Paid social ads in Stockport

Paid social campaigns for Stockport businesses, run from £69 a month on a flat fee. Our office is twenty minutes away in Wilmslow, so you get a nearby team rather than a call centre. The management fee is fixed for the life of the package and ad spend is separate, paid by you to Meta.

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A town in the middle of a rebuild

Stockport is the biggest market on our patch, with roughly 140,000 people and a centre that has changed more in the last few years than in the previous thirty. The Underbanks and Merseyway have pulled independent traders and creative businesses back into town, and underneath the headlines sits an enormous base of small firms doing ordinary work for local customers.

That scale cuts both ways for an advertiser. There are far more potential customers than in the villages down the road, which means a campaign can keep finding new people for months rather than exhausting its audience by week three. It also means more competition for attention, and a far greater capacity to waste money if the targeting is careless.

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Paid social ads Stockport

Big audiences punish lazy targeting

In a town of 14,000 you can almost get away with a single broad audience. In a town of 140,000 you cannot. The person browsing the Underbanks on a Saturday and the person driving through Heaton Moor on a weekday morning are not the same customer, and lumping them into one ad set means you never learn which of them is worth your budget.

So we split. Separate ad sets by area, by interest or by stage of interest, so the numbers can actually tell you something. It takes slightly longer to set up and it is the reason a managed campaign beats a boosted post by a distance. The extra structure is included from Growth upwards, where up to three ad sets can run side by side.

Paid social packages.

In a market this size the middle tier usually earns its keep quickly. Starter exists for businesses that want to test one idea on one audience with their own creative. Growth, the one most clients pick, is where Stockport accounts tend to settle, because three ad sets let us compare parts of the borough against each other, three variations show what genuinely stops the scroll, and basic retargeting picks up the near misses. Pro goes to five variations with a retargeting structure, lead forms where suitable, creative direction and landing page recommendations. Ad spend is separate, billed to you by the platform.

Starter

£69/month
  • 1 campaign
  • Basic audience setup
  • 1 ad creative supplied by client
  • Basic ad copy
  • Monthly optimisation
  • Monthly performance summary
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Pro

£249/month
  • Everything in Growth, plus
  • Up to 5 ad variations
  • Retargeting structure
  • Lead form setup, where suitable
  • Creative direction
  • Landing page recommendations
  • Priority optimisation
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Ad spend is separate, paid by you directly to the platforms.

Prices shown are the current set fees. Your agreed price stays fixed while you keep the service. Final package details are confirmed before you buy. Ad spend is separate.

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Paid social ads Stockport

Testing properly, now you have the volume

Stockport is one of the few local markets where genuine testing is realistic rather than theoretical. There are enough people to run two audiences against each other and get an answer you can trust, instead of reading meaning into a handful of clicks.

The discipline is simple: change one thing at a time, give it long enough to matter, and be willing to kill the version you liked. We test headlines against each other, images against video, and a tight local audience against a wider one. Most of what we learn is unglamorous, but a small improvement that holds is worth more than a clever idea that does not.

Paid social ads Stockport

Big town campaigns without big agency fees

Stockport is not short of marketing suppliers, and we are not going to pretend we know what any of them charge. What we can be precise about is our own number. Management runs from £69 to £249 a month depending on the plan, it is agreed before anything starts, and it does not move because your ad budget did.

Our model is deliberately different. Campaigns are built using AI for speed, refined by experts for quality, so production time falls sharply and that difference shows up in your fee rather than in our overheads. What we will not do is promise a number of leads, a cost per sale or a return figure to win the work. Nobody can control those, and any supplier who guarantees them is selling you a story.

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Paid social ads Stockport

Twenty minutes from our door

MarketingDone4U works from 34 Altrincham Rd in Wilmslow, an easy run from Stockport whenever a face to face conversation is genuinely useful. Most months it is not needed, and the work happens where it should: inside the ad account. You get one point of contact who knows your business rather than a rotating support queue, and answers in plain English on 0161 570 1668 if a call is quicker than an email.

Paid social ads Stockport

One team across the borough and beyond

Stockport firms rarely stop at the borough boundary. We run paid social in Cheadle Hulme and Bramhall to the south, Poynton on the Cheshire edge, and west across Trafford in Sale. The full county picture is on our paid social ads Cheshire page. Everything each package includes is set out on the paid social advertising page, and the complete list of towns sits under areas. Google Ads, SEO, social media management and web design all follow the same fixed monthly pricing.

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Less faff. More done.

1

Choose

Pick one service, or combine as many as your business needs.

2

Tell us

Answer a few simple questions so we understand what you do.

3

We do the work

Smart technology does the heavy lifting. Our experts finish it.

4

You grow

Turn better marketing into more enquiries and sales, without building your own team.

Works well with.

Google Ads

Pair with Google Search and Shopping from £89 per month per channel. Ad spend is separate.

Social media

Organic always-on content from £79 per month so your profile backs up your ads.

Web design

Send your ad clicks to a site built to convert, from £99 per month.

Frequently asked questions

Stockport is a big place. How do you stop the budget being wasted?

By splitting the audience rather than treating the town as one block, excluding areas you do not serve, and moving budget towards whichever ad set produces the cheapest enquiries. Broad targeting in a town this size is the fastest way to spend money on nobody in particular.

Can paid social run alongside my Google Ads?

Yes, and they tend to work better together. Search catches people already looking, social introduces you to people who were not. We manage both under fixed monthly fees, and in each case ad spend is separate and paid by you to the platform.

How long before I can judge whether it is working?

A month gives you a direction, three months give you a verdict. The first few weeks include a learning period where costs are usually higher than they will settle at, so early panic tends to be expensive.

What is the total monthly cost?

Management is £69, £129 or £249 depending on the package, plus whatever daily budget you set for the ads. Ad spend is separate and never passes through us, so there is no markup hidden in the middle.

Do you work with businesses that sell to other businesses?

Yes. It takes a different approach, usually leaning on job titles, interests and retargeting rather than a simple local radius, and expectations on volume need to be realistic. We will tell you honestly if search would serve you better.

Stand out in a town on the up

Tell us where you want the business to be in six months and we will build the paid social plan to help get it there.

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Prefer to talk it through first? Call 0161 570 1668 or email hello@marketingdone4u.com.