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
PPC in Bennington, Vermont
A Bennington Google Ads budget built around the searches a trade can serve.
Your Google Ads account stays in your business's name, and the campaigns are built around the calls a Bennington service business wants.
- You own the account and data
- Clicks priced by trade
- A monthly report on calls
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2010Lithium Marketing, established in 2010
$10M+Over $10 million in Google ad spend managed
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
What a click buys
What a Bennington ad budget should buy
Lithium Marketing runs Google Ads for Bennington service businesses, and a paid ad has to earn the click it buys. When we checked “plumber bennington,” no paid ad showed on the page, so the work starts with the listing and the landing page that answer that search.
The account, the billing and the conversion history sit in your business's name. The management fee is from $500 a month in management, plus ad spend, and we agree the fee and the budget before the first campaign goes live.
Ads on the page
What the clicks cost, and what the budget has to do
“Pest control bennington” averages $16.26 a click on 50 searches a month, and garage door repair searches name the town about 10 times a month. At those volumes a wasted click is a large share of a small budget, so the search terms list and the negative keywords do more for cost per lead than a larger spend does.
The page behind the ad matters as much as the bid. A campaign that sends every search to the homepage makes a cheap click expensive, so the ad and the landing page should say the same thing, and the phone number should sit where a thumb can reach it.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| google ads agency bennington | under 10 | not reported |
| ppc agency bennington | under 10 | not reported |
| ppc management bennington | under 10 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| pest control bennington | 50 | $16.26 |
| garage door repair bennington | 10 | 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
- 1 to 14 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, HomeAdvisor, MapQuest, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Shown above the results
- People also ask
- Not shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber bennington”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Bennington. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
Owners and renters
Owners, renters and a line that runs to New York
54.7% of the occupied homes in the Bennington CDP are owner-occupied, while Bennington County's share is 73.7%. The pages should work for a tenant and for the landlord who approves the repair, not only for an owner-occupier.
Bennington is closer to Albany, New York, Hartford, Connecticut and Concord, New Hampshire than to Montpelier, and VT Route 9 runs west from town into New York's Capital District. A campaign that targets only the town leaves the customers on the other side of the line to someone else.
- residents (ACS estimate)
- 9,245
- residents (ACS estimate)
- housing units
- 4,340
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 54.7%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 82.7%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $191,700
- median home value
- people in the Bennington, VT micropolitan area
- 36,630
- people in the Bennington, VT micropolitan area
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in the county
Two trades with numbers, and the rest of the county
Bennington County has 23 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors and 15 electrical contractors, and both trades get calls that cannot wait. A campaign for either should be split by the work: an emergency repair, a planned replacement and a maintenance visit are three different searches and three different pages.
A trade with a small search list can still run a tight campaign. The county has 19 excavation and site preparation businesses and 9 painting contractors, and for those, a landing page that answers the estimate question does more than a broad ad that sends everyone to the homepage.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Bennington County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Landscaping services41
- Residential remodelers38
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors23
- Excavation and site preparation contractors19
- New home builders16
- Electrical contractors15
- Painting contractors9
- Septic tank services3
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The account
From the first click to the monthly report
The fee and the budget are agreed before the campaign runs, and the account never leaves your name.
1
Price the clicks before the campaign
We look at what the searches in your trade cost and how many there are, then set a starting budget a job can cover.
2
Match the page to the ad
The ad, the landing page and the phone number say the same thing, so a click lands somewhere that can answer it.
3
Build the account under your name
The account, the billing and the conversion history belong to your business, and Lithium works inside them.
4
Read cost per lead every month
The report shows calls, leads and the cost of a lead by campaign, and the next month's budget follows what those numbers show.
What every Google Ads account includes
The same eight parts go into every Google Ads account, wherever the business is.
- 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
Proof from a garden center
What three services did for a garden center
Drake's 7 Dees is a garden-center business, and the card covers the website, SEO and Google Ads Lithium ran for it. Chris Martin of Mt. Hood Pro Painting adds a separate recommendation.
Garden center“Ever since we've used Lithium Marketing, our phone has been ringing off the hook and we can hardly keep up with the leads we get from Google, Facebook or through our website. Most of our leads other than referrals are through Google and it's all because of Lithium Marketing.”
Chris MartinMt. Hood Pro PaintingWhere the budget can go
Ads for the cities on both sides of the line
Ads can point at any city on the list, from Albany and Troy in New York to Hartford in Connecticut, and each page carries that city's click figures. Rutland and the Vermont page cover the rest of the state.
Published price
What Google Ads management costs a Bennington business
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 Bennington owners ask about paid search
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
How does the management fee work against ad spend?
Two bills arrive, and they are not the same bill. The management fee is what Lithium charges for the work; the ad spend is what Google charges for the clicks. Management starts at $500 a month, plus ad spend, and the fee moves with the size of the account and the pages the campaign needs. We agree it before launch.
Whose account is the campaign built in?
Your business owns it. The account is opened in the company's name, and the campaigns, conversion history and billing stay with you if we ever stop working together.
When do the first calls come in?
Calls usually start in the first week, because the tracking goes in before the campaign does. Month one is a trimming month: terms that never become a conversation get cut, and that money follows the terms that do. Cost per lead usually settles after that.
How do we judge cost per lead?
The report shows calls, leads and the cost of a lead by campaign, set against what one job is worth to you. A lead that never becomes work counts against the campaign, and the report keeps it in view.
What happens to a click that never calls?
It shows up in the report as a click with no call or form behind it. We look at the search term, the landing page and the time of day, then cut the term, fix the page or adjust the schedule.
Free action plan
Get a Bennington ad budget you can defend
Before the call, send the trade you run and the towns you cover. A co-founder will read the live account with you on a short video call and mark the campaigns that produce calls and the ones that spend without one.
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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