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Operators, Not an Agency

Marketing Agency for CPR & Training Companies

We run a CPR training company. We built and tested every piece of this on our own business first: the ads, the tracking, the site, the follow-up. Then we productized it for other CPR and certification training companies.

  • 01$21 cost per booking in our own Google Ads account
  • 02596% ROAS and 9.5% CTR on our own campaigns
  • 03Found and fixed a 29% conversion under-report
4.9 from 300+ Google and Yelp reviews on our own businessAHA Training Site and Red Cross provider

Free conversion tracking audit

Your Google Ads numbers are probably lying to you

We found a roughly 29% conversion under-report in our own account. Real bookings were happening and Google could not see them, which means the bidding was optimizing against incomplete data and the reported cost per booking was wrong.

  • 01Tags firing on the wrong page or not at all
  • 02Bookings lost inside iframes that drop the gclid
  • 03Phone and walk-in sales never fed back to Google
  • 04Duplicate or double-counted conversion actions
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No contract to get the audit. Starting prices are on this page.

Why an operator beats an agency for CPR training marketing

Almost every agency pitching you is a generalist. They have run ads for a plumber, a dentist, a gym, and a law firm, and they will run yours the same way. None of them have ever sold a CPR class. They do not know that a student searching at 9pm needs a seat tomorrow morning, that "BLS" and "CPR" are different products to different buyers, that the eCard is the actual deliverable, or that the second sale is the renewal two years later.

We test everything on our own business before we sell it

CPR West Covina is a real, operating AHA Training Site and Red Cross provider with a 4.9 rating from 300+ Google and Yelp reviews. Every system we offer, the ad structure, the tracking, the booking flow, the renewal follow-up, was built to solve a problem we had ourselves. On our own account that work produced a $21 cost per booking, 596% ROAS, and a 9.5% click through rate. Those are our numbers from our own business, not a case study we are borrowing from someone else. See the work live on our corporate training page and our BLS certification page.

No ramp-up period on your budget

A generalist agency spends the first 90 days learning your industry with your money. We start from a working playbook. We already know which keywords convert, which ones look great and never book, what a landing page needs to say to a nursing student versus an office manager buying training for a team, and what your cost per booking should look like when the account is healthy.

Contents

What we run for CPR and certification training companies

Take the whole stack or take the one piece that is bleeding. Most companies start with the tracking audit because it is the cheapest thing to fix and the most expensive thing to ignore.

In the box

  • 01Google Ads managementSearch campaigns built the way a training company actually converts: exact-match intent, tight ad groups, city-level coverage, and negatives that stop the tire kickers before they click.See how it works
  • 02Conversion tracking audit and repairThe first thing we look at, and usually the first thing that is broken. If the account cannot see your real bookings, every optimization after that is guesswork.See how it works
  • 03Local SEO for training companiesGoogle Business Profile, reviews, city pages, course pages, and the internal linking that makes them rank together instead of competing with each other.See how it works
  • 04Website builds and migrationsFast, indexable, conversion-first sites. We handle full migrations with redirect mapping so you keep the rankings you already paid for.See how it works
  • 05Email and SMS automationAbandoned-checkout recovery and 2-year renewal cadences. This is the revenue most training companies never collect because nobody follows up.See how it works
  • 06Landing page CROBooking-first landing pages with the objection handling a student actually has: is this the real card, how long is the class, can I get it today.See how it works
  • 07Content and videoCourse explainers, short-form social, review-driven proof assets, and the written pages that answer the questions people type into Google before they book.See how it works
  • 08Meta adsFacebook and Instagram campaigns for the courses that sell on impulse and proximity, with the pixel and events wired correctly instead of half-installed.See how it works

Why are my Google Ads conversions not tracking?

This is where we start with every new account, and it is almost always worth more than a bid change. The pattern is the same across training companies: the conversion tag lives on the booking button instead of the confirmation, the booking widget is embedded in an iframe so the click ID never survives to the sale, phone bookings and walk-ins never get uploaded back to Google, and a stale duplicate conversion action inflates or hides the real count.

In our own account, the gap between what Google reported and what actually sold was roughly 29%. We found it, fixed it, and fed the real sales back in. The practical effect is that Smart Bidding and every optimization decision downstream finally sees the truth. If your reported cost per booking looks bad, there is a real chance your business is healthier than your dashboard says and you are about to cut a campaign that is actually profitable. That is why the audit is free: we would rather show you the leak than argue about strategy on top of bad data.

Google Ads management for CPR training companies

Search is where certification demand lives, because the buyer already knows what they need and is usually on a deadline. We build tight, mostly exact-match structures around real course intent, separate the healthcare buyer from the workplace buyer, keep near-me and city coverage in their own groups, and maintain shared negative lists so budget stops going to online only certificates, free courses, and job seekers. On our own account this structure produced $21 per booking, 596% ROAS, and 9.5% CTR. We manage bids deliberately rather than handing the account to automation before the tracking is trustworthy.

Local SEO for CPR and certification training companies

Ads buy you today. SEO buys you the next three years. For a training company that means a Google Business Profile that actually gets reviewed and answered, a page for each course and each city you serve, and an internal link structure so those pages support each other rather than cannibalizing the same keyword. We write for the questions people really type: where can I get BLS certified near me, is this the official card, how long does the class take, can I get certified today.

Website builds and migrations without losing rankings

Most training company sites are slow, hard to update, and built around a brochure instead of a booking. We rebuild them conversion-first and fast. If you are moving hosts or platforms, migration is the risky part: we handled an 89-page migration for our own site with full redirect mapping so nothing that ranked got orphaned. Same process for yours.

Email and SMS automation: the revenue you already earned

Two cadences matter more than anything else in this industry. First, abandoned checkout: someone picked a class, opened checkout, and left. A short, personalized recovery sequence brings a meaningful share of them back. Second, renewals: every card you issue expires in two years, and if nobody reminds that student, they will search Google again and may not choose you. A reminder ladder that starts before expiration turns your past students into predictable repeat revenue. If you want the software side of this rather than a done-for-you service, see our booking and automation software for CPR companies.

How do I reduce class-day no-shows?

No-shows are a marketing problem disguised as an operations problem. The fixes are unglamorous and they work: confirm the booking instantly with a real calendar event, remind the day before and the morning of, make the address and parking impossible to misread, and make rescheduling easy enough that a student moves their seat instead of ghosting it. We build those sequences and the landing pages that set the expectation in the first place.

Meta ads, content, and landing page CRO

Meta works for the courses people buy on impulse and proximity, and for filling specific class dates that are running light. Content and short-form video build the trust that makes the ad cheap. And every dollar of that traffic lands somewhere: a landing page that answers the three objections a student always has, is this the official card, how long will it take, and can I get it today, will out-convert a prettier page that answers none of them.

Read before assembly

We already understand the certification industry

You should not have to explain your own business to the people marketing it. Here is what we do not need explained.

Assumed knowledge

  • 01AHA versus Red CrossDifferent curricula, different cards, different buyers, and different search behavior. A hospital-bound student often needs the AHA card specifically, and a page that blurs the two loses the sale.
  • 02eCards are the deliverableThe student is not buying a class, they are buying proof by a deadline. Same-day eCard issuance is a conversion lever, and your marketing should say so above the fold.
  • 03The 2-year renewal cycleEvery card expires. That is a built-in, dateable repeat purchase, and most training companies do nothing with it. A renewal engine is the highest margin revenue in the business.
  • 04Instructor schedulingYour inventory is not seats, it is instructor hours. Marketing that fills a class nobody can staff is a problem, so demand generation has to respect the schedule.
  • 05Class-day no-showsA booked seat is not a paid seat until the student walks in. Confirmations, reminders, and easy rescheduling protect the revenue the ads already bought.
  • 06Skills checks and blended learningOnline course plus in-person skills check is a different product with a different buyer and a different price, and it deserves its own page rather than a footnote.

This is also a fit outside CPR. Swim schools, driving schools, dental CE providers, trade certification programs, any business that books classes and issues certifications that expire runs on the same mechanics: seat inventory, deadline-driven buyers, and a renewal date sitting in your database.

Price

What it costs

Starting prices for one location, one campaign, or one site. The tracking audit is free, and it is where most companies start.

Founder pricingFirst 10 clients · Prices rise Jan 2027

Anything beyond the starting build gets a real quote after a 15-minute call.

Prices go up in January 2027. Book before then and your rate is locked for as long as you stay a client.

Fitting check

A generalist agency versus an operator

Same budget, same account, two very different first 90 days.

A generalist agency

  • Spends the first 90 days learning your industry with your money
  • Has never sold a CPR class or issued an eCard
  • Treats BLS and CPR as the same product for the same buyer
  • Reports on conversions without checking they are counted correctly
  • Ignores the renewal that is due in two years
  • Fills classes nobody is scheduled to teach

An operator who runs one

  • Starts from a playbook already proven on a real training company
  • Knows the eCard by a deadline is what the student is buying
  • Separates the healthcare buyer from the workplace buyer
  • Reconciles reported conversions against payments that settled
  • Runs the 2-year renewal ladder as its own revenue line
  • Plans demand around instructor hours, not abstract seats

Troubleshooting

Marketing agency questions, answered

What does a marketing agency for CPR training companies actually do?
We run the demand side of a CPR training business: Google Ads, conversion tracking, local SEO, the website, landing pages, email and SMS follow-up, Meta ads, and content. The difference is that we are not learning your business on your budget. We operate our own AHA and Red Cross training site, so we already know what a booked seat costs, what a renewal is worth, and which keywords waste money.
Why are my Google Ads conversions not tracking correctly?
Usually because the conversion fires on the wrong event, the tag is missing on the confirmation page, a booking widget sits inside an iframe that blocks the gclid, or offline sales taken by phone or in person never make it back into the account. We found a roughly 29% under-report in our own account from exactly these causes. That means real bookings were invisible to the bidding algorithm. Our free audit checks for all of it before you spend another dollar.
How much do you charge?
Starting prices are listed on this page. Google Ads management and local SEO start at $500 a month each, a website build starts at $2,500, and the conversion tracking audit is free. What you pay above that depends on ad spend and how much of the stack you want us to run. Billing is monthly once we start.
Do you work with CPR training companies outside of California?
Yes. We work with CPR and certification training companies nationwide. Ads, tracking, SEO, websites, and automation are all remote work. Your classroom is local, your marketing does not have to be.
Will you work with a competitor in my area?
No. We do not take two clients competing for the same geography. Ask on the call and we will tell you straight whether your market is open.
How long before Google Ads results improve?
Tracking repairs show up immediately, because you start seeing conversions that were always happening but were never recorded. Account restructuring, negative keyword cleanup, and landing page changes usually need a few weeks of data before the cost per booking moves in a way you can trust. SEO is a longer arc, measured in months.
Do I have to move my website or my payment processor?
No. You keep your own Square, Stripe, or whatever you already use, and money never routes through us. If your website needs to move, we handle the migration, including redirects, so you do not lose the rankings you already have. We migrated an 89-page site for our own business without losing traffic.
What do you need from me to get started?
Read-only access to your Google Ads and Google Analytics, access to your Google Business Profile, and 30 minutes on a call. That is enough for us to run the audit and tell you exactly where the money is leaking.

Need a hand

Start with the free tracking audit

We will look at your Google Ads account, show you what is not being counted, and tell you what we would do first. The audit is free.

We work with CPR and certification training companies nationwide. Custom quote, billed monthly.