Marketing you can actually measure
Paid search, email, and social — run as a set of measurable experiments against enquiries and sales, not as a monthly retainer producing reports nobody reads. If a channel is not paying for itself, we will tell you to stop.
The reporting looks busy and the phone does not ring
Impressions, reach and engagement are easy to grow and easy to report, and none of them pay wages. The common failure is not laziness — it is that nobody connected the spend to the enquiries at the other end, so there was no way to tell which half was working. That connection is the first thing we build.
- You cannot say how many leads last month's spend produced
- Ads point at a homepage rather than a page about the thing advertised
- You are bidding on your own brand name and counting it as success
- The email list has not been contacted in eight months
- Nobody is tracking calls, so phone enquiries are invisible in the numbers
What we run
Not every channel suits every business. We would rather run two properly than six badly.
Google Ads and Local Services Ads
Search campaigns aimed at people already looking to buy, with negative keywords maintained so you stop paying for irrelevant clicks, and landing pages that match what the ad promised.
Email marketing
The cheapest channel you own outright. List hygiene, sequences that follow up on enquiries automatically, and campaigns to people who already trust you — plus proper authentication so it lands in the inbox.
Social, where it fits
For some businesses this drives real work; for many it is a time sink dressed as marketing. We will tell you honestly which you are before you fund it.
Follow-up and speed to lead
Most leads are lost to slow response, not bad marketing. Automated acknowledgement, alerting, and a follow-up sequence so nothing sits unanswered overnight.
Tracking that closes the loop
Conversion tracking, call tracking, and analytics configured so each channel can be judged on enquiries and revenue rather than clicks.
Landing pages that match
A campaign is only as good as where it lands. Purpose-built pages for each offer, built fast and tested on the devices your audience actually uses.
Who this is for
Businesses with capacity to fill
Paid channels buy demand quickly, which makes them the right tool when you have people idle and need work this month rather than next quarter.
Anyone already spending without clarity
If you are running ads and cannot say what they produced, the first job is measurement — and it frequently reveals that a large share of spend is wasted.
Seasonal businesses
Where demand spikes at predictable times, paid campaigns can be turned up and down in a way that SEO cannot.
Businesses with an unused list
An email list you have not contacted is the cheapest revenue available to you, and it decays if you leave it much longer.
How we work
Measurement first, one channel at a time, honest about what is not working.
Fix the measurement
Conversion and call tracking, analytics, and a definition of what counts as a lead. Until this exists, every other decision is a guess.
Pick the channel that fits
Based on how your customers actually buy and how quickly you need the work — not on which channel is fashionable this year.
Build the destination
The landing page or sequence the campaign points at, matched to the promise in the ad. Sending paid traffic to a generic homepage wastes most of it.
Launch small and read the data
Start at a budget where being wrong is cheap. Scale what produces enquiries, stop what does not.
Report against money
Monthly review in terms of leads, cost per lead, and where they came from. If a channel is not paying for itself, we will say so rather than quietly renewing it.
What it costs
Management is a monthly fee scoped to the channels you actually run, kept separate from your ad spend so you can always see what goes to platforms and what goes to us. No twelve-month lock-in.
- Management fee quoted per channel after a review of your current setup
- Your ad budget is paid to the platforms directly and stays in your account and your name
- Landing pages priced per page, and yours to keep
- Cancel any time — we would rather keep clients because it is working
- If your measurement is broken, we fix that first and will not take management fees on numbers nobody can verify
Marketing questions we get asked
- How much should a small business spend on Google Ads?
- Enough to get meaningful data in a reasonable time, which for most local service businesses means a starting budget in the hundreds per month rather than tens. The more useful way to think about it is cost per lead against what a customer is worth to you: if a job is worth $3,000 and leads cost $60 with one in four closing, the arithmetic makes the decision for you. We work that out with your numbers before recommending a figure.
- Should I do SEO or paid ads?
- They solve different problems. Ads buy demand immediately and stop the moment you stop paying. SEO takes months and then keeps producing. If you need work this month, start with ads. If you are building something durable, SEO compounds. Most businesses that can afford both should run ads while the organic work matures.
- Do you take a percentage of ad spend?
- No. Percentage-of-spend pricing rewards an agency for increasing your budget, which is a conflict of interest baked into the invoice. We charge a flat management fee per channel, so recommending you spend less costs us nothing.
- Who owns the ad accounts?
- You do. Accounts are created in your name with you as owner and us granted access. If you leave, you keep the account, the campaign history and the data. Agencies that run clients inside their own accounts are creating a reason you cannot leave, which is not a reason to stay.
- Is social media marketing worth it for my business?
- It depends on whether your customers choose you there. For restaurants, salons, fitness and anything visual, it can drive real bookings. For most B2B and trade services, buyers arrive through search and referral, and social becomes an expensive credibility exercise. We will look at how your enquiries actually arrive and tell you which you are.
- How fast should I respond to a new lead?
- Minutes, not hours. Response speed is consistently one of the largest factors in whether an enquiry becomes a customer, and it is entirely within your control — unlike most of marketing. Automating acknowledgement and alerting is usually the single cheapest improvement available to a business already generating leads.
Still deciding? Book a free 20-minute call and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right spend for where you are.
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We will review your current campaigns, tracking and follow-up, and tell you what is working, what is wasted, and what is not being measured at all.