Filter before you scale
Qualification questions and disqualified audiences pay for themselves faster here than any bid adjustment.
Cheap clicks are easy. Cheap customers are the job — and in Hyderabad the two are frequently in opposition.
An unusual split market: global pharmaceutical and IT operations in the west of the city, and a large, price-sensitive consumer market elsewhere. The two need different languages in the ad copy, not just different targeting — Telugu creative consistently outperforms English for consumer categories here.
Campaigns run in Telugu, Hindi and English where the audience warrants it.
Proofox is a performance marketing agency in Hyderabad working with real estate developers, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers and IT services firms. Real estate advertises harder here than in almost any other Indian city and it pulls the whole auction up with it, so everyone else pays more for attention than they would elsewhere.
A real estate lead in Hyderabad costs several times what the same form fill costs in a smaller market, which changes the maths completely. The way out is filtering rather than spending: qualification questions on the form, disqualified audiences, and negative keywords aimed at the tyre-kicker queries that dominate this category. That work usually pays for itself inside the first month, which is unusual — most optimisation takes a quarter to show up. Pharma and healthcare add a second constraint, because approval decides what an ad may claim before anyone discusses creative.
Hyderabad rewards accounts that qualify hard. What decides whether spend works:
Qualification questions and disqualified audiences pay for themselves faster here than any bid adjustment.
Even if you are not in property, you are paying property prices for attention. Efficiency matters more than reach.
In pharma and healthcare, what may be claimed is decided before the ad is written, not after it is rejected.
Deduplicated events, server-side tracking, click IDs carried to the CRM before budget moves.
With junk this expensive, only closed deals tell you which enquiries were worth buying.
We spend the first month filtering rather than scaling. Qualification questions, disqualified audiences and negative keywords cut the junk, and in a market where a wasted lead costs this much that work pays for itself before the second invoice.
Ad spend is paid directly to Google and Meta and is never marked up, so we have no reason to recommend spending more than the account can profitably absorb. The same senior people stay on your account in month twelve as in month one.
The same scope we run everywhere, adapted to how buying actually happens in this market.
Where the budget currently leaks, quantified in the first two weeks.
Search, Shopping and Performance Max structured for control, with disciplined negatives.
Where creative is the targeting. New concepts weekly, tested one variable at a time.
Made in-house and refreshed continuously — usually the largest lever available in Hyderabad.
Built and tested by us, because paid traffic to a weak page wastes the budget.
Qualified-lead and revenue signals sent back so bidding chases customers, not form fills.
Most clients here start with one and add the others once the reporting proves out.
Same team, same reporting, adapted to each market.
Send a short brief and a strategist — not a salesperson — replies within one working day with an honest read on whether we are the right fit.
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