Google Ads management for Fresno and Clovis businesses.

Throttle Up Media sets up and runs Google Ads for Fresno businesses: the pay-per-click (PPC) ads on Google Search, Maps and YouTube, in your own account. Each month we tell you what you paid for and what came back.

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Is Google Ads right for you?

  • Customers search for your service by name: a plumber, a caterer, a lawyer, a dentist.
  • You can answer the phone or take the booking when the ad brings someone in.
  • A new customer is worth enough to pay for a click and still make money.
  • You tried Google Ads yourself, spent money, and couldn't tell what it bought.

What you get

  • Search campaigns

    Ads on the words people type when they're ready to buy, with searches that never buy blocked.

  • Ads shown to people where you work

    We aim ads at people in your service area, not people elsewhere who only search about it, so you don't pay for clicks you can't serve.

  • Local Services Ads for home services

    The ads with a Google badge at the top of the page, where Google offers them for your trade. You pay per lead, and we review the leads with you.

  • YouTube and Performance Max, when they fit

    Video ads cut from footage we shoot, and Google's automated campaigns tied to your Google listing, only where the numbers support them.

  • Ads made in our own studio

    Headlines, images and video made in our studio, so the ad looks like your business and not a template.

  • A report you can read

    Each month: what ran, what it cost, and the calls, forms and bookings it produced. No dashboard to learn.

How it starts

  1. 1

    Look at the account

    If you have one, we review what it has spent and on what. If you don't, we set one up in your business's name.

  2. 2

    Set up tracking

    Calls, forms and bookings counted, so we can tell which searches bring customers.

  3. 3

    Launch and tune

    Campaigns go live, then we cut the searches and ads that waste money and move budget to the ones that work.

$1.5M

paid by about 465 new accounts.

November 2023 to August 2026, paid through September 30, 2026. Not typical and not guaranteed.

What one client's numbers show

We run local ads, answer Google reviews, keep listings and social posts going, and report on new customers each month for a local service company. Customers whose first job fell between November 2023 and August 2026 have paid it about $1.5M, counted through September 30, 2026. A typical account has paid about $400, and the 10 largest paid about a third of the total.

Those are all new accounts, not only the ones who found the company through our work, and this is revenue, not profit. These results are not typical and not guaranteed.

Read the full results and how we measured them.

What it costs, and what moves the price

There are two parts: the money Google charges for your ads, and our fee for running them. We prefer to manage a steady monthly marketing fund for you, so your bill stays the same while we push harder in your busy season and ease off when it's quiet. How the fund splits between ads and our fee is set out in writing before you agree to anything.

  • How competitive your searches are, and what a click costs in your trade
  • How many campaigns and locations you need
  • Whether you need new ad creative: photos, video or landing pages
  • Whether Local Services Ads or YouTube are part of the plan

Questions to ask any Google Ads agency

  1. Whose account is it? Yours. Campaigns run in your business's own account, so its history stays with you if we part ways. On a fund plan, we pay Google out of your monthly marketing fund.
  2. Do you mark up ad spend? On some plans we do. Whether we do, and by how much, is in writing before you agree.
  3. Who runs my account? The two people who run our Fresno studio, not an out-of-town team or a junior hire. The studio has worked here since 2000.

Before you ask.

How long before Google Ads works?
Ads can bring calls in the first week, but the first month is mostly learning which searches pay off. Judge a campaign after a few months of steady spend, not a few days.
Do you run ads on Facebook and Instagram too?
Yes. We keep paid social audiences local, with Meta's location expansion turned off. See digital advertising.
Do you manage Google Ad Grants for nonprofits?
Yes. We manage a Google Ad Grants account for a nonprofit client. Ask us whether your organization qualifies.
Is there a contract?
Ads need a fair run before anyone can judge them, so we usually ask for a minimum commitment. Its length depends on the plan, and we walk you through the agreement in plain language before you sign.
Do you guarantee leads or sales?
No. Nobody can guarantee Google results. We report what ran and what it produced, month by month.
Do you only work in Fresno?
No. We work across Fresno County and the Central Valley, and some of our clients are elsewhere in the US and abroad. Tell us where you sell and we'll say whether we're the right fit.

More from the studio.

Tell us what you sell.

Email what you sell, where your customers are, and whether you run Google Ads now. We'll reply with what we'd change first.

Email us about your ads

Or call (559) 274-8082, or write to andrew@throttleupmedia.com.