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Google Ads and Shopify growth tactics from the team managing the accounts. No fluff, no theory we haven't tested ourselves.

Podcast • Behind the Scenes
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Start on Google Sheets, Build the System Later: Ben on the Check-in Podcast

Two freelancers to a six-person agency in a year. Where the clients actually came from, how to time a referral ask, and why version one of every system was a spreadsheet.

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Google Ads • Troubleshooting
9 min read

Google Ads Not Converting? Work Through It In This Order

Spend going out, orders not coming in. Five checks in diagnostic order, and why most accounts never get past the second one.

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Google Ads • Shopping & Feeds
8 min read

Shopify and Google Merchant Center: What Breaks After Setup

Connecting takes half an hour. The disapprovals, price mismatches and silent feed problems show up the week after.

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Google Ads • Agency Evaluation
10 min read

What a Real PPC Audit Finds (And What Most Checklists Miss)

Every PPC audit checklist tells you to check match types and ad extensions. None asks whether your conversion data is real. The eight checks that decide profit.

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Google Ads • Shopping & PMax
9 min read

Performance Max for Shopify Brands: How to Structure It Properly

Handed your whole catalogue in one campaign, PMax underperforms and gets blamed for it. How to split by margin and region, and why the feed decides the ceiling.

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Google Ads • Profitability
11 min read

Break-Even ROAS: The Number Most Brands Get Wrong

A 4x return can be a loss and a 1.8x can be a record month. Here's the break-even calculation most Shopify brands get wrong, worked through on real accounts.

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Google Ads • Remarketing
14 min read

Google Ads Remarketing: The 5 Types and Which Ones Work

Google dropped the audience minimum to 100 users and almost nobody noticed. Here's what changed, and which two of the five types a Shopify brand should actually build.

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Google Ads • Agency Pricing
15 min read

Google Ads Management Pricing: Does the Fee Pay Off?

Every pricing guide tells you what agencies charge. None of them tell you the ROAS a fee forces you to hit before there's any profit at all. Here's the maths.

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Google Shopping • Feed Optimization
9 min read

Google Shopping Title Optimization

Shopping campaigns have no keywords. Your product title is the targeting. The character limits, the attribute formula, and where to get the words.

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Google Shopping • Feed Optimization
11 min read

Google Shopping Feed Optimization for Product Variants

Identical variant titles quietly cap your Google Shopping reach. Here's how to turn every size and color into its own shot at a different search term.

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