Founded in 2016, Search Rescue was born from a vision to provide premium digital marketing services to clients across Australia. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne, the Gold Coast and Perth, we pride ourselves on being hardworking, honest, passionate and transparent; proven by the legion of loyal brands and businesses we’ve worked with. We are a team of highly skilled and experienced marketing nerds that are data and results-driven. We are an accomplished team that are well-versed in formulating the best customised digital marketing strategies for your business.
Committed to going above and beyond the expectations of everyone we work with, since Search Rescue’s inception in 2016, we have grown a strong, skilled and honest team, each of whom are committed to the ethos of the business and are aligned with Search Rescue’s mission to provide premium digital marketing services. Designed with your requirements in mind, Search Rescue offers tailor made, bespoke services to satisfy your needs and drive the most cost-effective results.
Driven by trust, respect, integrity and innovation, we believe that the fusion of our technical know-how and extensive experience gives us a clear advantage over our competitors when it comes to providing fast and sustainable services.
With a focus on real results and first-class service, Search Rescue is growing at a rapid rate and doesn’t employ gimmicks to get businesses on board. We believe that by providing our clients the best possible outcome that our results will speak for themselves. At the heart of what we do is our highly skilled and experienced team, who work diligently together to deliver a first-class service at all times.
Ben Guthridge
Director
Ben Guthridge founded Search Rescue in 2016 after almost two decades of working at some of Australia’s biggest digital ad agencies. Having seen that the technical elements available to businesses weren’t all successfully being utilised, that marketing costs weren’t transparent and that sales were prioritised over results, Ben chose to start an honest and high-performance agency, whose ethos is to deliver high quality results, without sacrificing on trust or transparency.
An avid surfer and self-confessed numbers-nerd, Ben lives in Sydney’s East. He is passionate about sports, travelling and spending time at the beach with his family.
Stewart Webb
Senior Sales Partner
Stewart Webb is a seasoned digital marketing expert with a long tenure in assisting clients run digital marketing campaigns. ‘Stew’ has worked across search, social and display ads including programmatic media buying. Stew has a client first attitude in all that he does and also brings a huge, positive spirit to the sales team. Stew is a father of two and loves body boarding in his free time.
Renee Mandelson
Operations Manager
Renee has over 15 years experience in digital advertising and strategic marketing and has a passion for Strategic Account & Operations Management. She has core experience working within the Partner & Reseller Channel space with experience working in interstate and international markets.
Renee is passionate about supporting the Search Rescue team and customers, working hard to grow their businesses online, getting real results. Renee is a mum of 2 and loves to get out on the water for a stand up paddle or a fish in her free time.
Amir Neta
Account manager
Account manager Amir has almost 20 years of experience in online marketing, mostly in SEO. He has worked in various locations around the world, including Israel, Europe, the UK, the USA, and Australia. Amir loves sports and music and is always looking for his next challenge.
Aaron Warren
Sales Partner
With close to 15 years of experience in digital marketing & advertising, Aaron sees the importance for all businesses to understand the best practice for all digital marketing strategies. Aaron has extensive experience working with SMEs throughout Australia, helping them reach their business goal, more importantly, guiding their business to growth and improving their digital web presence. The digital world can be a jungle in which you can get lost easy in which is why he believes all marketing efforts should be judged by real customers and real ROI, which is what Aaron’s vision is with every business he partners with.
Katie Fitzgerald
Sales Partner
Katie has worked in advertising for over 15 years. Originally from the UK, she now resides in Sydney with her beautiful family. She is an expert in the digital marketing industry and is passionate about delivering her clients and their accounts the best possible results.
Cecile Harbach
Sales Partner
Originally from France Cecile now lives in Perth. She services Western Australian clients as well as some from the Eastern seaboard as well. Cecile has been working in Digital Marketing for over 10 years.
Wayne Yates
Account Manager
Originally from New Zealand new living in Melbourne, Wayne has been working in digital for almost 7 years (Facebook then ReachLocal). He loves sharing ideas and helping business grow. Wayne loves rugby league and played most of his life.
Manuel Baez
Sales Partner
Manuel has close to 10 years of experience in digital marketing strategies working for agencies targeting businesses of all sizes, from large corporations to the local dentist. Manuel is passionate about helping businesses grow and creating long-term relationships with his clients, he loves to work with good people and to feel he is making a real difference to others with what he does. Manuel has a 14-year-old son, loves his mix of martial arts training and spending time with his family and friends when he has free time
Luke Jurkiewicz
Sales Partner
With nearly 5 years of experience in lead generation, sales, and fundraising, Luke is driven by results and the chance to make a real impact on his clients’ success. Luke brings diverse experience helping companies grow in the APAC region and is passionate about helping businesses of all sizes reach their potential through effective lead generation, targeted campaigns, and strategic growth. Luke loves traveling and is always ready for his next experience.
Hayley Bourne
Sales Partner
Hayley, a mum of two under 3, brings to the team over two decades of media experience having worked within an array of channels and disciplines, servicing some of the worlds biggest brands via top publishers in the UK and Australian markets. Hayley brings a diverse range of skills and experiences which enables her to execute highly successful performance led campaigns.
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Put simply – we want your business to succeed!
Our clients stick with us long term based on RESULTS
Trusted by 100s of Clients
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the work you have done in getting us more pronounced in Google. The increase in traffic that has been generated is more than I would have expected. Once again thank you very much for your help.
We started with Search Rescue from a zero base. Ben quickly identified our needs and opportunities and worked with us for great results through SEO and Google Ads. We saw an increase in traffic from week one and it continued. Great job and thanks Ben.
I have been working with Ben and his team at Search Rescue for 8 years now. They have worked across facebook, google adwords, google shopping and SEO across all of our websites. Year on year they have proved ROI, they are proactive in their approach and are always looking for ways to help grow my business. I have worked with many digital providers over the years and Ben and his team are by far the best in the business.
Our revenue has grown 45% on the back of Search Rescue’s SEO & Google Ads service. Our SEO keyword rankings have soared and we have gained 27 new clients from this digital marketing who are now ongoing accounts with Ergoworks.
– Marnie Douglas
CEO & Founder of Ergoworks Consulting
We started using Search Rescue for our SEO in November 2020. In just 3 months we gained 5 new high traffic keywords into the top 3 positions and a further 9 high traffic keywords on to the first page. Additionally we had 7 brand new high traffic keywords indexed by Google. We have had an 80% increase in traffic and a massive lift in month on month eCommerce revenue. Thanks so much guys – we can’t keep up with orders!
– Gregor Salvin
General Manager, Volleyball Shop