I signed up to the Adwords Professional area, but I needed to create a new account to 'manage' my existing account. It looks like it keeps the age of the account (in days), but it doesn't carry over the total spend I have had in the account.
Does this mean I need to start from the beginning in terms of dollars spent to qualify?
Here is Google's official explanation:
To become a Qualified Individual in the Google Advertising Professionals program, you'll need to accomplish the following:1. Sign up for the program successfully and be in good standing. This means that you've accepted the Rules of Use and aren't in violation of them.
2. Manage at least one AdWords account (yours or someone else's) in My Client Center for 90 days.
3. Build and maintain at least US$1,000 (or your local currency equivalent) total spend for your or your team's My Client Center account during the 90-day period.
4. Pass the Google Advertising Professional Exam. We suggest that you take the exam after you meet the above requirements. However, you can take the exam at any time.Please note that you must have met and/or be maintaining all requirements concurrently to become a Qualified Individual. So, if you have not yet passed the Exam by the time you reach the 90-day minimum managed spend requirement, you must still be maintaining that spend level (at least US$1,000 - or your local currency equivalent) when you pass the Exam.
Yeah, I saw that as well - I was hoping there was some was of transferring the history of my account into the new account. Looks like that can't happen :)
I think it was possible a few years ago, but Google has since gotten wise to this and now forces you to meet the requirement in your MCC without being able to transfer the history both time and spend-wise.
