Most marketing agencies pitch trade business owners on a flat monthly retainer of $2,000 to $7,500. The pitch is: "you pay us this much every month and we make your phone ring."
The problem with retainers is incentive alignment. The agency gets paid the same whether your phone rings 5 times or 500 times. If you cancel, they lose revenue, so they have a perverse incentive to drag out reporting and keep you on the hook even when the campaigns are not working.
PayOnJobs runs the opposite model. You pay zero up front, zero monthly. We charge 17% of revenue from jobs we book. If we send you zero jobs in a month, you owe us zero dollars.
Three things this changes:
First, our incentive becomes identical to yours. We do not get paid until you get paid. We are obsessed with booked jobs, not with vanity metrics.
Second, you can cancel without a sunk cost. Most retainer-based agencies trap you in 12-month minimums. Our deal has a 30-day cancel notice and you walk with the domain, the customer list, and the Google Business Profile.
Third, the math has to work for us. We cannot afford to take a partner where we cannot move the needle. That filter alone weeds out bad-fit prospects. You benefit because we only sign partners we are confident we can make money for.
The trade-off you should be aware of: you fund the ad budget directly to Google. We do not mark up ad spend, and we do not skim from it. Your card goes on Google directly, and you see every dollar Google charges. The minimum we work with is $1,500 a month in ad spend. Below that, the math does not work for either side.
If that math fits your business, the application takes three minutes.