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Google Ads Consultant in Berlin
TL;DR
A Google Ads consultant in Berlin has to combine native German search campaigns with tracking that survives strict consent rules. After a one-week audit at around €1,400, I run your account within Growth Foundation for about €3,200 a month, covering German and DACH campaigns, bidding strategy and legally careful ad copy.
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How I work with Berlin teams
Berlin startups often launch Google Ads in English and localise later, so audits regularly turn up German queries landing in English ad groups and on pages that never answer them. I rebuild ad groups around the German terms that actually convert, have native speakers write the ads, and send traffic to German landing pages with a complete Impressum. Fintech, mobility and B2B SaaS auctions are crowded with well-funded competitors, so I lean on exact-intent keywords and offline conversion imports rather than broad reach. Ad copy also carries legal risk: misleading price claims or superlatives you cannot prove can trigger Abmahnungen under the UWG, and ads for medicines, medical devices or treatments fall under the Heilmittelwerbegesetz. Because many German visitors decline tracking, Consent Mode v2 and server-side tagging, both configured within TDDDG rules, give bidding enough modelled signal to keep learning.
What’s included
- Written audit with wasted spend quantified and fixes ranked by impact
- Conversion tracking rebuilt: primary goals, enhanced conversions and CRM imports
- Account structure rebuilt around intent, margin and service lines
- Bidding plan per campaign with targets tied to qualified-lead or profit goals
- Negative keyword system and a search-term review cadence
- Merchant Center feed fixes and custom labels for ecommerce accounts
- Landing-page briefs or builds matched to campaign intent
- Weekly spend report: what to scale, what to pause, what to test next
The Berlin context
- Many Berlin startups have international, English-speaking teams, but their customers expect polished German copy, a correct Impressum and a consistent choice between the formal 'Sie' and the informal 'du'.
- Germany's culture of competitor warning letters (Abmahnungen) means small legal mistakes in price display, cookie banners or email opt-in can become costly, so compliance belongs inside the growth process.
Tracking and data collection follow GDPR (DSGVO), TDDDG (formerly TTDSG), BDSG & UWG. German courts and regulators enforce cookie consent strictly and expect a visible 'reject all' option on the first layer of the banner. Tracking runs through consent-based server-side tagging, and email marketing uses double opt-in with records kept as proof of consent.
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How we work together
Simple. Transparent. Results-focused.
- 01
Discovery
A 30-minute call. You share the challenge, I tell you honestly whether I can help.
- 02
Audit
I audit tracking, funnel, channels and team, and hand you a ranked plan with budgets.
- 03
Build
We fix measurement and ship the highest-impact systems first. I own the metrics.
- 04
Scale
Optimize, automate and scale what works. Weekly decisions, compounding results.
FAQ
Google Ads Consultant in Berlin: FAQ
Can a Berlin health or fintech startup advertise on Google in Germany?
Yes, with extra preparation. Health-tech ads must respect the Heilmittelwerbegesetz, which among other things forbids implying that a treatment is certain to succeed, as well as Google's healthcare policies, and financial products need the right BaFin authorisation plus any verification Google requires for your category. I build a legal review step into every campaign launch.
Can one Google Ads account cover Germany, Austria and Switzerland?
Yes, but with separate campaigns, budgets and landing pages per country. Swiss campaigns show prices in francs and often need French or Italian versions for regions outside German-speaking Switzerland, while Austrian ads use the vocabulary Austrians actually search with.
Do you create German-language marketing content?
I lead strategy, keyword research and conversion work, while German copy is written or reviewed by native German writers. Nothing customer-facing goes live in German without native review.
Can you help us avoid Abmahnung risks in our marketing?
I build privacy, price display and email consent requirements into campaigns and site changes, and I flag anything that needs legal review. I'm not a lawyer, so final legal sign-off stays with your counsel.
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