Paid social ads in Runcorn

Runcorn businesses can have Facebook and Instagram campaigns managed for a fixed £69 a month. Suppliers to the science and industrial estates sell to a narrow audience, so precision beats reach here every time. We work from Wilmslow, a straight run along the M56. Ad spend is separate.

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A town changing faster than its reputation

Between the science and innovation cluster at Sci-Tech Daresbury nearby, the long chemical and industrial heritage, and the regeneration work around Runcorn Old Town, there is more going on here than outsiders assume. Its 62,000 residents are on Facebook and Instagram daily, and for a local business those feeds are the most affordable advertising space available anywhere.

A few pounds a day puts you in front of thousands of people inside your actual working area. Not a county-wide broadcast that flatters the report and helps nobody, but the streets and estates you already serve.

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Paid social ads · Runcorn

Trades, services and everything between

Runcorn business leans practical. Trades, industrial services, logistics and home services, plus the shops and food places serving each estate. Paid social suits all of them, though not with the same campaign. A roofer wants a radius audience and photographs of finished jobs. A salon wants Instagram formats and a reason to book this month. A firm near Daresbury selling to other businesses may want awareness and retargeting only, with no expectation of an instant enquiry.

That is why every client starts with a conversation rather than a template. The platform is the same for everyone. The objective, the audience and the creative should not be.

Trades in particular tend to underrate their own material. The photographs on your phone of a finished driveway, a new bathroom or a van outside a job are worth more as ads than anything staged, because local people recognise the streets. Send us what you have and we will tell you honestly which shots will carry a campaign and which will not.

Paid social ads · Runcorn

One market, both sides of the river

Geography here is unusual and worth thinking about properly. The bridges tie Runcorn and Widnes together for most practical purposes, the expressway system moves people around quickly, and plenty of households will happily cross the water for a tradesperson they trust while never crossing it for a coffee. Convenience purchases stay local. Considered ones travel.

So we set the radius by what you sell, not by what looks tidy on a map. Then we check the reporting after a few weeks to see where enquiries genuinely came from, and adjust. Sometimes the answer is that half your budget was reaching an area that never converts, which is a cheap and useful thing to learn early.

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Paid social packages.

Each plan is a fixed monthly price, with Growth being the one most clients pick because audience testing and basic retargeting are usually where the account starts to pay. Ad spend is separate, paid by you directly to Meta, so there is never a mystery line on an invoice and never a surprise at the end of the month.

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 · Runcorn

What ninety days should produce

By the end of month one the campaign is live and delivery has settled. By the end of month two you should know which audience is cheapest to reach and which message earns the click, with the weaker combinations already switched off. By the end of month three there should be a workable cost per enquiry, retargeting running on Growth or Pro, and a clear view of whether the channel deserves more budget or less.

If the answer after ninety days is less, we will say that plainly. Campaigns here are built using AI for speed, refined by experts for quality, and part of what the experts are for is telling you when something is not working.

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The limits of what anyone can promise

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We will not guarantee lead numbers, sales or growth percentages. The advertising rules forbid it and experience backs that up, since results depend on your offer and your market as much as on management. What you can hold us to is the work: structured testing, monthly optimisation, transparent reporting and honest answers when something needs changing.

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If a supplier ever hands you a guaranteed lead figure in writing, ask what happens when it is missed. The answer is usually nothing, because the number was never a commitment, only a way of winning the meeting.

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Paid social ads · Runcorn

Runcorn in our Cheshire patch

From Altrincham Road in Wilmslow we run paid social across the county, including neighbouring Warrington and Chester. The county-level overview is on our paid social ads Cheshire page, plan specifics on the paid social service page, and the full list of towns on our areas page. Big agency thinking without big agency fees, within easy reach of Halton.

Less faff. More done.

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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.

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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

My customers are on both sides of the Mersey. Can one campaign cover that?

Yes. The bridges make Runcorn and Widnes one practical market, so we can build an audience spanning both, or split them into separate ad sets where the message should differ. Targeting geography is flexible, and we shape it around your real catchment rather than the council boundary.

I tried Facebook ads myself and wasted money. What would you do differently?

The usual self-managed problems are the wrong campaign objective, one ad shown to one broad audience, and no retargeting. We fix all three: proper objectives, several variations tested against each other from Growth upwards, and spend reviewed monthly so weak ads get cut rather than quietly draining the budget.

Do I get reports I can actually understand?

Yes. One monthly summary in plain English covering spend, reach, clicks, enquiries, what we changed and what happens next. The full data is available whenever you want it, but you will never need somebody to translate the summary for you.

Can I pause the ads in quiet months?

Your ad spend can be paused or reduced at any time because it is separate and sits under your control. The management plan is monthly rolling, so seasonal businesses have flexibility there too. Tell us the pattern and we will set it up sensibly.

What notice do I need to give to stop?

A month, and no argument about it. We would rather you left cleanly and came back later than felt trapped. The ad account, the audiences and the creative all stay with you either way, because they were always yours.

Get seen across Runcorn and Halton

A short call about your customers is all we need to scope your first campaign.

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