PPC & paid media for small businesses · Melbourne, Victoria

PPC / Paid Media Management for small businesses in Melbourne.

Melbourne rewards advertisers who respect its texture: a café-dense inner city that buys on taste and reviews, sprawling growth corridors in the west and southeast with completely different price bands, and four seasons in a day driving demand swings the rest of Australia doesn't see. Generic 'Melbourne' targeting flattens all of it.

  • · No contracts — cancel anytime
  • · You own every account
  • · Public pricing, no quote wall
7–11x
Blended ROAS range
$38M+
Ad spend managed
70–92%
CPA reduction
24h
Audit turnaround

What makes Melbourne different.

Inner-city vs growth-corridor split

Fitzroy and Tarneit are different economies. Inner-Melbourne buyers pay for quality and convenience; corridor families comparison-shop. Campaigns need that split baked into structure and copy.

Weather-whipsawed demand

Heating, cooling, roofing and hospitality demand in Melbourne swings with genuinely unpredictable weather. Static budgets miss surge days; reactive rules capture them.

Brand-loyal, review-driven buyers

Melburnians check reviews harder than any Australian market and reward brands that feel local. Copy without suburb names and social proof pays a relevance penalty in both CTR and CPC.

What's included.

Account structure & campaign rebuilds

Tight keyword themes, single-keyword ad groups, and asset-group structures that lift Quality Score and lower CPCs from day one.

Local geo-targeting & bid adjustments

Radius and neighborhood-level targeting so budget concentrates where your actual customers are, not the whole metro at one bid.

Landing-page CRO

Dedicated landing pages per ad group, fast LCP, and clear above-the-fold CTAs so clicks convert instead of bouncing.

Tracking & attribution setup

Conversion tag, enhanced conversions and CRM integration so you see revenue, not just form fills.

Ongoing management & scale

Weekly bid calibration, negative-keyword hygiene, creative refresh, and budget reallocation to what actually pays.

How we work

The first 30 days, step by step.

01

Week 1 — tracking before touching

We verify conversion tracking end-to-end before changing a single bid. Every optimization decision downstream depends on this data being right.

02

Weeks 2–3 — restructure on clean data

Campaign structure rebuilt: brand isolated from prospecting, tight keyword themes, negative-keyword hygiene, and creative queued for testing.

03

Week 4 — a revenue-anchored plan

Your first monthly report states actual CPA against break-even and commits to specific next-month changes with expected impact.

04

Day 30+ — compound and scale

Weekly bid calibration, monthly creative refresh, budget reallocated to what pays. Live dashboards you can open any time — no curated screenshots.

Transparent pricing

PPC & Paid Media pricing for Melbourne — public, like everything else.

Starter

One channel, dialed in

A$2,280 /mo

Min ad spend $1,000/mo — paid directly to platforms

  • Meta or Google Ads (pick one)
  • Up to 5 active campaigns
  • 4 static creatives + 3 copy variants/mo
  • GA4 + conversion tracking setup
  • Weekly bid management + 1 A/B test/wk
  • Monthly report + live dashboard
Start with Starter
Most popular

Growth

Full-funnel, both engines

A$5,320 /mo

Min ad spend $5,000/mo — paid directly to platforms

  • Everything in Starter, plus:
  • Meta + Google managed in lockstep
  • Full-funnel: prospecting → retargeting
  • 10 statics + 2 videos + 5 copy variants/mo
  • Server-side tracking + enhanced conversions
  • 1 landing-page CRO sprint/mo
  • Bi-weekly strategy calls
Start with Growth

Scale

Multi-account, MMM-lite

A$12,920 /mo

Min ad spend $20,000/mo — paid directly to platforms

  • Everything in Growth, plus:
  • Multi-account / multi-region orchestration
  • 1P + CAPI-fed custom audiences
  • Offline conversion imports
  • MMM-lite + quarterly incrementality tests
  • Dedicated strategist + analyst, monthly QBR
Start with Scale

AUD pricing converted from our public USD price book — GST included, no quote wall. Ad spend is paid directly to Google/Meta. Cancel anytime.

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Proof

Rowan & Fox PropertyMelbourne, VIC

Rebuilt the local search and paid system for a Melbourne boutique real estate group across 14 inner-suburb markets.

+184% · Vendor lead volumeAUD $610 · Cost per listing14 · Suburb landing pages

Areas we serve in Melbourne

  • Melbourne CBD
  • Fitzroy & Collingwood
  • Richmond
  • St Kilda
  • South Yarra & Prahran
  • Carlton
  • Brunswick
  • Footscray
  • Docklands
  • Box Hill
  • Dandenong
  • Werribee & Tarneit

Industries we work with

  • Cafés & hospitality
  • Trades & home services
  • Medical & allied health
  • Real estate & property
  • Fitness & wellness
  • Retail & DTC brands
  • Professional services
  • Education & training

Frequently asked

How much does PPC management cost in Melbourne?

AUD pricing from our public book: Starter A$2,280/mo, Growth A$5,320/mo (most popular), Scale A$12,920/mo — GST included, ad spend separate and paid directly to platforms.

How do you structure campaigns across Melbourne?

By region and buyer economics: inner north, inner south/bayside, the eastern suburbs and the western/southeastern growth corridors each get their own campaigns, bids and suburb-named copy. The corridors alone are some of Australia's fastest-growing demand pools — and the cheapest clicks in the metro.

Can you capture weather-driven demand spikes?

Yes — budget and bid rules tied to demand signals, so heating queries in a cold snap or roof-repair queries after a storm get headroom the moment they surge instead of after the monthly review.

We're a hospitality business. Does paid work for venues?

Melbourne is arguably Australia's best paid-media market for hospitality: bookings-focused search, Instagram-native creative, and geo-targeted campaigns around your actual catchment. We tie it to bookings and covers, not clicks — if the tables don't fill, the campaign isn't working.

Am I locked into a contract?

No. Month-to-month, cancel anytime, and you own every account from day one.

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