Should I run ads on Bing (Microsoft Ads)?

After Google works, sometimes. Microsoft Ads reaches an older, often more affluent desktop audience, CPCs typically run 20–40% cheaper, and you can import your Google campaigns nearly wholesale. So the marginal effort is low.

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After Google works, sometimes. Microsoft Ads reaches an older, often more affluent desktop audience, CPCs typically run 20–40% cheaper, and you can import your Google campaigns nearly wholesale. So the marginal effort is low.

The catch is volume: for local services, Bing may deliver a tenth of Google's traffic. That's fine as a bolt-on ('cheap extra leads from the same campaign') and wrong as a foundation.

Order of operations: get Google search profitable with clean tracking first, then import to Microsoft and judge it on its own cost per lead after 60 days. Never let it distract from the platform where your customers actually are.

This is the work. Want it done?

Everything here is free to use yourself. That’s the point. If you’d rather a senior marketer just handle it, in your accounts and your name: 20-minute call, no pitch deck.

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