SYDNEY BASED · AUSTRALIA-WIDE

Turn more online attention intoreal enquiries.

Websites, SEO and AI search visibility, advertising, social content and enquiry follow-up for established Australian small businesses. Work directly with Frank from the first review to launch and beyond.

30+ years of practical business experience
Four businesses built and sold
Live work you can inspect today

Free Discovery Session See real client work

Frank Stratford, founder of Elevate Engine Digital Solutions

Frank Stratford Founder — the person you'll actually deal with

Get found

Clear service pages, local SEO and structured information help search engines and AI assistants understand when to show your business.

Get chosen

Stronger positioning, real proof and useful answers give buyers fewer reasons to hesitate or keep comparing.

Get contacted

Fast mobile pages and obvious next steps turn more of the attention you already earn into calls and enquiries.

Keep the lead

Simple response and follow-up systems stop good opportunities going cold while you are busy doing the work.

Most agencies sell you technology. I take responsibility for making it work.

Small business owners aren't short of experts explaining funnels, algorithms and schema markup. What's missing is someone who'll look at the actual problem, explain it in plain language, and own the outcome.

The usual experience

You sign with the senior person, then get handed to someone junior
Updates arrive as dashboards full of metrics nobody explains
Questions go into a ticket queue and come back in three days
Every business gets pushed through the same package
Once the build is paid for, the phone stops getting answered
Jargon substitutes for a straight answer about what's working

Working with Elevate Engine

You deal with me from the first call to well after launch
I explain what's happening in ordinary business language
You ring or text me directly, and I answer
The work fits your business, budget and capacity
I'm still here after the invoice — that's the whole point
If something isn't working, I tell you before you have to ask

THE HUMAN ACCOUNTABILITY PROMISE

You will always know who is responsible for your work, what we're doing, why we're doing it, and what happens next.

That's not a service-level agreement or a support tier. It's one person putting his name to it.

Frank StratfordFounder, Elevate Engine Digital Solutions

THE FREE DISCOVERY SESSION

Forty-five minutes. Free. Find out where enquiries are leaking—and what to fix first.

This is not a disguised sales presentation. We review your website, search visibility, social proof and enquiry follow-up together, then rank the most useful fixes by urgency, impact and likely cost.

What we do on the call

1
Look at what customers see
Your site on a phone, your Google listing, your socials — the way a customer actually finds you.
2
Find where enquiries leak
The specific points where interested people give up or go elsewhere.
3
Rank the fixes
What's cheap and urgent, what can wait, and what isn't worth doing at all.

WORTH YOUR TIME IF

You're an established Australian business, not a startup idea
The business is doing fine but the digital side hasn't kept up
You can make the decision, or you're in the room when it's made

PROBABLY NOT IF

You want a free audit document with no intention of talking
You're shopping purely on being the cheapest quote
You need something built by Friday

None of this shows up as a problem. It shows up as a quiet month.

Lost enquiries don't announce themselves. Nobody rings to tell you they picked someone else.

The website was fine three years ago.
A customer compares you to a competitor and quietly decides they look more established.
Nobody can explain the offer in one sentence.
Visitors leave in nine seconds because they can't tell if you do what they need.
The social profiles are half-finished.
Someone checks you out before ringing, sees nothing since last year, and wonders if you're still going.
Ads bring the wrong enquiries.
You pay for every click either way, then spend your evenings quoting jobs you don't want.
Enquiries sit unanswered for a day or two.
By the time you call back, they've already booked the business that rang first.
Nobody can find you on Google.
Customers ready to buy right now never see that you exist.
Past customers were never contacted again.
The cheapest revenue you'll ever get is sitting in a spreadsheet nobody opens.

Work I've done

Start with two live service-business builds you can inspect right now. Then explore the wider website, brand, product and campaign work.

fmgardens.com

OWNER-OPERATED PROOF

FM Garden Services

Lawn and garden maintenance, North-West & Western Sydney

Frank's own operating business is the live testing ground behind the advice. The website turns years of hands-on experience, completed-job reviews and a broad service area into a clear local offer with direct enquiry paths.

Complete website rebuild and migration
Service and suburb search structure
Google Business Profile and review proof
Tracking and campaign testing

Visit the live FM Garden Services site

k-dstransport.com

CLIENT BUILD — FROM ZERO

KDS Transport

Commercial freight, St Marys & Western Sydney

KDS began without a digital presence. The project took the business from domain and business email through to a complete website, a clear commercial-freight position, service-area pages and a direct quote journey.

Website strategy, copy, design and build
Domain, DNS and business email
Service areas and quote capture
Structured data and search foundations

Visit the live KDS Transport site

WEBSITE & BRAND

Handy Hub

Property maintenance & installations, Hills District NSW

Brand identity, logo and a full website for a trades business starting from nothing. Positioned around one clear promise — your home project partner — rather than a list of services.

Logo and brand identity
Website design and build
Service positioning and copy
Enquiry capture

handihub.pro

Lami Kaayo savoury product range — bagnet bagoong, chicken pastil and chili garlic jars

PRODUCT & SOCIAL

Lami Kaayo Foods

Filipino food products

Product presentation and social content for a food brand across two ranges — savoury jars and sweet spreads. Packaging visuals, campaign imagery and Facebook page content.

Product photography direction
Packaging and label visuals
Facebook page content
Range launch creative

Lami Kaayo sweet spread range — dark chocolate, cookies and cream, yema caramel, choco fudge and ube pastillas

RANGE LAUNCH

Lami Kaayo Sweet Spreads

Five-flavour product line

A second range built to sit beside the savoury line while reading as its own family. Each flavour gets its own colour world, with the brand mark holding it together.

Five-variant label system
Range photography direction
Launch content

Lumière Eau de Parfum product range with packaging

BRAND & CONTENT

Lumière Fragrances

Eau de parfum

Premium product and packaging presentation for a fragrance label — the numbered range, the black and white boxes, and the styled product imagery behind the social feed.

Product and packaging visuals
Styled photography direction
Premium brand presentation

Lumière social media creative featuring a product hero shot

SOCIAL & VIDEO

Lumière — social campaign

Facebook & Instagram content

Ongoing feed content and short-form video for Facebook and Instagram, built to a repeatable format so the brand can post consistently without a photoshoot every week.

Feed content system
Short-form video
Creator-style campaign creative
Facebook and Instagram management

What I actually do

The capabilities matter. They're just not the reason to choose me.

Websites & digital presence

Rebuilt around how customers decide, not how the old site happened to be structured.

Websites
Landing pages
Local SEO
Google Business Profile
Analytics

Social media & content

A plan you can actually maintain, not posting for the sake of posting.

Strategy
Profile overhaul
Content planning
Campaigns
Messaging

Advertising & lead generation

Campaigns built around a real offer, with tracking that shows what each enquiry costs.

Google Ads
Meta ads
Landing pages
Offer design
Conversion tracking

Follow-up, AI & automation

Most businesses lose more revenue after the enquiry than before it.

Enquiry handling
Reactivation
CRM setup
Automation
Practical AI tools

Need better search visibility? See how Elevate Engine approaches SEO and AI search optimisation: technically sound pages, clear business entities, useful answers and proof—not shortcuts or made-up guarantees.

Frank Stratford, Founder

I'm not a tech guy who learned business. I'm a business owner who learned digital.

That difference decides how the conversation goes.

I've spent more than thirty years in business — sales, marketing, service operations, training — and I've built and sold four businesses of my own. I've met payroll on a bad month and chased invoices that should have been paid weeks earlier.

So when an enquiry goes cold, I'm not thinking about conversion rates in the abstract. I'm thinking about the job that didn't get booked and what that costs you at the end of the month.

I won't win a coding contest against a large agency's development team, and I won't pretend otherwise. What I'll do is understand your business properly, explain the digital side in language that makes sense, and take responsibility for getting it sorted. Where a project needs a specialist, I bring one in and manage them — you still deal with me.

30+ years across business, sales, marketing and service operations
Four businesses built and sold
Still running a service business today, so the advice stays grounded
Diploma of Social Media Marketing
Sydney based — face-to-face where it helps, Australia-wide otherwise
Specialists brought in and managed where a project calls for it

Start with a conversation, not a proposal.

Tell me what isn't working. I'll help you work out what actually needs fixing — and I'll say so if it isn't me.

Free Discovery Session Call 0434 134 410