I have seen some SEO company put the advertising that their staff got Google Adwords (a Qualified Google Advertising Professional). As I saw you have to qualify by spending at least $1000 in adwords during the last 90 days i think its a lot of money why need to pay so much????? Do you thing its valuable that??? 1000$ to prove to Google and your clients that you have a certificate by them????
Its for the Google founders to pay their mortages on their mansion , they just want to suckk money from everything possible online
A Google Adwords Professional is somebody who is qualified to manage Adwords accounts - typically other people's Adwords accounts. If you're spending $10 per day, you're not going to get much data, or learn very much about managing an account. $1000 per day isn't that much, if you're an agency (who the qualification is aimed at). Would you really trust your advertising budget to somebody who had little experience optimising Adwords?
There are already too many Snake Oil salesmen hidding behind Google AdWords Professional logo. I like that Google's at least keeping some of the really bad ones out! Sorry to all the qualified people below that level - I know it sucks!
I think it should be higher. 1k per month is nothing but a drop in the bucket. If your complaining about 1k then you probably shouldn't be considered a professional and more of a hobbyist.