Adwords is a complex tool to update, track, learn and tinker with if you want it to work for you. There are a lot of management companies who offer to manage to run your ads and campaigns for you. While adwords is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination, and protecting your spend and maximizing your reach is arguably also important in minimizing your losses in advertizing, paying a cheap large company to spend as much as you give them is a nice way to use your money in the utmost efficiency.
Most adwords management companies with charge you %20 to %33 of your total spend on google adwords. While they are not the best by a long shot I found a company who is charging me $49 a month (with the NY State and Local Tax (8.375%) $0.63).
Yodle's original package has a %25 percent going to seo which is really going to expensive banner listings on their affiliates directories, however I was able to get them to put into the agreement that they are putting all my money into adwords alone and only taking a $49 flat fee to run the account. They only wanted a 3 month contract and after that they are on a month to month arrangement.
Are they making all kinds of mistakes with my account? Yes. However they are fixing them and giving me a full credit of all spend which was outside the guidelines of my targets. I am not however spending even a fraction of how much time I was originally spending managing my adword's account.
To be perfectly honest I think $49 a month for custom management of a adwords account is a down right give away. I am not getting any referral fee nor am I working for or affiliated with Yodle.