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PPC in Duluth, Minnesota

Duluth PPC that turns clicks into tracked calls.

Duluth pest control clicks average $30.22 and garage door repair clicks $20.49, so Google Ads here starts with call tracking.

  • Every call tagged to its keyword
  • Ads that match the service
  • Search terms that never call get cut
Byers Septic Tank Service website homepage
9Xorganic traffic for Byers Septic Service (91 to 799 visits a month)
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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

What the click costs here

How a Duluth ad budget earns its keep

Duluth clicks are not cheap in the trades that need them most. Lithium Marketing runs Google Ads for Duluth service businesses with tracking on every call, because a budget without call data is a guess.

Click prices differ enough by trade that one budget shape cannot fit all of them. A landscaper can spread a small budget across more searches; a roofer has to choose fewer, sharper ones. We write a landing page for each job, remove search terms that never call, and put the money where your crews have room.

Weather and spend

Cold months, a long winter and the ad calendar

Duluth winters are long, snowy, and very cold, and the average annual snowfall is 90.2 inches. If your outdoor work stops when the ground freezes, the budget should be smaller in those weeks.

A repair trade that stays busy through the cold can keep a steadier spend, and the landing pages should name the work available each month. We build the calendar from the months your phone already shows as busy, not from a generic seasonal template.

residents (2025 estimate)
88,330
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+1.7%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
39,978
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
59.4%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
77.8%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$242,700
median home value

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

Two trades, two problems

Roofing and landscaping, two different ad problems

21 roofing contractors work in St. Louis County, and “roofing company duluth” pulls 320 searches a month. The match between the ad and the page decides the result: a repair ad should land on a repair page, and a replacement ad on a replacement page.

Landscaping is a bigger field, with 61 companies in St. Louis County, and “landscaping duluth” draws 260 searches a month. A cheap click can still waste money when the ad runs in the wrong months or outside the parts of the area you serve, so location targeting and scheduling matter as much as the bid.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in St. Louis County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    101
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    76
  • New home builders
    62
  • Landscaping services
    61
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    57
  • Electrical contractors
    43
  • Roofing contractors
    21
  • Painting contractors
    20

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

Your first month

The first month of a Duluth ad account

The account goes into your name first, then tracking, then the campaigns.

1

Open the account in your name

The Google Ads account is yours from the start, with billing and history under your business, so nothing is trapped if you leave.

2

Audit what is running now

We keep the campaigns that produce calls and list the search terms that have been spending without a lead.

3

Wire the tracking before the first campaign

Conversion tags, GA4 and call tracking go in before the first campaign, so every call and form carries the keyword and ad that paid for it.

4

Check daily, then weekly

For the first 30 days, we check bids and search terms daily. After that we check them once a week against the calendar you set for Duluth.

What every Google Ads account includes

The same eight parts go into every Google Ads account, wherever the business is.

See the full Google Ads service

  • 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

The card’s numbers

A garden center’s site, search and ads

For a garden center, the card shows what a new website, SEO and Google Ads produced. The client is Drake’s 7 Dees. Matt Johnson’s quote comes from his time running On-Target Landscape.

Drake’s 7 Dees garden center and landscaping website homepageGarden center

Drake’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
Read the case study
“Lithium Marketing is awesome to work with and the results you’ll get are outstanding. Once I started working with them I saw increase in my online presence and my sales increased too. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for help with marketing!”
Matt JohnsonMatt JohnsonOn-Target Landscape

Other Minnesota accounts

Minnesota cities that run their own ad account

One ad account can cover several Minnesota cities, and each PPC page below carries that city’s click figures. Start with the market where your phone already rings, then add the next one.

Published price

What a Duluth ad account costs to manage

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 Duluth owners ask about ad spend

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What starting ad budget makes sense in Duluth?

Two numbers set it: what a closed job is worth and what a click costs in your trade. If a repair job brings in a few hundred dollars, the ads have to produce leads well under that. A pest control click at $30 leaves less room than a landscaping click at $2.83, and a long sales cycle needs more weeks before you judge it. We agree the first monthly figure with you and change it when the call data says so.

When do the first calls come in?

The first calls tend to arrive in the opening week. Then watch which search terms produced them before moving money, because one good week is not a trend. Give the account several weeks before cost per lead means much, and judge it on booked jobs, not calls alone.

How is the management fee billed?

The management fee begins at $500 a month, plus ad spend, and moves with the ad spend, the channels and any landing page work. The agreement starts with a six-month term, then month to month with 30 days’ notice. The fee and the ad budget are separate lines, and the Google Ads account sits in your name, so the history stays with your business.

Should we advertise on Meta or Microsoft too?

The Google account comes first because that is where the search intent is. Microsoft Ads and Meta ads on Facebook and Instagram are managed options too, and a visual trade such as painting or landscaping may find Meta a fit for project photos. We test a second channel only after Google tracking shows a cost per lead that the work can carry.

Can the report follow a call to the job?

The tracking starts with the search term and follows the call. A call or form carries the campaign and keyword that produced it, so the monthly report can group leads by the ad that paid for them. When you mark the leads that became jobs, the same report shows which campaigns produced work. Budget moves toward those.

Free action plan

Get a free Duluth ad plan built around your busiest months

Bring what a booked job is worth and the months you want more work in. A co-founder will set those against Duluth click costs and lay out a budget that changes with the season on a short video call.

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.

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  • Custom plan for your business
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