Looking for full service and tools

[petaluma1]

I guess I want my cake and to eat it too. I am looking for a company that provides PPC management (pay $5000/month, get x) as well as offers me tools to bid, manage, monitor and calculate ROI myself. I am also looking for natural search monitoring as well.

Any ideas?

[thejenn]

Hard to respond to when we don't know what "x" is.

$5000 a month will go far, or almost no where depending on your industry and your terms.

So I'm not really clear on what you want. Do you want someone to actually manage the accounts for you as an agency would, or are you looking for a bid management style tool?

[petaluma1]

exactly, I am looking for a company that can do both!

[thejenn]

Well, as far as I've experienced, you usually get one or the other.

It's fairly unlikely that you'll find an experienced PPC manager that is a human being that will give you complete access to the tools they are using. Mostly because there's nothing more annoying that putting hours into a campaign only to have someone follow along behind you changing things and messing them up. ;)

Seriously though, a good PPC manager will really give you great information as far as reporting, ROI analysis, and so on. I guess I'm not clear on why you want complete access to the tools to do it yourself AND want someone to do it THEMselves.

Maybe we're just misunderstanding each other?

[Marcia]

I don't do PPC management, don't want to and never will, but I'm trying to understand this, so please help me along.

Is it that you want some company to do your PPC management for you so that they can teach you and show you how they do it, and then give you their tools so that you can do it by yourself on your own?