GlassDixie Glass
76%more conversions
January vs the January before
- ads conversion rate
- 15.57%
- ads conversion rate
- organic traffic
- +18.2%
- organic traffic
Marketing services in Columbus, Ohio
Find where your Columbus business loses calls, then let a co-founder help you choose the marketing work worth paying for first.
Google searches each month
What Columbus searches for, by service
3,080
searches a month
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
Where to begin
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.
What we run
Choose the work that addresses the problem you have now. You can add another service when your budget and capacity support it.
Search in Columbus
Business owners search as well: about 880 searches a month name a “marketing agency columbus”. When you compare proposals, ask what each agency counts. We count calls and booked jobs from every channel, since a report built on clicks can’t tell you which service to keep.
Use the click prices to set a test budget, then compare the calls it produces with what a booked job earns. An expensive click needs a higher return to make sense. Your booking rate and available crew time help decide how much goes into ads and how much into SEO.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| marketing agency columbus | 880 | $8.41 |
| digital marketing agency columbus | 590 | $11.33 |
| digital marketing columbus | 110 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| garage door repair columbus | 1,000 | $137.50 |
| plumber columbus | 3,600 | $40.70 |
| roofing company columbus | 1,900 | $34.39 |
| pest control columbus | 2,400 | $28.36 |
| hvac repair columbus | 210 | $28.02 |
| water damage restoration columbus | 110 | $23.60 |
| electrician columbus | 1,000 | $17.89 |
| landscaping columbus | 1,000 | $6.86 |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
Source: one Google results page for “plumber columbus”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Columbus. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Columbus market
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.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Franklin County
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
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
How a plan starts
We weigh the calls you receive, the jobs you book and the work your crew has room to take.
We review the tracking you have and connect missing call and form tracking, so you can compare future results with a documented starting point.
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.
We weigh website problems, missed calls and gaps in search against your budget and crew capacity, then agree on the work to tackle first.
Each month you see calls, leads and booked jobs by source, and budget moves toward whatever books work.
From our case studies
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.
Glass76%more conversions
January vs the January before
“I highly recommend Dj Van Zanten if you need any help with your website and your internet marketing.”
Dave TurinDozer DaveBeyond Columbus
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
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.
$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.
$1,300–$3,000
per month
Typical local SEO retainer, scoped against your revenue per lead.
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.
$179
per month
Fully managed. No contracts, cancel anytime. Live in days.
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.
FAQ
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
2000 NE 42nd Ave Ste D Unit 2370, Portland, OR 97213
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