Paid ads let you reach buyers immediately but waste money quickly if targeting and creative aren't right. Learn the fundamentals before scaling spend.

When I first ran Google Ads in 2010, it looked very different. Still, the core mistake I made is the same one I see marketers make today. I wasted most of the budget in the first two weeks. Not because the channel didn’t work, but because I didn’t fully understand what made people click or what made them convert. I picked keywords that felt right, wrote ads that looked clever, and assumed the rest would follow.
It didn’t.
What I learned through painful trial and error is that paid search only works when you treat it like a precision engine. You have to know exactly what your buyer is searching for, why they are searching, and what they need to see to trust that you are the right answer.
This playbook exists to help you skip that painful learning curve. It shows you how to pick intent-driven keywords, write ads that earn the click, and set up your account for fast feedback and real pipeline instead of vanity traffic.
If you’ve been meaning to launch paid search for your B2B company but weren’t sure where to start, or if you’ve tried it before and didn’t see results, this playbook is for you. It is practical, step-by-step, and focused on getting your first profitable campaign live.
Eugene M. Schwartz
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A field guide to message market fit. Use stages of awareness to pick angles, craft offers and brief ads that speak to real pains and jobs.
Russel Brunson
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A broad look at audience building. Useful ideas for content, partnerships and email that compound over time.
Gabriel Weinberg
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A method to discover your best channel. Prioritise, test and focus resources where traction is most likely.
Russel Brunson
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Translate funnel templates into clean journeys. Focus on offers, sequences and pages that convert instead of tactics that age badly.
Create focused standalone pages for paid campaigns that remove distractions and guide visitors toward one specific action to improve conversion rates.
Calculate what you pay each time someone clicks your ad to evaluate channel efficiency and determine if paid traffic costs justify the leads generated.
Target prospects based on demographic, firmographic, and behavioural data, interrupting their social feeds with relevant offers and content.
Master the economics of customer acquisition by tracking what you pay for each meaningful action across channels.
Capture high-intent prospects actively searching for solutions by bidding on relevant keywords and appearing in search engine results.
Build your channel strategy and optimise each channel, so you grow traffic strategically without burning budget.


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