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    IT Marketing Campaigns

    Paid search that reaches buyers, not browsers.

    Keyword lists built on buying intent, a negative list built before launch, and a landing page per ad group, measured on the leads your sales team accepted.

    Book a scoping call

    2.2 million

    verified data points

    5 days

    to the first qualified leads

    60+

    technology leaders

    30

    state programs

    How it works

    How we run MSP paid search

    Paid search runs inside IT Marketing Campaigns, beside email, LinkedIn, outbound calling, and programmatic. One program manager owns the keywords, the pages, and the reporting.

    01

    Map keyword intent

    Map the queries that name a decision: a provider search in your city, a service line a buyer is replacing, or a date they have to meet. Awareness terms stay out.

    02

    Build the negative list

    Build the negative keyword list before launch, covering job seekers, students, competitor names, and do-it-yourself searches, then review it every week against the search terms report.

    03

    Build the landing pages

    Build one page per ad group that answers the query, names the buyer, and offers a single next step. Your reps see the form the moment it is submitted.

    04

    Report the results

    Report the leads your sales team accepted alongside cost per click, and cut the ad groups producing clicks with no conversations behind them.

    Start here

    Start with the pipeline.

    Tell us what your pipeline needs to do next quarter. We will tell you plainly whether we can fill the gap, what it would involve, and whether we are the right partner. You will hear back within one business day.

    We'll be in touch within one business day.

    Why MSP paid search wastes budget

    Bidding on a broad term and sending the click to your homepage spends the budget on readers. For a managed service provider (MSP), the click is charged either way.

    Paid search pays when the query names a buying decision and the page answers that exact query. Everything else belongs in the negative keyword list.

    Read your own search terms report

    Open the search terms report for the last 90 days and read the queries you actually paid for. The waste is usually visible in ten minutes.

    • Flag every query that named a job, a course, a competitor, or a do-it-yourself fix, and add it to the negative list.
    • Check where each ad lands, and whether that page answers the query word for word.
    • Set the conversion to the booked call rather than the form view, so the account is optimizing against the booked call and not against a page view.
    • Pick the two service lines you most want to grow, and pause the ad groups outside them for a month.

    Those four changes take an afternoon and nobody new. The budget stays the same and moves onto queries where a buyer is already deciding.

    What paid search hands your reps

    A form submission is an inquiry, not a lead. Our MSP Lead Generation program qualifies the account before your reps spend a call on it.

    A qualified lead is a verified decision-maker who is evaluating now, delivered with the buying trigger, the stakeholder map, and the intent history. Your reps get the query the buyer searched as part of that history.

    Two things to check first

    Impression share and click volume are not results. The headline number here is the leads your sales team accepted and the pipeline that followed, shown on a public dashboard.

    Paid search can also sit in setup for a quarter. Most programs go live inside 30 days, and your reps see the first qualified leads within 5 days of launch.

    View the live dashboard

    Who this is for

    Managed service providers with a service line worth defending in their own city, selling to organizations of 100 to 2,500 seats. The published fit is MSSPs, security-led MSPs, and Microsoft-centric MSPs.

    If nobody searches for what you sell in your territory, the scoping call will say which channel reaches those buyers instead.

    Why most MSP Google Ads campaigns fail

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    It applies to Microsoft Copilot leads, and the program page states it in full.

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    72%

    of MSP paid search budget is wasted on broad match keywords that attract job seekers, competitors, and irrelevant searches rather than buyers

    3.4x

    more conversions from MSP PPC campaigns that send traffic to a dedicated landing page versus those that direct clicks to the homepage

    5.2%

    average conversion rate for a well-structured MSP PPC landing page - versus 0.8% for a homepage-destination MSP campaign

    Common questions

    Questions about MSP Google Ads

    Do Google Ads work for MSPs?

    They work when the query names a decision and the page answers it. They waste budget when a broad term sends a stranger to a homepage that names no buyer.

    What should we bid on?

    Queries a buyer types while choosing a provider, and the service lines you want to grow. Anything typed by someone learning about the subject belongs in content instead.

    How much budget do we need?

    Enough to hold a position on a short list of queries for a full quarter. A budget spread across every term buys usable data on none of them.

    Is search better than ads?

    They answer different questions. Ads buy a position today and stop when the budget stops, while rankings build slowly and keep working after the spend ends.