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Marketing for Dallas service businesses

A digital marketing agency that turns Dallas searches into calls.

Your website, SEO, Google Ads and AI receptionist run on one plan for your business in Dallas, with every call traced to its channel.

  • Service areas matched across channels
  • Ads priced to your trade’s clicks
  • Every call answered and tracked

Google searches each month

What Dallas searches for, by service

11,580

searches a month

  • SEO
    5,790
  • Web design
    3,380
  • Digital marketing
    2,200
  • PPC management
    210

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

One plan, four services

How the four services fit a Dallas business

For a Dallas service business, Lithium Marketing runs four services as one plan: the website, SEO, Google Ads and an AI receptionist. Dallas is the seat of Dallas County, and parts of it extend into Collin, Denton, Kaufman and Rockwall counties, which makes it easy for a website, a Google profile and an ad account to describe your service area three different ways. One plan keeps them identical.

Dallas also sits inside the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, home to one quarter of all Texans. If you take jobs in more than one of its cities, we track calls by the city they come from and move budget toward the places that book work.

Dallas homes and owners

Homeowners are one Dallas buyer, not the only one

In Dallas, 42.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, against 50.8% across Dallas County. With fewer owners living in their own homes inside the city, more of the people approving your work may be landlords and property managers. Give them their own page on your site and their own ad group, with copy about rental turnovers, tenant scheduling and billing the owner.

Dallas and the greater metro area have been leading the nation in apartment construction and net leasing. If multi-unit work is part of your business, a page for it, an ad group that names it and a phone script that asks for the unit number and the owner’s name make those accounts easier to win.

residents (2025 estimate)
1,329,491
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+1.9%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
590,237
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
42.4%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
48.1%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$320,700
median home value

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

Dallas County’s trade mix

Plumbing, HVAC and remodeling lead the county count

The Dallas County trades chart is led by 727 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors and 588 residential remodelers. When a customer has that many companies to pick from, small details decide who gets the call: recent reviews, photos of jobs like the customer’s and pages naming their part of town. Every channel in the plan carries those details, from your Google profile to your ad copy.

Landscaping services, with 497 companies in the county, and new home builders, with 428, sell work that customers plan ahead, so their first dollars usually go into the website and its project galleries. For repair trades such as plumbing and HVAC, we start with the phones and the Map Pack, since a repair call only turns into a job if someone answers it.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Dallas County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    727
  • Residential remodelers
    588
  • Electrical contractors
    553
  • Landscaping services
    497
  • New home builders
    428
  • Roofing contractors
    243
  • Painting contractors
    185
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    121

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

How the work is ordered

Building a Dallas plan, step by step

Nothing gets more budget until the call counts say it should.

1

Find the weakest link

A co-founder goes through your website, Google profile, ad account and phone handling on a video call and ranks them by how many Dallas jobs each one is costing you.

2

Tag every number and form

Tracked phone numbers and form tags show which channel each call came from, so budget decisions rest on counts.

3

Add services where the gap is

Once tracking shows where jobs come from, SEO, ads or the AI receptionist go where the biggest leak is.

4

Monthly numbers set the budget

Each month you get calls, leads and cost per lead across every service, and the next month’s budget follows those numbers.

Client results

A restoration company’s new website and SEO

Lithium has no Dallas case study to show you, so here is a close match from a phone-driven trade. Robinson Restoration, a restoration company, hired Lithium for a new website and SEO, and the card shows what that work produced together. Beside the card, Nathan Boos of Hillsview Building gives his recommendation of Lithium.

Robinson Restoration website homepage built by Lithium MarketingRestoration

Robinson Restoration

26Xorganic traffic

79 to 2,200+ visits a month, SEO only

organic visits a month
79 → 2,200+
organic visits a month
top-3 rankings
120
top-3 rankings
Read the case study
“A lot of options out there for websites and SEO. I’ve worked with this team for years now and would highly recommend them. They know their stuff and deliver results. More importantly to me- they care about service and follow through on what they say they will do. Easy to work with and communicate with. Thank you!”
Nathan BoosNathan BoosHillsview Building

Nearby cities

Marketing in the cities next door

Your plan can follow your crews past the city line. Mesquite, Garland, Irving, Richardson, Carrollton and Grand Prairie each get a marketing page with local housing and click-price figures, and the Dallas-Fort Worth and Texas links cover the wider region.

Pricing

Dallas pricing, 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
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FAQ

Dallas marketing plans: cost, contracts and fit

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

How does Lithium work with a Dallas business from Portland?

Lithium is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with a team in Portland, Bend and Seattle, working with every client by video, Dallas clients included. Your strategy sessions are video calls with a co-founder, Allison McKenney fields requests between them, and a monthly report counts your Dallas calls and leads by channel.

Can I start with one service and add others later?

You can. Each service is priced and run on its own, so one can run alone for as long as you like. When the call tracking shows where Dallas jobs are still getting lost, that points to the service to add next.

What kind of contract comes with a Dallas marketing plan?

Month to month: most services switch to it after an opening six-month term, with 30 days’ notice to end one. The AI receptionist has no contract at all. Six months gives SEO and Google Ads time to produce numbers worth judging, which is why the first term is that length.

Is Lithium a fit for a smaller Dallas trade business?

Yes, if your customers look you up on Google before they call. A smaller company might start with a website and a complete Google Business Profile, while a larger one runs SEO, ads and the receptionist across several cities. SEO pricing follows the size of the job ahead, so a smaller business with fewer services to cover usually sits toward the lower end of the range.

Can the plan cover the suburbs around Dallas too?

It can. If your service area crosses city lines, the plan follows it into Garland, Irving, Mesquite or anywhere else in the metro you work. Each city can get its own page on your site, its own targeting in your ads and its own line in the receptionist’s service list.

Free action plan

Get a free look at where your Dallas calls come from

Tell us which jobs you want more of and, if you know, where your calls come from today. A co-founder will look at your site, Google profile and any ads before a short video call, then walk you through the first change to make.

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.

  • 100% free, no obligation
  • Custom plan for your business
  • Response within 24 hours
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