For advertisers
Built for people who quote jobs, not for media buyers
If you run a trade or local service and you want your phone to ring, this is for you. No keywords, no auctions dashboard, no agency. You say what a lead is worth, we send you people asking for quotes.
A plumber in Adelaide's north
Sets a bid of $25 per lead and tops up $250. That budget buys up to 10 enquiries: real people in his suburbs who filled in a quote form for plumbing work. If he lands 3 of the 10 jobs, he paid about $83 in advertising per job won. He knows before he starts whether that maths works for his business.
If nobody enquires, nothing is spent. The balance sits there until the leads come.
Campaign: Plumbing, Salisbury + Elizabeth
Leads hit your phone. Your ad looks like it belongs.
The moment someone submits an enquiry that matches your campaign, their details are texted to you. No logging into a dashboard to check for leads, no daily email digest arriving after the job is gone. The tradie who calls back first usually wins; we are built around that.
NearMe Ads: new lead
Kylie · 0400 000 000
Elizabeth SA (blocked drain)
Call back fast to win the job.
Illustration of the lead SMS format.
Your dashboard includes a designer that builds the card shown across the network. Set your headline, pitch, badge and colours and see a live preview. No creative? No problem: your business name, phone and service details make a clean default card automatically.
Sponsored
Same day skips, Salisbury
LocalAll sizes, best local rates. Driveway friendly trucks.
Example provider card as rendered on network sites.
An honest comparison with Google Ads
Google Ads works, and its reach is enormous. The question is what you pay for. Here is the difference, stated plainly.
| Google Ads | NearMeAds | |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | A click. They may bounce in five seconds. | A lead: name + phone of someone asking for a quote. |
| When you pay | Every click, whether or not they contact you. | Only when an enquiry actually comes through. |
| Typical cost | Click prices are set by auction and can run away on competitive trade keywords. | You set your own price per lead. Minimum $5. |
| Junk protection | Refunds for invalid clicks are largely automated and out of your hands. | Email us about any junk lead and we credit it back. |
| Setup | Keywords, match types, negative lists, ongoing tuning (or an agency retainer). | Trade + suburbs + price per lead. Two minutes. |
| Budget control | Daily budgets can still overdeliver on a given day. | Prepaid balance plus daily and monthly caps. It cannot spend money you have not loaded. |
| Reach | Far bigger. Google covers the whole internet. | Smaller and narrower: our own network of local-service quote sites. High intent, lower volume. |
| Lock-in | None. | None. Pause anytime, balance stays. |
Plenty of businesses run both: Google for volume, NearMe Ads for leads at a known price. We are not asking you to cancel anything.
Getting started
Sign up
Business name, trade, suburbs, your price per lead. Your campaign is created paused.
Top up
Load $100, $250 or $500 by card. This balance is the most you can ever spend.
Activate
Switch the campaign on from your dashboard. You start appearing across the network for your suburbs.
Answer your phone
Leads SMS you the moment they arrive. Fast callbacks win jobs.