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 in Grand Forks, North Dakota
A marketing agency for Grand Forks that reports every service in calls.
A Grand Forks service business can run the site, search, ads and phone through one agency and judge all four by the calls they produce.
- One team behind all four services
- A plan agreed before any spend
- Call counts you can check yourself
Google searches each month
What Grand Forks searches for, by service
30
searches a month
- Web design20
- SEO10
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
- 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
Four services, one call count
How the four services fit a Grand Forks business
A service business in Grand Forks can hand the website, the local search, the Google Ads and the phone to Lithium Marketing and get one report back, counted in calls and leads. Grand Forks County holds 1,903 business establishments, so a local name is easy to lose in a list; a profile that names every service and a page for each job are how a customer finds yours.
Grand Forks added 2.0% to its population between 2020 and 2025, and 105,046 people live in the Grand Forks, ND-MN metropolitan area, which reaches across the Red River into Minnesota. A contractor whose work crosses the river needs pages, ad targets and a phone line that treat the Minnesota side as its own market.
The four services
The four services and what each one does
Each of the four has its own page and a price you can read first, and custom automation is scoped after a free discovery call.
Local SEOService pages and a Google Business Profile built around the trade searches that name Grand Forks.Learn more Web designA WordPress site you own, with photos of finished jobs and a call button a thumb can find.Learn more Google AdsAds aimed at the repairs and projects you want, each landing on a page built for that job, in an account the business owns.Learn more AI receptionistEvery call answered 24/7, appointments booked and urgent callers sent to a real person.Learn more
What the city searches for
The searches here that lead to work
“electrician grand forks” draws about 260 searches a month, and a search like that comes from someone with a job waiting. Each service a business sells needs a page of its own, because a page that names ten trades answers none of them.
The phone is where those searches end. A profile that names every service, reviews from finished jobs and a page that answers the obvious question all point at the same number, and the AI receptionist answers it at any hour.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| digital marketing agency grand forks | under 10 | not reported |
| digital marketing grand forks | under 10 | not reported |
| marketing agency grand forks | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| garage door repair grand forks | 40 | $36.19 |
| plumber grand forks | 390 | $10.73 |
| landscaping grand forks | 70 | $9.59 |
| pest control grand forks | 170 | $5.92 |
| electrician grand forks | 260 | $1.54 |
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
- 62 to 458 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Shown above the results
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber grand forks”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Grand Forks. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The housing and the map
Older houses, rentals and a second state
Grand Forks has 28,129 housing units, and 44.9% of the city's homes were built before 1980. Older houses and newer ones ask for different pages: repair and replacement work for the first group, remodel and new-build work for the second, and one company can sell both.
46.4% of the occupied homes in Grand Forks are owner-occupied, so a contractor here can take a call from a tenant or a property manager as easily as from an owner. A site that asks who owns the property, and which one, settles that before anyone picks up the phone.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 60,365
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +2%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 28,129
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 46.4%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 44.9%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $249,900
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
The county trade mix
Landscapers, plumbers and remodelers lead Grand Forks County
Grand Forks County counts 31 landscaping services, 29 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors and 28 residential remodelers. Those are the three largest trade groups on the county chart, and in a field that size the finished photos and the reviews are what separate one search result from the next.
Seven roofing contractors and 11 painting contractors work in the county. For either trade, the work that moves a search is the same: a complete profile, a page for the jobs they want and a review request after every finished job.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Grand Forks County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Landscaping services31
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors29
- Residential remodelers28
- Electrical contractors25
- New home builders14
- Painting contractors11
- Excavation and site preparation contractors10
- Roofing contractors7
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The order of work
The first month of a Grand Forks plan
The first weeks go into finding where calls are lost today, and that fix lands before more money goes out.
1
Read the recent call history
The calls from the last few months get sorted by where they came from, so the gap shows up as numbers.
2
Close the widest gap first
A page that fails on a phone, a form that never sends or a phone nobody picks up gets repaired before any budget grows.
3
Pick the service by the work
Local search, ads or a rebuild, chosen by the trade, the season and the hours the crews can cover.
4
Report it in calls, monthly
The receptionist keeps the line answered while the search and ad work runs, and each month closes with a call count by source.
Client work
A glass company on the Gulf Coast, three services
Marc Rickabaugh of Rickabaugh Construction is the voice on the quote card, and the numbers beside it belong to Dixie Glass. Dixie Glass sells and installs glass along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where it has worked for decades. Lithium built the new website, runs the SEO and manages the Google Ads that produced those figures, and the card shows the change in conversions and organic traffic.
Glass“We used the team at Lithium Marketing to update our website and increase our SEO. We couldn't have been happier with the results! We receive compliments about our updated website on a regular basis!”
Marc RickabaughRickabaugh ConstructionBeyond Grand Forks
Where the nearby pages lead
A plan for Grand Forks should not claim towns your trucks never reach. The links below cover marketing in Fargo, West Fargo and Bismarck, and in Aberdeen, South Dakota; the North Dakota overview lists the rest of the state.
Pricing
What the four services cost a Grand Forks business
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
FAQ
Grand Forks marketing questions, answered
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
Which of the four services should we start with?
Whichever gap is costing work right now. The tracking on the first call usually points straight at it: a phone nobody answers points at the receptionist, a site that fails on a phone points at a rebuild, and a business with both fixed but a quiet phone needs search or ads.
Can we hire one service without the others?
You can. The AI receptionist has no contract, the SEO retainer is its own agreement and the website is a one-time project. Every service reports into the same call tracking, so anything added later shows up in the same numbers.
Where is Lithium, and how do we meet you?
Lithium is headquartered in Portland, with team members in Portland, Bend and Seattle, and we work with every client by video.
What does the reporting count?
Calls, leads and cost per lead, by service and by source. If your team marks which leads turned into estimates or jobs, the report follows them that far. Each number sits next to the work that produced it, so the report is a record of what was done.
We already have a website and ads running. Do we start over?
Not if they are working. Tracking goes on the existing site and the running ads first, so the first month shows which pages and campaigns already bring calls. From there the plan keeps what works and fixes or replaces what does not.
Free action plan
Get a free marketing plan for your Grand Forks business
Tell us which of the four services you want more of and send the site address. A co-founder opens all of it on a short video call and points to the first change worth making in each area.
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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