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Professional Services PPC to Cut Cost Per Booked Consult

PPC on Google Search, Local Service Ads, and LinkedIn for accounting practices and consulting groups. Every campaign ties to signed engagements in your CRM. Cost per booked consult drops 50 percent inside 90 days on the average account.

What You Get → See Pricing
$999+
per month · published
30 days
brief to launch
90+
mobile Lighthouse · launch gate
+38% booked calls after rebuild
CRM WIRED ATTRIBUTION
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Trustpilot4.7/5★★★★★
Clutch5.0/5★★★★★
Google5.0/5★★★★★
DesignRush4.9/5★★★★★
GoodFirms5.0/5★★★★★
F6S5/5★★★★★
4.9 WEIGHTED AVERAGE · VERIFIED BY FIRM OWNERS AND MANAGING PARTNERS WHO PAID FOR THE WORK

Three ways your professional services PPC is losing booked consults

If any of these looks familiar, the free Google Ads audit names the fix and what it's worth before you spend a dollar.

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ATTRIBUTION

Signed engagements land 90 to 180 days after the click, so last-click reports blame the wrong campaign

Google Ads defaults to 30-day conversion windows. Professional services signings land 90 to 180 days after the first click, so the credit goes to direct or organic instead of the paid campaign that started it. Budget gets pulled from the ads that actually earned the client. The fix is a 180-day attribution window plus offline conversion upload from HubSpot, Salesforce, or Karbon, so signed engagements trace to the exact keyword, ad, and landing page.

✓THE FIX · 180-DAY WINDOW + CRM UPLOAD
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TARGETING

LinkedIn Sponsored Content burns $40 to $120 per click when the audience is not built by decision role

LinkedIn Sponsored Content runs $40 to $120 per click on default targeting. Half the budget lands on staff who cannot pick a firm. The fix is a decision-role audience built on job title (CFO, GC, managing partner, controller), seniority, and firm size, layered with retargeting from your website. That drops cost per qualified consult from $600 to $180 on the average consulting or B2B accounting account.

✓THE FIX · TITLE + SENIORITY MATCH
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TRACKING

HubSpot and Salesforce close 60 percent of your signed clients without a source, so Google Ads bids on the wrong keywords

Without Enhanced Conversions plus offline upload from HubSpot or Salesforce, Google Ads bids on raw form fills instead of signed clients. The algorithm optimizes toward high-volume, low-quality leads. The fix wires Enhanced Conversions on Google Ads, Conversions API on Meta, LinkedIn Insight Tag, and a nightly closed-won upload from your CRM. Signed engagements start feeding the bidding model in week two.

✓THE FIX · CRM OFFLINE CONVERSIONS LIVE

3 outcomes every accounting and consulting PPC retainer produces

Three numbers we sign against on every PPC program. Each one is a launch criterion, not a hope.

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Lower cost per booked professional services consult

Service-line campaigns, aggressive negative keywords, and firm landing pages drop cost per booked consult from around $190 to $96 inside 60 days.

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Same-session consult booking on every ad landing page

Every ad click lands on a page built to convert first visit. One priority service line, clear intake, tracked to HubSpot or Karbon.

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Weekly written performance note from your media buyer

A note every Monday from the buyer running your account. What launched, what moved cost per signed engagement, what is queued this week, tied to closed-won.

Four stages. Every step ends in a sign-off

Fixed scope, fixed timeline, fixed outcomes. Nothing moves to the next stage until your managing partner or marketing lead signs the gate deliverable.

WEEK 1

Audit that exposes wasted spend and broken tracking

Full campaign audit surfacing wasted spend, missing negatives, misconfigured conversions, and untracked booked consult events. Median finding on new professional services accounts is 42 percent wasted spend and 247 missing negatives. Written up in a 20-page report signed off by your managing partner before we touch spend.

✓SIGN-OFF
WEEK 2

Campaigns rebuilt around priority service lines

Campaigns rebuilt around your priority service lines and client intent. Higher-value engagements get a higher target CPA. SKAG-lite structure with match-type discipline, Performance Max layered where you qualify, negative keyword sculpt to strip waste before it starts, and Local Service Ads wired for eligible tax and financial verticals.

✓SIGN-OFF
WEEKS 2-4

First paid booked consult inside 14 days

Landing pages built per service line with intake flow, review proof, and AICPA-compliant trust cues. Every ad tracked through to a HubSpot or Karbon verified booked consult. If we do not hit a paid booked consult inside 14 days, your first month is free.

✓GUARANTEE
MONTH 2+

Cost per booked consult drops week over week

Ad copy A/B tests, bid strategy tuning, landing page CVR iteration, and negative keyword sculpt run weekly. Average professional services account CPA drops 50 percent from launch to week 8. Every optimization tied to the CRM-verified booked consult number, not vanity form fills. Month three onward, spend scales into the ceiling against real signed engagement revenue.

✓WEEKLY REPORT

What you actually get from our PPC services for professional firms

Fixed scope, fixed timeline, fixed outcomes. Each phase below has a defined deliverable, a written sign-off, and a date on the calendar.

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WEEK 1

Audit that exposes wasted spend and broken CRM tracking

Full professional services campaign audit surfacing wasted spend, missing negatives, misconfigured conversions, and untracked booked consult events. Median finding on new professional services accounts is 42 percent wasted spend and 247 missing negatives. Written up in a 20-page report signed off before we touch structure.

PHASE DURATION
Week 1
SIGN-OFF
Written report
✓GATE · SIGN-OFF GATE
// DELIVERABLES
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Wasted spend and query miningevery search term with spend reviewed. Off-category, competitor, and irrelevant queries surfaced for negative keyword sculpt.
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Consult conversion setup auditare conversions counting clicks (wrong), form fills (better), or booked consults (right)? Fixed at the root before any bid change.
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Landing page and CVR auditlanding page conversion rate benchmarked against professional services averages. Every ad group mapped to its landing page with a CVR score.
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Written 20-page reportmanaging partner and marketing lead review and sign off before we rebuild. Nothing changes without a written go-ahead.
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Competitor auction insighttop firms in your city and service line pulled from Auction Insights and priced against your target cost per booked consult.
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CRM and GA4 reconciliationlast 90 days of booked consults mapped by source so the audit report opens with a real blended CPL and cost per signed engagement.
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WEEK 2

Campaigns rebuilt around priority service lines

Higher-value service lines get a higher target CPA than lower-margin work. SKAG-lite structure with match-type discipline, Performance Max layered where your feed and creative library qualify, and negative keyword sculpt to strip waste before it starts.

PHASE DURATION
Week 2
SIGN-OFF
Service-line first
✓GATE · PMAX WHERE YOU QUALIFY
// DELIVERABLES
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Service-line campaign structuretop revenue service lines each get their own campaign with target CPA based on average engagement value plus lifetime referral value.
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Negative keyword sculpt247 negatives added on average in the first pass. Prevents your budget from being drained by DIY, software-shopping, and out-of-area queries.
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Match-type disciplineexact and phrase for high-intent service-line queries, broad only on tightly scoped clusters. Every match type has a written rationale.
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Performance Max where you qualifyPMax layered where your creative library and audience signals qualify. Feed hygiene and asset group segmentation are done, not defaulted.
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LinkedIn decision-role targetingCFO, GC, managing partner, controller audiences built by title, seniority, and firm size for consulting and B2B accounting.
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Local Service Ads wiredLSA activated for qualifying financial services and tax categories, Google Screened badge chase, metro targeting locked in.
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WEEKS 2 TO 4

First paid booked consult inside 14 days

Landing pages built per service line with intake flow, partner bios, and AICPA-compliant trust cues. Every ad tracked through to a CRM-verified booked consult. Miss the 14-day first paid booked consult mark, your first month is free.

PHASE DURATION
Weeks 2 to 4
SIGN-OFF
14-day guarantee
✓GATE · SERVER-SIDE TRACKING
// DELIVERABLES
✓
Service-line landing pagesevery campaign gets its own landing page built around one priority service. Homepage traffic never dilutes intent.
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Booked consult conversion trackingconversion is booked consult, not click to form. Tracked from ad to landing page to HubSpot, Salesforce, or Karbon entry.
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Server-side pixel and GA4Meta CAPI, LinkedIn Insight Tag, and Google Ads pixels wired with server-side backup. iOS 14 aware attribution baked in from day one.
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14-day guarantee in writingmiss the 14-day first paid booked consult mark, your first month is free.
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AICPA-compliant ad copyevery ad reviewed for AICPA advertising compliance, a no tax advice disclaimer wired into landing pages, metro targeting locked in.
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Intake page proof stackclient outcome bullets, verified reviews, and AICPA or state board license badges above the fold so a prospect sees credibility on the landing page.
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WEEKLY CADENCE

Cost per booked consult drops week over week

Ad copy A/B tests, bid strategy tuning, landing page conversion iteration, and negative keyword sculpt run weekly. Average professional services account CPA drops 50 percent from launch to week 8. Every optimization is tied to the CRM booked consult number.

PHASE DURATION
Weekly cadence
SIGN-OFF
A/B testing
✓GATE · WRITTEN NOTE
// DELIVERABLES
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Weekly written optimization notesevery Monday: what changed last week, impact on CPA and booked consults, what is being tested this week.
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Ad copy and creative A/B testingheadline, description, and creative testing at ad group level. Winners promoted, losers killed. No copy running longer than 4 weeks without a test.
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Bid strategy tuningmanual to target CPA to target return on ad spend progression as CRM data compounds. Bid caps and budget shifting between service lines based on engagement LTV.
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Landing page CVR iterationlanding page conversion rate benchmark tracked weekly. Copy, form, and hero test cycles run in-house without waiting on external design.
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LinkedIn retargeting layerLinkedIn Sponsored Content retargeting for site visitors matched by title and seniority, cost per qualified consult tracked separately from cold prospecting.
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Referral partner retargetingHubSpot, Karbon, and TaxDome retargeting audiences built from past clients and referral partners for reactivation campaigns.
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MONTH 3+

Scale spend against real CRM-verified revenue

Once cost per booked consult is stable, we scale professional services ad spend into the ceiling. Meta, LinkedIn, and Microsoft Ads layered as retargeting and awareness. Every scaling decision tied to signed engagement value and your intake capacity.

PHASE DURATION
Month 3+
SIGN-OFF
Capacity aware
✓GATE · PARTNER REPORT
// DELIVERABLES
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Spend-to-capacity modelad spend scaled against your intake team capacity and consult throughput. Nothing spent past what your firm can consult on.
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Meta and Microsoft retargetingonce search demand is captured, Meta and Microsoft Ads layered as retargeting for site visitors and lookalike for closed engagements.
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Monthly written report to partnerevery 30 days: ad spend, booked consult count, cost per booked consult, revenue from paid, signed engagement value, next month plan.
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Quarterly strategy reviewevery 90 days we present ROI and book of tests to leadership. Budget shifts and strategy tweaks signed off in the meeting.
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Per-consult value modelinghourly, fixed-fee, and monthly-retainer segmentation modeled so ad budget flows to service lines with the strongest per-consult economics.
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LSA scale planLocal Service Ads scaled with metro expansion where eligible, Google Screened badge maintained, direct call quality scored weekly.
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Four PPC tiers for law, accounting, and consulting firms

Flat monthly fee. Every workstream listed, the quote you get is the invoice you pay. Ad spend billed by Google, Meta, LinkedIn, and LSA directly. Move up or down anytime with 30 days notice.

Launch
$999MONTHLY (MGMT FEE)

A first paid channel; ad budgets under $2,000/mo

✓Google Ads (Search) ✓Managed monthly ad spend up to: $2K ✓Campaign builds: Up to 3 ✓Dedicated landing pages: 1 ✓Call tracking + recording ✓Negative keyword sculpting ✓Geo and audience targeting, ZIP level where the service area is local
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Growth
$1,499MONTHLY (MGMT FEE)

Businesses spending $2,000–$5,000/mo on ads

✓Google Ads (Search) ✓Local Services Ads (LSA), for local service businesses ✓Managed monthly ad spend up to: $5K ✓Campaign builds: Up to 6 ✓Dedicated landing pages: 3 ✓Call tracking + recording ✓Negative keyword sculpting
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Scale
$2,499MONTHLY (MGMT FEE)

Aggressive growth; $5,000–$10,000/mo ad budgets

✓Google Ads (Search) ✓Local Services Ads (LSA), for local service businesses ✓Meta ads (Facebook/Instagram) ✓Managed monthly ad spend up to: $10K ✓Campaign builds: Unlimited ✓Dedicated landing pages: 6 ✓Call tracking + recording
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Enterprise
Starts at $4,500MONTHLY (MGMT FEE)

Multi-location or multi-region programs; $10,000+/mo managed spend

✓Google Ads (Search) ✓Local Services Ads (LSA), for local service businesses ✓Meta ads (Facebook/Instagram) ✓Managed monthly ad spend up to: Unlimited ✓Campaign builds: Unlimited ✓Dedicated landing pages: Custom ✓Call tracking + recording
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Case studies See all case studies

Real firms, real ad spend, real signed engagements

Each one includes where the client started, what we changed and what happened.

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Venture Debt · SaaS Financing

Grew River SaaS Capital's qualified leads 350% with Google Ads aimed at SaaS founders.

River SaaS Capital offers venture debt to SaaS companies. Its broad Google Ads drew the wrong traffic, and warm leads were lost with no follow-up. We built SaaS-specific campaigns, landing pages made to convert, lead magnets written for each campaign and automated follow-up, with ongoing A/B tests. Qualified leads grew 350%, conversion rate improved 21% and the campaigns drove 279 conversions on $9.77K in spend.

Read the River SaaS Capital case study →
+350%
Qualified leads
+21%
Conversion rate
279
Conversions
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Travel Insurance · Global · Adventure

Drove 412K conversions and 150% customer growth at World Nomads.

World Nomads insures travelers in 100+ countries. Broad Google Ads, weak landing pages and no follow-up hurt sales and retention as travel recovered. We rebuilt global keyword research, optimized Google and LinkedIn Ads, built better landing pages and set up automated follow-up emails. The campaigns drove 412K conversions at a $21 CPA, and customers grew 150% across $8.72M in managed spend.

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412K
Conversions
$21
CPA
$8.72M
Total ad spend
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Tax · Japan + US Filing

Returned 600% ROAS for FreedomTax with Google and LinkedIn Ads optimization.

FreedomTax, a Japan-based tax filing service, had Google Ads that earned impressions but few conversions. It had no presence on LinkedIn. We rebuilt keyword research and ad groups, kept managing the campaigns and expanded into LinkedIn Ads to reach business professionals. Conversion rates rose 40%, ROAS reached 600% and cost per qualified lead fell 74%.

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+40%
Conversion rate
600%
ROAS
-74%
CPL

CLIENT WORDS

They cut wasted spend on non-buyer keywords and moved the budget to product-page campaigns. Blended ROAS climbed 40% in the first quarter.
Katetey Maxwell
Digital Marketing Lead, BSH Group
Verified via GoodFirms
+40% blended ROAS −22% wasted spend
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Common accounting and consulting PPC questions

Pricing, timeline, tracking, and channel mix answers for law, accounting, and consulting firm owners.

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PPC management at Redefine Web runs $999, $1,499, $2,499, or from $4,500 per month across four management tiers. Ad spend is billed direct by Google, Meta, LinkedIn, and Local Service Ads, so you always see network cost separate from our fee. Launch at $999 per month fits solo accounting or consulting practitioners running under $2,000 monthly ad spend. Growth at $1,499 per month fits growing firms in the $2,000 to $5,000 spend range. Scale at $2,499 fits multi-partner firms with $5,000 to $10,000 monthly spend. Enterprise starts at $4,500 for multi-office and national firms above $10,000.

Healthy paid spend depends on average engagement value, market, and geography. Solo practitioners and small firms run up to $2,000 per month on Launch. Growing firms in competitive metros run $2,000 to $5,000 on Growth. Multi-partner firms run $5,000 to $10,000 on Scale. Multi-office and national firms run above $10,000 on Enterprise. On our management, the median cost per booked consult drops 50 percent by week 8 as tracking and negatives tighten. Spend scales into the ceiling only once cost per signed engagement is stable and your intake team has capacity.

Paid campaigns produce the first tracked consults 7 to 14 days after activation. Google Search hits earliest because intent is highest. Local Service Ads produce calls in 3 to 5 days once your LSA account is Google Screened. Meta and LinkedIn retargeting follow in week 3 or 4 once audiences build. Stable cost per booked consult usually locks in by week 8. If you do not have a paid booked consult inside 14 days on our management, your first month is free.

A PPC manager on an accounting or consulting account runs it across Google Search, Local Service Ads, YouTube, Meta, LinkedIn, and Microsoft Ads in coordinated campaigns. Day to day that is keyword and audience research, creative testing, bid and budget adjustments, negative keyword pruning, landing page conversion iteration, and CRM offline conversion feed maintenance. Every week you get a written note. Every month you get a full ROI report tying spend to signed engagements from HubSpot, Salesforce, or Karbon.

Typical cost per qualified consult on our management runs $75 to $500 depending on service line and geography. Small business accounting runs $60 to $150. Consulting firms range widely, $100 to $600, because engagement values swing from $10,000 to $500,000. Volume service lines like bookkeeping and payroll sit at the low end. High-stakes lines like M&A advisory and post-merger integration sit higher and still return 4x to 10x on engagement value.

Yes. Every PPC retainer includes dedicated landing pages, not just links to your firm homepage. Launch includes 1 dedicated page. Growth includes 3. Scale includes 6, built as a system with variants for service line, city, and audience segment. Enterprise scopes the page count to the build plus quarterly design refreshes. Every landing page carries metro cues, AICPA-compliant copy where relevant, a no tax advice disclaimer for CPA firms, and a single intake action tracked to your CRM.

Every account gets server-side tracking, offline conversion feeds from HubSpot, Salesforce, or Karbon, and a unified dashboard so signed engagements trace back to the exact campaign, keyword, and ad creative. Wiring includes Enhanced Conversions for Google Ads, Conversions API for Meta, LinkedIn Insight Tag, and a nightly closed-won upload from your CRM. Attribution windows run 90 to 180 days because accounting and consulting buyers take that long to sign. TaxDome and Canopy revenue events can be added on Scale tier and above.

Yes. Accounting and consulting Google Ads campaigns get structured by service line, city, and audience segment because search intent and cost per click vary sharply. Launch runs up to 3 concurrent campaigns. Growth runs up to 6 service-line or city campaigns. Scale and Enterprise run unlimited, plus dynamic Search Ads for the long tail. Every campaign has its own landing page, bid strategy, and negative keyword sculpt. That structure is why our median professional services CPA drops 50 percent inside the first 60 days.

Yes. LinkedIn Ads are included on Growth tier and above for consulting firms and B2B accounting practices targeting business clients. Formats covered are Sponsored Content, Sponsored Messaging, and Conversation Ads, targeted by job title, seniority, company size, and industry. LinkedIn works best for consult booking on engagements of $25,000 plus where the decision maker sits at CFO, VP of Finance, controller, or managing partner level. Below that engagement size, Google Search and LSA carry more of the load.

Yes. Local Service Ads run on Launch tier and above for firms in qualifying verticals (financial services, tax, and select others per Google current eligibility rules). LSA runs on a pay-per-lead model, appears above regular Google Search results, and carries the Google Screened or Google Guaranteed badge. Setup covers background checks, license verification, metro targeting, dispute-response management, and weekly call quality scoring. Every incoming lead is scored on the LSA dashboard so we dispute the ones that were not a real match and protect your effective cost per lead. LSA typically produces the lowest cost per booked consult of any channel for firms in eligible local markets, often 40 to 60 percent lower than paid search on the same account. See Google's own Local Services Ads help center for the current eligibility list by category and state before you plan monthly spend.

Redefine Web runs PPC for accounting practices and consulting groups. Over 30 professional services firms run on our management right now. The specialty shows up in three ways. Attribution windows run 90 to 180 days because signed engagements land that late after the first click. LinkedIn ABM is built for CFO, VP of Finance, controller, and managing partner audiences by title and firm size, not spray-and-pray. Ad copy is reviewed against AICPA advertising rules and the state board rules for every state your firm is licensed in, with a no tax advice disclaimer wired into every landing page. Generalist agencies default to 30-day windows, retail-friendly Performance Max with no feed hygiene, and consumer language that gets a professional services ad disapproved fast. Ask any prospective agency for the last 5 accounting or consulting accounts they ran and the cost per booked consult delta they produced. See the AICPA advertising guidance for the compliance baseline every PPC campaign should hit before launch.

CPC is cost per click. CPA is cost per acquisition, which on an accounting or consulting PPC account means cost per booked consult or cost per signed engagement. CPC bidding pays for traffic and hopes the landing page converts. CPA bidding, using Target CPA or Maximize Conversions with a target, tells Google to spend where a booked consult is most likely at your target price. Firms should almost always run CPA-based bidding once you have 30 to 60 conversions in the account. Before that, Maximize Clicks or Manual CPC works fine while data builds. The gap matters: an $8 CPC on bookkeeping is not the same as an $8 CPA. Small business accounting CPA sits closer to $60 to $150 because not every click converts, and consulting sits anywhere from $100 to $600 depending on engagement size. See HubSpot attribution documentation for wiring closed-won revenue from your CRM back to Google Ads via offline conversion upload for accurate CPA reporting.
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