Google Ads campaigns need at least 10 clicks per day to gather usable data and optimize effectively. If your industry's cost-per-click is too high to hit that threshold, a small budget like $1,000 won't work. Research your industry's average CPC first, then set a budget that sustains 10 daily clicks.
Same research that you're doing to see what your CPCs are to make sure you're actually able to mathematically hit goals that make sense and are realistic. You also have to have enough budget to operate to ever even make that happen. So I'm speaking to you lawyers. If you're in an industry that's very expensive, lawyers, and you come at it with like 1000 bucks, you just come up with this number like, hey, let's just throw a thousand bucks at Google Ads, see what happens. So you're just going to give that to Google and get nothing from it? You have to look at the data. You must go get 10 clicks per day in order to just have enough data coming in, enough momentum and enough volume to ever really do anything with it, to be able to optimize, to be able to eventually get enough conversion volume, to be able to eventually tap into smart bidding and then off to the races. Right? You have to have a realistic budget to get there and you have to look at the data. What are CPC is going to cost me and if I have to get 10 clicks minimum, just use that as a guideline. Do I have the budget in my industry based off my cpcs in order to even afford that? So do the research have clear defined goals, right, that are realistic and you must also have a realistic budget. We have generated over $50 million in revenue for our clients using performance max campaigns. We decided we're going to download our knowledge of performance max campaigns into a free, easy, practical course and just give it away to the community. Go grab this free course and I'll see you inside.
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