Questions, answered
Paid advertising, explained
How much should we spend on paid advertising?+
The useful way to answer that is from the other end. Work out what a customer is worth to you, how many you can deliver, and what close rate your sales process achieves. That gives you an affordable cost per customer, and the budget follows from the volume you want. Spending a fixed percentage of revenue because that is the industry rule ignores both your margin and your capacity.
Google Ads or Meta: which one should we start with?+
Google captures demand that already exists, so it tends to produce faster and better-qualified enquiries when people are actively searching for what you sell. Meta creates demand, so it fills the pipeline for the months ahead and usually costs less per lead while asking more of your creative. Most companies with a real growth target end up running both, but if there is existing search volume in your category, start there.
Why does our cost per lead keep rising?+
Usually creative fatigue rather than the auction. The same ad shown to the same audience for months gets ignored, frequency climbs and the platform pays more for each result. The other common cause is optimising towards form fills, which trains the platform to find people who fill in forms rather than people who buy. Both are fixed upstream of the bidding.
How quickly do campaigns produce results?+
Campaigns are usually live within a few weeks of starting, and the first enquiries arrive within days of that. Reliable numbers take longer: give any new campaign two weeks before drawing conclusions, because the platform needs conversion data before it can find your buyers. Structural results, where the channel is predictable month to month, build over the first quarter.
Do you make the ads yourself?+
Yes. Copywriters, designers, photographers and videographers on our own team in Antwerp. A typical launch is around 60 assets across angles and formats, and a new angle can be shot and live within days. This matters more than it sounds: creative volume is one of the few remaining levers on performance that the platforms have not automated.
Can you work with our existing ad accounts?+
Yes, and we prefer it. Your accounts keep their history, which the platforms use, and you keep ownership of them. We work inside your accounts rather than a reseller structure, so if we ever part ways you walk away with the data and the learning intact.
What do you need from us to start?+
Read or admin access to the ad accounts and analytics, your numbers on average order value and close rate, someone who can approve creative quickly, and a sales process that calls back fast. That last one matters more than the budget. The cheapest performance improvement in most companies is answering enquiries within minutes instead of days.
Do you advertise outside Belgium?+
Yes, across Europe and in the United States, in Dutch and English. The platforms and the persuasion principles are the same everywhere. The market research, the language and the competitive set change, and so does the seasonality. The weekly review works the same in every time zone.