Paid ads are the fastest way to find out whether your offer works. They are also the fastest way to spend ₹2 lakh and learn nothing, which is what happens when campaigns are launched without conversion tracking, with one ad creative, and with a broad audience of 'India, 18 to 65'. We manage Google Ads and Meta Ads accounts for Indian businesses that want the first outcome and have usually experienced the second.
Our team has managed accounts for real-estate launches, coaching programmes, clinics, admission drives and D2C brands. What ties them together is a bias towards search intent where it exists, disciplined creative testing where it does not, and a WhatsApp or call follow-up system that turns a lead into a conversation within minutes. The sections below tell you which campaign type fits which business, so you can hold us or anyone else to it.
Which campaign type fits which business
Google Search captures demand that already exists. If people type 'best CBSE school in Noida Extension' or 'plot on Yamuna Expressway', a Search campaign puts you in front of them at the exact moment. It is expensive per click but cheap per sale. Performance Max spreads across Search, YouTube, Display, Gmail and Maps using your product feed or assets; it works well for e-commerce and for businesses with a lot of conversion data, and poorly for a brand-new account with none.
Meta (Instagram and Facebook) creates demand. Nobody searches for a ₹4,999 mindset course, but a good reel makes them want it. Lead ads with instant forms convert cheaply, especially with a WhatsApp destination, though lead quality needs constant filtering. Retargeting on both platforms is the highest-return budget you will spend, because it shows ads only to people who already visited your site or watched your video.
- Local service, clinic, CA firm, school: Google Search first, Meta retargeting second
- Coach or course creator: Meta video ads to a webinar or WhatsApp group, Google Search on brand and competitor names
- Real-estate plots and flats: Meta lead ads plus Google Search on location terms, site-visit booking over WhatsApp
- D2C brand: Meta catalogue ads and Performance Max with a Shopping feed, retargeting cart abandoners
- B2B software or services: Google Search on problem keywords, LinkedIn only if deal size justifies ₹300 plus per click
How we set up an account before spending a rupee
Setup is where most Indian ad accounts fail, months before anyone notices. Our process is deliberately slow for the first ten working days.
We also split brand and non-brand search from day one. Brand clicks are cheap and would make the overall numbers look better than they are. Keeping them separate lets you see the real cost of acquiring someone who has never heard of you.
- Day 1 to 2: access to Google Ads, Meta Business Manager, website and GA4; billing set to your card or bank so invoices come to you
- Day 3 to 5: conversion tracking. Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel plus Conversions API, WhatsApp click events, call tracking, form submissions; a thank-you page or a WhatsPilot webhook so a lead is a real lead
- Day 5 to 7: keyword research with Google Keyword Planner and Search Console data, negative keyword lists (jobs, free, PDF, salary and so on), audience research on Meta
- Day 7 to 10: landing pages checked for speed under 3 seconds on Jio 4G, at least six ad variations per ad set, campaign structure approved by you in writing
- Day 10: go live at 60 percent of planned budget, scale after the first 30 to 50 conversions
Budgets and cost per lead in India: honest expectations
The question everyone asks is 'what will a lead cost'. The honest answer is that it depends on city, category, season and offer, and the first month is a test to find out. Ranges we plan against, based on our own accounts: Meta lead ads for coaching in Tier 2 cities often land between ₹80 and ₹300 per lead; real-estate site-visit leads in NCR or Pune typically run ₹400 to ₹1,500; Google Search leads for a dental clinic in a metro city can range from ₹250 to ₹900. Treat these as planning figures, not promises.
Minimum budgets matter. Google Search needs enough clicks to gather data, and Meta needs roughly 50 conversions per ad set per week to leave the learning phase. Below ₹25,000 per month on a platform, results are noisy and we will usually recommend one platform only. Between ₹50,000 and ₹3 lakh a month is where most of our SME clients operate. Ad spend is always paid by you directly to Google or Meta; it never passes through us.
Retargeting and the WhatsApp handoff
A visitor who left your site without enquiring is not lost, just undecided. We build retargeting audiences of site visitors, video viewers (25 percent, 50 percent, 95 percent), Instagram engagers and CRM uploads, then show them a different message: a testimonial, a limited batch, a price reveal, a site-visit offer. Retargeting usually costs a fraction of cold traffic per conversion.
On the conversion side, we prefer click-to-WhatsApp over website forms for most Indian consumer categories because reply rates are dramatically higher. WhatsPilot answers the first message instantly, qualifies with two or three questions (budget, location, timeline), and hands the conversation to your sales person or books a Zonvo AI call. For high-ticket real estate we add a missed-call flow so nobody waits till morning.
Account mistakes that burn money
We see the same problems in nearly every account we take over. None of them is exotic, and all of them are fixable in the first fortnight if someone is looking.
- No negative keywords, so a coaching institute pays for 'teacher jobs' and 'free notes PDF'
- Smart campaigns or fully automated Meta Advantage+ set up by the platform's sales rep with no tracking
- One ad creative running for four months with rising frequency and falling click-through
- Location set to all India for a business that serves one city
- Optimising for link clicks or landing-page views instead of leads or purchases
- Lead ads with no follow-up, so most leads are never contacted
- Judging a campaign on day 5, pausing it, restarting it, and resetting the learning phase every week
Reporting: what you see and when
Every client gets a Looker Studio dashboard connected to Google Ads, Meta and your lead sheet or CRM, refreshed daily. A short written update goes on WhatsApp every Monday: spend, leads, cost per lead, what we changed and what we plan to change. Once a month we hold a 45-minute review where we look at lead quality with your sales team, because a campaign that produces cheap junk should be killed even if the dashboard looks green.
We ask you to mark leads as qualified, junk or converted in the CRM each week. Those tags go back into Google and Meta as offline conversions, which trains the platforms to find more buyers and fewer curious browsers.
Who this is for
- Coaches and course creators launching batches or evergreen webinars on Meta
- Real-estate developers and plot sellers who need site visits from specific micro-markets
- Clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres competing for local Google searches
- Schools, colleges and institutes running admission campaigns with fixed deadlines
- D2C brands on Shopify or WooCommerce that want profitable paid acquisition
- B2B service firms whose customers search Google for their problem
Why choose AICLEX™
Tracking before spending
We refuse to launch without conversion tracking, Conversions API and a lead destination that we can measure. It slows the first ten days and saves the next twelve months.
Follow-up is part of the service
WhatsPilot auto-replies and Zonvo AI calling are our own products, so lead handoff and missed-call recovery are set up with the campaign, not left to you.
Search intent first, creative second
We put budget where buying intent already exists before we try to create it, and we test at least six creatives per ad set when we do.
No media markup, no agency accounts
Ad spend goes from your card to Google or Meta. Accounts sit in your Business Manager. Our management fee is the only thing you pay us.
Pricing
Management fees depend on platforms and monthly spend. Most clients spend ₹25,000 to ₹50,000 per month per platform to start, with a management fee on top, and grow from there once cost per lead is proven. Landing pages, creatives and WhatsPilot setup are quoted separately if you do not have them. A written proposal follows a discovery call.
Frequently asked questions
What is the minimum ad budget you work with?+
Around ₹25,000 per month on a single platform. Below that, campaigns rarely gather enough conversion data to optimise and you end up paying a management fee for guesswork. If your budget is smaller, we will usually suggest one tightly targeted Google Search campaign with WhatsApp follow-up, or an organic-first plan, rather than spreading thin.
How long before we see leads from Google Ads or Meta Ads?+
Leads usually start within the first week of going live. Stable cost per lead takes four to six weeks because the platforms need conversion data to learn. The first 30 days are a test period; we set expectations for the real numbers at the day-30 review, not on day 3.
Do you guarantee a certain cost per lead or return on ad spend?+
No. Cost per lead moves with competition, season and your offer, and neither Google nor Meta guarantees anything to anyone. We give planning ranges from our experience, commit to weekly optimisation, and show you every number. If the economics do not work after a fair test, we will say so rather than keep billing.
Should we run Google Ads or Meta Ads first?+
If people already search for what you sell (a clinic, a school, a CA firm, plots in a named location), start with Google Search. If you are selling something people do not search for yet (a new course, a D2C product), start with Meta. Add retargeting on the second platform once the first is stable.
Who owns the ad account and the data?+
You do. We set up or take over accounts inside your Google Ads and Meta Business Manager and work as a partner user. Billing is in your name. If we part ways, you remove our access and keep the account history, audiences, pixel data and conversions.
Do you make the landing pages and ad creatives too?+
Yes, if needed. Our design team produces static and video creatives sized for Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, and we build fast landing pages with WhatsApp and call buttons. These are quoted as one-time work. If you already have good assets, we use them and only recommend changes the data supports.