I've been burned by an agency before.

Most owners we talk to have been. Here's the difference. We agree in writing what counts as a booked job before any work starts. We report it out of your job software, not ours. And the assets and the system are yours, however long you stay.

I don't have time to manage this.

You don't manage us. We manage the system. We'll need real time from you at the start to learn the business. After that it runs, and you check one number a month.

What are you spending right now on hipages, a freelancer or boosted posts? For most owners, this replaces money already going out the door. It's not a new cost on top. If it would be, we'll say so on the call.

How fast will I see something?

We don't promise a timeframe, and we'd be careful with anyone who does. What you'll see early: the number, defined and signed before we start. Then the first monthly report.

Can you guarantee results?

No. Be careful with anyone who does. What we will commit to: a success number agreed before we start, and honest reporting against it every month. If we miss our own commitments, half that month's fee comes off your next invoice.

Trades Marketing That Reports Cost Per Booked Job

Q: Who have you done this for?

Straight answer: there's no trades case study to show you yet. We won't borrow someone else's numbers to sell you yours. On the call, you'll see the definition sheet and how it's checked against your system. And you'll meet the 2 people who'd run it.

The number is agreed before we start.
We write down what counts as a booked job in your business. With you. Before any money is spent.
Straight out of your ServiceM8 or Simpro.
The number comes from your job software. Not from our ad account.
We work on your offer and pricing too.
What you sell and what you charge. Before we touch your ads.
What's included is capped, in writing.
You see the limits before you sign. “Unlimited” is how agencies quietly stop caring.

The problem

You're not short on activity. You're short on a number.

Slammed one month, dead the next.
Four crews booked in March, two of them idle in April. Same business, same effort, and no way to plan around either one.
Your ad platform reports leads. Your invoicing reports money.
Nobody joins the two up. So every spend decision gets made on the half of the picture that doesn't pay wages.
Quotes go out late, priced on gut.
The job you lost last week probably wasn't lost on marketing. It was lost somewhere between the site visit and the quote.

Google and Meta tell youClicks, leads, cost per lead.

Nobody joins these up

ServiceM8 or Simpro tells youJobs booked, invoices, money in.

Diagnosis

It's not the ads. It's the offer.

You've run ads before. Maybe they even brought enquiries in. They didn't turn into booked jobs at a price worth having — and that isn't a targeting problem.

It's what you sell, what you charge for it, and what happens between the quote and the yes.

That's where we start. Before we spend a dollar on ads.

The system

One system. Four steps.

01Diagnose
We look at what you sell, what you charge, and how many quotes turn into jobs. Then we agree what counts as a booked job.
You get: the definition sheet, signed before work starts.
02Build
We rewrite the offer, build pages that turn visits into calls, and connect follow-up and tracking to your job software.
You get: the pages, the offer and the tracking, live.
03Run
We run your Google and Meta ads against the number we agreed, and keep the follow-up on track.
You get: ads and follow-up running, checked every week.
04Report
Every month, we report cost per booked job and margin, straight from ServiceM8 or Simpro.
You get: one number in plain English, by the 7th business day. Easy to forward.

Once, at the start01 Diagnose, then 02 Build.

Then every month03 Run, then 04 Report, by the 7th business day.

No step promises you a date. Every step hands you something you can hold.

The number

How the number gets agreed

Your marketing spendWhat it cost to win the work

divided by

Booked jobsCounted in your ServiceM8 or Simpro

equals

Cost per booked jobReported by the 7th business day

What counts as spend, and what counts as a booked job, is agreed with you in writing before we start.

Here's the part that usually gets skipped.

Before any money is spent, we write the definition down. What counts as a booked job. Which jobs count, and which don't. Where the data comes from. Who signs the number off, each month.

Then we check it against your ServiceM8 or Simpro, every month. Your system. Not ours.

Straight answer: there's no trades case study on this page yet. We won't borrow someone else's numbers to sell you yours.

On the call, you'll see the definition sheet and how it's checked. Judge us on that.

Booked-job definitionAgreed up front

What counts: Written definition
Data source: ServiceM8 or Simpro
Sign-off: You + Mostacho

The definition sheet. Agreed before work starts, so the number can't move later.

Who's actually running it

Michael and Camila oversee every account, start to finish. Bigger job, more hands — we bring in specialists, but you'll always know who to call.

Alternatives

You're not choosing between agencies.

Most of these made sense at the time. Here's what each one does well, and the one thing it can't do.

Scope and price

What's included, what it costs, and who shouldn't buy it.

Included

Offer and pricing review: what you sell, what you charge
Website pages built to turn visits into calls
Google and Meta ads, run for you
Follow-up and quoting, tightened up
Monthly cost per booked job, from ServiceM8 or Simpro
Clear limits on what's included, in writing

Not included

Your ad spend. That goes to Google and Meta, not to us.
A guaranteed job count. We don't sell one — see the five things we commit to, below.
Tradify reconciliation. ServiceM8 and Simpro only.

$5,000/month

Our fee: $5,000 a month, to Mostacho.
Ad spend: $3,000–$3,500 a month, paid straight to Google and Meta.

All up: about $8,000–$8,500 a month.

There's also a one-off build fee for the pages, offer and tracking. It's scoped to what actually needs building, and confirmed before you sign. Ask about founding-client terms on the call.

We recommend a 90-day pilot so the system has room to work. After that, it's month-to-month.

That's market rate for this work in Australia. We'd rather be judged on the number we report.

Bring your average job value to the call. We'll do the maths against what you already spend on hipages, a freelancer or boosted posts.

This works when

Turnover is $1M–$5M

Average job value is $1,000 or more

You can spend $3k+ a month on ads

You've got room for more work, and it's your call

Not for

Under $500k or solo
Cash-job operators
Under 5 jobs a month, and happy there
Commercial-only, over $10M, tender-driven
Can't cover $3k a month in ad spend

Check the numbers work before you book →

Ownership

What you walk out holding

The assets — site, pages, creative, copy.: Yours.
The data — ad accounts, tracking, every lead record.: Yours.
The reporting — definition sheet and monthly numbers.: Yours.
The documented system — how it runs, written down.: Yours.

Everyone offers month-to-month now. That's normal. But a right to leave is worthless if you leave empty-handed. The real question: what are you holding the day it ends?

It's written into the agreement, not promised on a call.

Commitments

Five things we commit to

The number is defined and signed before any work starts.
The number comes out of your ServiceM8 or Simpro, not our ad account.
You get it by the 7th business day, every month, in plain English.
What's included is capped and written down. You see the limits before you sign.
Miss any of these and half that month's fee — $2,500 — comes off your next invoice. Capped at once every 12 months.

None of that is a results guarantee. It's the reporting and the accountability, in writing. Anyone putting a result in writing for you is guessing.

For the kitchen table

Send the numbers to whoever else has a say

Nobody signs a $5k a month decision on their own at this level, and nobody should.

So there's a kitchen-table version: a 2-minute video in plain English, and one page of the numbers. Nothing to read twice, no jargon, and you're not the one who has to explain it.

Questions

Quick answers

Next step

Book the Free Diagnostic

A 15-minute screen share. You get:

Your 3 biggest leaks, live on screen: ads, website, tracking
The findings in writing afterwards
A straight answer on fit. No pitch.

We've audited 25+ Australian small-business marketing systems, so we know where the leaks hide.

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