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Google Ads for Consulting Firms

Google Ads for consulting firms pays for searches that carry a job and a date, for example preparing for an inspection or writing a funding bid, rather than for the word consulting.

A handful of focused campaigns, one per offer, keep students, job hunters and searches for large firms out.

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Lead consultant planning a specialist offer with a leadership team in a business workshop

Online challenges for consulting firms

The usual damage starts when one campaign sounds broad enough to invite every enquiry, including the ones that were never right for the firm.

A broad offer is hard to find for specialist searches

People hiring a consultant search for a specific result, not general claims.

  • Pages that try to cover everything attract browsers who do not fit.
  • A narrow, clear focus brings better conversations about larger projects.

Career seekers click the adverts meant for directors

Searches with the word consulting come mostly from graduates and job seekers, and each click costs the same as a buyer's.

  • A budget spread over many small campaigns gathers too little data to learn which searches bring projects.
  • Searches that name a task and a deadline, such as an audit before a certification, are the ones worth paying for.

Google Ads approach for consulting firms

For consulting firms, we build Google Ads around a clearly limited offer, stronger proof and screening that filters out poor-fit visitors before they reach your calendar.

Paid searches that carry a task and a deadline

A consultancy is rarely searched for by the name of the profession. What is worth paying for is a search that names a job to be done: help before a certification audit, a grant application, the choice of a new system.

  • Those searches come from someone with a date in the diary and usually a budget, so each gets its own advert in the words of that task.
  • Searches for definitions, templates and free downloads are left unpaid, because their authors are learning, not buying.

One campaign per offer, kept few on purpose

Searches for consulting are thin, and a budget spread over ten campaigns teaches the account nothing.

  • We start with the two or three offers you most want to sell, each leading to its own page: who it is for, what is handed over at the end, who does the work, and a call to scope the project.
  • Adverts run in office hours and in the regions or countries where you can actually send a consultant, in each language you work in.

Students, job seekers and big-firm names kept out

The word consultant attracts people looking for a career, not for help.

  • We block searches about consulting jobs, salaries, internships and courses, essay questions on management methods, and the names of the large consultancies, whose searchers mostly want the careers pages.
  • Each enquiry is recorded with the campaign it came from, and you tell us which became a proposal, so the budget follows proposals and not filled-in forms.

Google Ads process for consulting firms

01

Searches worth paying for

We separate the searches that bring customers from those that only cost money.

02

Campaign build

We split the campaigns by service or offer and connect call, form and booking tracking before launch. For consultancies, only searches naming a concrete job and a date are paid for, each offer has its own small campaign, and students, people hunting for jobs and the names of large firms are kept out.

03

Landing pages

Each advert opens a page about what it promised, with the way to call or book in view.

04

Tuning

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 consulting firms 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.

Consulting project in stages: diagnosis, agreeing the plan and setting points for decisions

How we measure results for consulting firms

What one scoping call with a company that fits costs is the main figure, with the share of those calls that led to a proposal beside it.

Questions about Google Ads for consulting firms

Plain answers about Google Ads, written for consulting firms.

First enquiries can come within days of the start, since an advert shows as soon as it is approved.

  • Tuning takes the first weeks, and with so few searches it cannot be hurried: we need enough clicks to see which tasks lead to a scoping call.
  • A signed project comes later still, because a consulting purchase passes through several people.

Sometimes not, and we say so.

  • Search adverts answer a demand that exists; they cannot make a director look for a method that director has never heard of.
  • Where a few people a month do search for the task, a small campaign is cheap to run and each enquiry is worth a great deal.
  • We check how many searches there are before proposing anything.

Usually yes for a standard, with care for software.

  • A search for a standard plus the word consultant or certification is a clear request.
  • A product name alone mostly brings users looking for support or a log-in page, and some makers restrict the use of their trademark in advert text.
  • We add the task to the keyword and read the partner terms first.

The offers ranked by how much you want each, the smallest project worth your time, and the regions and languages you cover.

  • For each offer one case you are allowed to describe, and the name of the consultant who takes the first call.
  • We also ask how many scoping calls a week you can hold, so the budget never orders more.

General questions about Google Ads, the same for every trade, are in our FAQ.

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