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Practice

Paid Promotion

Buying attention where it counts — search, social and local. The fastest lever you have, and the one that punishes guesswork hardest.

Booking — Q4 2026

↘ Sounds like you

  • You’re spending on ads but couldn’t tell me what they’ve returned.

  • You boosted a few posts, got some likes, and not one enquiry.

  • You know you should be on Google, but not what it costs or what’s involved.

What it is

Paid promotion is buying attention — on Google when someone is already searching for what you sell, and on social platforms where you can put your business in front of people who match your customers. You pay for the placement. The skill is in choosing where, targeting who, and knowing what a customer is actually worth to you before you spend a dollar.

Why it matters

It is the fastest lever you have. Strategy decides who you are talking to and what you say; paid promotion is how you reach them this month instead of next year. It only stays efficient when measurement is in place underneath it — without tracking, you are guessing which half of the budget works, and the guess is usually wrong.

What good enables

A predictable flow of enquiries you can turn up or down. A real cost per enquiry, so you can decide whether more customers are worth buying. And spend that compounds into knowing your market, rather than disappearing every month with nothing learned.

What Australian businesses are actually spending

$18.4b

spent on internet advertising in Australia in 2025 — up 11.5% in a single year

$8.0b

of that went to paid search alone, the largest single category

29%

of Australian online ad spend is now video

IAB Australia / PwC, Internet Advertising Revenue Report, 2025

↘ What's included

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Google Ads & paid search

Showing up at the moment someone is actively searching for what you sell.

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Paid social

Reaching the right people on Meta and Instagram before they think to search.

03

Local search & Google Business

Being found in the map pack when someone nearby searches for your service.

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Landing pages & conversion

Making sure the traffic you pay for actually turns into enquiries.

How it works

A typical engagement

First fortnight

Setup & baseline

Account structure, conversion tracking and an honest baseline of what's happening now — so when something changes, we know it was us.

Ongoing

Running the campaigns

Budgets, bids, audiences and creative reviewed and adjusted continuously. Paid media is not set-and-forget — most wasted spend comes from campaigns nobody is watching.

Monthly

Report & decide

A plain-English report: what went out, what came back, what we're changing next month. No dashboards you have to interpret yourself.

Quarterly

Step back

Is the channel mix still right, is the spend still justified, and should the budget move somewhere else entirely.

Quarterly

Step back

Is the channel mix still right, is the spend still justified, and should the budget move somewhere else entirely.

Get in touch

Available — Q4 2026 onwards

Let's talk about what's next.

We answer within a working day. Most engagements start within a month.

Get in touch

Available — Q4 2026 onwards

Let's talk about what's next.

We answer within a working day. Most engagements start within a month.

Get in touch

Available — Q4 2026 onwards

Let's talk about what's next.

We answer within a working day. Most engagements start within a month.

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PORT STEPHENS, NSW

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1AM Consulting

PORT STEPHENS, NSW

1AM

© 1AM Consulting. 2026. All rights reserved.

Designed in Port Stephens. Built in Framer.

1AM Consulting

PORT STEPHENS, NSW

1AM

© 1AM Consulting. 2026. All rights reserved.

Designed in Port Stephens. Built in Framer.