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Advertising in Yandex where every rouble is visible

We set the campaigns up and run them on your budget and inside your own accounts. The access stays with you, and the report is about enquiries, not impressions.

What is in this section
  • →Budget and accountyours
  • →Keywords and negativeshanded over as a list
  • →The reportabout enquiries
The exact scope and timing are fixed after the diagnostic — before that nobody has an honest picture.
Who it fits

When people come to us with this

The four conversations people most often arrive with.

There has never been any advertising

The business runs on word of mouth and the flow needs to be steadier. We start with the arithmetic: is there demand in your niche and does it add up against your order value.

Ads are running, enquiries are not

Money leaves, the phone stays quiet. We find where the person is lost — keywords, the ad, the page or the form — and fix that place rather than everything.

It is unclear what we are paying for

The report arrives in impressions and clicks, and it does not show where a client came from. We translate it into enquiries and their sources.

The contractor left, the campaigns stayed

There is an account, no access, and nobody knows what was set up. We take apart what lives in there and put it in order.

Outcome

What stays with you afterwards

The account and the money stay yours

Campaigns are built inside your own advertising account and the invoice is yours. If you want to stop, you stop — no need to ask us.

The keyword and negative list in your hands

What you are shown for, and what you must not be shown for, is your document. It stays with you after we part ways.

A report on enquiries, not impressions

How many enquiries came in, from which ad and on which search phrase. Impressions and clicks are there too, but they are not the conversation.

How the work goes

A clear order, no surprises

1 · A conversation

Half an hour about your business: who buys from you, at what average order value and what you have already tried. No account access is needed at this step.

2 · The numbers and a plan

We do the arithmetic before the start: what an enquiry may cost and whether that adds up against your order value. If it does not, we say so before you spend.

3 · Launch and watching

We build the campaigns inside your own account, start them and stay around: we look at enquiries rather than impressions and tell you what changed and why.

The figure is named in a quote for your task, once it is clear how many campaigns and keywords are involved and what has already been done before us. There is no price list here on purpose: an "average price" in advertising means averaged work, and you pay for yours.

Evidence

Look at the work, not at the words

These are the numbers of the agency as a whole, not of this area alone. Under each one the source and the period are named: the code counts them as the page is built, not the author of the text.

—tasks accepted: result checked and taken
—median task time: from brief to accepted
—business lines running at the same time

preparing data…

Where the figures come from
  • tasks accepted: result checked and taken

    A task is accepted once the result has been read, checked and taken. There is no second word for this on the site: “accepted” and “completed” mean the same thing.

  • median task time: from brief to accepted

    A typical task: half of the tasks in this window went faster, half took longer. This is NOT an average: one long task cannot pull the number up, so the median describes an ordinary day more honestly.

  • business lines running at the same time

    How many different businesses the agency runs at once. A line counts if it has at least three tasks in the log; internal test runs do not count.

Straight talk

What we do ourselves and what we do with partners

We do this ourselves

We run live Yandex campaigns for a client project of the agency every day: keyword work, ads, filtering out empty enquiries, tracing the source of every single one.

Source tagging all the way into the CRM record is our own mechanism — that is why the enquiry report adds up instead of being "roughly like this".

Demand is collected and read by machine, from live keyword data, not by eye: that also shows what nobody in the niche searches for at all.

We build this out for you

End-to-end analytics down to the deal and the money — the core is there, the link to your accounting system we build out for the task, and we name the timing before we start.

We run this with a partner

Social and display advertising go through specialist contractors; our job is to pick them, tie their work into one report and answer to you for the timing.

Where a partner does the work, we stay your single point of contact: we pick the contractor, set the task, watch the timing and answer to you for the result. The contract names the contractor honestly — no "we do everything in-house".

Questions

What people usually ask

Whose budget and whose account?
Yours. We work inside them: you can see where every rouble went at any moment, and you can take the access back without asking us.
What stays with me if we part ways?
The account, the campaigns and the keyword list with the negatives. Nothing is moved "to our side" — there is nothing to move there.
Do you promise a number of enquiries?
No. Promising a flow before demand and price are worked out is a way to sign a client, not to help one. We do the arithmetic first and say whether it makes sense.
Where do I start if there is no website?
With a conversation. It often turns out that a page for the advertising comes first and campaigns second.
Enquiry

Let us look at your task

Half an hour about your business — no access to your advertising accounts and no commitments.

We call back during working hours. Company details are optional — if you give them, we read the open registries first and come to the conversation prepared.