PPC & Paid Advertising Agency: Multi-channel advertising process showing channel planning, unified targeting, creative adaptation, launch, attribution and budget optimisation
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PPC & Paid Advertising AgencyOne strategy.
Every channel that earns it.

As a PPC and paid advertising agency, we see the same problem everywhere: most paid media is bought channel by channel, each judged on its own reported numbers. We plan and buy across search, social, display and video against a single commercial target — so budget follows what genuinely works rather than what reports best.

1Blended CPA target
3+Channels, one plan
−41%Blended CPA
68%Spend on new customers
−94%Audience overlap
At a glance

PPC & Paid Advertising Services at a glance

As a PPC agency and paid media agency, we run PPC management across Google, Microsoft, Meta and LinkedIn — online advertising built on clean conversion tracking, tight targeting and landing pages that match the ad. Every account is judged on cost per acquisition and revenue, not clicks.

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What’s included
  • Google Ads & Microsoft Ads
  • Meta & LinkedIn Ads
  • Conversion tracking
  • Landing page alignment
  • Budget & bid strategy
  • Monthly ROI reporting
What we actually do

Plan centrally. Buy everywhere. Judge on one number.

We start from the commercial target — what a customer can cost and still be profitable — then work backwards to which channels can deliver at that price and what role each plays.

Some channels create demand, some capture it, some retain it. Judging a demand-creation channel on last-click return guarantees it gets cut, which is why programmes that do it end up over-invested in retargeting and starved of new customers.

Siloed buyingPlanned advertising
  • Each channel judged aloneOne blended target
  • Conversions counted 3×Deduplicated reporting
  • Audiences overlappingExclusions managed
  • Creative runs till it diesTested and retired
  • Budget set by last ROASBudget set by margin
  • Retargeting over-creditedIncrementality tested

The role point: prospecting will always look worse than retargeting on last-click reporting, because retargeting reaches people who already decided. Judge them the same way and you will systematically defund the thing creating your demand.

What’s included

Five systems running in every account

Every multi-channel programme we run gets all five — clear roles for each channel, one target set from your margin, creative at volume and reporting that does not double-count.

Channel role definition iconChannel roles & media planning

Channel role definition

Prospecting, capture and retention distinguished so each channel is measured against the job it is actually doing.

Our PPC agency plans paid media centrally. Google Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, YouTube and TikTok each get a defined role — prospecting, demand capture or retention — and are judged against that job.

What you get
  • Cross-channel media plan
  • Budget allocation by role
  • Prospecting vs retargeting balance
Included in every plan Run by a paid media specialist
Blended efficiency target iconBlended CPA & ROAS targets

Blended efficiency target

One CPA or ROAS across all advertising, tied to real margin rather than platform-reported returns.

Instead of five platforms each claiming credit, pay-per-click and paid social advertising work to one blended CPA or ROAS target set from your real margin and customer lifetime value.

What you get
  • Margin-based target setting
  • Blended CPA and ROAS
  • Customer lifetime value modelling
Included in every plan Run by a paid media specialist
Creative production & testing iconAd creative production

Creative production & testing

Ads built per platform with a standing test programme and retirement rules for fatigued assets.

Search ads, display, video and social creative are built natively for each platform, with a standing test programme so winning concepts scale and tired assets are retired.

What you get
  • Search, display and video ads
  • Social and short-form creative
  • Cross-channel creative testing
Included in every plan Run by a paid media specialist
Audience architecture iconAudience architecture

Audience architecture

Exclusions and overlaps managed so campaigns stop bidding against each other.

Overlapping audiences make your own campaigns bid against each other. We manage exclusions, suppression lists and first-party data audiences across every paid advertising platform.

What you get
  • Audience exclusions and overlap
  • First-party and customer lists
  • Remarketing structure
Included in every plan Run by a paid media specialist
Deduplicated reporting iconDeduplicated paid media reporting

Deduplicated reporting

One view of what advertising produced in total, reconciled against revenue in your own systems.

One view of what your advertising produced in total, reconciled against revenue in your own systems — not five dashboards that add up to more sales than you made.

What you get
  • Server-side tracking across channels
  • Deduplicated conversion reporting
  • Monthly paid media review
Included in every plan Run by a paid media specialist
The Sachkhand blueprint

How we build an advertising programme that scales

Six workstreams, measurement and margin first — because a target set from platform numbers rather than profit is the root of most overspending.

PlanSet targets from your margin and fix measurement across every channel.

Margin & target setting

What a customer can cost and remain profitable, accounting for repeat purchase and lifetime value. Every other decision follows from this number.

Measurement foundation

Server-side tracking, deduplication and blended reporting so channels can be compared on the same basis rather than on self-reported figures.

BuildGive each channel a role and build a creative system for all of them.

Channel roles & mix

Which channels create demand, which capture it, which retain it — and what share of budget each warrants given your margin and growth goals.

Creative system

Modular assets produced per platform with a standing test calendar, win conditions and retirement rules for decaying performance.

OptimiseStop channels competing and report one deduplicated number.

Audience architecture

Exclusions, suppressions and overlap management so campaigns complement each other instead of competing for the same impressions.

Blended reporting

One view of total advertising efficiency reconciled against your own revenue, with platform figures shown as diagnostics rather than truth.

What is changing through 2026

Four shifts in advertising

Automation absorbed most of the manual optimisation work. What remains is strategy, creative and measurement — which is where the difference now lives.

Biggest shift · paid media

Platforms automate the buying

Bidding, placement and increasingly targeting are handled by the platform better than manual management. The operator's value moved entirely to inputs: creative, audience definition, conversion signals and budget allocation.

Creative volume became the constraint

Automated systems need creative variety to optimise against. Accounts producing a handful of assets a quarter starve the algorithm and underperform accounts with systematic production.

Signal quality decides performance

What you feed back as a conversion determines what the platform optimises toward. Sending low-quality signals — all leads rather than qualified ones — trains it to find more of the wrong people.

Retail and connected TV are opening up

Retail media networks and CTV now offer targeting and measurement that were previously unavailable, and are frequently less competitive than saturated search and social auctions.

Targets set from margin

We start with what a customer can cost and stay profitable. Platform ROAS is a diagnostic, never the goal — it can be excellent while the business loses money.

Deduplicated, blended reporting

One honest number for total advertising efficiency, reconciled against your own revenue rather than summed from platform dashboards.

Channel roles respected

Prospecting judged on new customers, not last-click ROAS. Measuring demand creation like demand capture defunds your growth engine.

Creative at volume

Systematic production and testing, because automated platforms need variety to optimise against and creative is now the main performance lever.

We recommend cutting spend

If a channel is not incremental we say so, even though it shrinks the budget we manage. Managing ineffective spend is not a service worth buying.

Coordinated with organic

Paid planned alongside SEO so you are not buying clicks for terms you already rank first for — a common and entirely avoidable waste.

The honest comparison

Why businesses choose SDM for advertising

Same budget, very different outcomes. Point by point, here’s how a specialist partner scores against a typical agency or running it in-house.

RecommendedSachkhandPaid media specialists
  • Senior paid media lead on your accountAlways
  • Targets set from your real margin✓
  • One blended CPA across all channels✓
  • Channel roles defined✓
  • Server-side tracking everywhere✓
  • Creative built per platform✓
  • Audience overlap removed✓
  • Deduplicated reporting✓
  • We recommend cutting spend✓
  • Reported against your own revenueMonthly
  • Coordinated with SEO & email✓
  • No long lock-in contractsMonthly
Typical agencyGeneralist team
  • Senior paid media lead on your accountOften a junior
  • Targets set from your real marginPlatform ROAS
  • One blended CPA across all channelsPer-channel
  • Channel roles definedEvery channel does everything
  • Server-side tracking everywherePixels only
  • Creative built per platformResized everywhere
  • Audience overlap removedChannels bid against each other
  • Deduplicated reportingDouble-counted
  • We recommend cutting spendRarely
  • Reported against your own revenuePlatform dashboards
  • Coordinated with SEO & emailSeparate teams
  • No long lock-in contracts6–12 mo lock-in
In-house / DIYStretched team
  • Senior paid media lead on your accountStretched thin
  • Targets set from your real marginGuesswork
  • One blended CPA across all channelsUnknown
  • Channel roles definedAd-hoc
  • Server-side tracking everywhereOften broken
  • Creative built per platformRarely
  • Audience overlap removedUnknown
  • Deduplicated reportingPlatform numbers
  • We recommend cutting spendN/A
  • Reported against your own revenuePlatform dashboards
  • Coordinated with SEO & emailAd-hoc
  • No long lock-in contractsN/A
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Measurement

One number: what a customer costs across everything

Platform figures are reported as diagnostics. The headline is always blended and reconciled against your own revenue.

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Advertising performance
All channels blended — rolling 90 days
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This periodPrevious period
MetricTrendvs targetNow
Blended ROAS4.8x
CPA−41%
New customer68%
Creative win44%
Overlap−94%
▲4.8x blended ROAS vs 2.2x at start
Source: Google Ads · GA4 · CRM

Blended CPA

Total advertising spend divided by total new customers — the figure attribution windows cannot inflate.

Blended ROAS

All spend against revenue in your own systems, not the sum of platform claims.

New vs returning split

How much spend is acquiring customers versus re-reaching existing ones, which is where over-investment usually hides.

Creative win rate

Share of tested assets that beat control, and how fast winners decay with frequency.

Marginal CPA

What the next customer costs as budget scales — the number that identifies where efficient growth stops.

The engagement

Our PPC process: four stages, repeated every month

Set the target from margin, fix measurement, cut waste, then scale.

  1. Set the target

    What a customer can cost given your margin and repeat rate. This becomes the single number every channel is held to, replacing per-platform ROAS goals.

    Commercial target, not a vanity one
  2. Fix measurement

    Server-side tracking, deduplication and blended reporting built before optimisation. The honest baseline is usually below what platforms were claiming.

    Numbers you can act on
  3. Cut and restructure

    Overlapping audiences separated, fatigued creative retired, non-converting placements removed and channel roles assigned.

    Same output, less spend
  4. Test & scale

    Standing creative programme and sequenced audience expansion, tracked against marginal CPA so scaling stops before efficiency collapses.

    Verified, profitable scale
Outcomes

The targets we set for advertising engagements

Targets we plan against for ecommerce, lead generation, SaaS and multi-location clients after six months.

  • 4.8×Blended ROASFrom 2.2× at start
  • −41%Blended CPAAt equal or higher volume
  • 68%Spend on new customersRebalanced from retargeting
  • −94%Audience overlapRemoved in first 60 days

Targets rather than best cases. The largest early gains come from removing waste and overlap rather than improving campaign performance — so results are biggest on accounts that have run unaudited for a long time. These are planning targets rather than a record of past client averages; we agree a realistic range against your own baseline before an engagement starts.

Explore each channel

The paid channels inside the programme

Each channel has its own page covering how we run it, what it should cost, and how it is measured against the one number above.

Questions

PPC FAQs: the questions we get asked most

Direct answers on PPC channel mix, measurement and what paid media should be held to.

What does a PPC agency actually do?+

Three things that matter: decide where the money goes across channels, control what each channel is allowed to buy, and reconcile what the platforms report against what your accounts actually received. Everything else — creative production, bid management, reporting — follows from those. An agency that only does the third is a reporting service.

Which channels should we advertise on?+

It depends on your margin, buying cycle and where demand already exists. Rather than assume, we start from what a customer can cost and work backwards to which channels can deliver at that price. For most businesses that means search for capture and one social platform for prospecting, before anything else is added.

Why is our reported ROAS so much better than your blended figure?+

Because each platform counts conversions its pixel touched, so the same customer gets claimed by several networks. Summed, reported revenue routinely exceeds real revenue. Our blended figure divides all spend by actual customers from your own system — a lower number, and the only one that reflects the business.

Should we be running retargeting?+

Usually some, and almost certainly less than you are. Retargeting reaches people who already decided, so it reports excellent returns while frequently adding little incremental revenue. A holdout test settles it in a few weeks. In most audits we find retargeting over-funded and prospecting starved.

How much creative do we need?+

More than most businesses produce. Automated platforms need variety to optimise against, and performance decays with frequency. A handful of assets per quarter starves the system. We build modular production so variations can be generated quickly without a full shoot each time.

What is signal quality and why does it matter?+

It is what you feed back to the platform as a conversion. If you count every form fill, the algorithm finds more form fills — including unqualified ones. Connecting CRM outcomes so only genuinely qualified leads count changes what it optimises toward, and it is frequently the single highest-impact fix in lead-generation accounts.

Can you work alongside our existing agency?+

Yes, though it limits the main benefit. The value comes from allocating between channels against one target, which needs someone seeing the whole picture. If another agency runs a channel, we can still manage the rest and provide blended reporting — but split ownership tends to reintroduce the siloed optimisation we are trying to remove.

How quickly will we see improvement?+

Waste and overlap reduction shows within thirty to sixty days and often funds the engagement. Creative testing compounds from month two or three. Incrementality testing needs a few weeks per test, so a complete picture of what your spend genuinely causes typically takes a quarter.

Next step

Ready to know what your PPC spend really earns?

We will reconcile what your platforms report against your actual revenue, find the overlapping spend, and model what one blended target would change.

Free multi-channel audit
Attribution reconciliation
Audience overlap analysis
Margin-based target model
Campaign managerChannels on one plan
Live
  • Google AdsLive
  • Meta AdsLive
  • LinkedIn AdsLive
  • YouTubeLive
  • TikTokTesting
Blended ROAS4.8×from 2.2× at start
Blended CPA−41%at equal or higher volume
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