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PPC in Green Bay, Wisconsin

Google Ads for a Green Bay service business, with every call traced to its search.

Searches naming Green Bay cost $5.40 a click for landscaping and $31.31 for garage door repair, so campaigns start with call tracking.

  • Calls traced to the search
  • Landing pages for one kind of job
  • Spend follows your calendar
Search visibility report ranking sarkinenplumbing.com first among local plumbing competitors
2Xleads for Sarkinen Plumbing (on the same budget)
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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

Paid search in Green Bay

What a Green Bay ad budget has to buy first

A Green Bay service business buying Google Ads pays for a click before it knows whether the call will come, so Lithium Marketing starts with tracking. “plumber green bay” draws 1,300 searches a month and averages $17.16 a click, which makes a missed call an expensive one.

The spread across trades is wide: “electrician green bay” draws 320 searches a month at $9.61 a click, while “pest control green bay” costs $13.08 a click. The budget should follow the jobs your crews can take, not a flat monthly number split evenly across trades.

The Green Bay market

A flat market makes the phone the growth channel

Green Bay’s population was 106,675 in the 2025 estimate and 107,367 in 2020, so the customer base is not growing. In a flat market, growth comes from taking work from competitors, so the ad budget should be judged on booked jobs, not clicks.

Brown County has 96 landscaping services, and a click on “landscaping green bay” averages $5.40. At that price a landscaping company can run a small test, then cut the search terms that miss each week.

residents (2025 estimate)
106,675
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
-0.6%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
45,701
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
57.9%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
65.4%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$207,200
median home value

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

Trades in Brown County

Which trades can carry a Green Bay click

Brown County has 8 pest control companies. For a pest job, the ad should ask for the pest, the property type and the urgency, so the call that follows is one the crew can schedule.

Brown County has 16 roofing contractors, and a roof replacement is a high-value job that can absorb a higher click price. The account should keep repair and replacement in separate campaigns, because the two calls need different pages and different questions.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Brown County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Landscaping services
    96
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    86
  • Residential remodelers
    85
  • New home builders
    68
  • Electrical contractors
    54
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    34
  • Painting contractors
    32
  • Roofing contractors
    16

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

Your first month

How the first Green Bay Google Ads campaign gets set

The account is built to show which search produced each call, then the budget follows the job types that pay.

1

Find what already pays

The current account gets a line-by-line read: the campaigns that produce calls stay, and the search terms that never do get cut.

2

Make every call traceable

Before the budget moves, call tracking, GA4 and conversion tags are installed. From then on, every call and form carries the keyword and ad that produced it.

3

Send clicks to one page

The first campaign points at a landing page written for one kind of job, with the phone number and form where a customer can reach them.

4

Review on a set rhythm

Bids and search terms are adjusted daily through the first 30 days, then weekly, and the budget calendar is reviewed each month.

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

Proof

Town & Country Glass: a new website, SEO and Google Ads

Lithium’s new website, search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising for Town & Country Glass produced the numbers on the card. Nathan Boos of Hillsview Building is quoted beside it.

Town & Country Glass website homepage for commercial storefront glass in PortlandCommercial glass

Town & Country Glass

13Xorganic traffic

145 to 1,849 visits a month

top-3 rankings, up from 1
109
top-3 rankings, up from 1
Google Ads conversion rate
29.9%
Google Ads conversion rate
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

Around Green Bay

Google Ads for the cities you cover

PPC pages for the cities your crews can reach sit below: Appleton, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Madison, Racine and Kenosha. The Wisconsin page lists the rest, and each city page shows what clicks cost before you add it to a campaign.

Published price

What the monthly management fee covers

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

Green Bay Google Ads questions before you spend

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

How much should a Green Bay business spend on ads?

Start with what a booked job is worth and what your trade’s clicks cost. The management fee is from $500 a month, plus ad spend, and the ad budget is separate from it. We set a starting number on the strategy call and change it once tracking shows the real cost per lead.

When do the calls start?

Initial results typically appear within the first week. Calls usually come in once tracking is live and the first campaign has run for a few days, and the first 30 days are spent cutting terms that never convert.

What makes the management fee change?

Ad spend, the channels in play and any landing page work all move the fee. You approve the number before a campaign goes live, and the ad budget sits outside it.

What will I see in the monthly report?

The report counts calls and leads, prices them per lead, and splits both by campaign and keyword. If you flag which of those leads turned into booked work, the next budget decision starts from the jobs, not the clicks.

What if we already have a Google Ads account?

It stays yours. Lithium works inside the account you own, keeps the history and the conversion data, and changes the structure based on what the tracking shows.

Free action plan

See which Green Bay searches are buying calls

Send the account you run today, and be ready to say which jobs it should fill. A co-founder goes through the search terms and the landing page on a short video call, then names the first change.

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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