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Paid search for Bear trades

Bear PPC that knows what a click costs before the budget moves.

A Bear Google Ads account opens in your name, with management from $500 a month, plus ad spend, and tracking before the first campaign.

  • Click costs checked by trade
  • Calls reported by campaign
  • Wasted search terms cut
Search visibility report ranking sarkinenplumbing.com first among local plumbing competitors
2Xleads for Sarkinen Plumbing (on the same budget)
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2010Lithium Marketing, established in 2010
$10M+Over $10 million in Google ad spend managed

Businesses we’ve worked with

  • Willard Power Vac
  • Sarkinen Plumbing
  • Robinson Restoration
  • Town & Country Glass
  • Dixie Glass
  • Byers Septic Service
  • F&W Fence Co.
  • Drake’s 7 Dees
  • Rickabaugh Construction
  • Hillsview Building
  • Dozer Dave
  • Mt. Hood Pro Painting
  • On-Target Landscape
  • Atiyeh Bros Carpet
  • Lovett
  • Westmore Construction
  • Northwest New Homes
  • Porter Sealcoating & Paving
  • RescueHero Restoration
  • Panda Plumbing
  • Biermann Plumbing & Heating
  • Ballistic Junk Removal
  • Smart Doors LLC
  • Peak Performance Roofing
  • Deluxe Heating & Cooling
  • Lifetime Exteriors
  • Bruce Johnson Construction
  • Madrone Painting
  • Smart Tree Service
  • Premier Gutter Cover
  • NW Pacific Electric
  • Universal HVAC
  • Lenny Martin Painting
  • Next Level Decks & Exteriors
  • Prodan Construction
  • Smooth Rollin’ Sealcoating and Paving
  • Lovett Restoration
  • Greenlight Titles
  • G.W. Hartley IV
  • Advanced Coatings
  • Thomson Equipment
  • MyADU

The account, the budget and the calls

What a Bear Google Ads account has to prove

The Google Ads account belongs to the Bear business, and Lithium Marketing runs the campaigns inside it, so the history stays with the owner if the relationship ends. The first number to learn is what a click costs: “landscaping bear de” averages $4.82 a click, and electrical clicks average $51.44. The spread decides how tight the search list should be and how hard the landing page has to work.

“Hvac repair bear de” tops the table at $249.09, and no single trade should set the opening budget for the rest. The campaign splits by job, so a cheap click can be tested in one trade while a pricier one stays narrow.

Where the budget goes

Targeting Bear one town at a time

New Castle County holds 588,026 people, and Bear is one name inside it. Target the towns your crews serve one by one, because a county-wide radius buys clicks from places you will not send a truck.

Newark, Wilmington, Middletown and Dover can each carry a budget line of their own, and Chester and Norristown are across the line in Pennsylvania. A town that never produces a call gets cut.

residents (ACS estimate)
22,370
residents (ACS estimate)
housing units
9,094
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
65.1%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
16.1%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$304,800
median home value
people in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metropolitan area
6,329,118
people in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metropolitan area

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.

Trades and click prices

Which Bear trades can carry a paid click

Pest control clicks in Bear run $7.76, and the trade also draws about 170 searches a month that name Bear. That combination lets a pest company test an ad and a landing page without a large opening budget.

Roofing is a different purchase. New Castle County lists 39 roofing contractors, and the page behind the ad matters as much as the bid.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in New Castle County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    271
  • Landscaping services
    239
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    188
  • Electrical contractors
    156
  • Painting contractors
    80
  • New home builders
    73
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    61
  • Roofing contractors
    39

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).

The first month

How a Bear campaign gets built in the first month

The tracking goes in first, then the campaigns, then the weekly tuning that moves money toward the calls.

1

Read the account before touching it

The current campaigns get reviewed first: what produced calls, what spent without them, and which settings are fighting each other.

2

Put tracking in place

Call tracking, GA4 and conversion tags go in, so the report can show calls, jobs won and cost per lead by campaign.

3

Split the budget by job

Each kind of work you want more of gets a campaign and a landing page built for that job, not one page shared by every job.

4

Tune hard for thirty days

Bids and search terms get adjusted daily through the first 30 days, then weekly once the call pattern settles.

What every Google Ads account includes

The same eight parts go into every Google Ads account, wherever the business is.

See the full Google Ads service

  • Conversion tracking, properly wired
  • Landing pages per intent
  • Match types and negatives
  • Responsive search ads
  • Geo and audience targeting
  • Bid management
  • Remarketing
  • Looker Studio reporting

A garden center's paid search, website and SEO work

Where Google Ads fit in a garden center's growth

The card’s Google Ads result came from work that also covered a new website and SEO for Drake’s 7 Dees. Drake Snodgrass supplies the quote below.

Drake’s 7 Dees garden center and landscaping website homepageGarden center

Drake’s 7 Dees

380%more organic traffic

in one year

Google Ads conversion rate
26.4%
Google Ads conversion rate
leads in 60 days
744
leads in 60 days
Read the case study
“Lithium has moved us to page 1 in Google search organically. Prior to working with them we spent a huge part of our marketing budget on paid search. Website redesign was a great experience.”
Drake SnodgrassDrake SnodgrassDrake’s 7 Dees

Around Bear

Google Ads across Bear and the towns around it

The towns that earn a budget line each have a PPC page with their own figures. Follow any pill below, or use the Delaware page to see the state's other cities.

Published price

What Bear ad management costs

From $500

per month in management

Management is separate from your ad spend. Typical: $500–$1,500 a month in management on $2,000–$5,000 a month in ad spend. No haggling, no hidden upsells.

FAQ

What Bear owners ask about ad spend

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].

How much should a Bear business start with?

Enough to buy a few weeks of clicks in your trade and still cover the management fee, which starts at $500 a month, plus ad spend. A trade at $51.44 a click needs a bigger opening budget than one at $4.82, so the number comes from your trade's click cost and what a job is worth.

When do the first calls come in?

The first week usually produces calls if tracking is live. From there the work is subtraction: drop the search terms that spend without a call, put the money behind the ones that fill the calendar, and watch cost per lead settle.

Whose name is on the Google Ads account?

Yours. The account is opened in your name, and Lithium works inside it, so the campaign history, the conversion data and the payment method stay with your business if the relationship ends.

Do you run ads beyond Google?

Not at the start. The Google account comes first, because a second channel splits the budget before the first one has proved anything. If Google reaches its limit, or if your buyers already spend their time on Facebook, Instagram or Microsoft Ads, that next channel is scoped then. Each one is measured before it gets a bigger share.

How do I know which ads produce work?

The report is built from the work, not from clicks: each campaign shows the calls it produced and what those calls cost. When your team marks a lead as a job you won, that job is counted against the campaign that brought it in. Then next month's budget goes to the campaign that fills the calendar, and the one that only spends gets cut.

Free action plan

Get a Bear ad plan built around your trade

Tell us your trade, the work you want more of and the value of one job. A co-founder will put your click costs against that number on a short video call and suggest an opening budget.

What we’ll cover

  • What’s working (and what isn’t) in your current marketing
  • Site and funnel gaps that are costing you leads
  • Local SEO and paid traffic opportunities
  • Simple tracking and KPIs to measure success

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Tell us a little about your business. Response within 24 hours.

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