Garden centerDrake’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
Digital marketing in Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham marketing for service businesses that earns its keep in calls.
A Bellingham service business can put the website, local search, ads and phone answering on one plan, and see which service produced each call and lead.
- Four services that share one tracker
- Prices printed before the first call
- Reports built on calls and leads
Google searches each month
What Bellingham searches for, by service
1,080
searches a month
- SEO530
- Web design420
- Digital marketing130
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
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Businesses
we’ve worked with
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 whole plan
What a Bellingham marketing plan covers
If a Bellingham service business has the website, ads and phone answering with three vendors, no one can tell which one produced a call. Lithium Marketing puts the website, local search, ads and phone answering on one plan, with one tracker, so every call and lead lands in one report and you can see which service earned it.
Bellingham is the county seat of Whatcom County, which holds 7,146 business establishments. The largest marketing search that names Bellingham, “marketing agency bellingham”, runs about 70 a month. The plan starts with the service that matches how your customers buy, then adds the next one when the calls prove it is working.
The four services
Four services, one plan, in Bellingham
Pick the service that plugs the biggest leak first. The rest can wait until the numbers from that one are in.
Local SEO in BellinghamA page for every service you sell and every town you cover, with your Google profile kept in step.Learn more Web design in BellinghamA WordPress site you own, with a page for each service and a call button on every phone screen.Learn more PPC in BellinghamGoogle Ads built around your calendar, with each call traced to the keyword that paid for it.Learn more AI receptionist in BellinghamCalls answered at 2 a.m. and at noon, booked or sent to a person by your rules, with custom automation on top.Learn more
Search in Bellingham
How Bellingham searches split across four services
The marketing phrases we track that name Bellingham total 130 searches a month. That is a small number, so the plan has to be clear enough for an owner to choose the first service.
Trade searches carry the volume instead. “electrician bellingham” draws 320 a month, and “plumber bellingham” draws 880. At those numbers a single services page cannot cover a trade, so each service you sell gets its own page and each city you serve around Bellingham gets one too.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| marketing agency bellingham | 70 | $2.91 |
| digital marketing bellingham | 40 | not reported |
| digital marketing agency bellingham | 20 | not reported |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| roofing company bellingham | 210 | $31.03 |
| plumber bellingham | 880 | $25.10 |
| pest control bellingham | 390 | $18.14 |
| garage door repair bellingham | 110 | $12.56 |
| electrician bellingham | 320 | $10.88 |
| landscaping bellingham | 320 | $5.37 |
| hvac repair bellingham | 10 | not reported |
| water damage restoration bellingham | 260 | not reported |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
- Map Pack
- The first thing on the page
- Search ads
- None recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 19 to 888 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, MapQuest, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber bellingham”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Bellingham. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Bellingham market
Who is buying, and what they already own
Bellingham added 5.4% to its population between 2020 and 2025, and growth like that can bring households that have not picked a plumber, a roofer or a landscaper yet. The plan should make the first choice easy: one page per service, one phone number, one report.
Bellingham has 41,500 occupied homes, and 44.6% of its occupied homes are owner-occupied, so the rest are rented. A renter may call about a repair while the owner approves the work, and the site and the report should serve both.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 96,395
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +5.4%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 43,792
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 44.6%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 42.8%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $627,500
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Whatcom County
Where the county's contractors cluster
Whatcom County's remodelers alone number 193, with 172 new home builders and 111 landscaping companies beside them. Those are project businesses, so their sites need project pages and a quote form that asks for the scope.
Repair trades need different pages: hours, tap-to-call and a short list of what you fix. If a caller has a burst pipe or a dead furnace, the page should give them a number before it gives them a portfolio.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Whatcom County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Residential remodelers193
- New home builders172
- Landscaping services111
- Electrical contractors72
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors66
- Excavation and site preparation contractors65
- Painting contractors64
- Roofing contractors23
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The order of work
How the four services fit together here
Put tracking before spend, so the first month tells you which service already produces work.
1
Start with what already works
We put call and form tracking on the site, the profile and the ads, and the first report tells you which channel produced each job.
2
Make the site work on a phone
We repair a slow page or a hidden phone number before any budget is pointed at it.
3
Add the channel your calls support
Pages and profile work target the searches that build over months; Google Ads covers the jobs your crews need filled now.
4
Put a receptionist on the line
Every call gets answered, bookings go on the calendar, and anything that needs a person is passed along; a separate automation build can take the follow-up.
Proof
A garden center that used the whole plan
Drake’s 7 Dees is a garden center. Lithium built the website and handled the SEO and the Google Ads, and the card reports the results of all three. Those numbers are printed on the client’s case study. Marc Rickabaugh of Rickabaugh Construction describes his own experience with the team.
Garden center“We used the team at Lithium Marketing to update our website and increase our SEO. We couldn't have been happier with the results! We receive compliments about our updated website on a regular basis!”
Marc RickabaughRickabaugh ConstructionAround Bellingham
Marketing pages for the cities near Bellingham
The pills below open the same plan for Marysville, Everett, Kirkland, Redmond, Seattle and Bellevue, and the Washington page collects every city we cover. Each page has its own trade counts and search figures, so a business that works across the region can compare where the next job is likely to come from.
Pricing
What the Bellingham plan costs, service by service
Lithium publishes a typical price for four of its five services, and AI automation is quoted after a free discovery call. Your proposal depends on scope, competition and ad spend.
Conversion web design
$5,000
typical project
Larger sites with more pages or integrations get a fixed proposal after a 30-minute discovery call. Six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch.
SEO
$1,300–$3,000
per month
Typical local SEO retainer, scoped against your revenue per lead.
Google Ads management
From $500
per month
Plus ad spend. Typical: $500–$1,500 a month in management, plus ad spend of $2,000–$5,000 a month.
AI receptionist
$179
per month
Fully managed. No contracts, cancel anytime. Live in days.
AI automation
Scoped
after discovery
Clear, upfront pricing after a free discovery call. Custom builds typically take 1–2 weeks.
Optional hosting and maintenance: $99/month. Secure private hosting on a dedicated high-speed server, daily backups, software and security updates, and basic website changes are all included. Most clients choose this option to keep their new website updated and running smoothly; it is not required.
Our usual service agreement starts with six months, then continues month to month with 30 days’ cancellation notice. Your written agreement sets the final terms. The AI receptionist has no contract.
- You own your domain, hosting account and website
- Six-month starting term
- We guarantee the work, not a ranking
FAQ
What Bellingham owners want to know first
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
Can one plan cover a business that sells repairs and projects?
Yes. The four services share one tracker, so repair calls and project requests land in the same report and you can see which side pays. The plan then puts more of the budget behind the side that books work, and the site carries a page for each kind of job you want.
Can we start with one service and add the rest later?
Begin with the service that plugs the biggest gap in your intake. A business can start with a website or with Google Ads, and SEO comes once the pages exist. The tracker does not change when you add a service, so you can compare the new work with the old on equal terms.
Where is Lithium, and how does the work happen?
Lithium is headquartered in Portland, with team members in Portland, Bend and Seattle, and we work with every client by video. A screen share works as well for a North Cascades remodeler as for a shop on the waterfront.
What does the monthly report show?
Calls and leads, where each one came from, and what it cost to produce. The report ties the website, the Google profile and any ads to the same numbers, so you can tell whether the SEO work or a Google Ads campaign is paying before you add another service.
How do you choose which city pages to build?
From your own service area and the searches that name those cities. A business that works in Ferndale and Lynden needs pages for those cities before it needs a page for Seattle. We pick the order from the searches that name each city and the work you already do there.
Free action plan
Request a plan for your Bellingham business
Tell us what you sell, where you work and the website you have now. On a short video call, a co-founder will point to the one service that would pay back first and the work it takes.
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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