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Paid advertising THAT BRINGS CUSTOMERS, not just clicks.

Google ads, Facebook and Instagram ads, TikTok ads, LinkedIn ads and YouTube ads, run as one system by one paid advertising agency. We pick the platform where your buyers already are, build the ad, the page and the follow-up, and show you what every naira, pound or dollar brought back. Paid advertising services, pay per click management and paid social media advertising for businesses in Nigeria, the UK, the USA and anywhere in the world.

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Leads and sales, not clicks
1,258+ campaigns launched
Clients in 15+ countries
$8in profit for every $1 spent on Google Ads, by Google’s own estimate and method, an average, not a promise
3.60Bdaily active people across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, as Meta reported for June 2026
8.18%of Google search ad clicks became a lead or sale in WordStream’s 2026 benchmark of US campaigns, not a guarantee for yours
109Mpeople in Nigeria are online, with 38.0M in Facebook’s ad reach and 47.8M adults in TikTok’s (DataReportal, late 2025)
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One page. Four ways in. Pick yours.

A clinic that wants bookings, a store that needs sales every day and a consultant looking for corporate clients all need different paid advertising. Jump to the part written for you.

Which platform should I use?

Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube ads compared honestly, by who buys and how.

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What does it cost?

Four plans, one fee structure for every platform, in dollars, naira, pounds and euros.

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Six questions pick your platform and split your budget. A second free tool shows what you can afford to pay per lead.

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Show me real results

Our clients’ own dashboards, with the campaigns that lost as well as the ones that won.

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01 · The real problem

Why most paid advertising loses money, and it is rarely the platform’s fault

Clicks feel like progress. But a paid ad is not working until it brings a lead you can call, or a sale you can count.

It is 9pm on a Tuesday. Tunde sells made-to-order furniture in Lagos. He is looking at an ads dashboard that says 3,400 clicks this month, and a WhatsApp inbox that says four enquiries, one of them asking if he sells mattresses.

His Google ads bid on the word “furniture”. Students looking for pictures, people in Kano, people searching for furniture jobs. All clicks. All paid for.

His Instagram ads were set to Engagement. 2,100 likes from an audience of everyone in Nigeria aged 18 to 65. Nobody asked for a price.

The hard part is not the money. It is not knowing what to change. Spend more? New ads? Another platform? Or accept that paid advertising does not work for furniture? So he keeps adjusting things and hoping the next campaign is different.

Then the system changed, not the budget. Google ads on “custom sofa Lagos” and “dining table price Lekki”, with the price in the ad. Meta ads showing real workshop videos to people who had visited the website, with a lead form that asked three questions. A reply within five minutes. Same budget. 41 leads. 9 orders.

Tunde is an illustration with example numbers, but we meet people like him each month in our paid advertising review. He never needed more clicks. He needed a better path from the click to the customer. Spending more is not the same as growing more.

Business owner celebrating as his Google ads and Meta ads results climb on a laptop, with new leads arriving on his phone
The dashboard that matters. Not clicks. Leads, customers and what each one cost.

An illustration with example numbers. Real results depend on your offer, your prices and how fast you follow up.

The five parts of paid advertising that works

Miss one and the other four pay for it. We build all five, on every platform we run.

Part 01

An offer worth clicking

A clear promise, a price or a reason to ask, and proof. No ad platform can sell a vague “contact us for more info”.

We write it with you before any ad runs
Part 02

The right platform for the buyer

Google paid search for people searching now. Meta and TikTok paid social for people who do not know you yet. LinkedIn for companies. Often two together.

Chosen from data, not habit
Part 03

A page that converts the click

Fast, one message, one action, WhatsApp one tap away. The ad gets the click. The page gets the lead.

See our web development
Part 04

Tracking from click to cash

Google tag, Meta pixel, Conversions API and source codes, so each platform learns who buys and you see which ad paid.

Set up in your name, on day one. See analytics and tracking
Part 05

Follow-up in minutes

A Harvard Business Review study found firms that contacted leads within an hour were nearly 7× more likely to qualify them. Most leads wait a day.

Alerts, scripts and a 5-minute reply target
Every week

Test, cut, scale

New ads, keywords and audiences tested every week. Losers cut within days. Winners get the money. That is where the cost per lead falls.

Reported in plain numbers, weekly

Paid advertising is not a slot machine. It is a sales system, if you build all five parts.

02 · Pricing

Paid advertising pricing: four ways to work with us

Clear prices, in writing, before you pay anything. One fee structure for every paid advertising platform: Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn or YouTube, the price is the same. Our fee is separate from your ad budget, which you pay to the platforms from your own card. Pick your currency, then pick how much of the work you want done for you.

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Naira prices are our Nigerian price list, for businesses in Nigeria and the rest of Africa. Dollar, pound and euro prices are for businesses outside Africa, including Africans in the diaspora selling back home and businesses coming into Africa. Your ad budget is paid to each platform separately, from your own card, and is never marked up. Monthly plans run 30 days from launch. Creative shoots and extra landing pages outside your plan are quoted before the work, never slipped into the bill.
Tier 01

Launch Right

Set up right, launched right.

For businesses starting paid advertising, or restarting after clicks that never became customers: clinics, schools, estate agents, restaurants, shops and consultants.

₦$£€250,000500400450one-off
Nigerian price list. $500, £400 or €450 for businesses outside Africa₦250,000 on our Nigerian price list₦250,000 on our Nigerian price list₦250,000 on our Nigerian price list
The right platform, tracking, 6 ads and your first campaign
Built to deliverLive within 2 weeks on the platform that fits, with every lead and sale tracked, your first campaign running, and leads landing on your phone with a follow-up routine your team can keep.
Start With Launch Right
See everything included · 13 items
  • A 45-minute strategy call: your offer, your buyer, your numbers and what a lead is worth to you
  • The platform decision, in writing: Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn or YouTube, and why
  • Ad accounts set up or cleaned up in your name, with us as a manager or partner, billing in your currency
  • Conversion tracking installed and tested: Google tag, Meta pixel, Conversions API or the TikTok and LinkedIn equivalents
  • Keyword research with negative keywords for Google, or audiences and lookalikes for social platforms
  • Competitor ad research: what they run, what they claim and where the gap is
  • Written offer and campaign strategy you approve before anything goes live
  • Ad creative: 6 ready-to-run ads, search ads or images and short videos, written and designed by our team
  • Your first campaign built, launched and watched for the first 7 days
  • Lead destination set up: landing page, instant form or WhatsApp chat, with lead alerts to your phone
  • A follow-up routine and reply scripts for your team, with a 5-minute reply target in working hours
  • A 7-day results report and a handover call, with every login in your name
  • Policy check on every platform, so your account does not get suspended on day one
Most popularTier 02

Grow Every Week

Leads every week, costs going down.

For businesses that want a steady flow of leads and sales from up to two platforms, with a team testing and improving every week.

₦$£€200,000600480540a month
or 20% of ad spend, whichever is greater. Nigerian price listor 20% of ad spend, whichever is greateror 20% of ad spend, whichever is greateror 20% of ad spend, whichever is greater
Two platforms, 3 to 5 new ads a week, weekly testing and review call
Built to deliverCost per lead falling month on month, winning ads and keywords scaled while losers are cut within days, and a weekly number you can read in one minute: what you spent, what came in and what it cost.
Start Growing
See everything included · 13 items
  • Everything in Launch Right, included in your first month
  • Up to two platforms managed, chosen from your data, with retargeting on both
  • Campaigns built around leads and sales, never clicks or likes
  • 3 to 5 fresh ads a week: search ads, images, Reels and short videos, written and designed by our team
  • Weekly testing: new keywords, hooks, audiences and placements tested, losers cut, winners scaled
  • Negative keywords, search terms and audiences cleaned every week, so no budget goes to the wrong people
  • Bid, budget and pacing checks every working day
  • Lead quality tracking: which leads your team replied to, how fast, and which became customers
  • Weekly numbers in plain language: cost per lead, cost per customer and return on ad spend, by platform
  • A 30-minute review call every week, with the next 7 days agreed
  • Monthly creative and offer refresh when results slow down
  • Account health monitoring, policy checks and appeals handled if a platform suspends anything
  • A WhatsApp line to your account manager, with replies in office hours within the hour
Tier 03

Run It For Me

The whole funnel, done for you.

For teams that want ads, pages, follow-up and reporting handled across every platform: ecommerce brands, clinics with several branches, schools, property developers and businesses selling abroad.

₦$£€450,0001,5001,2001,350a month
or 20% of ad spend, whichever is greater. Nigerian price listor 20% of ad spend, whichever is greateror 20% of ad spend, whichever is greateror 20% of ad spend, whichever is greater
Every platform, landing pages, CRM, follow-up and a live dashboard
Built to deliverEvery lead captured, followed up and tracked to revenue in one dashboard across Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube, with a monthly plan agreed with the founder.
Run It For Me
See everything included · 13 items
  • Everything in Grow Every Week
  • Every platform that fits, managed by one team: Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube
  • A landing page or form for every campaign, written and built for you
  • Click-to-WhatsApp ads with chat scripts, quick replies and a greeting flow
  • CRM set up: every lead logged, tagged by platform and campaign, and followed up automatically
  • Email and WhatsApp follow-up sequences for new leads, no-shows and old leads
  • Product feeds, Google Shopping and Meta catalog ads for ecommerce
  • A monthly content day: scripts and shot lists for your team, or a creative shoot in Ibadan or Lagos
  • A live dashboard: spend, leads, customers and revenue, by platform and campaign, updated daily
  • A monthly growth meeting with the founder, with the next month and the next platform planned
  • Offer and pricing advice when the numbers say the ads are not the problem
  • Two new tests every month: new offers, new audiences, new platforms or new markets
  • Priority support with a 2-hour reply target in office hours, 7 days a week
Tier 04

Own Your Market

A dedicated team, across every market you sell in.

For corporations, groups and multi-country brands that need paid advertising run like an in-house department: several markets, several brands, a sales team to feed and a board to report to.

₦$£€1.2M4,0003,2003,600a month
or 20% of ad spend, whichever is greater. ₦1,200,000 on our Nigerian price listor 20% of ad spend, whichever is greater. ₦1,200,000 on our Nigerian price listor 20% of ad spend, whichever is greater. ₦1,200,000 on our Nigerian price listor 20% of ad spend, whichever is greater. ₦1,200,000 on our Nigerian price list
A team of three, 8 to 12 ads a week, every platform, every market
Built to deliverEvery market and brand reported in one place, creative that never goes stale, a sales team fed with scored leads, and proof of what the ads added, delivered to your leadership every month.
Talk To Us About Own Your Market
See everything included · 13 items
  • Everything in Run It For Me
  • Several countries, brands or branches run as one account structure, with a budget plan and a report for each
  • A dedicated team of three: a strategist, a media buyer and a creative lead, with the founder on a weekly call
  • Every platform that fits, plus programmatic display, X ads and app campaigns where they earn their place
  • In-house creative production: 8 to 12 new ads a week, plus a monthly shoot in Ibadan or Lagos, or a brief for your team abroad
  • Server-side tracking and a reporting warehouse that joins ad data to your real sales records
  • Lead scoring and a CRM built for a sales team: routing, call tasks and revenue by campaign
  • Four landing pages a month, with conversion rate optimisation on the pages that get the most traffic
  • Geo and holdout tests, so you know what the ads added, not just what they claimed
  • Brand safety, trademark monitoring and competitor ad tracking every week
  • A quarterly strategy day: next quarter’s budget, platforms, offers and markets, planned with your leadership
  • A service agreement with a 1-hour response in office hours, 7 days a week, and a named backup
  • A monthly board-style report: spend, customers, revenue and profit by market

Every plan is scoped and staffed to reach the outcome on its card, and we commit to every item listed. Nobody can promise an exact cost per lead, because every platform sells ads through an auction, which is why every plan tests every week and shows you the numbers as they are. The fee structure is the same on every platform; what changes between plans is how many platforms, ads, pages and people you get.

The four plans, side by side
What you getLaunch RightGrow Every WeekRun It For MeOwn Your Market
Our fee₦250,000 one-off$500 one-off£400 one-off€450 one-off₦200,000 a month$600 a month£480 a month€540 a month₦450,000 a month$1,500 a month£1,200 a month€1,350 a month₦1,200,000 a month$4,000 a month£3,200 a month€3,600 a month
Or 20% of ad spend–Whichever is greaterWhichever is greaterWhichever is greater
Minimum ad budget₦300,000 a month$1,500 a month£1,200 a month€1,350 a month₦300,000 a month$1,500 a month£1,200 a month€1,350 a month₦300,000 a month$1,500 a month£1,200 a month€1,350 a month₦3,000,000 a month$10,000 a month£8,000 a month€9,000 a month
PlatformsOne, chosen with youUp to two, plus retargetingEvery platform that fitsEvery platform, every market
Markets and brandsOneOneOne brand, any countrySeveral countries, brands or branches
Setup: accounts, tracking, audiencesIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded, plus server-side tracking
New ads6 at launch3 to 5 a week3 to 5 a week, plus a monthly content day8 to 12 a week, plus a monthly shoot
Testing and scalingFirst 7 daysEvery weekEvery week, plus 2 new tests a monthEvery week, plus geo and holdout tests
Landing pages and formsPage, form or WhatsApp set upPage, form or WhatsApp set upBuilt for every campaign4 new pages a month, plus CRO
Lead follow-upRoutine and scriptsQuality tracked weeklyCRM and automated sequencesLead scoring, routing and a sales CRM
Reporting7-day reportWeekly numbers and call, by platformLive dashboard and monthly founder meetingLive dashboard, monthly board report, quarterly strategy day
SupportHandover callWhatsApp line, office hoursPriority, 2-hour target, 7 days1-hour target, 7 days, named backup
Account health and policyDay-one checkMonitored, appeals handledMonitored, appeals handledMonitored, plus brand safety and trademark watch
Who you talk toYour ads leadYour account managerAccount manager and the founderA dedicated team of three and the founder
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What the platforms charge, explained simply

Every platform charges you for showing your ads, through an auction. Your ad budget goes to the platform. Our fee is separate, and we never mark up your spend.

You set a daily or monthly budget inside each platform and pay it directly from your own card, so every receipt is yours. Google explains its auction here and Meta explains its billing here. No platform sets a large minimum, but a budget too small to buy enough results never learns, so we tell you honestly what paid advertising costs in your market before you start. In Nigeria, Google and Meta accounts can be billed in naira. Ad spend is paid to the platforms, separate from our fee, and we show you both every week.

How we count what is in each plan

A price only means something when you know what counts. This is ours, in writing.

Our fee and your ad budget

Two separate payments. Your ad budget goes to Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn or YouTube, from your own card, in your own accounts. Our fee is for the work, paid to us. We never mark up your spend and you see both every week.

The 20% rule

You pay the flat monthly fee until 20% of your total monthly ad spend, across all platforms, is bigger than it. The percentage replaces the flat fee; it is never added on top. On a ₦2,000,000$5,000£4,000€4,500 budget, Grow Every Week costs ₦400,000$1,000£800€900 that month.

The minimum ad budget

₦300,000$1,500£1,200€1,350 a month across your platforms, paid to them, and ₦3,000,000$10,000£8,000€9,000 for Own Your Market. Below this, no platform gets enough results to learn from, and you would be paying us to manage a budget that cannot win. We say so before you start.

A platform

One advertising system with its own account: Google Ads, which includes Search, Shopping, Maps and YouTube, Meta, which includes Facebook and Instagram, TikTok or LinkedIn. Retargeting runs inside each one and is never counted as an extra platform.

A lead and a customer

A lead is an enquiry the platform or your form recorded: a form filled, a chat started or a call placed. A customer is a lead that paid. We report both, because 100 cheap leads nobody can reach are worse than 20 enquiries that buy, and the budget decision should follow the customer number.

A month

Thirty days from the day your first campaign goes live, not the calendar month, so a mid-month start does not cost you days. Cancel with 14 days notice. Your accounts, pixels and audiences stay yours.

Pay in naira, dollars, pounds or euros by card or bank transfer. Not sure which plan or platform fits? Use the free platform picker and break-even calculator further down, or message us and we will tell you honestly, even if the answer is the smaller one. Need paid advertising as part of a bigger plan, with SEO, a website that sells and WhatsApp to close? See our growth plans and pricing.

03 · The platforms

Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn or YouTube? Where your buyer is decides.

Every paid advertising platform sells the same thing: a moment with a person. The difference is what that person is doing in the moment. Searching, scrolling, watching or working. Paid search advertising catches the first. Paid social media advertising reaches the other three. Match the ad to the moment and the cost per lead falls. Here is how we use each one.

Searching

Google ads

Paid search advertising: Search, Shopping, Maps and Performance Max.

The buyer already typed “dentist near me” or “buy generator Lagos”. Your ad answers. The highest intent and usually the highest cost per click, so every keyword must earn its place.

Services people search for Ecommerce with product feeds Local businesses on Maps
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Scrolling

Meta ads: Facebook and Instagram

Paid social: Feed, Reels, Stories, Messenger and click-to-WhatsApp.

The buyer is not looking for you yet. Your ad has two seconds to stop a thumb. The widest reach in Nigeria and most of the world, the best creative testing, and often the lowest cost per lead when the offer is right. Cost per customer is the number we judge it by.

Fashion, food, beauty and retail Clinics, schools and real estate Anything sold by chat
Meta ads services
Watching

TikTok ads

TikTok paid ads: in-feed video, Spark ads and TikTok Shop.

Under-35 buyers, raw video, trends that move in days, and more than a billion people a month worldwide. Great for products that show well in 15 seconds, and for brands that want to be discovered. Weaker for considered, high-ticket services.

Consumer products and apps Food, beauty and lifestyle brands Courses and events for young buyers
TikTok ads services
Working

LinkedIn ads

LinkedIn paid advertising: Sponsored Content, lead forms and message ads.

Target more than 1.3 billion members by job title, company size and industry. Expensive clicks, but the only place to reach a procurement manager at a bank on purpose. For B2B, recruitment and high-value services.

B2B and corporate services Software, consulting and training Hiring and employer brand
LinkedIn marketing
Watching

YouTube ads

YouTube paid ads: skippable in-stream, Shorts and Demand Gen.

Run through Google Ads, so your search data works here too. Show the product, the clinic or the course in motion to people who watch what your buyers watch. Strong for trust and retargeting.

Explaining a new or complex offer Retargeting website visitors with video Brands that already have video
YouTube marketing
Coming back

Retargeting and display

Google Display, Meta retargeting and X ads.

Most people do not buy the first time. Retargeting follows the ones who visited, watched or added to cart, with the right next message. Often among the cheapest leads in an account once enough people have visited, and the ones most agencies forget.

Every business running any ads Ecommerce cart recovery Long sales cycles and high-ticket
How we run it

The honest comparison

What each paid advertising platform is for, what it costs and how fast it moves. Costs are typical ranges from our own accounts and public benchmarks, not promises.

COMPAREGoogle adsMeta adsTikTok adsLinkedIn adsYouTube ads
The buyer isSearching for it nowScrolling, not looking yetWatching for funWorking, thinking about the companyWatching, often on TV
Best forServices and products people already search for, local businesses, ecommerceMost consumer businesses, lead generation, WhatsApp selling, retargetingVisual consumer products, young buyers, brand discoveryB2B, corporate, high-value services, hiringExplaining and proving, retargeting, brand trust
Cost per clickHighest. A $5.42 median in the US in 2026, far lower in NigeriaLow to medium. Leads from under ₦100 in some of our Nigerian accounts, far more in othersLow. Views are cheap, buyers cost moreHighest of all. Few clicks, high valueLow per view, medium per lead
First resultsDays. Searches already exist1 to 2 weeks of testing1 to 3 weeks, creative dependent2 to 4 weeks, longer sales cycles2 to 4 weeks
Sensible starting budget₦300,000, $1,500 or £1,200 a month₦300,000, $1,500 or £1,200 a month₦300,000, $1,500 or £1,200 a month$2,000 or £1,600 a month₦300,000, $1,500 or £1,200 a month
Creative neededKeywords and short text, plus a product feed for Shopping3 to 5 new images or videos a weekNative-looking video, several a weekProfessional posts, documents and short videoVideo that works with the sound off in the first 5 seconds
Our usual pairingGoogle plus Meta retargetingMeta plus Google search for the demand it createsTikTok plus MetaLinkedIn plus Google search and retargetingYouTube plus Google search
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Our honest default: most businesses should start with two platforms, not five. Google search if people already search for what you sell, Meta for everyone else, and retargeting on both. Add TikTok, LinkedIn or YouTube when the first two are paying and the data says where to go next.

Paid advertising words, explained simply

Agencies hide behind these. You should not have to learn a new language to buy ads.

Pay per click (PPC)

Pay per click advertising means you pay only when someone clicks your ad, not when it is shown. Google search ads work this way, and so do most Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn campaigns when set to clicks or conversions. Pay per click marketing is the whole job of choosing where those clicks come from and what happens after.

Paid search advertising

Ads that appear when someone searches: Google paid search, Bing and the Shopping results. The buyer has told you what they want. Pay per click management here is mostly keywords, negative keywords, bids and the page they land on. Our Google ads service covers it.

Paid social media advertising

Paid social ads on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube reach people by who they are and what they do, not what they typed. Facebook paid ads, paid ads on Instagram, TikTok paid promotion and LinkedIn paid ads all live here. Creative does most of the work.

Paid traffic and paid promotion

Paid traffic is visitors you paid for, from any platform. Paid promotion is the same idea for a post, a product or an event. Traffic is only worth buying when the page after the click turns it into leads and sales, which is why we never sell traffic on its own.

Retargeting

Showing ads to people who already visited your website, watched your video or added to cart. It needs tracking set up first and enough visitors to work. Most people buy on the third or fourth touch, not the first, so this is where many accounts earn their best return.

Cost per lead, cost per customer, ROAS

Cost per lead is ad spend divided by enquiries. Cost per customer is ad spend divided by the people who paid. Return on ad spend, or ROAS, is attributed revenue divided by ad spend, not profit. We report all three, and the budget decision follows the customer number.

04 · How we work

How Greenlearners Technologies runs paid advertising, week by week

We are a paid advertising agency that cares about two numbers: cost per lead and cost per customer. Whether you call it PPC, paid media, paid social, paid promotion or pay per click marketing, the work is the same six steps, on every platform, and you can see each one in your own accounts. A pay per click specialist, a creative lead and your account manager run them together.

A paid advertising team planning Google and Meta ad campaigns around a laptop, with a sales funnel mapped on the whiteboard
Real people, real campaigns. We choose the platform, write the offer, build the ads and the page, test every week and follow each lead to the money.
Week 1Review and offer

Your accounts, your numbers, your competitors’ ads. Then the offer, the audience and the platform, agreed in writing.

Week 1 to 2Setup in your name

Ad accounts, Google tag, Meta pixel, Conversions API, audiences and billing, all owned by you with us as a partner.

Week 2Ads and the page

Keywords, creatives and copy built for each platform, plus a fast landing page or form with WhatsApp one tap away.

Week 2 to 3Launch and follow-up

Campaigns go live. Lead alerts reach your phone. Your team gets the reply scripts and the 5-minute rule.

Every weekTest, cut, scale

New ads, keywords and audiences tested. Losers cut within days. Budget moved to winners. Numbers in plain language.

Every monthReview and next platform

What paid, what did not, and whether to add TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube or more budget. Decided from your data, with you.

You see everything

Every platform’s dashboard is yours to open. We add a weekly summary that a busy owner can read in one minute: spend, leads, customers, cost per customer.

You own everything

Accounts, pixels, audiences, creatives and data stay in your name. Remove our access in one click, any day. Nothing is held hostage.

You talk to people

An account manager on WhatsApp, a weekly call and the founder in the monthly review. No ticket queue, no dashboard pretending to be a person.

05 · Free paid advertising tools

Which platform should you start with, and what can you afford to pay? Two free tools.

No sign up. The first picks your starting platform from six questions and splits a starting budget. The second works out what you can afford to pay for a lead and a customer before you spend a naira, pound or dollar. Nothing you type is sent to us unless you choose to send it.

Tool one: the platform picker

Six questions, one starting plan

Built from how we actually choose platforms for clients: what you sell, whether people search for it, who buys, what a sale brings, what you have ready and what each sale leaves you. A starting point, not a verdict. The free review checks it against your real numbers.

What do you sell?
Do people already search Google for what you sell?
Who is the typical buyer?
What does a typical sale bring you?
Roughly how much of each sale is profit, after your costs?
What do you already have?
Your starting plan
First platformAnswer the questions
Second platformto see your picks

Tap an answer for each of the six questions. Your first platform, your second, a budget split and what to get ready appear here.

Send Me My Plan Opens WhatsApp with your answers filled in, so the free review starts from your real situation.
Tool two: the break-even calculator

What can you afford to pay for a lead?

Most paid advertising fails on this one question. Put in four numbers and see the most you can pay for a customer before you lose money, a safe cost per lead to aim for, and the budget that gets you there. An estimate, not a promise.

What one customer pays you, on average
After the cost of the product, delivery and your time
Out of 10 enquiries, how many buy? 2 is 20%
A realistic number your team can serve
Profit per customer, before ads$120
Break-even cost per customer$120
Break-even cost per lead$24
Safe cost per lead to aim for$12
Leads needed a month100
Ad budget at the safe cost per lead$1,200

At a safe cost per lead of $12, 100 leads a month would cost about $1,200 and bring about 20 customers.

Check My Numbers Opens WhatsApp with your numbers filled in. We check them against real campaigns in your market, free.

The picker favours Google search when people already search, Meta for most consumer businesses, TikTok for young buyers with video, LinkedIn for companies buying from companies, and YouTube when the offer needs explaining. The calculator keeps half your profit as a safety margin, because real cost per lead moves every week. See how paid ads fit the bigger plan.

06 · Results

Paid advertising we have run, and what it did

Paid ads are easy to promise and harder to prove. These results come from our clients’ own Ads Manager and Insights dashboards, and the full stories are in our digital marketing case studies. Most of our client work sits under NDA. These are the results we are allowed to show. A lead here means what the platform counted: a form filled, a chat started or a call placed, not a sale.

₦41.30per lead, 474 website leads in five days

Arya Marketplace, B2B wholesale, Lagos. The Boutique and Retail Leads campaign, 9 to 13 July 2026, from ₦19,574.88 of ad spend in Meta Ads Manager. A lead is a form filled on the website, as counted by Meta.

Read the case study
7.17×return on ad spend, ₦63.48 per lead

Arya Marketplace, earlier paid ads across footwear, fabrics, bags and perfume. Cost per lead came in 9.5× better than the plan. ROAS is attributed revenue divided by ad spend, as reported in Ads Manager, not profit.

Read the case study
776leads from one campaign, rated “High performing” by Meta

Study With FM, student recruitment, London and Nigeria. The Master UK Leads campaign: 776 instant-form leads in under three weeks from 29 October 2025, at ₦337.22 per lead, with 59,632 people reached.

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10.08%click-through rate on a traffic campaign, ₦8.66 per landing page view

Study With FM, a campaign for medicine applicants. A second campaign, Summer Camp 2025, hit 8.36% with 966 landing page views. Both ran on Facebook and Instagram at once.

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230,930Instagram views in 90 days, 95.4% from non-followers

Arya Marketplace, Instagram Insights. Paid ads and Reels working together: 91,673 viewers, 13,585 profile visits and 919 link taps in the same 90 days.

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+71%Facebook views in one month, 99.5% from non-followers

One of our clients, Facebook Insights, November 2025: 59.3K views, 34,066 viewers and interactions up 121.1%, with the page growing alongside the ads.

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Meta Ads Manager performance overview for Arya Marketplace: 474 website leads at 41.30 naira per lead from 19,574.88 naira spent, 9 to 13 July 2026
Arya Marketplace, Meta Ads Manager. 474 website leads in five days, 9 to 13 July 2026.
Meta Ads Manager campaign list for Study With FM showing the Master UK Leads campaign with 776 leads, rated high performing
Study With FM, Meta Ads Manager. The Master UK Leads campaign, 776 leads and Meta’s “High performing” badge.
Meta Ads Manager campaigns for Study With FM, March to August 2025, with click-through rates of 8.36% and 10.08% on two traffic campaigns
Study With FM, Meta Ads Manager. Twenty campaigns in 2025, including the 8.36% and 10.08% click-through rates.
One real decision, from a real account

Same account, same month, two campaigns. Master UK Leads: ₦337.22 per lead. Canada event: ₦937.95 per lead, nearly three times the cost. We switched the Canada campaign off within days and moved its budget to the winner.

That is the whole job of pay per click management, and it is why a dashboard is not a strategy. Twenty campaigns ran in that Study With FM account in 2025. Not every ad wins. Every naira, pound or dollar followed the ones that did, and the client saw the numbers that drove the decision, every week. When we review your paid advertising, this is the decision we look for first: where is the money going that should be moving?
07 · Safe and yours

Your ad accounts, your pixels, your data: and no suspensions

Two things ruin paid advertising for small businesses: an agency that owns the accounts, and ads that break Google’s advertising policies or Meta’s Advertising Standards and get the account suspended. Our paid advertising services are built so neither happens to you.

What gets ad accounts suspended

Miracle claims, “guaranteed” results and before-and-after body images
Landing pages that do not match the ad, or have no contact, pricing or refund details
Borrowed accounts and shared logins, which trip security checks on every platform
Trademark and copyright misuse in keywords, ad copy or creatives
Restricted categories like loans, housing, health and crypto run without the right settings
Unpaid balances and declined cards that lock billing and pause everything

A suspended account can take weeks to recover, and some never return. Google explains its account suspensions here and how to appeal here. We would rather say no to an ad than lose your account.

How we keep your accounts safe

Your Google Ads, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn accounts, with you as the owner
Manager and partner access only for our team, which you can remove in one click
Every ad checked against each platform’s policies before it goes live
Honest claims backed by your real results and reviews
Two-factor security and no shared passwords, ever
Your card, your receipts: ad spend is paid to each platform from your own account

Local rules apply too, from ARCON in Nigeria to the ASA in the UK and the FTC in the US. We write ads that pass them.

Your accounts. Your pixels. Your customers.

We set everything up in your business’s name: the Google Ads account and tag, the Meta Business portfolio and pixel, the TikTok and LinkedIn accounts, and every audience. If we ever stop working together, you keep it all, including what each platform has learned about your buyers. Whoever you hire, insist on this.

08 · Industries

Paid advertising for your industry, not a template

Every industry buys in a different place and a different mood, so our paid advertising services start with the platform and the play that fit yours. Here is one we run for each.

Retail and ecommerceGoogle Shopping plus Meta catalog ads

Shopping ads catch people searching for the product. Advantage+ catalog ads on Meta bring back the ones who looked and did not buy. Click-to-WhatsApp for buyers who want to ask first.

Ecommerce marketing
Real estateSearch for the ready buyer, video for the rest

Google search for “land for sale in Epe”, one video tour per listing on Meta and YouTube, a three-question lead form, and WhatsApp follow-up within five minutes, at home and abroad.

Real estate marketing
Clinics, salons and spasMaps and search first, then retargeting

Google search and Maps ads for “near me” searches, reviews and prices in the ad, a booking page that loads fast, then Meta retargeting and reminders that cut no-shows.

Healthcare marketing
Restaurants and hotelsThe radius ad

Reels and TikToks of the food or the room, shown to people within a few kilometres at lunch and dinner time, plus Google Maps ads for travellers already searching for where to stay.

Hospitality marketing
Schools and coursesThe free class funnel

A lead ad for a free class or webinar on Meta and TikTok, Google search for people comparing courses, then a short follow-up sequence of value, proof and deadline. The play behind 776 leads for Study With FM.

Education marketing
B2B and corporateLinkedIn to find them, Google to catch them

LinkedIn ads by job title and company size, Google search for the problem they type at work, retargeting with case studies, and a form that qualifies before sales calls. The play behind 474 leads in five days for Arya.

B2B marketing
09 · Honest limits

What paid advertising cannot do, and who should not hire us

Good paid ads are powerful. They are not magic. You deserve to hear the limits before you spend a single naira, pound or dollar.

Paid advertising cannot

Sell a product people do not want at that price
Fix a slow website or a form nobody finishes
Close leads that nobody calls back
Replace reviews, delivery and customer service
Promise an exact cost per lead before testing
Win on a budget too small to learn from

Ads bring the lead. The rest of the system closes it, which is why we connect paid advertising to a website that sells, a sales funnel, WhatsApp and email.

We are probably not right for you if

You want guaranteed sales from day one
You sell something the platforms’ policies do not allow
You will not share prices, results or your real reviews
Nobody on your team can reply to leads
You want the agency to own the ad accounts
You want to switch the ads off after one week

If you want to learn it yourself first, start with our Facebook ads course and the other marketing courses.

The people

Meet the people who run your paid ads

The platforms do the maths. People do the thinking: which platform, what offer, what the page says, who calls the lead and how fast. When you work with us, these are the faces behind your paid advertising, and you can message any of them. Meet the whole team.

Chukwuemeka Maduka, Founder & Chief Growth Strategist at Greenlearners Technologies01

Chukwuemeka Maduka

Founder & Chief Growth Strategist

Leads every paid advertising strategy, from the platform and the offer to the numbers that matter. Pay per click specialist since 2018, and ran the campaigns on this page. Read his story.

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Akeem Ola, Full-Stack Developer at Greenlearners Technologies02

Akeem Ola

Full-Stack Developer

Installs the Google tag, Meta pixel and Conversions API, builds the landing pages and connects the lead alerts and CRM.

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Anastasia Orafu, Content Marketing Manager at Greenlearners Technologies03

Anastasia Orafu

Content Marketing Manager

Writes the hooks, search ads, scripts and creative calendar that keep your ads fresh on every platform.

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Ada Catherine, Customer Acquisition Specialist at Greenlearners Technologies04

Ada Catherine

Customer Acquisition Specialist

Your day-to-day contact. Sets up the follow-up routine and keeps the weekly numbers moving.

Follow-upReportsYou
How we think about marketing

For us at Greenlearners Technologies, marketing is getting the right product or service to the right person, at the right time, through the right channel, with the right message.

10 · Questions people ask

Paid advertising: your questions, answered

What is paid advertising?

Paid advertising is paying a platform to show your message to the people you choose, when they search, scroll, watch or work. On Google you pay when someone clicks your ad after searching, which is why it is called pay per click advertising, PPC or paid search advertising. On Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube you pay to reach people by who they are and what they do, which is paid social media advertising. Paid traffic, paid media, paid promotion and paid adverts all mean the same family of work. Done well, paid advertising brings leads and customers every day at a cost you can measure, and it can speed up growth when the offer, the numbers and the follow-up are ready for it.

Which paid advertising platform should I start with?

If people already search Google for what you sell, start with paid search advertising on Google, because that buyer is ready now. If they do not, or you sell to consumers who need to see the product first, start with Meta ads on Facebook and Instagram. Add TikTok for buyers under 35 with strong video, LinkedIn when companies buy from companies, and YouTube when the offer needs explaining. Most businesses should run two paid advertising platforms well before adding a third. The free platform picker on this page gives you a starting answer in 60 seconds.

How much does paid advertising cost?

Two costs. The ad budget goes to the platform through an auction, so there is no fixed price per lead, and we take on budgets from 300,000 naira, 1,500 dollars, 1,200 pounds or 1,350 euros a month. Our pay per click management fee is separate and fixed, and the same on every platform: Launch Right is a one-off 250,000 naira, 500 dollars, 400 pounds or 450 euros; Grow Every Week is 200,000 naira, 600 dollars, 480 pounds or 540 euros a month; Run It For Me is 450,000 naira, 1,500 dollars, 1,200 pounds or 1,350 euros a month; Own Your Market, for corporations and multi-country brands, is 1,200,000 naira, 4,000 dollars, 3,200 pounds or 3,600 euros a month with a minimum ad budget of 3,000,000 naira, 10,000 dollars, 8,000 pounds or 9,000 euros. On the monthly plans you pay the flat fee or 20% of your ad spend, whichever is greater, never both. Everything is written down before you pay anything. If paid ads are part of a bigger plan, see our growth plans and pricing.

What does a paid advertising agency actually do?

A paid advertising agency, also called a paid ads agency, a PPC agency or a paid marketing agency, runs your ad accounts for you: choosing the platforms, writing and designing the ads, building the pages and forms, setting up tracking, managing budgets and bids every day, testing every week and reporting what each naira, pound or dollar brought back. The best pay per click advertising companies also tell you when the ads are not the problem. At Greenlearners Technologies, every plan includes a named person you can message, and everything is set up in your name.

Google ads or Facebook ads: which is better?

Neither. They do different jobs. Google paid search ads catch demand that already exists: someone typing what they need right now. Facebook and Instagram paid ads create demand: showing the right person something they did not know they wanted. In many accounts Google costs more per click and converts sooner, while Meta brings a lower cost per lead and needs more creative testing, but that varies by market, offer and page. The best accounts we run use both, with Meta creating the interest and Google catching the search it causes, and retargeting on each.

How long before paid ads bring results?

Google search ads can bring enquiries in the first days, because the searches already exist. Meta and TikTok ads usually need one to two weeks of testing before the cost per lead settles. LinkedIn and YouTube take two to four weeks and longer sales cycles. The first month usually gives early evidence, and how fast you can trust the numbers depends on how many leads come in, how long your buyers take to decide and what we change along the way. The real improvement comes from weekly testing, not from the launch.

Do you make the ads and the landing pages?

Yes. Our content team writes the search ads, hooks and scripts, and we produce the images, Reels, TikToks and videos sized for every placement, using your real products, team and customers where we can. Our web development team builds the landing pages and forms, with WhatsApp one tap away, and our conversion rate optimization work keeps improving the page after the click, because that page decides what every lead costs.

Who owns the ad accounts, pixels and data?

You do, from day one. We set up the Google Ads account and tag, the Meta Business portfolio and pixel, and the TikTok and LinkedIn accounts in your business’s name, and our team works through manager or partner access that you can remove in one click. Ad spend is paid to each platform from your own card, so every receipt is yours. If we ever stop working together, you keep everything.

Can you run paid advertising for a business outside Nigeria?

Yes. We run Google, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and YouTube paid ads for businesses in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the Netherlands, as well as across Nigeria and Africa, and our diaspora marketing team runs ads for Africans abroad selling back home. Costs, platforms and buying habits differ by country, so we plan each market on its own numbers. Paid ads are remote work, run on the platforms, WhatsApp, email and video calls.

Do you guarantee results from paid advertising?

No, and nobody honest can. Every platform sells ads through an auction, and your market and your offer move. What we do promise is the work, written into the scope: the right platform, honest creative, weekly testing, a fast follow-up routine and a plain report of what every naira, pound or dollar brought. If a campaign is not working, we tell you and change it, as we did at Study With FM.

Is paid advertising better than SEO?

They work best together. Paid advertising brings customers this week and can be switched up or down in a day. SEO takes months to build and then brings customers every month without paying per click. The search terms that convert in your pay per click campaigns tell us which pages to build for SEO, and a page that already ranks makes your ads cheaper. Most of our clients start with paid ads for speed and add SEO for compounding growth.

Can I learn paid advertising myself?

Yes. Our Facebook ads course teaches account setup, creative, targeting, tracking and scaling step by step, and our digital marketing strategies hub shows where paid ads fit in the bigger system. When you would rather have it done for you, that is what our paid advertising services are for.

Also worth reading

Where paid advertising fits in the rest of the system

ServiceMeta ads

Facebook and Instagram ads in depth: boosting versus Ads Manager, creative, the pixel and the free budget calculator.

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ServiceGoogle ads

Search, Shopping, Maps and YouTube: catching people who already search for what you sell.

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ServiceWeb development

The page after the click decides what every ad lead costs. Websites and landing pages built to convert.

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ServiceWhatsApp marketing services

Click-to-WhatsApp ads start the chat. This is how the chat becomes a paid order.

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ServiceSEO services

Paid ads bring customers today. SEO brings them every month without paying per click. Together they own the page, and the search terms that convert in your PPC campaigns tell us what to rank for.

Read more
HubDigital marketing strategies

The full growth system paid advertising sits inside, and how every piece connects.

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One last thing

Someone out there needs what you sell. Let your ads bring you together.

Before you spend more on ads, find out what is holding them back. Send us your website or your current campaign details. We will review the offer, the targeting, the creative, the page after the click and the follow-up path, then show you the three biggest leaks and the first fixes. A practical recommendation, not a promise of guaranteed leads. Lagos, London, Toronto or Los Angeles, the review is the same, and it is free.

1Send your detailsBusiness name and a link to your website or page.
2We review itYour campaigns, keywords, creative and the page after the click.
3You get prioritiesYour three biggest leaks, the right platform and the first fixes, in plain English.
4You decideWant it done? We scope the work and quote before you commit.

What you get, free: a plain-English review of your existing campaigns, creative and landing page, or of your plan if you have never run ads, with your three biggest leaks and the first fixes, usually within two working days. No obligation, and no honest agency can promise an exact cost per lead before testing.

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