Turn Google Maps in your city into a steady flow of customers

I run Google Ads accounts for Australian businesses remotely — the same way your accountant does not need to be in your workshop to do your books. The work happens inside Google’s and Meta’s platforms, which do not care where I sit. Before I write a single ad I go through your suburb’s search volume, what your competitors are bidding on and what people are actually typing into Google when they need your trade — that research is the job, the postcode I do it from is not. What I will not do is pretend to be local: I will not come to your site, and I will not be at the local business breakfast. If that is what you need, hire someone in your city. If you want the campaigns run properly, keep reading.

I do not keep fixed office hours in your city, but you will not wait long: messages get a reply within one business day, usually the same day, and anything account-breaking — a spend spike, a disapproved ad — I catch through alerts, not by waiting for you to notice. If a call is useful, message me a couple of times that suit you and I will match one. You will have my direct WhatsApp and email, not a ticket system.

No. You pay Google and Meta directly, from your own card, into ad accounts registered in your business name. I never hold your ad money. My invoice covers the setup fee and the monthly management fee — nothing else.

Two reasons. First, GST credits: when an agency buys the media, the platform’s tax invoice is made out to the agency, and the GST credit goes to them, not you — paid directly, it is yours. On a $3,000 monthly budget that is roughly $270 a month you would otherwise hand away. Second, there is no hidden margin: some agencies buy media in bulk and resell it to you at a mark-up you never see. I physically cannot do that, because your money never passes through me.

You do. Every account is created in your business name and I am added as a manager so I can do the work. If you decide to stop, I remove my access and you keep everything — the campaigns, the conversion history, the audience lists, the pixel data. Ask an agency this question before you sign with them: some of them run your ads inside their own account, which means you leave with nothing and start from zero.

I work under an agreement as an external contractor. GST is not charged on my services — the invoice shows exactly the amount listed on this page. Ad budget is paid by you directly to the platforms, billed to your own details, and is not included in the price.

It depends on your trade and your suburb, and I will give you a real number after I look at the auction, not before. As a rough shape: under about $1,500 a month rarely buys enough clicks to learn anything, so the campaign never gets past guessing. Between $2,000 and $6,000 a month is where most single-van and small-crew businesses in your city land. If your budget is below the point where I think it can work, I will tell you that on the first call and will not take the job.

If you do not get a single enquiry in your first month, I work your second month free. An enquiry is a call, a form submission or a message from a potential customer — not an impression or a click. It applies from the day campaigns go live, requires the agreed ad budget to have actually run, and requires that you answer the calls and reply to the enquiries — I can put people in front of you, I cannot answer for you. "Free" means my management fee; ad spend is still paid to the platforms. Full terms are in the Guarantee section and in the agreement.

One to two weeks from the moment I have access, depending on whether you need a website built. The first 30 days are partly a paid learning period — the account is working out which searches turn into jobs and which waste your money — so cost per enquiry typically drops between month one and month three as that data builds up.

Maybe not — send me the link and I will tell you straight. Plenty of sites are fine to advertise to once the tracking is fixed and a couple of pages are sharpened up. Some sites will burn your ad budget no matter what I do to the campaigns, usually because they are slow on mobile or do not say which suburbs you cover. If that is yours, I will show you exactly what it is costing you and let you decide.

Yes. The domain stays in your name, the hosting account is yours, and you get full admin access. It is not rented from me and does not switch off if you stop working with me.

No lock-in contracts on ongoing management: monthly support can be stopped with 30 days notice, no exit fee, no clawback of the setup cost. One-off implementation is paid once.

Against an agency: you get the person who actually does the work, not an account manager sitting between you and a junior who runs twenty accounts off a template — and you do not pay for their office or their margin on your media buy. Against a cheap freelancer: I have more than ten years of paid acquisition behind me and I will show you the numbers. Cheap usually means someone who sets up a campaign, turns on automated bidding, and never opens it again — you find that out in month three when you check what a lead cost you. I am not the cheapest option in either direction; if price is the deciding factor, I am the wrong call.

About an hour, spread across the first two weeks: a 30-minute brief on what you do, where you work and which jobs you want more of; access to your Google Maps listing and any existing accounts; and a card to set up billing on the ad accounts. Real photos of your work from your phone help more than stock imagery. After that, I come back to you when there is something to decide.

A live dashboard, not a spreadsheet once a month: spend, calls, form fills, cost per enquiry, which searches produced them — open it any time on your phone. Plus a short written summary each month covering what changed, what it cost, and what I am doing next.

I look at your market before we speak, so it is not a discovery interview. I will tell you what people in your suburb are searching for, roughly what a lead costs in your trade right now, and whether I think this will work for you at the budget you have in mind. If I do not think it will work, I will say so on that call.