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Marketing services in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus marketing services from one agency, measured in booked jobs.

Find where your Columbus business loses calls, then let a co-founder help you choose the marketing work worth paying for first.

  • Website, SEO, ads and phones together
  • Every call traced to its source
  • One service area across all channels

Google searches each month

What Columbus searches for, by service

3,080

searches a month

  • Digital marketing
    1,580
  • SEO
    740
  • Web design
    730
  • PPC management
    30

Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.

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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

Where to begin

How Lithium runs marketing for a Columbus service business

Lithium Marketing connects the website, advertising and phone answering for Columbus service businesses so you can follow a customer from search to booked job. The Columbus, OH metro area has 2,242,028 residents and is the largest metropolitan area entirely in Ohio, so we draw the plan around the towns where you take jobs, inside the city limits and out.

That only works when the four pieces agree with each other. If the website lists one service area, the Google profile another and the ads a third, calls slip through the gaps and nobody can say which channel earned the job. We set the list once, use it everywhere and report every call against it.

The Columbus market

How big Columbus is, and how far it reaches

Columbus had 938,396 residents in 2025, up 3.6% from 2020, on 221.93 square miles of land. Decide how much of that area your crews can cover before buying traffic. We use your job locations to choose ad targets and write area pages where you have work to show.

Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, and the city also extends into Delaware and Fairfield counties. If you take jobs in those parts of the city, list them as Columbus in your Google Business Profile service area and on your pages, and set the ads to cover them, so a county line never decides who sees you.

residents (2025 estimate)
938,396
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+3.6%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
425,182
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
44.1%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
49.8%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$252,900
median home value

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

Trades in Franklin County

Projects and repairs in Franklin County’s trade mix

Franklin County has 346 residential remodelers, 273 landscaping services and 240 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors, the three largest groups on the chart. For the first two, every channel should end in an estimate request with room for photos and project details. For plumbing and HVAC, the phone number belongs at the top of every page and in every ad, with an answer waiting at any hour.

Your trade helps shape the work, but your existing marketing decides the order. A roofer with a strong gallery may need help getting found; a landscaper with plenty of calls may need better follow-up. We check both before recommending another service.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Franklin County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    346
  • Landscaping services
    273
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    240
  • Electrical contractors
    182
  • Painting contractors
    111
  • Roofing contractors
    103
  • New home builders
    73
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    56

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

How a plan starts

The first months of a Columbus marketing plan

We weigh the calls you receive, the jobs you book and the work your crew has room to take.

1

Put a number on today’s calls

We review the tracking you have and connect missing call and form tracking, so you can compare future results with a documented starting point.

2

Settle one service area

We agree on the cities, suburbs and neighborhoods you serve, then use that one list for the website pages, the Google Business Profile and the ad targeting.

3

Choose the first repair

We weigh website problems, missed calls and gaps in search against your budget and crew capacity, then agree on the work to tackle first.

4

One report for every channel

Each month you see calls, leads and booked jobs by source, and budget moves toward whatever books work.

From our case studies

Website, SEO and Google Ads together for a Gulf Coast glass company

Dixie Glass has served the Mississippi Gulf Coast since 1946. Its work with Lithium combines a website, SEO and Google Ads, with results reported together in the case study. Excavation business owner Dave Turin of Dozer Dave also shares his recommendation of DJ Van Zanten.

Dixie Glass website homepage for glass services on the Mississippi Gulf CoastGlass

Dixie Glass

76%more conversions

January vs the January before

ads conversion rate
15.57%
ads conversion rate
organic traffic
+18.2%
organic traffic
Read the case study
“I highly recommend Dj Van Zanten if you need any help with your website and your internet marketing.”
Dave TurinDave TurinDozer Dave

Beyond Columbus

Other Ohio cities, plus three across state lines

If you also take jobs in Dayton, Cincinnati or Akron, compare the marketing options for those cities. The links also cover Covington, Kentucky, plus Parkersburg, West Virginia, and Huntington, West Virginia. Use the Ohio list to find another city in your service area.

Pricing

Columbus prices for all five services

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
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FAQ

What Columbus contractors ask before signing on

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

How does Lithium work with a Columbus business from Portland?

Over video calls, with your tracking and reports open on the screen. Lithium Marketing is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with a team in Portland, Bend and Seattle, working with every client by video, Columbus included. Your strategy calls are with a co-founder, and Allison McKenney, the account manager, handles the details between them.

Where should a Columbus contractor put the first marketing dollar?

On the gap that costs you the most calls. For one company that’s a phone nobody answers after 5 p.m., for another a website that’s hard to use on a phone or a Google profile that doesn’t show for its main trade. The first call with a co-founder looks at all three and names the one to fix first.

Can I start with one service and add more later?

Yes. If only one thing is broken, such as a site that fails on a phone, fix that one first. Each service carries its own price, and because all of them report into one call tracking setup, anything you add later is judged on the same calls and booked jobs as the first.

How long am I committed once the work starts?

The usual agreement starts with six months, followed by monthly renewal with 30 days’ notice. The AI receptionist has no contract. Before you sign, we go through the services you chose and their terms so you know what continuing or ending the work involves.

Is my company too small for a full marketing plan?

A small crew can start with a single service if the cost fits its margins and capacity. We look at what a job earns and how much work you can take before recommending a budget. A full program may be more than you need; the first recommendation can be one fix to your existing setup.

Free action plan

Get a free plan for your Columbus calls and jobs

Send your website, the trades you run and the parts of the Columbus area you serve. On a short video call, a co-founder will show where your calls come from now and which service should go first.

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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