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Facebook & Instagram Ads

Facebook Ads for Tradies

Facebook and Instagram reach local homeowners before they start looking for a tradie. We build the campaigns, run them week to week, and tie every call and quote request back to the ad that produced it.

  • A campaign for each service you want more of
  • You choose the suburbs the ads run in
  • One campaign across Facebook and Instagram
  • Every call and form traced back to its ad
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Why the channel matters

Get in front of the job before it becomes a search.

Google catches the customer who is already looking. Meta ads help tradies target the customers who do not know they want your service yet.

  • Reach them before the search

    Most planned work is decided well before anyone searches for it. Meta reaches people at that stage.

  • Built around your services

    Each service you want more of gets its own campaign and its own creative, not one ad for the whole business.

  • Fill the quiet weeks early

    Planned work books ahead, so spend can be lifted before a quiet stretch rather than during it.

  • More reach for the same budget

    A place in the feed usually costs less than the top of a search results page, so the same budget reaches more people.

The basics

How Facebook ads work for a trade business.

We run a separate campaign behind each service you want more of, aimed at the homeowners most likely to need it, and move the budget towards whichever ones are producing.

  1. We start from who they are

    The audience is homeowners inside a tight radius of the suburbs you service, narrowed to the people whose home and interests match the jobs you want more of. Renters passing through and suburbs outside your run are excluded before the budget reaches them.

    Audience for a landscaper
    Homeowners 35+KellyvilleCastle HillBaulkham HillsRenovation intent
    ExcludedRentersOutside 15 km
  2. A campaign for each service

    We do not run one ad for the whole business. Each service you want more of gets its own campaign, its own audience and its own creative, so results can be read service by service rather than as one number.

    Campaigns for a landscaper
    Deck buildingScalingRetaining wallsSteadyTurf and lawnsTestingGarden designPaused
  3. Tuned on what works, across both platforms

    Budget moves towards the campaigns producing enquiries and away from the ones that are not. Facebook and Instagram share the same ad system, so one campaign reaches both without splitting the spend by guesswork.

    One campaign, both platforms
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Facebook advertising for tradies

How we run it.

Weekly management drives success for a campaign.

A campaign per service

Each service gets its own campaign, audience and creative, so results can be read one service at a time.

Suburb-radius targeting

Ads run inside a tight radius of the suburbs you service, aimed at homeowners rather than renters.

Landing pages built to convert

Every ad lands on a page about that exact service, not your homepage, with one clear next step.

Every lead tracked

A tracking number and form attribution tie each enquiry to the ad that produced it, so the budget follows what works.

Straight answers

Frequently asked questions.

Do Facebook ads work for tradies?

Yes, for trades where the customer plans the job. Your services are put in front of homeowners in your service area before those people ever type a search, which suits renovations, decks, landscaping and repaints far better than emergency call-outs. Every lead in your report is tied to the ad that produced it, so you can see whether the channel pays for your trade instead of taking an industry average on faith.

Should a tradie run Facebook ads or Google Ads first?

It depends on how urgent your work is. Emergency trades, the burst pipes and blackouts and locked doors, should start with Google Ads, because that customer is searching now and will not be scrolling a feed. Project trades usually run both: Google catches the people already searching while Facebook fills next month's pipeline. On the first call we will tell you which order we would run for your trade, and both channels are managed by the same team.

What do Facebook ads cost for a tradie?

There is no single figure, because Meta prices its ads by auction and the number moves with your trade, your suburbs and the season. What we can tell you is what yours actually cost: your reporting shows the spend, the enquiries and the cost per lead for the period, broken down by the campaign and audience that earned them. We then move the budget toward the ads producing work worth quoting on.

Do I need to post on social media too?

No. Ads and posting are different jobs, and we run the ads. Paid campaigns reach thousands of local homeowners whether or not your business page posts weekly, while organic posting mostly reaches people who already follow you. A tidy page with your services listed helps, because people who see an ad often click through for a look, but you will not be asked to film content or keep a posting schedule.

Do the ads run on Instagram as well as Facebook?

Yes, and one campaign covers both. Facebook and Instagram share the same ad system, so your ads appear across both feeds from a single budget, and we let performance decide the split rather than guessing it. Instagram ads for tradies pull strongest on visual work such as bathrooms, decks and landscaping, while Facebook reaches the older homeowners who hold most renovation budgets. Your report shows the leads from both under one campaign.

Next step

Next month's jobs are scrolling right now.

Tell us your trade and the suburbs you cover, and we will walk you through the campaign we would build.