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Arsen Markov
October 2025
Other consultants we'd spoken to liked to talk in generalities. Josiah opened the account and within minutes was pointing out specific line items that were quietly eating our budget. No fluff, no upselling, straight to the point. He gave us a list of fixes and walked us through each one. That approach is exactly what we needed.
Mark Wilson
October 2025
One thing I really appreciated was that Josiah laid out a clear roadmap from day one. There was no guessing what would happen next or when. The community he's built is also genuinely supportive, not just a place to dump links. No confusion, just steady measurable progress from the first week. That consistency has been worth a lot to me.
Federico
October 2025
As a business owner who didn't grow up in marketing, I always felt talked down to by agencies. Josiah was completely different. He explains things in plain terms and never made me feel like I needed a marketing degree to follow along. Finally, someone who speaks my language. I left every call knowing exactly what was happening and why.
Felista Njoroge
September 2025
I came in knowing almost nothing about Google Ads. Josiah didn't just run the campaigns, he explained every decision so I understood what was happening with my own money. I've learned more in a few months than I did in years trying to figure it out on my own. The 'why' behind every change makes a huge difference when it's your business on the line.
Lam
September 2025
We'd been burning money on ads for almost a year with nothing to show for it. Josiah took a completely methodical approach, starting with the data before touching a single campaign setting. We were ROI positive within 60 days. That's not something I expected to say so quickly. The approach is disciplined and it shows in the results.
Gareth Edwards
September 2025
We were getting clicks but none of them were converting. Josiah audited the account and immediately spotted three campaigns that were pulling budget from the wrong keywords. He restructured everything and explained each change clearly. Six months in, we're ranking for terms that actually bring paying clients, not just browsers who'll never call.
Anders
September 2025
We're in a fairly niche B2B space and most agencies we'd spoken to just nodded along and promised results regardless. Josiah was the first person who pushed back and said, 'that approach probably won't work for you, here's why.' That kind of honesty was genuinely refreshing. We followed his recommendation instead and the results proved him right.
Nick Bradshaw
August 2025
I'll be honest, I was completely clueless when it came to paid ads. Josiah didn't make me feel like an idiot for it. He walked me through the account step by step and showed me shortcuts that saved us real time and real money within the first month. I now understand our campaigns far better than I ever expected to.
Gal
December 2025
Josiah is incredibly detail oriented and clearly an expert marketer. He picked up on things in our account that we had completely overlooked and explained everything in a way that actually made sense. You can tell he genuinely cares about the outcome, not just going through the motions. One of the best decisions we made was getting him involved.
Tobias
December 2025
We came in with a ROAS that wasn't where it needed to be and weren't sure what was holding it back. Josiah went through the account methodically and identified the issues quickly. The changes he recommended made a real difference. Our ROAS improved noticeably and the results have been consistent since. Would highly recommend to anyone running Google Ads.
Zaim
January 2024
We'd been with a well-known agency for 18 months and felt like things were fine but not great. Josiah's audit took less than two hours and revealed issues that had been quietly costing us money the entire time. Our previous agency never mentioned any of it. I don't know if they missed it or just didn't want to rock the boat. Either way, now we know where the leaks were.
Dustin Howell
October 2025
We'd been through three agencies in two years. Every one of them promised the world and delivered dashboards full of vanity metrics. Josiah was different from the first call. No upselling, no jargon, just an honest assessment of what was broken and what it would take to fix it. Finally found someone who actually wants us to succeed.
Rachel Donovan
April 2024
We spent 8 months with another agency and had genuinely nothing to show for it. Not a single meaningful metric had improved. Within 6 weeks of working with Josiah, our cost per lead dropped from $190 to $64. My accountant called me to ask what had changed. I've since recommended Josiah to two other business owners I know.
Ben Marsden
May 2024
I'll be honest, I wasn't sure Google Ads would even work for a trade business like ours. Josiah was upfront about what he could and couldn't promise, which actually gave me more confidence, not less. He set realistic expectations and then exceeded them. We're now booking 3 to 4 weeks ahead consistently, which has never happened before in the 7 years we've been operating.
Priya Nair
July 2024
I've worked with agencies before who take weeks just to get a campaign live. Josiah had our ads running and converting before I'd even finished going through the onboarding checklist. Fast, no-nonsense, and — this is rare — he actually responds to messages within a reasonable timeframe. Small thing but it matters when you're running a business.
Craig Fullerton
March 2025
I'm giving 4 stars rather than 5 because communication slowed down noticeably around month 3 and I had to follow up a couple of times to get updates. That frustrated me. The results, though, were real. Leads came in, they converted, the numbers moved in the right direction. I'd still recommend Josiah, I just think the communication side could be more proactive.
Danielle Orth
August 2024
We'd been running our own Google Ads for two years thinking we had a handle on it. Josiah spent 20 minutes looking at the account and calmly pointed out three separate things we'd been paying for that were silently eating our budget. Two years of overspending on campaigns that weren't even reaching the right people. We've made back that wasted spend many times over since fixing it.
Sarah Okafor
September 2024
We were running ads with no proper compliance tracking in place and had no idea the risk we were carrying. Josiah flagged it in the first session, explained what needed to change, and rebuilt the campaign from scratch around a compliant setup. It was the first compliant, profitable campaign we've ever run. I'm grateful he caught it before it became a much bigger problem.
Tom Griffiths
October 2024
We'd watched our ROAS decline steadily for three months and couldn't work out why. Josiah looked at the account and identified the problem quickly: our top-of-funnel audience was far too broad and was consuming budget that should have been going to high-intent buyers. He restructured the campaign tiers and tightened the targeting. ROAS went from 1.4x to 3.8x in 6 weeks. That result has held.
Melissa Crane
December 2024
I had been told by two different marketing people that Google Ads simply don't work for legal services. Josiah pushed back on that immediately and ran a competitor audit that showed several firms in our space running profitable campaigns. He built ours from the ground up with a clear strategy. We had 4 new client enquiries in the first month. I wish I'd ignored that earlier advice sooner.
Ryan Patel
January 2025
We had good traffic and a product we believed in, but the numbers weren't moving. Josiah identified the landing page as the bottleneck almost immediately. It was converting at 1.2%, which he said was well below what it could be. He restructured the layout and the information hierarchy without touching the visual design at all. Conversion rate went from 1.2% to 4.7%. The same budget is now doing nearly four times the work.
Owen McAllister
February 2025
I took over a business that came with a Google Ads account that had six years of messy data baked into it. I'd tried to clean it up myself but kept making things worse. Josiah looked at it and said plainly that rebuilding from scratch would be faster and cheaper than trying to salvage what was there. That turned out to be the right call. Our cost per booked job dropped by 52% within the first quarter of running the new account.
Simone Fletcher
January 2026
I didn't realise we'd been paying to advertise on our own brand name when we already ranked first for it organically. Josiah spotted it during the initial audit and explained exactly how much budget was being wasted. He redirected everything to high-intent non-brand terms that we weren't capturing at all. We saved $800 per month in wasted spend from day one, and that money is now working far harder for us.
Marcus Webb
February 2026
Every SEO agency I'd spoken to talked in terms of 12 months before you'd see any movement. Josiah took a different approach and focused on a small number of high-intent, bottom-of-funnel pages rather than trying to compete everywhere at once. The results came faster than I expected. We were ranking for 3 terms that actually bring inbound calls within 8 weeks. I've since referred two other business owners in my network.
Natasha Ivanova
March 2026
English is my second language and I had given up on working with marketing agencies because every meeting left me more confused than when it started. Josiah was completely different. He slowed down when something needed explaining, used plain language, and always checked that I understood before moving on. I never felt lost in a single meeting. For anyone who has felt talked past by people in this industry, I would genuinely recommend reaching out.




