5.0 on Google, 66 reviews
Lucid Leads is a Google Ads agency for New Zealand service businesses. Whether you call it Google Ads, AdWords or paid search, the job is the same: put your business in front of people already looking for what you do, then make sure the enquiries are worth answering. Campaigns run in your own account, every lead is phone-qualified within 10 minutes, and if we do not deliver 30 qualified leads in your first 30 days you get your money back.
Your company
Your first 30 days
30+
Leads
10 min
Lead response
Flat fee
Not % of spend
Qualified leads guaranteed
Lead response time
Flat fee, from
NZ cities covered
Google renamed AdWords to Google Ads back in 2018, but the old name never really left. Plenty of New Zealand business owners still search for an AdWords agency, AdWords management or an AdWords specialist, and they are describing exactly this service.
It matters only because it tells us something about you. Businesses who say AdWords have usually run campaigns before, often years ago, and frequently had a bad experience with an agency that reported on clicks rather than customers.
If you have run campaigns before and they did not work, the useful first step is finding out why rather than rebuilding on the same assumptions. We will tell you what the account is actually doing before anyone talks about money.
Not every campaign type belongs in every account. Most New Zealand service businesses need two or three of these, run properly, rather than all six run thinly.
The core of most accounts. We capture people typing your service and your city into Google at the moment they are ready to call someone.
Google’s automated campaign type across Search, Maps, YouTube and Display. Powerful when it is fed the right conversion signal, expensive when it is not.
The booking panel above the normal results for trades and home services. Different system, different rules, and worth running alongside Search.
Cheaper reach for building demand before people search. Useful once your Search campaigns are already capturing the demand that exists.
Bringing back the people who visited, read your page and did not enquire. Small budgets, usually the cheapest conversions in the account.
Most accounts we review optimise for the wrong event. We track booked jobs and qualified enquiries, not raw form fills, so bidding chases revenue.
Most of the accounts we take over are not broken in an exotic way. They are optimising for the wrong event, spread across too many campaigns for the budget, and reported on in metrics that do not connect to revenue.
From $499 a month. Our fee does not rise because we told you to spend more, which removes the obvious conflict of interest.
Every enquiry is phone-qualified within 10 minutes, so the number we report is the number of people actually worth calling back.
Campaigns run in your own Google Ads account. The history, conversion data and audiences stay with you if you ever leave.
30 qualified leads in your first 30 days or your money back, written into the contract rather than implied in a pitch.
Before any proposal, we go through the account and tell you what we find. No obligation, and you keep the findings either way.
Many agencies promise the moon but fail to deliver. They over-promise and under-deliver, leaving you frustrated and skeptical.
Tired of the ups and downs in your lead flow, making it hard to predict growth?
Spending more on ads but not seeing proportional increase in customers?
Feeling left in the dark by agencies that don't provide clear results?
Getting traffic but struggling to convert leads into paying customers?
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Backed by a legal contract. If we don't deliver 30 leads, you get your money back.
Real New Zealand campaigns, with the numbers they produced.
550+
Total Leads
127
WOF Leads (PMax)
7
Total Leads
$5.93
Cost Per Lead
309
First-Home-Buyer Leads
$4.41
Cost Per Lead
Real reviews from New Zealand businesses we run campaigns for.
5.0 from 66 reviews
“Our cost per acquisition dropped by 66% and lead quality increased 200-300%. Almost immediate, and consistent for months.”
I had a call with Jason and was so impressed by how in-depth it was. He really listened, understood where I'm at, and gave me a clear action plan that I can actually use. It made me feel confident moving forward with my ads.
I had Lucid do some SEO work for us and I'm super impressed with the results. Jason also took the time to educate me deeply on the topic so I didn't feel like everything was smoke and mirrors like I have had with previous agencies.
Working with Jason has been an absolute game changer for my social media presence. His strategies have helped increase engagement, improve reach, and bring a more polished edge to my platforms.
“He was really acting in our best interests and went beyond what we were expecting him to achieve.”
Expert in SEO which is critical. Our company now ranks at the top of Google searches, alongside our international suppliers but ahead of other agents around the world.
Jason gets the results he says he will. His approach to paid ads is methodical and data-driven. He doesn't just run campaigns and hope for the best. He analyses everything, optimises constantly, and delivers real leads that convert.
Blown away by their quick responses, smooth service and their initiative to stay 10 steps ahead at all times. Results are immediate and the cost is undeniably justified.
“His knowledge and work ethic is always top notch. I have every confidence that Jason will always deliver.”
The questions that come up most often on a first call. If yours is not here, ask it on the call.
Yes. Google renamed AdWords to Google Ads in 2018, but the platform is the same one and plenty of New Zealand business owners still call it AdWords. If you are searching for an AdWords agency, an AdWords management company or a Google Ads agency, you are looking for the same service and this is the page for it.
Our management fee is a flat rate from $499 a month, never a percentage of your ad spend, so the fee does not climb just because your budget does. Ad spend is separate and billed direct to your own Google Ads account, and $1,500-3,000 a month is typical for a local service business. All in, most clients invest between $1,999 and $8,699 a month depending on how many qualified leads they need.
For most local service businesses, $1,500-3,000 a month in ad spend is enough to gather the conversion data the system needs to optimise. Below roughly $1,000 a month the campaign struggles to accumulate enough conversions to leave the learning phase, which makes results erratic regardless of how well the account is built.
Search campaigns typically produce enquiries in the first fortnight, because you are capturing demand that already exists rather than creating it. From there we hold the account to a clear target: 30 qualified leads within your first 30 days, or you get your money back.
Yes, always. Campaigns run inside your own Google Ads account under your own brand, and the account, its history, your conversion data and your remarketing audiences stay yours. If you ever leave, you keep everything, including the account structure we built.
Google Ads captures people already searching for your service, which suits trades, professional services and anything urgent. Facebook and Instagram build demand among people who fit your customer profile but are not searching yet. Most New Zealand service businesses do best running Search first, then adding Meta once the demand capture is working.
Yes. We run campaigns from Auckland and Wellington through to Invercargill, Queenstown and Whangarei. Targeting is set at suburb and region level so your budget only reaches the areas you actually service, and regional markets are often cheaper per lead than the metros because there is less competition in the auction.
A Google Ads agency manages the campaign and reports on clicks, impressions and cost per click. What happens after the click is usually your problem. We build the landing page, run the campaign and phone-qualify every enquiry within 10 minutes, so we are measured on qualified leads rather than traffic. That is why we can guarantee the outcome rather than the activity.
Google Ads is one part of the system. These are the pieces that sit around it.
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