Every engagement follows a documented 4-phase method you can see, challenge, and track in real time. Flat monthly fees. No contracts. A 30-day money-back guarantee if we don’t deliver what we promised.
Why you’ve been burned before
86% of businesses have switched marketing agencies in the last 3 years. 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 how much budget is being wasted and why. The average audit we run uncovers 40% wasted spend within 48 hours.
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 committed metrics — kill-switch if we miss.
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. Average time from signed SOW to live campaigns: 14 days.
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.
First measurable CPC and CPL drops. Quality Score starts climbing. Search terms get cleaner. You can see the 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
We write the targets into the SOW. If we miss them in the first 30 days, we refund your management fee — no clawback clauses, no hidden conditions, no “circumstances beyond our control” excuses. It’s the simplest way we know to prove we believe in the work.
Questions Before Signing
If yours isn’t here, email hello@searchpod.com and we’ll answer it honestly.
Most of our clients have. The structural differences — flat monthly fees instead of percentage of 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. Every SOW includes committed KPI targets. If we miss them in the first 30 days, we refund your management fee. No clawback clauses. No fine print. This is not a marketing line — it’s contractual.
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 (we typically cut wasted spend by 40% in the first 2 weeks alone). 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. Our average client stays 26 months — because the work is working, not because they can’t leave.
No. Every plan is a flat monthly fee regardless of how much you spend on ads. Starter $1,000, Growth $1,800, Scale $3,000. This matters because percentage-of-spend creates an incentive for the agency to increase your spend. Flat fees align 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.
Start with a free audit. We’ll diagnose exactly what’s working, what’s wasting money, and what to do about it — no contracts, no obligations, no sales pressure.