Reviews are reproduced as written on Google. Case studies with client names follow as each client signs off.
Tradie marketing results: 35,700+ tracked enquiries from $537K of ads
Every number on this page is straight off a Google Ads, Meta or call-tracking dashboard: what was spent, what came back, what each enquiry cost. Totals first, then 13 accounts broken down one by one.
As at 17 September 2026. Google Ads figures are our manager account's lifetime totals; Meta figures are the ad sets shown below; calls are the latest 30 days of call tracking. Every figure is the platform's own — nothing here is estimated or projected.
Google Ads results: $507K managed, 34,500 enquiries, $14.70 each
Our Google Ads manager account, all clients, all time since 2020, as at 17 September 2026. An enquiry is a tracked phone call or quote form — we don't count page views or clicks as conversions.
Client money, spent on Google — never bundled into our fee
Calls and quote forms attributed to ads
Across every trade, market and year
More than one click in nine became a call or a quote form
Google Ads results by account
Spend, enquiries and cost per enquiry for the life of each account. Named by trade and area until each client confirms they're happy to be named. Every figure is Google's own, not ours.
Campaigns split by job type. The core glazing campaign runs at $7.26 an enquiry and double glazing at $8.21; shower screens ($15.69) carry their own budget so the cheap repair leads don't starve the bigger jobs.
Detailing, ceramic coating and window tinting run as separate campaigns. The ceramic coating ads hit a 19.1% click-through rate — nearly one in five people who see the ad tap it — and the account holds a 31–32% share of Newcastle detailing searches.
The landscaping campaign alone produced 1,034 enquiries from $6.5K. One keyword — "landscaping mandurah" — drove 228 tracked phone calls on its own, which is why the account is built around exact job-type terms rather than broad matches.
Search and Performance Max running side by side: the search campaign brings the exact 'concreters central coast' traffic at a 16.8% click-through rate, PMax fills in around it. 79% of enquiries come from a phone.
Roof replacements are five-figure jobs, so a $60 enquiry is cheap — and the account is weighted that way on purpose. Metal roofing and Colorbond replacement terms lead; repairs are there to fund it, not the other way round.
Same structure as Maitland, with 'roof replacement newcastle' as the anchor keyword — 47 enquiries from that single exact-match term. Impression share climbed from 10% to 33% month on month in August.
The newest account here — a Performance Max campaign for home EV charger installs, still limited by budget. Early days, but 79 enquiries from the first $3K of spend for a four-figure install job is a strong start.
Account totals are from each account's Google Ads Overview for its full date range. Some accounts were opened before the campaigns started, so "since" is when spend began. Cost per enquiry is total spend divided by tracked conversions. Results vary by trade, area and season — one client's numbers don't guarantee another's.
Call tracking results: inbound calls across every client
Straight from our call-tracking dashboard, as at 15 September 2026. Calls only — form enquiries and emails aren't counted here, so the real enquiry number is higher.
+37% compared to the prior 7 days
+12% compared to the prior 15 days
17 Aug – 15 Sep 2026
Calls per day, last 30 days
All clients, all trades · 17 Aug – 15 Sep 2026
See the daily figures
| Date | Calls |
|---|---|
| Monday 17 August 2026 | 315 |
| Tuesday 18 August 2026 | 285 |
| Wednesday 19 August 2026 | 377 |
| Thursday 20 August 2026 | 324 |
| Friday 21 August 2026 | 95 |
| Saturday 22 August 2026 | 77 |
| Sunday 23 August 2026 | 475 |
| Monday 24 August 2026 | 368 |
| Tuesday 25 August 2026 | 410 |
| Wednesday 26 August 2026 | 440 |
| Thursday 27 August 2026 | 309 |
| Friday 28 August 2026 | 74 |
| Saturday 29 August 2026 | 53 |
| Sunday 30 August 2026 | 410 |
| Monday 31 August 2026 | 493 |
| Tuesday 1 September 2026 | 431 |
| Wednesday 2 September 2026 | 440 |
| Thursday 3 September 2026 | 321 |
| Friday 4 September 2026 | 98 |
| Saturday 5 September 2026 | 62 |
| Sunday 6 September 2026 | 398 |
| Monday 7 September 2026 | 380 |
| Tuesday 8 September 2026 | 318 |
| Wednesday 9 September 2026 | 327 |
| Thursday 10 September 2026 | 327 |
| Friday 11 September 2026 | 77 |
| Saturday 12 September 2026 | 56 |
| Sunday 13 September 2026 | 434 |
| Monday 14 September 2026 | 443 |
| Tuesday 15 September 2026 | 327 |
Read from our call-tracking dashboard. Volume varies with the day of the week, weather and season — this is the whole client base, not one campaign, and it grows as clients come on board.
Named tradie marketing case studies
The account numbers above are the raw dashboard figures: what was spent, what came back, and what each enquiry cost. What they don't show is the story behind them — where the business started, what changed month to month, which jobs the enquiries turned into. That's the part most agency results pages skip, and it's the part that tells you whether a result is repeatable in your trade and your market.
So the named write-ups go further: starting position, what we ran and when, spend and cost per enquiry over time — good months and bad — and what the client booked. They're added as each client signs off, and every figure is approved by them first.

What every case study on this page will include
Every case study published here will follow the same structure, so you can compare like with like.
Starting position
What the business looked like before — rankings, traffic, enquiry volume
What we ran
Which services, over what timeframe, with spend disclosed where the client's happy for it to be
What happened
Leads, cost per lead, ranking movement — month by month, not a cherry-picked week
What it doesn't prove
A clear note that results vary, and one client's numbers don't guarantee another's
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