For Melbourne service businesses embracing change and The Power Of Technology
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Builders, trades, studios, salons and health clinics. Every site below is live and working matched to each client's brand and wired to capture leads. Tap any one to see how I built it.

A 28 page site for a local sparky, with a three step quote form on the hero and a job feed pulling real completed work from their job management system.

An Australian flagpole and goal post manufacturer moved off a dated platform onto its own site, with the full range and an online store in build.

A full site with a dual building & landscaping quote flow, plus a live recent jobs feed wired straight into their job management system.

A sharp corporate site with capability statement, project showcase, tender ready enquiry funnel and a live visitor dashboard.

Direct integration with ServiceM8 for a live scrolling feed of real completed jobs, plus location pages and an instant quote estimator.

A dark, gallery style studio site with a custom quote request flow, instant SMS follow up, online booking and search led blog guides.

A serene website for Victoria's first Japanese inspired head spa, with treatment, gift card and academy sections and online booking woven throughout.

A multi page site for a Credentialled Diabetes Educator, with a page per clinic, online booking and plain English guides.

A warm, plain language legal site with client intake, consultation booking and a court form system behind it.
Every screen here is a client site I built and still look after, scrolling the way somebody actually reads it. None of it is a mockup. Open any one of them and it is running today.
22electricalworks.com.au
Josh runs a small licensed electrical team out of Melbourne's east. I moved him off a rented platform onto a real 28 page website on his own domain, where the proof of the work comes straight out of the system he already runs the business on.
JoshOwner, 22 Electrical Works · Croydon Hills
IdahAdministrator, Eden Building & Landscaping · Greensborough
"Tim is an absolute weapon when it comes to smart websites and implementing marketing systems. Scalus has helped me and my company quickly ramp up funnels. If you're a driven business owner keen to work with subject matter professionals on innovative marketing strategies, then look no further!"
"Been working with Tim for a few months now and he hasn't just transformed my business but helped transform my mindset, and on top of that he's helped me build a stunning website! Couldn't be happier!!"
"Tim is the consummate professional. Helpful no matter the size or complexity of the project. His work has allowed me to scale my presence and lead confidently in the world of media. With my little old bookkeeping business it's been revitalising!"
"Tim not only works at a very high standard but is extremely wonderful to work with! He's dedicated to your success like no one else. Would recommend."
"The team at Scalus has been pivotal to helping us shape our business into a profitable machine and put us on the map with what we do."
"Tim is an absolute weapon when it comes to smart websites and implementing marketing systems. Scalus has helped me and my company quickly ramp up funnels. If you're a driven business owner keen to work with subject matter professionals on innovative marketing strategies, then look no further!"
"Been working with Tim for a few months now and he hasn't just transformed my business but helped transform my mindset, and on top of that he's helped me build a stunning website! Couldn't be happier!!"
"Tim is the consummate professional. Helpful no matter the size or complexity of the project. His work has allowed me to scale my presence and lead confidently in the world of media. With my little old bookkeeping business it's been revitalising!"
"Tim not only works at a very high standard but is extremely wonderful to work with! He's dedicated to your success like no one else. Would recommend."
"The team at Scalus has been pivotal to helping us shape our business into a profitable machine and put us on the map with what we do."
Get found online, showcase your best reviews, look sharp on mobile and rank for local Google searches.
Quietly asks every happy customer for a review at the perfect moment. Your reputation grows itself.
Answers the questions people ask before they enquire, and turns the ones who were only browsing into a real lead in your inbox.
Website forms, missed calls, texts and social messages, one inbox on your phone and desktop, shared with your team.
Every Scalus site runs on one platform, so when the standard improves, every site gets the improvement. Here is what shipped recently. No upgrade fee, and nothing for you to do.
The enquiry form on every site was rebuilt as three short steps with a progress bar, so people finish it instead of abandoning a long single page form.
A full audit of every site to find pages that were chasing the same Google search as each other, plus a check of how many pages Google has actually indexed rather than merely crawled.
Every client site was brought under a single verified Search Console account, so new pages can be submitted to Google automatically instead of waiting to be found.
Every site now answers on exactly one address, its code passes validation with no errors, and browsers are told to treat it as a secure page.
The moment someone fills in your form, a warm reply lands on their phone in your voice. Reminders, confirmations and follow ups go out automatically, and real conversations land back in your inbox to take over any time.
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After every great job, your system quietly asks for a review at exactly the right moment. Your Google profile grows itself, and your best marketing becomes your happy clients.
Job done. Your system knows when a client has just had a great experience.
A friendly text goes out. One tap takes them straight to your Google review page.
The review lands. Your rating climbs, your ranking improves, and the next client finds you first.

"Absolutely seamless from the first text to the finished job. Booked everything from my phone. Highly recommend!"
"So easy to deal with, they confirmed everything by SMS and even reminded me the day before. Five stars."
"Turned up when they said, did exactly what they quoted, and the follow up text made it easy to book the next job. Couldn't fault them."
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20 minutes, on your actual business. See exactly what your system would capture and automate.
Day 1Website, automations and the review engine, designed, written and wired by me.
Days 2 and 3Launch call, keys handed over, system running. Ongoing local support from then on.
Day 4No agency, no call centre, no account manager you never meet. I build your website myself and I am the person who answers when you need something changed.
Tim McCartney · Founder, Scalus · Est. 2024
I started Scalus after more than 15 years in professional video production. I kept making videos for clients that never reached their potential, because there was nowhere solid to put them. No proper website, nothing published, so good work quietly disappeared. So now I build the website first. Get that foundation right, and content and advertising finally have somewhere to land.
One plan, one price. The website built, hosted, kept live and looked after, for $225 a month. No contracts, no setup fees, and the price includes GST.
Want to see it first? Book a quick demo and I'll show you what your site would look like.
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Put your address in and nine public tools read your site: what Google sees, whether your structured data holds up, and whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot can actually read and quote you. You get the score and the fix list.
Example report. Yours takes about 30 seconds.
Check my websiteSee the system running on your business in person or on a video call. Melbourne only.