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Digital marketing for a small Northern Beaches business typically costs between $300 and $2,500 per month depending on which services you need. A Google Business Profile setup is a one-off $300 to $500. Facebook and Instagram ad management runs $500 to $1,000 per month plus your ad spend paid directly to Meta. Website design and build starts at $1,000 as a one-off. Our all-in-one Monthly Growth Retainer covering ads, SEO, Google Business management, and reporting starts at $800 per month. Every quote is custom, there are no hidden fees, no lock-in contracts, and we're always upfront about what things cost before you commit. Get in touch for a free consultation and we'll put together a straight answer based on your goals and budget.

If you're relying on word of mouth alone, you're missing out on customers who are actively searching Google right now for services like yours in Manly, Dee Why, Brookvale, Mona Vale, Avalon, and across the Northern Beaches. Most people looking for an electrician, plumber, landscaper, or builder start with a Google search, and if you're not showing up, your competitors are getting those jobs instead. A marketing agency handles the online side, setting up and managing your Google Business Profile, running targeted Facebook ads, building a professional website, and making sure you rank in local search results, so you can focus on doing the work you're good at instead of figuring out digital marketing.

We offer seven core services designed to help local businesses get found online and generate real enquiries. Facebook and Instagram ads, targeted campaigns that put your business in front of people in your area who need your services. Google Business Profile setup and management, so you show up on Google Maps and in the local pack when people search nearby. Review System Setup, a simple system that helps trades consistently get Google reviews from happy customers, from a handful to twenty-plus inside three months. Website design and build, fast, mobile-friendly sites built with SEO foundations from day one. SEO and content marketing, ongoing optimisation to improve your organic Google rankings over time. Website Care, ongoing maintenance and support for your site without hosting or backup fees. And our Monthly Growth Retainer, an all-in-one package that bundles ads, Google Business, SEO, the review system, review management, and monthly reporting into a single plan.

Most Northern Beaches businesses start seeing results from Facebook and Instagram ads within two to four weeks of launching a campaign. Google Business Profile optimisation shows improvements in local search visibility within one to three weeks if your listing was previously incomplete. SEO is a longer game with meaningful organic traffic growth typically within three to six months. For reference, Golden Marketing's Connery Electrical campaign (April 2026) generated 4 converted leads in the first 11 days at $17.48 cost per lead on Facebook ads. Timelines vary based on your trade, how competitive your area is, and your budget. We report on everything monthly with plain English updates, so you always know exactly what's working, what's not, and what we're doing about it.

No. We don't believe in locking clients into long-term contracts. It's one of the things that sets us apart from most agencies. All our monthly services are month-to-month, and you can cancel anytime with 30 days' notice. We'd rather earn your business every month by delivering real results than keep you around with a contract you can't get out of. Too many small business owners have been burned by agencies that locked them into six or twelve month deals and then stopped delivering. That's not how we work. You stay because the leads are coming in and the results speak for themselves, not because you're stuck in fine print.

We're based on the Northern Beaches and work exclusively with local small businesses, tradies, service businesses, and sole traders who need more leads without the big agency price tag. When you work with us, you deal directly with one person who actually knows your business, your area, and your customers. There's no account manager, no junior staff doing the work, and no being passed around between departments. We speak plain English in everything we do, from proposals to monthly reports, because marketing shouldn't require a translator. We focus on the metrics that actually matter to your business, leads, enquiries, and revenue. Not impressions, reach, or other vanity numbers that look good on a report but don't pay the bills.

Most Northern Beaches tradies spend between $300 and $1,000 per month on Facebook and Instagram ads, plus a management fee that covers strategy, creative, reporting, and ongoing optimisation. The right budget depends on your service area, how competitive your trade is, and how many leads you want. A local electrician running EV charger ads in Manly and Dee Why can start generating enquiries on $300 to $500 a month, while a builder or landscaper targeting the whole Northern Beaches usually needs closer to $800 to $1,000 to stay in front of enough people. We helped Connery Electrical generate 4 converted leads in their first 11 days on an ad spend of $69.90, at a cost per lead of $17.48. That's the kind of real-world result we aim for, no smoke and mirrors.

You get on Google Maps by creating and verifying a Google Business Profile. It's free, but most small business owners either skip it, set it up wrong, or never come back to optimise it, which is why so many local businesses on the Northern Beaches don't show up when customers search nearby. A proper setup includes claiming your listing, verifying your address or service area, choosing the right primary and secondary business categories, uploading real photos of your work and team, adding all your services with descriptions, linking to your website, and collecting reviews from happy customers. We handle all of that for you as a one-off Google Business setup, or as part of our Monthly Growth Retainer if you want us to keep managing it each month.

Yes. Facebook ads and SEO do different jobs and work best together. Facebook ads put your business in front of people in your area whether they're searching for you or not, which is great for generating quick enquiries and building brand awareness. SEO helps you show up when people actively search on Google for a tradie or service business in the Northern Beaches, which is often closer to the moment they're ready to book. Relying only on ads means when you stop paying, the leads stop. Relying only on SEO means slow growth with no short-term wins. The smart play for most local businesses is to run targeted Facebook ads for quick lead flow while building up Google rankings in the background for long-term, free traffic. Our Monthly Growth Retainer bundles both into one plan.

Facebook and Instagram ads are interruption-based. You show your business to people based on their location, interests, age, and behaviour, even when they weren't actively searching. That makes them powerful for visual services like landscaping, renovations, grooming, or product launches, and for building brand awareness on the Northern Beaches. Google ads are intent-based. You show up when someone is actively typing things like electrician Manly or emergency plumber Dee Why into Google. That makes them great for urgent, high-intent services. For most of our local clients, Facebook and Instagram ads are the better starting point because they're cheaper per lead, more flexible with creative, and easier to scale without blowing through budget. We focus on Meta ads rather than Google ads because that's where we see the best return for small local businesses.

Most small business websites take between one and three weeks from kickoff to launch, depending on how much content you already have and how many pages you need. A simple one-page site for a tradie or service business can be live within 5 to 7 business days once we have your logo, photos, and a rough idea of what you want to say. Larger multi-page sites with service pages, a blog, and a booking system usually take two to three weeks. We write the copy for you if you don't have time, set up mobile-friendly design, connect your domain and email, install SEO foundations and tracking, and handle hosting on Cloudflare Pages so your site stays fast and secure. No monthly hosting fees, no lock-in, you own everything.

Yes. Every Golden Marketing retainer is month-to-month with no lock-in contract. You can cancel anytime by giving 30 days' notice, which gives us a chance to wrap up current campaigns, hand over your accounts cleanly, and make sure nothing gets left hanging. We don't chase cancellation fees, we don't hold your Google Business Profile or ad accounts hostage, and we don't bury exit clauses in the fine print. If we're doing a good job, you'll stay. If we're not, you shouldn't have to pay to leave. It's that simple.