Every engagement follows a documented 4-phase method you can see, challenge, and track in real time. We never take a percentage of your ad spend. No contracts. And one guarantee: if you’re not satisfied in your first 30 days, you don’t pay.
Why you’ve been burned before
Most businesses we talk to have already switched agencies at least once — and the same four failures show up every time.
Curated screenshots showing vanity metrics. No access to the ad accounts. You can’t verify anything independently.
The more they convince you to spend, the more they earn. Their financial incentive is directly opposed to your efficiency.
By the time you realize nothing is working, you’ve burned $30–$100K and can’t leave without paying out the contract.
You met the senior strategist in the pitch. After signing, a first-year analyst is running your account with a template checklist.
Every part of the SearchPod process is designed to make those four failures structurally impossible.
The 4-Phase Method
Every client moves through the same four phases. Each phase ends with specific, auditable deliverables you sign off on before we move forward.
Before we promise anything, we run a full diagnostic on your ad accounts, analytics, and website. We find exactly where budget is being wasted and why — documented line by line, so you can verify every finding yourself.
Written audit report — yours to keep, even if you don’t hire us.
You get a written 90-day roadmap with specific KPI targets — not aspirational ranges. If we don’t believe we can hit the numbers, we tell you upfront and we don’t take the engagement. That protects both of us.
Signed SOW with the full 90-day roadmap — nothing launches until you approve it.
Week one of the engagement is build week. Campaigns get rebuilt from scratch, tracking is re-implemented with server-side events, landing pages are deployed on our Next.js stack — and everything passes a recorded QA check before it goes live.
Live campaigns + you get admin access to everything we build.
Every day we’re in the accounts — negative keywords, bid adjustments, A/B tests, landing page iterations. Every Friday you get a written update on what we changed and what we learned. Every month you get a deep-dive review call.
Documented change log of every edit — you can audit the history anytime.
The Timeline
Marketing isn’t instant. But if you can’t see movement in the first 30 days, something is wrong. Here’s the honest timeline.
Full diagnostic, strategy signed, campaigns rebuilt, tracking deployed. You see the full roadmap and commit to specific targets.
Wasted spend comes out, search terms get cleaner, and Quality Scores start to move. You can see every change in the dashboard daily.
Winners identified, losers paused, landing pages iterated. Monthly strategy review with attribution-based budget reallocation.
Profitable campaigns get more budget. New channels layered in where the data supports them. Revenue-attributed reporting in place.
Communication Built In
Silence is the #1 complaint about agencies. We solved it with a documented cadence of written updates, live calls, and real-time dashboards that make silence impossible.
One senior strategist owns your account. You have their email, phone, and Slack — not a ticket queue.
Every Friday by 5pm: a written update covering what we changed this week, what we learned, and what’s queued for next week.
60 minutes with your strategist to review attribution, surface surprises, and rebalance priorities. Recorded and transcribed for you.
Looker Studio + GA4 dashboards updated in real time. No curated PDFs. You see the same numbers we do, all the time.
The Guarantee
It works exactly the way it sounds: work with us for 30 days, and if you’re not satisfied with the work, you don’t pay — no clawback clauses, no hidden conditions, no “circumstances beyond our control” excuses. After the first 30 days you’re on a normal month-to-month plan you can cancel anytime. It’s the simplest way we know to prove we believe in the work.
Questions Before Signing
If yours isn’t here, email info@searchpod.com and we’ll answer it honestly.
Most of our clients have. The structural differences — we never take a percentage of your ad spend, month-to-month contracts, real-time dashboards, and a documented change log — exist specifically to prevent the failures that got you here. We built the company around not being the kind of agency you fire.
Yes, one: if you’re not satisfied in your first 30 days, you don’t pay. No clawback clauses. No fine print. After the first 30 days, every plan runs month-to-month and you can cancel anytime — the guarantee removes the risk of starting, and the month-to-month terms remove the risk of staying.
A senior strategist owns your account from day one. You know their name, you have their direct email and Slack. We don’t do the bait-and-switch where the pitch team hands you off to a junior after signing. The person who sold you the strategy is the person executing it.
Most clients see meaningful CPL improvements within 30 days — cutting wasted spend is usually the fastest win in the first couple of weeks. Full optimization and scaled wins usually happen by day 60-90. If you don’t see movement in the first 30 days, something is structurally wrong and we want to know.
No. Every plan is month-to-month. If we’re not delivering, you can leave on 30 days notice. We believe results should earn retention, not contracts — clients stay because the work is working, not because they can’t leave.
No. We never take a percentage of your ad spend, regardless of how much you spend on ads. This matters because percentage-of-spend creates an incentive for the agency to increase your spend. A fixed fee aligns us with efficiency instead.
You keep everything. We built it all in your accounts — your ad accounts, your GA4, your GTM, your Next.js code. You’ll have admin access from day one. If you leave, nothing breaks, nothing gets revoked. You just stop paying us.
Yes. Your first strategy call is with the senior strategist who would own your account — not a sales person. If they can’t tell you specifically what they’d do, we’re not ready for you.
Get a free proposal. We’ll diagnose exactly what’s working, what’s wasting money, and what to do about it — no contracts, no obligations, no sales pressure.
No upfront fees. No long contracts. If you’re not satisfied in your first 30 days, you don’t pay.
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