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    Rex Group

    Commercial and industrial cleaning · Sydney, NSW

    Rex Group: commercial cleaning ads built around the buyer's premises

    Rex Group's Google Ads are organised around the premises a buyer manages: offices, strata, warehouses and specialist industrial sites. Each search leads to relevant service content and a quote form that asks about the site, suburb and cleaning schedule.

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    Google Ads management · Enquiry tracking and won-job reporting · Website design and landing pages
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    Rex Group · Sydney, NSW

    Services in the campaign

    The advertising covers moving and home cleaning, carpets and furnishings, commercial cleaning and exterior and hard surfaces.

    Moving and home cleaning

    • House cleaning
    • Kitchen and oven cleaning

    Carpets and furnishings

    • Carpet cleaning

    Commercial cleaning

    • Office cleaning
    • Commercial cleaning
    • Warehouse and factory cleaning
    • Retail cleaning
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    • Medical and aged-care cleaning
    • School and childcare cleaning
    • Gym and sports-facility cleaning
    • Hospitality and restaurant cleaning
    • Strata and common-area cleaning
    • Builders and post-renovation cleaning
    • Industrial and remote-site cleaning

    Exterior and hard surfaces

    • Window cleaning
    • Pressure washing

    Campaign hours

    Campaign schedule · Sydney local time

    • Monday–Friday: 7am–7pm

    The results

    Results for Rex Group.

    Each result shows its reporting period. Open a tile for the measurement basis.

    • Headline result

      Site by site

      campaigns for offices, strata and industrial cleaning

      Campaign delivery

    • 1 in 5

      Quote requests from the ads that became won jobs, at least

      The full campaign, about two months of ads

    • 100%

      Won job value that started as a written quote request on the website

      The full campaign, about two months of ads

    • 7 in 10

      Website quote requests from the ads that came from a desktop computer

      The full campaign, about two months of ads

    • 90%

      Traced enquiries that arrived on weekdays between 8 am and 5 pm

      The full campaign, about two months of ads

    • +42%

      Click rate in the second 30 days of ads, against the first 30

      Second 30 days of ads against the first 30

    How we measured

    The quote-to-won rate covers traced website forms across about two months, with duplicates and tests removed. Later enquiries have no recorded outcome and remain in the denominator. Won-value shares use agreed prices before costs and exclude repeat cleans; about half of the value came from one job.

    In one minute

    The 60-second version

    Rex Group, from the brief to the result in 4 short slides.

    1. The business

      Rex Group

      Rex Group provides commercial and industrial cleaning across Sydney, NSW, from offices and strata buildings to warehouses, factories and specialist sites.

      Rex Group home page with a free quote form asking for the site, the service and how often it needs cleaning
    2. What we delivered

      Campaigns for offices, strata and industrial cleaning

      A Google Ads campaign with ad groups by type of site: offices, strata, warehouses, retail, hospitality, health and aged care, and specialist industrial sites.

    3. The customer journey

      From the search to the right service

      Tracked calls and quote requests traced from the ad click to the enquiry, with won jobs recorded at the agreed price in the client's job records. A review of won value by type of site, device and time of day.

    4. In practice

      Commercial cleaning ads built around the buyer's premises

      Over about two months, more than one in five website quote requests traced to Google Ads became won jobs. All recorded won value in that period started with a written quote request.

    Insights

    What the data showed

    Details from the Rex Group project. Open a card for the finding and its source.

    • Value

      85%

      Industrial and warehouse searches took about a quarter of ad spend and brought 85% of won value.

      • Industrial and warehouse share of ad spend24%
      • Industrial and warehouse share of won value85%

      Ads for industrial sites such as warehouses, factories, mine sites, solar farms and ships took about a quarter of the spend and brought 85% of the value of won jobs. Office and retail searches won work too, but smaller jobs. This rests on a small number of jobs, so it shows where to test more budget rather than proving a rule.

    • Device

      7 in 10

      Desktop computers sent seven in ten website quote requests from fewer than a third of ad clicks.

      • Desktop share of ad clicks29%
      • Desktop share of website quote requests72%

      Phone users leaned towards calling, but every won job began as a written quote request, and every won job with a recorded device came from a computer. Commercial cleaning is often arranged by an office or facility manager at a desk, writing up the site and how often it needs cleaning. A quote form that asks for exactly that suits the way these buyers work.

    • Timing

      90%

      90% of traced enquiries arrived on weekdays between 8 am and 5 pm.

      • Weekdays, 8 am to 5 pm90%
      • Evenings and weekends9%

      Commercial buyers enquired in working hours, the opposite of many household services, where evenings and weekends bring much of the work. For Rex Group that makes a fast callback during the working day the priority, and it means the ads can be weighted towards business hours.

    Rex Group

    Website development · Rex Group

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    Explore the website we designed for Rex Group: the pages, the mobile experience and the path to an enquiry.

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    Rex Group home page with the commercial and industrial cleaning headline and a free quote form

    The case study

    The project, connected.

    The brief, the work and what it delivered.

    1. The starting point

      Rex Group

      Rex Group provides commercial and industrial cleaning across Sydney, NSW, from offices and strata buildings to warehouses, factories and specialist sites.

      Commercial and industrial cleaning · Sydney, NSW

      Rex Group

      SoudCoh services

      • Google Ads management
      • Enquiry tracking and won-job reporting
      • Website design and landing pages
    2. What we put in place

      The campaign work

      • A Google Ads campaign with ad groups by type of site: offices, strata, warehouses, retail, hospitality, health and aged care, and specialist industrial sites.
      • Ads sending people to the matching service or industry page, with service pages that open with the quote form set to that service.
      • Tracked calls and quote requests traced from the ad click to the enquiry, with won jobs recorded at the agreed price in the client's job records.
      • A review of won value by type of site, device and time of day.
    3. What the project delivered

      The outcome

      Over about two months, more than one in five website quote requests traced to Google Ads became won jobs. All recorded won value in that period started with a written quote request. The enquiry form gives facility managers room to describe the premises and the cleaning schedule before a site walkthrough.

    In this case study

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    Rex Group's Google Ads are organised around the premises a buyer manages: offices, strata, warehouses and specialist industrial sites. Each search leads to relevant service content and a quote form that asks about the site, suburb and cleaning schedule.

    The business

    Rex Group provides commercial and industrial cleaning across Sydney: offices, strata common areas, warehouses and factories, retail, hospitality, health and aged care, and specialist sites such as mine sites, solar farms and maritime facilities. Its cleaners are police-checked and employed directly, and new clients start with a free site walkthrough and a fixed quote.

    What we set out to do

    Commercial cleaning is bought differently from a household clean. The buyer is usually an office, strata or facility manager comparing contractors, and the price depends on the site, its size and how often it needs cleaning. The account had to reach those buyers by type of site and trace each enquiry through to won work at an agreed price.

    What we built

    The campaign has ad groups by type of site: office cleaning contracts, commercial and retail cleaning, strata and common areas, warehouses and factories, hotels and gyms, aged care, builders cleans, carpets and pressure washing, and specialist industrial sites from mine sites and solar farms to ships and airports. Most ads send people to the matching service or industry page, and the service pages open with the quote form already set to that service.

    Rex Group office cleaning page with the quote form already set to office cleaning
    The office cleaning page opens with the quote form set to office cleaning, asking for the site, its suburb and how often it needs cleaning.

    Calls from the ads arrive on tracked numbers, and quote requests from the ads carry the ad click that produced them. When Rex Group marks a job as won in its own job records, the agreed price is recorded against the enquiry, so the return is built from real won jobs. Duplicates and test entries are removed before anything is counted. The website itself is covered in the Rex Group website case study.

    What happened

    Over about two months, more than one in five website quote requests traced to Google Ads became won jobs. All recorded won value in that period started with a written quote request. The enquiry form gives facility managers room to describe the premises and the cleaning schedule before a site walkthrough.

    For a cleaning business that wants the same view of its own ads, see our Google Ads management and our approach to marketing for cleaning businesses.

    Key campaign decisions
    • Rex Group's Google Ads are organised around the premises a buyer manages: offices, strata, warehouses and specialist industrial sites. Each search leads to relevant service content and a quote form that asks about the site, suburb and cleaning schedule.
    • A Google Ads campaign with ad groups by type of site: offices, strata, warehouses, retail, hospitality, health and aged care, and specialist industrial sites.
    • Ads sending people to the matching service or industry page, with service pages that open with the quote form set to that service.
    • Over about two months, more than one in five website quote requests traced to Google Ads became won jobs. All recorded won value in that period started with a written quote request. The enquiry form gives facility managers room to describe the premises and the cleaning schedule before a site walkthrough.

    Tags

    • Google Ads
    • Commercial and industrial cleaning
    • Sydney, NSW

    That is one account. Yours is a different one.

    We read your ads, your search presence and your tracking the same way this one was read, and tell you what we would change first.

    How we run accounts

    How we manage the campaign.

    We define the outcomes to track, test the enquiry paths and use what we learn to guide campaign improvements. SoudCoh Compound explains how that work is organised.

    • Rule 01

      Count real enquiries only

      The number it moves: True cost per lead

      We agree which calls, forms, bookings or sales count as a result, and a real test enquiry goes through every tracking path before the campaign goes live.

    • Rule 08

      Build on practical campaign experience

      The number it moves: Waste blocked before the first click

      Every change on an account like this one is written to that client's change history, and what it teaches, never the client's numbers, goes into the next account's starting point.

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    What actually happens after the first call.

    Start with your goals and current setup. We review the opportunity, agree the work and plan the next stage with you.

    1. The call

      Thirty to forty-five minutes, free

      We discuss your services, customers, website and goals, then identify the most useful next step.

    2. Week 0

      The audit

      We review your website and advertising, then set out the opportunities, priorities and recommended scope.

    3. Week 1

      The build

      Everything the account needs before it can spend a dollar: what it will bid on, what it must never pay for, the ad copy, the assets, the landing pages and the tracking. It waits in our approval queue, and a real test enquiry goes through every tracking path before anything is live.

    4. Day one

      You press go

      Campaigns are created paused, every time, so you can read the whole build first. You activate when you are ready, not when we are.

    5. Days 1–14

      The clean

      We review search terms, exclude irrelevant searches and refine keywords and ads using the early campaign data.

    6. From there

      Rhythm

      Regular optimisation and reporting, with reviews of lead quality, customer value and where to focus the next stage of work.

    Before you ask us anything

    Here is what everybody asks first.

    FAQ

    The questions this raises.

    How the results were measured and how the approach could apply to cleaning businesses.

    The first call is free and there is no deck.

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    What did SoudCoh deliver for Rex Group?

    A Google Ads campaign with ad groups by type of site: offices, strata, warehouses, retail, hospitality, health and aged care, and specialist industrial sites. Ads sending people to the matching service or industry page, with service pages that open with the quote form set to that service. Tracked calls and quote requests traced from the ad click to the enquiry, with won jobs recorded at the agreed price in the client's job records. A review of won value by type of site, device and time of day.

    Why did every won job start as a quote request rather than a call?

    Many commercial buyers prefer to put the site, its size and how often it needs cleaning in writing, so they can compare quotes. The quote form asks for exactly that. In the client's records, every won job from the ads started as a written quote request on the website.

    Why did desktop computers matter so much?

    Desktop computers made fewer than a third of ad clicks but sent seven in ten website quote requests, and every won job started as a quote request. Every won job with a recorded device came from a computer, which fits buyers arranging cleaning from an office. Phone users leaned towards calling instead.

    What do the results in this Rex Group case study measure?

    Campaign results describe the enquiries or job outcomes reported for the client. Each figure identifies what it measures.

    Which records support these results?

    Result basis: Campaign delivery. The labels distinguish advertising conversions, call/form enquiries and won-job revenue. Enquiry events can include repeat calls; booked jobs are reported separately.

    Would this work for cleaning businesses like mine?

    We assess your service area, competition, margins and customer value, then build a plan around the opportunities in your business. The first call establishes the priorities, budget and tracking for that work.

    How would you plan this for my business?

    We start with your goals, service area, competition and customer value. From there, we recommend the channels, website improvements and tracking that fit your next stage of growth.

    How much would this cost to run?

    Two separate numbers. Your ad spend goes to the platform, and what it needs to be depends on how competitive your market is and how many jobs you want — we recommend a minimum of A$5,000 a month for most businesses, and the largest companies we work with currently invest up to A$30,000 a day in advertising, with enterprise programmes above that. Our management fee is separate, isn't published and is custom-built around the work — contact us for packages. The first call is free and you leave it with a real figure for your situation.

    Ready to plan your campaign?

    Thirty minutes on your numbers, and a written list of what we would change first. Yours to keep either way.

    A real conversation and a written list of opportunities.