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Melissa R.
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Melissa R.

Google Ads Expert | PPC Specialist | SaaS and High Ticket B2B/B2C

I run Google Ads accounts end-to-end — strategy, structure, bidding, budget, creative, and reporting — for high-ticket B2B and B2C businesses, home and local services companies, and SaaS businesses spending usually $10,000/month and above. I'm a Google Ads Certified PPC specialist with 21 years of experience, managing over $60M in ad spend across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads (Bing Ads), Meta Ads, and now ChatGPT Ads — working with businesses where lead quality varies and the difference between a good lead and a bad one is worth thousands. What managing your Google Ads account looks like: I run almost exclusively on exact match, with manual bidding — and consistently outperform Smart Bidding doing it. Most accounts hand control to Google's automation before the data or the keyword structure can support it; I keep control manually until the numbers actually justify handing it over, and often they never do. I've also built my own tools to extract and apply negative keywords systematically, rather than relying on the slow manual search-term-report grind most PPC managers are stuck doing. Underneath that: full conversion tracking (GTM, GA4, Enhanced Conversions) and value-based signals fed back to Google Ads — behavioural engagement during the session, lead quality at signup, and offline conversion data (quoted values, won jobs) via CRM integration with Salesforce, HubSpot, and similar platforms. Google Ads learns what a real customer actually looks like for your business, not just what generates a click. I move budget to what's actually converting, not what's spending fastest. I make landing page and creative recommendations based on what the data shows is losing you leads, informed by ongoing conversion rate optimization (CRO). My monthly reports are built around revenue and lead quality, not clicks and impressions. None of this is a separate service bolted onto PPC management. It's how I run every Google Ads account, from day one. Recent results: 📈 A UK business insurance provider (high-ticket B2C): +144% revenue, +68% ROAS, +87% sales. 📈 A land surveying firm (local services): -41% cost per quoted lead, +67% quoted lead ROAS, +12% value of work quoted. 📈 A resin driveway installer (home services): -41% cost per acquisition, -40% ad spend for the same results, +11% quote requests. What's included when I manage your Google Ads / PPC account: ✅ Campaign strategy, structure, exact-match keyword targeting, and manual bidding ✅ Systematic negative keyword extraction using my own tooling, not manual search-term trawling ✅ Full Google Ads account management — Search, Performance Max, Microsoft Ads/Bing Ads ✅ Conversion tracking architecture — GTM, GA4, Enhanced Conversions, offline imports ✅ CRM integration (Salesforce, HubSpot) for quoted value and job value feedback to Google Ads ✅ Behavioural signal tracking and lead scoring ✅ Landing page and creative recommendations, including CRO ✅ Daily reporting built around revenue outcomes Who I work best with: High-ticket B2B and B2C businesses, home and local services companies, and SaaS businesses spending $10k/mo or more — insurance, professional services, home improvement, trades, and technology — where the owner or marketing director wants someone who owns the Google Ads / PPC account, not just diagnoses it. If you want a senior Google Ads and PPC (SEM) specialist to run your account end-to-end, send me a message or book a consultation.

🇬🇧Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom$75/hr100% JSS4.59 (79)Since Feb 2012
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Earnings and projects

MRR (estimate)
≈$10k

An estimate from an earlier read

World#1,197 / 412k
🇬🇧Country#36 / 10.7k
Revenue, last 30 days
$13k

Last 6 months: $62k

World#758 / 412k
🇬🇧Country#20 / 10.7k
Total earnings
$747k

Billed in all: $753k

World#1,135 / 412k
🇬🇧Country#26 / 10.7k
Per project
$4k

$1.2k in the last 6 months

World#43,528 / 412k
🇬🇧Country#748 / 10.7k
Projects, last 6 months
53

Across 54 contracts

87% fixed13% hourly
World#877 / 412k
🇬🇧Country#18 / 10.7k
Projects in all
189

Across 208 contracts

79% fixed21% hourly
World#10,960 / 412k
🇬🇧Country#254 / 10.7k

Earnings, last 30 days

$753k+$12.9k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$740k$750k$760kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Dotted: longer than usual between two readings.

Skill rankings: Top 0.59% in Facebook Ads Manager

Top 1% in 2 of 6 skills, ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. #15Bing Ads856 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #2Top 2%
  2. #20Google Ads Audit1,171 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #1Top 2%
  3. #24Google Ads Account Management1,516 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #1Top 2%
  4. #36Facebook Ads Manager6,091 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #1Top 0.59%
  5. #37Pay Per Click Advertising3,584 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #1Top 1%
  6. #58Google Ads9,625 freelancers · 🇬🇧 #2Top 0.60%