🚨 Don’t Let an Agency Hold Your Google Ads Account Hostage! 🚨

I’ve talked before about why you must own your own Google Ads account, but this article from John Commins (Ideas Money Art) lays out the top three excuses shady agencies use to lock you out of your own account.

🚫 Excuse #1: “Our Google Ads setup is proprietary.”

💀 Verdict: B.S.
The best agencies and Google Ads experts share strategies all the time—there’s no secret sauce.

🚫 Excuse #2: “We set it up from scratch, so it belongs to us.”

💀 Verdict: Straight-up unethical.
If an agency doesn’t charge a setup fee and then claims ownership over your ads later, that’s their incompetence, not yours.

🚫 Excuse #3: “We can’t disconnect your account from our Google Ads Manager.”

💀 Verdict: A flat-out lie.
Google makes it super easy to disconnect an account—if they say otherwise, run for the hills.

🔑 What You Should Do RIGHT NOW

✅ Before hiring an agency, make sure YOU own your account.
✅ Get admin access upfront.
✅ If an agency refuses, don’t work with them—period.

👉 Trust me, this is a headache you don’t want. Make sure you own your Google Ads account from day one!