Most Winnipeg businesses running Google Ads don't have an ads problem. They have a tracking problem.
The campaign is live, the budget is going out the door every month, and the reports show impressions and clicks going up. But nobody can answer the only question that matters: how many of those clicks turned into a customer, and what did each one cost?
We fix that first. Then we make the ads better.
Winnipeg is a small market with expensive clicks. That combination catches people off guard.
The search volume here is a fraction of Toronto's, so there's a hard ceiling on how much traffic any keyword can send you. But the businesses competing for those searches are often well-established, well-funded, and have been bidding on the same terms for years. In competitive verticals like personal injury law, insurance, and emergency home services, a single click in Winnipeg can cost more than most people expect for a market this size.
What that means in practice:
Paid search works best when the customer is already looking for a solution and the deal size justifies the click cost. In Winnipeg that tends to mean:
If your average customer is worth under a few hundred dollars and your volume is low, paid search may not be the right first channel. We'll tell you that during the audit rather than after you've spent three months finding out.
The core of most Winnipeg campaigns. We build tightly themed campaigns around commercial-intent keywords, write ad copy that actually matches what the searcher typed, and manage bids against lead cost rather than click cost.
For eligible trades and home service businesses, LSA puts you above the standard ads with a Google Screened badge, and you pay per lead instead of per click. Eligibility and available categories vary, so we'll confirm whether your business qualifies before recommending it.
For retailers and e-commerce. PMax is powerful and opaque in equal measure, so we run it with a clean product feed, asset groups built by margin rather than category, and enough exclusions that it doesn't quietly spend your entire budget on brand searches you'd have won for free.
Most people don't convert on the first visit. We build audience segments based on real behaviour (visited the pricing page, started a form, abandoned a cart) instead of blasting the same banner at everyone who ever loaded your homepage.
Frequently ignored, and that's exactly why it's worth running. The audience skews older and higher-income, the competition is thinner, and clicks generally cost less than the equivalent Google terms. For B2B and professional services in particular, it's often the cheapest qualified traffic in the account.
Better for demand generation than demand capture. Useful when you're selling something people don't know to search for yet, or when you're retargeting people who already know you.
Expensive per click, occasionally worth every cent. If you sell to a specific job title at a specific company size, nothing else targets that precisely.
This is the part most agencies skip, and it's the part that decides whether the rest works. More on that below.
Here's a scenario that plays out constantly.
An agency audits your account and finds the real problem isn't the ads. It's that your contact form is buried below the fold, your site takes six seconds to load on mobile, your phone calls aren't tracked, and closed deals never make it back into Google Ads so the algorithm is optimizing toward whichever leads happen to fill out forms rather than whichever leads actually buy.
The agency writes this up in a recommendations deck and sends it to your web developer. Then everyone waits.
We're the developers. ITS Inc. is a software company that does marketing, not a marketing company that outsources development. That changes what we can fix and how fast:
If your site and your ads are managed by two companies who email each other, you’re paying for the gap between them.
We review your existing account (or build a forecast if you're starting fresh): wasted spend, search term quality, tracking accuracy, landing page fit, competitor positioning. You get the findings whether or not you hire us.
Account structure, keyword and negative lists, geo and schedule targeting, ad copy, extensions, conversion actions, landing pages.
The first two to four weeks are learning period. We watch search terms daily, cut what's obviously wrong, and resist the urge to make ten changes at once while the algorithm is still calibrating.
Bid strategy, budget reallocation between campaigns, ad and landing page testing, audience refinement, and continuous negative keyword work.
Monthly reporting in plain language: spend, leads, cost per lead, and where the budget went. Plus a live dashboard you can check any time you want without asking us for it.
Two numbers to plan around, and they’re separate.
Goes to Google, Microsoft, or Meta. It doesn’t touch us. Most Winnipeg small businesses see meaningful data somewhere north of $1,500 to $2,000 per month. Below roughly $1,000, there often isn’t enough volume to optimize against, and you’re better off putting that money into SEO or Local Services Ads.
Cover strategy, build, and ongoing optimization. Ours are structured either as a flat monthly retainer or a percentage of ad spend, depending on account size and complexity. Landing page development is quoted separately when it’s needed.
We’ll give you real numbers after the audit, because quoting a management fee before seeing the account is guessing.
Your Google Ads account is created under your business, in your name. We get access as a manager, not an owner.
If we stop working together, you keep the account, the historical data, the conversion tracking, and the landing pages. Nothing gets held hostage, and you don’t start from zero somewhere else.
This is worth asking every agency you talk to, because a surprising number of them will not say yes.
Traffic starts the day campaigns go live. Useful leads usually follow within the first week or two. Reliable performance takes 60 to 90 days, because bidding algorithms need conversion volume before they get good, and early data is noisy.
PPC buys visibility immediately and stops the moment you stop paying. SEO builds visibility slowly and keeps working after the invoice clears. Most Winnipeg businesses run both: paid for immediate lead flow and for testing which keywords actually convert, organic for the long-term cost per lead. Data from your ad campaigns is genuinely useful for pointing your SEO strategy at terms you've already proven make money.
Around $1,500 per month in ad spend for most local service businesses. Competitive verticals like legal and insurance need more. If you're below that, say so and we'll tell you honestly whether paid search is the right first move.
Usually yes, and often it's faster than starting over because there's historical data worth keeping. The audit tells us whether the account is worth restructuring or worth replacing.
Not usually. Most campaigns are better served by a dedicated landing page than by rebuilding a site. We'll flag it during the audit if something structural on your site is going to cap performance.
No. We work month to month after the initial build. If the campaign isn't performing, a contract shouldn't be the reason you stay.
Depends entirely on what a customer is worth to you. A $200 cost per lead is a disaster for a business with $400 jobs and a bargain for one closing $40,000 contracts. We set targets against your actual close rate and deal value, not industry averages.
Yes. We run campaigns across Manitoba and nationally. Winnipeg is home, and it's where most of our local market knowledge is concentrated.
Serving Winnipeg and communities across Manitoba — see all our service areas.
If you’re already running ads, we’ll show you where the money is going and what’s recoverable. If you’re not, we’ll tell you whether paid search is worth your budget before you commit to it.
Either way, you’ll get a straight answer.
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