Google Ads for cafes and bars never chases the passer-by, since one click can cost almost as much as the coffee earns; the money goes on private hire, parties and group bookings.
Hire enquiries often come from someone organising for others, an office manager or a best friend, who needs a price they can forward.
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The biggest leak is when people ready to book and people casually comparing share the same campaigns, ad text and budget rules.
Cafes and bars serve many occasions, and guests expect different things from each.
An advert can bring a request for a birthday or a company evening that lands in the same inbox as supplier invoices.
For cafes and bars, we build Google Ads around the moments when guests decide to book: comparison kept apart from people ready to book, and pages behind the ads that calm doubts early.
A click can cost a fair part of what one flat white earns, so advertising to the passer-by loses money from the first day.
Demand for hiring a bar is not spread evenly across the year, and the budget should not be either.
Google restricts adverts that promote alcohol, and what is allowed differs from country to country.
We separate the searches that bring customers from those that only cost money.
We split the campaigns by service or offer and connect call, form and booking tracking before launch. For cafes and bars, we ask how many guests the room holds for a party and on which nights it can be hired, so no advert promises a date you cannot give.
Each advert opens a page about what it promised, with the way to call or book in view.
In the first weeks we move the budget towards the searches and adverts that bring enquiries, and switch off the rest.
Price: Google Ads for cafes and bars costs €350 to set up and from €250 a month to manage, for ad budgets up to about €800 a month, plus VAT, three-month minimum. You pay Google directly; larger budgets are quoted.
We show what each hire enquiry and each confirmed party cost, and how little went on searches for jobs or recipes.
Plain answers about Google Ads, written for cafes and bars.
First enquiries about hiring the room can come within days of the start, since the adverts show as soon as they are approved.
For such a cafe rarely, and we say so before any money is spent.
The capacity of each room, the minimum spend on a weekday and at the weekend, and the evenings you do not hire out at all.
By the words we exclude and by the hire page itself.
General questions about Google Ads, the same for every trade, are in our FAQ.
FAQ: Google AdsKeep every channel working to one plan.
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