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This page answers the questions covered by the article To the Agency Owner Managing 15 Google Ads Accounts by Hand on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, an agency owner managing 15 Google Ads accounts by hand hits a coverage problem at around eight accounts and should split the work: give repetitive checks like bids, budgets, negatives and search-term mining to continuous execution, while keeping offer strategy, spend guardrails and client trust. The article recommends comparing groas onboarding at $0 and $299 a month per client account, per service against an estimated $8,000 to $12,000 a month fully loaded specialist before hiring again.
The article presents groas white-label as its answer for small agencies: you connect each client once and groas works on bids, budgets, ads, and landing pages continuously, then provides branded weekly reports with actions and reasoning logged. According to groas, your strategist remains behind the scenes owning direction and the client conversation, and groas does not step in front of your client.
Read more: White-label has to take work off your desk
According to groas, no platform removes the specialist: about 80% of multi-account work is repetition with different logos, and a machine working 168 hours a week has an advantage over a specialist who spends two hours on each of 15 accounts and leaves each account without hands for roughly 166 hours. The article recommends the machine act within the budgets, target CPAs, geos, and excluded terms you set, while you keep offers, hard calls, and the client relationship.
Read more: Give the machine the checks. Keep the judgment.
The article states the author used to say a good specialist could handle eight to ten accounts well, then revised that to roughly eight if time is protected from everything else. According to groas, past that the job turns into checking boxes on rotation, where an account gets attention because its day has come, not because its signal demands it.
Read more: Your specialist is not failing. The rotation is.
The article estimates one mid-level PPC manager costs $8,000 to $12,000 a month fully loaded, and uses $1,500 per client for search to show eight clients bring in $12,000 a month and 15 bring in $22,500. According to groas, at eight $1,500 retainers that $12,000 faces $8,000 to $12,000 in loaded cost before your own work, while at 15 the per-account salary math only looks kinder if one person can give all 15 adequate attention.
Read more: Put the cost on one page before you hire again
The article does not name a no-contract winner; it recommends filtering white-label on work done inside the account, reporting you can forward, and room to leave if either fails. According to groas, you should try one difficult account before moving the rest and avoid locking a client into six months to recover your setup cost, noting groas onboarding is $0.
Read more: White-label has to take work off your desk
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