before each change.
What do we need to get started? +
Access to your Google Ads account, or we build one, your website or landing pages, and what a lead or a sale is worth to you. The free audit comes first, before any money changes hands.
Compare Us. Then Call.
Put us next to any PPC company on the seven questions above. If we come out ahead, request the free audit and you will have a written rundown of your account within the week.
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