Is Google Ads worth it in a market of roughly 63k people in the CSD?
Yes if the math works — Medicine Hat is small enough that wasted spend is obvious and large enough that natural gas demand exists. We build the account to that scale. Vanity networks and unused Performance Max are how small cities get burned.
If the TAM cannot support the CPA, we say so before you launch.
Can you run ads without being based in Medicine Hat?
Yes. Medicine Hat PPC is targeting, copy, and landing pages — not a cubicle downtown. We still write like Southlands, not like a call centre. The account settings do the geography; the copy does the trust.
You get Canadian humans, not an overseas bid farm.
When do we know Medicine Hat ads are working?
When Medicine Hat PPC produces tracked leads at a CPA you can live with — not when CTR looks pretty. We instrument calls and forms first. Two weeks of “optimizing headlines” with no conversion tracking is a hobby.
Saamis Teepee brand terms can flatter you. We separate them.
Should Medicine Hat businesses run ads and SEO together?
Almost always. Ads teach which natural gas phrases convert; SEO keeps them when you stop paying. Doing one in a silo is how Alberta companies pay twice for the same lesson.
We share the query list across both briefs.
Do you do Shopping and Performance Max in Medicine Hat?
When the feed and the margin deserve it. We do not turn on every Google surface because a checklist said so. Medicine Hat retail is not a demo account.
Search remains the default until the numbers argue.