Digital advertising agency · Lake County IL
Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, LinkedIn and Yelp advertising — planned, produced and managed by Janet Galati, a Meta Certified Digital Advertising Associate with 35+ years advertising local businesses.
$0.22
Per click on recent client campaigns
Meta Certified
Digital Advertising Associate
Yelp Premier
Advertising Partner agency
35+ years
Advertising local businesses in Northern Illinois
Most local businesses do not need a national agency. They need one person who knows the town, knows the offer, and watches the ad account every day. That is what this is — a digital advertising agency built for small and mid-sized businesses across Lake County and Northern Illinois, run by the same person who answers your calls.
Every campaign starts with the offer, not the platform. We figure out what will make someone in Grayslake, Antioch or Gurnee actually pick up the phone, then choose the channels that put it in front of them for the least money.
Platforms we advertise on
Boosted posts and full campaigns targeted by zip code, interest and behavior. For most Lake County businesses this is where the first dollar goes and where the phone starts ringing.
Feed, Stories and Reels placements with creative sized and written for each one — not recycled Facebook artwork dropped into a different slot.
Search, Display and Local campaigns that catch people at the moment they type what you sell into Google. Tight keyword lists, negative keywords and honest budget caps.
Short video ads placed in front of local viewers, produced with the same setup behind Monday Marketing with JG — so you are not paying twice for creative.
B2B campaigns aimed at owners, managers and referral partners when the customer you want is another business, not a household.
Premier Partner placements and profile upgrades most agencies cannot offer, paired with review management so the traffic lands on a profile worth reading.
The people who visited your site and left are the cheapest audience you will ever buy. Retargeting keeps you in front of them across Facebook, Instagram and Google.
How the money is spent
Local budgets have no room for waste. Each platform gets creative built for it, tight geographic and audience targeting, and reporting you can actually read. Recent client campaigns have run as low as $0.22 per click — because the wrong audiences get switched off in week one instead of month three.
Read the ACDI 2.0 campaign results →Ads plus everything around them
An ad sends someone to a page, a profile or a phone. We build the landing page, clean up the Google and Yelp profiles, and time the direct mail so the same household sees you in the feed and in the mailbox in the same week. That is the ACDI 2.0 approach behind every campaign we run.
See all services →Common questions
It plans where your money goes, writes and designs the ads, builds the targeting, launches the campaigns, watches the numbers daily and shifts budget toward whatever is working. The part most owners never get to is the last one — the ongoing management after launch.
Most Lake County businesses we work with start between $500 and $1,500 a month in ad spend, on top of management. What matters more than the number is that the offer, the landing page and the follow-up are ready before the first dollar goes out.
Boosting is one button with almost no targeting behind it. A managed campaign uses audience segments, negative keywords, creative testing and conversion tracking — and someone who notices on day three that one ad is eating the budget.
Restaurants and retail usually start on Facebook, Instagram and Yelp. Home services and professional practices usually start on Google. B2B usually starts on LinkedIn. We pick based on where your customers actually make decisions, not on what is trendy.
Yes. We are based in Lake Villa and work across Lake County, McHenry County and Kenosha County, plus Northern Illinois businesses that want an owner-led agency instead of a call center.
Where we advertise
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