Marketing for Sydney trades, run from Newcastle.
We serve Sydney from Newcastle, and we are going to be straight with you about what that means and about which Sydney searches are realistically winnable — including the ones we would not take your money to chase.
Sydney is the most contested search market in the country, and we are a small Newcastle agency. Both of those things are true at once, and pretending otherwise would waste your money before it wasted our time.
So this page is shorter than the others on purpose, and it tells you where we can genuinely help in Sydney and where you would be better off with somebody else.
What we will not promise you.
We are not going to rank you for "plumber Sydney" or anything shaped like it. The head terms here — "seo sydney" at 6,600 searches a month, "web design sydney" at 4,400, "marketing agency sydney" at 1,300 — sit at difficulty scores between 47 and 59, held by agencies with a decade of accumulated authority and budgets to match. Any agency telling you those are achievable this year for a normal budget is selling you a story.
What is winnable in Sydney is narrower and much more specific: the trade-and-service combinations. "seo for plumbers sydney" is seventy searches a month. "seo for electricians sydney" is forty. Small numbers, but they are searched by business owners who know precisely what they want, and there is very little competent competition sitting on them. A handful of those, plus suburb-level work in the two or three areas you actually service, is a real strategy. "Sydney" as a whole is not.
The same logic applies to your own customers. If you are a Sydney trade business, your winnable ground is not "electrician Sydney" either — it is your six suburbs, done properly, with a profile and a review count that beats the others in those six. Sydney rewards narrowness far more than it rewards ambition, because everybody is ambitious and almost nobody is narrow.
What we can genuinely do for a Sydney business.
Suburb-level local search
Two or three areas you actually work in, done properly. This is where a Sydney trade business wins, and it does not require beating a metro-wide incumbent.
Google Ads, where geography does not matter
Paid search is the one channel where being in Newcastle is entirely irrelevant — the account is managed identically wherever we sit, and it is the fastest thing we can do for a Sydney client.
Websites and conversion work
Also geography-independent, and frequently the highest-leverage fix. A Sydney business paying Sydney click prices into a site that converts at 1% is losing more to the site than to the market.
Sydney suburbs.
Don't see your suburb? Drop us a line — we likely cover it anyway.
Where we work in Sydney.
Newcastle-based, and why that is not only a downside.
We cannot be at your Bondi job this afternoon, and if being able to meet in person matters to you, take a Sydney agency — that is a fair reason to choose one. What you get instead is Newcastle overheads rather than Sydney ones, and an agency small enough that you speak to the person doing the work. For the ads and website side, which is most of it, the distance genuinely changes nothing.
Being straight with you.
We would rather turn down a Sydney client than take one on a promise we cannot keep. If what you need is to rank city-wide for a competitive head term, we are not the right agency and we will say so on the first call. If what you need is two suburbs done properly, an ads account that stops leaking, and a site that converts, that we can do.
Pricing starts at $590/mo. See what that includes →
Sydney questions.
Can you get me ranking for "plumber Sydney"?
Does being in Newcastle make you worse at Sydney marketing?
Why is this page shorter than your Newcastle one?
Try it in Sydney for 30 days. On us.
Thirty days of fully managed ads on us, run flat out to bring in as much work as we can. No contract, no lock-in — at the end of the 30 days you decide whether to stay on or walk away, and if you walk you have paid us nothing.
- The 30 days cost you nothing
No management fee for the trial month — you only fund the ad spend, at a cap you set.
- Setup is free too
Campaign build, keyword research, ad copy, landing page and call tracking — all done for the trial at no charge, so there is no setup bill to get started.
- No contract, no lock-in
There is nothing to sign that traps you. Stay on after the 30 days and it's week-to-week — send a text, we pause it, the billing stops.
- Your ad spend, your card, never marked up
The only money that moves during the trial goes straight to Google — you set the cap, you can stop it any day, and we never take a cut of it.
At the end of the 30 days you get a plain-English report: what it cost, how many calls and enquiries came in, and what each one cost. Then you decide — stay on at $100/wk, or leave. No exit fee, no clawback, no last-ditch pitch.
Want more clients in Sydney?
Book a free 30-minute audit. We'll show you exactly where the missed leads are coming from — and what to do about it. Then, if you want to test ads, the build and the first 30 days are on us — no contract, no lock-in.