Pricing and terms, in plain English
One price, what you sign, and what’s yours if you leave.
Before any of this, the Five-Call Start: we pay for the ads until five real calls for one job reach your phone, up to $600 or 30 days. You pay nothing for it. This page is what it costs if you carry on.
After your five calls, it starts at
$1,500per month, USD, all in
Our fee stays $750 whatever you put into ads. Raise or lower your ad budget any month with a week’s notice, down to $750 when you’re booked solid.
- No setup fee
- No contract: month to month, 30 days’ notice
- If you leave, everything we built for you goes with you
What a new customer costs
Our estimate is about $350 of ads for each new booked customer: roughly $60 a real call, and about one call in six turning into a job when the phone gets answered.
| Ad budget | All in | New customers a month, estimate |
|---|---|---|
| $750 | $1,500 | about 2 |
| $1,250 | $2,000 | about 3 to 4 |
| $1,750 | $2,500 | about 5 |
It’s an estimate, not a promise. We have no marine shops yet, and the “one in six” hasn’t been tested on boat work. It could land anywhere from about $170 to $650 a customer. You’ll see the real numbers in your own Google and Meta ad accounts and on the Monday list.
Why the fee is $750
An agency charges what it does because you’re paying for its people: a PPC specialist, an SEO person, a designer, an account manager. Here AI agents built on Nick’s playbook do that work, and Nick sets the strategy and approves the spend. That keeps our fee flat and puts the rest of your money into ads. It’s a lower management cost, not a promise of cheaper calls.
Boatyards pay the same price. How it works for a yard.
Billing
How billing works.
- Monthly in advance, in US dollars.
- Who invoices you: Dieselmatic Digital Inc., a British Columbia company. Marinematic Marketing is a division of it. Nick works from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. More on who we are.
- One bill, two kinds of line. The invoice shows our $750 fee and each ad platform’s charges on separate lines, so you can see where every dollar went.
- Who pays Google and Meta. We do, with our card, inside ad accounts that are in your shop’s name. Every ad dollar shows in your own login there.
- What Google shows while our card pays. Google may name our company as the payer on your ads (“Ads funded by …” in its ad details), and Google’s own screens list our manager account as an “owner” of your ad account. Your shop is still the verified advertiser, and your own Admin login lets you remove us whenever you like. We’d rather you hear it from us.
- On Meta, the ad account sits in your own business portfolio. We have partner access, our card and a spending limit on it.
- Changing your ad budget: any month, with a week’s notice. Our fee doesn’t change.
Not decided yetWhether you pay us by bank transfer, card or both. Meanwhile, Nick tells you before you sign anything.
Not final yetWhat happens if a payment fails. The draft agreement says ads pause until it’s paid, with no late fee. Our lawyer hasn’t signed off on it.
Not final yetUnspent ad money while you stay. The draft agreement carries it into the next month. If you leave, unspent prepaid ad money is refunded; that part is decided.
Not decided yetWhat vendor paperwork we send a US bookkeeper paying a Canadian company. Meanwhile, if your bookkeeper needs a form, tell Nick before you start and he’ll sort it before the first invoice.
Leaving
If you leave.
No contract. Tell Nick in writing 30 days ahead. Then this is what happens.
- Your logins already work. You’ve been Admin on your Google ad account since day one. Your Meta ad account was always in your own business portfolio.
- We hand over everything we built for you, within 10 business days: the ad accounts, your landing pages and website files, your tracking numbers (ported to you), your call recordings and your call log. We send your Google customer ID in writing.
- Unspent prepaid ad money is refunded.
- We take our card and our access off. Your Google ads then pause until your own billing is on the account, because Google stops serving an account with no billing. If you want them to keep running, have your card ready and tell us, and we’ll time the switch.
- Nothing else changes. Your regular phone line and your own website were never touched.
Not decided yetWhether porting a tracking number carries a phone-carrier fee, and who pays it. Meanwhile, Nick tells you the cost, if any, before you start.
Stopping after the Five-Call Start is simpler: you keep the Google ad account, every recording and the call log, and owe nothing.
Paperwork
The agreement, and what we don’t do.
The agreement isn’t posted yet: our lawyer is still drafting it. It will say what this page says, and you’ll see all of it before you sign anything.
Not decided yetWhich law the agreement is under. You’ll see it in the agreement before you sign.
We won’t promise you a number of jobs. Nobody honest can. What we commit to is what you can check: every call recorded, and a Monday list you can hold up against your own phone.
A one-page summary to print for a partner, bookkeeper or service manager.
What we don’t do
Full website rebuilds, SEO content programs, photo and video shoots, and print.
Questions about any of this
Call or text Nick: (604) 378-2571. Call or text any time. If Nick misses you, he calls back within one business day.