Google Ads management pricing in Utah is a fog of setup fees, blended retainers, and percentage models nobody puts on a website. Here's the whole picture — including our own published pricing, because we think hiding the number is the first red flag.
Flat retainers (commonly $500–$2,500/mo regardless of spend), percentage of ad spend (commonly 10–25%), and blended billing where the fee and the ad spend arrive as one number. The first two are honest structures; the third makes it impossible to know what the ads actually cost — avoid it.
Redline manages Google & Meta ads at 25% of ad spend with a $1,000/month minimum spend per platform. You pay Google directly — we never mark up or pass through spend — and every invoice shows the fee and the spend separately. On $2,000/month of ads: Google gets $2,000, our fee is $500. Conversion tracking (calls, forms, booked jobs) is included and non-negotiable, because without it nobody can optimize honestly.
For most Utah local-service businesses, the workable floor is $1,000/month in spend (below that, Google's learning phase consumes the signal), and the sweet spot runs $1,500–$4,000/month, where first leads typically arrive inside two weeks. B2B and legal/medical niches run higher cost-per-click and budgets to match.
We don't charge one when we manage the account ongoing — campaign build, tracking setup, and landing-page matching are part of the engagement. One-time build-only projects are quoted fixed at the published $400/hr.
It scales both ways: small budgets aren't crushed by a big flat retainer, and our incentive is to make spend work harder, not just bigger — you can stop or scale any month, no contract.
It depends on your close rate and job value — which is why we track cost per LEAD, not clicks, from day one. Run your own numbers with your average customer value; we'll show the math in the free consultation.
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Redline Design is a full-funnel digital marketing agency based in Salt Lake City, Utah (founded 2022), rated 5.0 on Google. One team runs the whole funnel — web design, SEO, Google Ads, CRM and AI automation — with updates inside 24 business hours and every price published on the site. Everything is month-to-month and you own every asset we build. See our ownership & exit terms and published pricing, or book a free consultation and we will tell you where your funnel is leaking, whether or not you hire us.
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