These are the services I run myself, at prices you can see. They exist because working with businesses kept showing the same gap: smaller businesses need IT done properly and sized to them, at a fair price, and mostly get offered either enterprise services they do not need or cheap ones they end up managing themselves.
Each one says what it covers, what it does not, and who it suits. If your needs are bigger than this, that is How I help, where the work is advice scoped to your business.
Who these fit
A small business, up to about five people, running on standard cloud tools: email from Google or Microsoft, accounting in the cloud, a website, phones and laptops rather than a server in a cupboard. Whatever phones and laptops you already have is fine.
If you have a server, more than about five people, systems that only one person understands, or obligations from a regulator or a large client, start with How I help instead. Those are decisions, not services, and they need a proper look first. The Tech Health Check is the exception: it is priced for up to six people, and quoted for anything bigger, a server included.
If you run a trade business, specific services are written for trades at Tradie IT, which I also run.
Running it for you
Websites
A site built for you, hosted, and looked after. Every site is on a care plan, because the care plan is the hosting.
| Size | What is on it | Build |
|---|---|---|
| One page | About, services, contact details you can tap, social links | $495 |
| Five pages | A page for each of three services, an enquiry form, testimonials | $1,089 |
| Nine pages | A page for each of five services, a page on where you work, a gallery of your work | $1,881 |
| Moving your existing site across | Added to whichever size it matches | +$396 |
| Complex | Bookings, content that changes every week | Quoted |
Looking after it. There are two care plans.
| Essential | Managed | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $32 a month ($384 a year) | $164 a month ($1,968 a year) |
| Hosting, security certificate, backups and updates | Yes | Yes |
| Domain and DNS looked after, renewals handled | Yes | Yes |
| Enquiry form and its spam protection kept working | Yes | Yes |
| Word from me when your site goes down | Yes | Yes, with priority response |
| Changes included | Two small changes a year, up to 30 minutes each | Four content jobs a year, one a quarter, in place of the small changes |
| Work on the pages that bring you enquiries | No | An extra hour each quarter on headings, links and service copy |
| Your Google reviews refreshed into testimonials on the site | No | Yes |
| What people searched, reported | Once a year | Every quarter, with what I would change |
A content job is a new project page, a page rewritten, reviews turned into testimonials, or five useful links added. An article counts as two. Jobs do not roll over.
Your domain name: $61 the first year, $28 a year after. It is registered in your name, and I will not hold it hostage if you leave.
I do not offer a specific uptime guarantee on either plan. What you get is that I find out first, tell you, and fix it.
Built to be found, in every site. Not a monthly extra. Every site I build includes:
- Pages designed around how people search. A page for each service, with headings and titles written for the searches that would bring you work, rather than one long page trying to rank for everything.
- The groundwork search engines read. A unique title on every page, short enough that Google shows it as written; page descriptions; the code that tells Google what your business is, where it works and who runs it; a sitemap; and a site that loads quickly on a phone, with images that do not slow it down.
- Search engines told from day one. I register your site with Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools under your own accounts, and new pages are submitted as they go live. Bing also feeds Microsoft Copilot.
- A clear policy for AI search. The site tells AI search tools they may read and cite it, so it can turn up when someone asks an assistant instead of a search box.
- Reports on what people searched. On Essential care, once a year: how often you appeared in search, how many people clicked, and where you ranked. On Managed care, every quarter, with the actual searches, how the site is performing, and a yearly re-check of its search setup.
Most cheap sites skip this. Most agencies charge a monthly fee for it.
One limit, stated plainly: a one-page site will not outrank a competitor with fifteen pages. If being found matters to you, start at five.
Do not take my word for it. Send me the site you have now and I will run my scorecard over it and tell you what is wrong with it, free, whether or not you end up working with me. It takes me about an hour, and you will learn more from it than from any sales pitch. If it turns up more than a quick fix, that is the website and search assessment.
Adding to it later: another service page: $319 · rewriting a page you already have: $209 · a block of three hours of changes, twelve months to use them: $429 · six researched articles: $1,639, or one a month at $319 a month · taking the “site by Embolster Services” credit off your footer: $66 a year with your care plan.
Google Business Profile
The listing that turns up before your website does.
| What it covers | Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | Claimed and verified, categories, services, area, hours, description, photos, first post | $440 |
| Upkeep | I check nothing has been changed on your listing without you knowing, and keep hours, services, photos and a quarterly post current | $506 a year |
| Reviews on your site | Your live Google reviews shown on your own site, refreshing themselves | $110 |
I cannot remove bad reviews. Nobody can; Google decides. Help writing a reply is charged as support time.
Business email
Two options. The difference is how much a compromised mailbox would cost you.
Simple Mail, $7 a mailbox a month. Your own name@yourbusiness on your phone and laptop. No two-factor login. That is a real limit, and it suits a business where email is one or two people and nobody sends large invoices.
Secure Mail, $21 a month plus $16 for each extra person. Two-factor login enforced, and Google’s scam and virus filtering on every message. Secure Mail runs on Google Workspace, which I supply as part of the plan.
| Simple Mail | Secure Mail | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7 a mailbox a month | $21 a month, plus $16 for each extra person |
| Setup | $110 | $215 with a website here, $325 without, plus $83 for each extra person |
| Mailbox size | 30 GB, or 50 GB at $14 a mailbox a month instead of $7 | 30 GB |
| Backed up every night, encrypted and offsite | Yes | Yes, your email |
| When your mail stops working, I tell you | Yes | Yes |
| Two-factor login | No | Yes, enforced |
| Spam and scam filtering | The mail server’s spam filter | Google’s spam, phishing and virus filtering |
| Blocking particular senders for the whole business, done for you | $50 a request | $50 a request |
| Mail pretending to be from you | SPF, DKIM and DMARC set, watched, with reports | SPF, DKIM and DMARC set, watched, with reports |
| Sending | Under 100 emails a day, no newsletters | Up to 2,000 a day per person, under Google’s current rules |
| Calendar, shared drives, video calls | No | Yes |
| Your domain | Stays in your name | Stays in your name |
Both are backed up every night, encrypted, and stored offsite in cloud storage, separate from the company that provides your email. It is not a drive in my office, and a problem at your email provider’s end does not take your mail with it. Restoring something is charged as support time.
Spam. Spam filtering is included. To block particular senders, forward me the emails: any number in one request, in place the next business day, $50. On either plan, a block covers everyone at the business. No filter catches everything. I’ll show you how to block senders yourself at setup.
Mail pretending to be from you. Both plans set the records that let other mail servers check a message really came from you, and I watch the reports. Neither is set to block. Blocking means first finding and fixing every service that sends mail as your business, then weeks of checking, so it is quoted work. That is Risk and obligations.
The one question that decides it: would a redirected payment genuinely hurt? Invoice redirection is how small businesses actually lose money by email. Someone gets into a mailbox, changes the bank details on an invoice, and the customer pays a stranger. In nine days in May 2026, five phishing attempts were sent to mailboxes I look after, and four of them got past the filtering those mailboxes were on. If you send invoices that would hurt to lose, Secure Mail is the one. If you invoice a few hundred dollars at a time, Simple Mail is the honest answer and I will tell you so.
IT support
Bought in hours, not as a contract. There is no monthly support fee.
| What it is | Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Support block | Eight hours, prepaid, twelve months to use them, priority response | $1,188 |
| As you need it | When you would rather just call. One-hour minimum | $165 an hour |
| Setup and implementation | New devices, moving email, adding people: project work with a start and an end | Quoted |
What your plans cover, and what is billed. Your email and website plans cover the platform being set up right and staying that way. Anything that needs a person to do something new is billed: setting up new devices, adding or removing people, extra mailboxes, restores, training, and anything that has broken and needs fixing. Ask any provider where that line sits. It is where most are vague and then surprising.
This is not a 24/7 helpdesk or a crew on site next week. If you need either, I will help you choose a provider who does it, and that is How I help.
Fixed-price checks
A check has a published scope and published price bands, the same for everyone. It is not an assessment: an assessment is scoped to your business and quoted before I start.
Cyber Questionnaire Answer: $319
An insurer or a large client has sent you a questionnaire about your computers and email. It uses words like multi-factor, endpoint, patching and backup regime. You could guess at it, and most people do. Guessing on an insurance form is how a claim gets declined.
One call, about an hour, with the form on screen. You send it to me at least a day before.
- Your form, answered in your words. You submit it to the insurer yourself. I do not.
- A short list of anything you had to answer “no” to, with what it would take to make each one a yes, and roughly what that costs.
- A note of anything you must not claim. If a control is not in place, it does not get ticked.
What it is not. It is not an audit: I do not log into your systems, I take your word for what is in place and tell you what the form means. It is not a certificate. I do not sign anything for you. It does not fix anything; fixes are quoted separately.
When I will tell you to do something else. If you are answering “no” to most of it, the form is not your problem, and I will say so. If you turn over more than about $3 million, insurers check what you claim rather than take it on trust, and you need a proper look at your setup. That is a cybersecurity assessment, and I will tell you before you spend $319.
If the same insurer comes back with follow-up questions on the same form, that is included.
Tech Health Check: from $1,089
A fixed-price half day across everything: your website, email, backup, the machines that hold business data, where your files actually live, the systems nobody lists until they break, and what you pay for each month. Sighted, not self-reported. It ends in a written plan you keep.
| Your setup | Price |
|---|---|
| One or two people, a laptop each, a phone, the usual accounting and email | $1,089 |
| Three to six people, someone doing the admin, three or four systems | $1,749 |
| Seven or more, an office, a server or payroll | Quoted |
| The re-check, a year on | $539 (one or two people) or $825 (three to six) |
Ask me what it covers for your setup.
What I do not do
I do not run your social media, and I do not run Google Ads. I will point you at someone who does.
I do not build online shops.
I cannot promise a spot on Google. Anyone who does is guessing. I build the site so it can rank, and show you the numbers.
I do not sell hardware.
How the money works
Ongoing services are one invoice a year. Care plans, email and Google Business Profile upkeep: setup plus twelve months, paid up front.
Twelve-month minimum on ongoing services. After that it rolls on, and you can leave whenever you like. Your domain is yours.
One-off work is a fixed price, agreed before it starts. Where a line says Quoted, you get the number in writing first. Extra work is quoted first, or billed at $165 an hour if you would rather just ask.
All prices are in Australian dollars and include GST.
These are mine
Next step
Tell me which service you are looking at and roughly what you have now. Ask about a service.