For established Melbourne trades and service businesses
You don’t have a lead problem. You have a qualified customer problem. Enquiries that price-shop, go cold, or were sold to three of your competitors before they ever reached you. We build the acquisition system that brings you the work you actually want — under your brand, in your area, exclusively yours.
15 minutes. No commitment. No slide deck. If we can’t help, we’ll tell you straight.
We’ll only ever use this to get in touch about your enquiry.
Sound familiar?
These are the exact words we hear from owners of established local service businesses before they find a better way. If any of these land, you’re in the right place.
Plenty of enquiries. Barely any that turn into work. And the ones that do were already shopping three of your competitors.
Half your enquiries aren’t serious. They want the cheapest option, not the best.
The phone rings, but it’s people outside your area asking about work you don’t do — while your highest-value jobs sit underbooked.
By the time you follow up, they’ve already booked someone else.
Reports full of impressions, reach and click-through rate. You just want to know how many jobs this brought in and what each one cost.
Busy one month, dead the next. That isn’t just a revenue problem — it’s a planning problem, a staffing problem, and a personal financial pressure problem.
You pay a management fee every month, but the account sits in their name. Ask which search terms are triggering your ads and the answers get vague.
Grand promises, a 12-month contract, a strong start and then silence. Cookie-cutter work, thousands spent, nothing to show for it.
The old way vs the system
They’re built to make themselves money — and the two are not the same thing.
A lead platform’s business model requires selling your enquiry to your competitors. That isn’t a flaw, that’s the product. And a generalist agency running campaigns for a gym, a café, an e-commerce brand and your business in the same week is optimising for whatever is easiest to put in a report — not for the number that pays your staff.
Neither of them is accountable to the only thing that actually matters to you: what a new customer costs you, and what they’re worth.
| What actually differs | Shared lead platforms | Generalist agencies | Elevex |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead exclusivity | Sold to 3–5 competitors | Depends on the agency | 100% exclusive to you |
| Lead qualification | Raw form fills — no filtering | Usually none | Pre-qualified before they reach you |
| Follow-up and nurture | Not included | Rarely included | Done-for-you, built in |
| What gets reported | Lead volume only | Clicks, impressions, CTR | Cost per booked job and revenue |
| Contract terms | Hard to exit | 3–12 month lock-in | Month to month |
| Built around your brand | Generic platform | Sometimes | Your brand only |
| Who owns the ad account | Not yours to own | Usually theirs | Yours, outright |
| The relationship | Transactional | You manage them | I bring opportunities to you |
A $150 cost per lead is exceptional when the average job is worth $12,000, and catastrophic when it’s worth $400. That’s why the number I report is cost per booked job — not cost per click.
What we actually build
Four parts. Each one exists because a specific thing was leaking money at the stage before it.
Built around your actual service area, your highest-value work, and the customer you want more of. Not a template handed to every client in the portfolio.
Pages and messaging that establish why you, at your price, before they ever fill in a form. Price shoppers filter themselves out. The ones who come through are already sold.
Instant response and automated follow-up, so an enquiry at 7pm on a Friday is still warm on Monday. You stop losing work to whoever called back first.
Enquiries, booked jobs, cost per customer, revenue. If a number doesn’t help you make a decision about your business, it doesn’t go in the report.
Who this is for
We don’t take on struggling businesses and promise to rescue them. We work with operators who are already doing excellent work and want the system to match.
Straight up
Before starting Elevex, I spent years working in corporate — specifically in recruitment and employment services. The job was fundamentally about connecting the right people with the right opportunities, understanding what both sides of that equation needed, and building systems that made those connections happen reliably rather than by chance.
I started this because I watched friends running trade and home improvement businesses go through the same cycle. Busy season arrived and things were fine. Then it slowed down. Not because the quality of the work had changed, and not because the reputation had changed — because there was no system behind the scenes making sure new customers kept arriving.
You speak to me directly. Every strategy conversation, every reporting review, every question you have comes to me — from the first call through to the ongoing relationship. No juniors learning on your dime, and no account managers relaying messages between you and the person actually doing the work.
You own the ad account. Full stop. I just manage it, and it sits under your login. If you ever leave, you take your account history, your data and your conversion tracking with you. No leverage, no lock-in.
P.S. If you’ve been burned by an agency before, you’re not being difficult by wanting clarity, accountability and proof before you trust someone with your marketing budget. That’s just what a good working relationship should look like.
The next step
We’ll look at where your enquiries come from now, what a customer is actually worth to you, and how much capacity you’re sitting on. Then we’ll tell you honestly whether we can move the needle — and if we can’t, we’ll point you at who can.
Free · 15 minutes · No obligation · No pitch deck