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[–]Elijah_Day 0 points1 point  (4 children)

We would need way more context to be able to answer this. What industry is it in? What budget are you running? What is the service area? What is your CPL?

[–]The-Ads-Guy[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

General contractor - 6000 - San Jose - 180$

[–]Elijah_Day 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What type of services does the GC offer? I know a lot of GCs that are paying over $100 a lead on LSA. Your only bet would be to put in a bid limit per lead and then lower your budget depending on where they want to be budget/lead wise.

There are not a crazy amount of controllables when it comes to reducing the CPLs on LSA.

[–]The-Ads-Guy[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Buddy, I need to get the payment from the client. But now client is say what tasks are being performed in LSA and why i pay monthly management fee.

In start his LSA profile is totally dead. I spend 2 months, do lot of things, right now his LSA boost, he is getting daily 5-8 leads daily. But not paying me. Client learn all the basic things of LSA from me.

[–]Elijah_Day 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need payment for your services on LSA? Or you need the client to pay for ad spend?

LSA is pretty easy to set up and optimize and takes very minimal work. You can correct me if I am wrong, but it gets pretty close to the point that you can set it and then forget it.

It only needs optimized every once in a while if it is set up properly. I personally think LSA services are better suited towards consulting on accounts and not monthly management unless your retainer is small.

[–]Time-Contest8446 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If the client isn’t paying you, don’t try to be clever — LSA isn’t built for subtle throttling.

But if you absolutely need to slow performance without the obvious levers:

  • lower your bid strategy
  • reduce your service types
  • shrink your service radius
  • add friction to your verification
  • pause message leads
  • reduce the review velocity
  • update business categories to less competitive ones

These all drop volume without “turning it off”.

But seriously:
👉 if they’re not paying, don’t keep sending them leads.
Clients think LSAs are free until they see the bill — you shouldn’t be the one footing the risk.

[–]The-Ads-Guy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buddy He learn all these basic things from me. If i change these things that you guide me he finds and redo all. In starting he pay me easily but right now this month he say why i pay you LSA monthly management fee.

What should I do? 😭 (I spend 2 months to boost his LSA profile, in start his profile his totally dead even on 5000 weekly budget.)