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What Is A Good Starting Budget For Google Ads?

What Is A Good Starting Budget For Google Ads?
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What is a good starting budget for Google Ads? It's a great question. I think this is the most asked question I have come across. What should I budget? How much should I budget? Your budget, how much you are prepared to lose in the first place? If you are new to Google Ads or any kind of advertising, first of all, you need to test what's happening and what's not happening.

It's not a case of just throwing a campaign up on Google or Facebook. Putting in some budget and then from day one you are going to start to generate leads or sales. If that was so easy, everybody would be doing it and everyone would pretty much be a millionaire. The advertisers who win in this game is those who are prepared to invest in testing first of all.

When you are running a campaign from zero data, we need to buy that data, that intelligence from Google. Or Google Ads. To see whether these keywords are right, the ad has got the right message. The offer on your website or the landing page is converting or not. Lots of different variables which we need to check off and slowly you will find that okay now everything is coming together and the campaign is starting to run giving us a profitable ROI.

There is good news and bad news. The good news is most advertisers give up within a matter of 30 days or less. They feel that they are wasting money, they are throwing money. Google Ads don't work. It's completely wasting their time and money. The good news is the fun and games pretty much starts after thirty to 45 days or so.

Once you have done a fair bit of testing, you know that your keywords are correct, your ad creatives or the ads are have got the right message. The website is fine and it is converting. And once all of those are working together that's when you start to scale. So, let's say if you are starting with a $1,000 budget per month and you are starting to get a positive ROI of three times.

So, every time you give one to Google, you're getting three back and you know from your numbers that yes, a minimum of 3x ROI or return on investment is profitable for us. Then you start to scale because you cannot lose. You give $2,000 to Google, you get $6,000 back. You give $5,000 to Google, you get $10,000 back.

And this is how we do that. So, the starting budget is always that you should be prepared and you should be comfortable to lose that amount. If you are feeling uncomfortable of losing a certain amount, then you should lower your starting budget and start your ads with your campaigns with Google Ads. So, that's it for this video.

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When starting with a Google Ads campaign, you probably have a lot of questions surrounding the budget. What should I budget? How much should I budget? How much are you prepared to lose in the first place?

First, you need to understand the Google Ads market and what’s happening within it, which keywords are ranking etc. When you first start with a Google Ads campaign with zero data, you need something to work with so you buy that data and intelligence from Google.

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To see if the keywords are correct and if the ad is sending the right message to your users and audience. Once all those variables come together and you can physically see where you’re going forward within the campaign, you will be seeing a profitable ROI.

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As a business or a brand, you might feel like after 30 days of trying with Google Ads you don’t see it becoming profitable. However, it’s after 30 to 45 days, you see a difference in your ad campaign, after all the testing and making sure your keywords are correct and your ad creative is sending the right message.

For example:

Let’s say if you are starting with a $1,000 budget per month and you are starting to get a positive ROI of three times. So, every time you give one to Google, you’re getting three back and you know from your numbers that a minimum of 3x ROI or return on investment is profitable for us.

Then you start to scale because you cannot lose. You give $2,000 to Google, you get $6,000 back. You give $5,000 to Google, you get $10,000 back.

The starting budget is that you should be prepared and you should be comfortable losing that amount. If you are feeling uncomfortable about losing a certain amount, then you should lower your starting budget and start your ads with your campaigns with Google Ads.

Uzair Kharawala

Written by Uzair Kharawala

Partner at SF Digital Studios, a Google Premier Partner agency. Uzair has been helping businesses grow with Google Ads since 2002 and teaches it every week on YouTube.

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