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Digital marketing in Gresham, Oregon

A digital marketing agency for Gresham contractors who want more calls.

Run your Gresham business’s website, search, ads and phone answering on one plan, with published prices and reports counted in calls and booked jobs.

  • One plan for site, SEO, ads and phones
  • Every call traced to its source
  • Reports in calls and booked jobs

Google searches each month

What Gresham searches for, by service

30

searches a month

  • SEO
    10
  • Web design
    10
  • PPC management
    10

Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.

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$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

Gresham marketing, answered

What one marketing plan does for a Gresham business

Lithium Marketing plans and runs the whole marketing setup for Gresham service businesses: the website, SEO, Google Ads and an AI receptionist, all measured by the booked jobs they produce. Gresham is the fourth-most populous city in Oregon, which makes it a market worth planning for on its own, not a line at the bottom of a Portland campaign.

Gresham is bordered by Portland to the northwest and is an economic center for eastern Multnomah County. If your crews work on both sides of that city line, your marketing should too, and call tracking by city shows which side your booked jobs come from and where the next dollar belongs.

The Gresham market

Winning more of the homes Gresham already has

Gresham’s population went from 114,259 to 111,513 between 2020 and 2025. Growth won’t hand you a wave of new households, so the gains come from winning more of the city’s 41,801 occupied homes: more reviews from past customers, a site that makes it easy to call you again and follow-up texts after every job.

Gresham connects to Interstate 84 on the west and U.S. Route 26 on the east. If your trucks take those roads to Troutdale, Fairview or Sandy, give each of those cities its own page and its own line in your ad targeting, so the jobs from each one are counted on their own.

residents (2025 estimate)
111,513
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
-2.4%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
44,005
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
55.8%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
48.1%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$458,700
median home value

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

Trades in Gresham

Which trades lead with the website, and which with search

Landscaping and painting are both crowded fields in Multnomah County, with 238 landscaping companies and 146 painting contractors. With that much choice, what makes you different has to show on your own site, so a landscaper’s or painter’s plan starts there: galleries of finished yards and rooms, a page for each service and a review request after every job.

Plumbing, roofing and electrical jobs often start with a phone call. Multnomah County has 171 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors and 81 roofing contractors, and searches for “electrician gresham” run about 210 a month, so for these trades the plan puts more weight on SEO, the Map Pack and Google Ads, with the AI receptionist answering every call they produce.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Multnomah County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    436
  • New home builders
    329
  • Landscaping services
    238
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    171
  • Painting contractors
    146
  • Electrical contractors
    106
  • Roofing contractors
    81
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    51

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

How we start

The first months of a Gresham marketing plan

Nothing gets more budget until the tracking shows it earned calls.

1

Track every call by source

Each phone number and form on your site, Google profile and ads reports where the call started, which gives us a baseline before anything changes.

2

Fix the weakest link first

Whichever piece loses the most calls comes first, whether that’s a slow site, a thin Google Business Profile or a phone that rings out.

3

Add pages for Gresham and nearby cities

Pages for each service and for Troutdale, Fairview and the other cities you work go up for SEO, and Google Ads brings in the jobs you need this month while those pages climb.

4

Review the numbers with you monthly

Your report shows calls, leads and booked jobs by channel, and budget moves toward whatever produced them.

Proof

Proof from a commercial glass company in Portland

Town & Country Glass is a commercial glass company in Portland, next door to Gresham. Lithium handled its website, SEO and Google Ads together, and the card shows the results of all three. Daniel Busby of Willard Power Vac, an air duct, dryer vent and chimney cleaning company, adds his own account of working with Lithium.

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
“Lithium Marketing has been amazing for our business. They have greatly increased our web traffic and helped us land hundreds of jobs. Before we started using Lithium we were sitting on page 8 in google. We are now sitting in the top spots in all the areas we do work.”
Daniel BusbyDaniel BusbyPresident, Willard Power Vac

Around Gresham

Marketing pages for the cities around Gresham

Fairview, Troutdale, Happy Valley, Portland and Sandy each have a marketing page with that city’s own search figures, and so does Vancouver, Washington. If your crews already take jobs in any of them, start there; the Oregon page has the full list of cities we cover.

Pricing

What each Lithium service costs in Gresham

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

Gresham marketing questions from owners

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

Where should my Gresham marketing budget go first?

To the gap that loses you the most work. On the first call we check three things: whether your phone gets answered, whether your site turns a visitor on a phone into a call, and whether customers can find you when they search for your trade and Gresham. The weakest of the three gets the first dollar.

Can I start with one service and add more later?

Yes. Plenty of owners start with whatever hurts most, often a new website or the AI receptionist, and add SEO or Google Ads once that first piece is paying its way. The call tracking set up at the start stays in place, so each service you add shows up in the same report from its first month.

Lithium is based in Portland. How does that work for a Gresham business?

It works the way it does for every client: by video, phone and email. Lithium’s team is spread across Portland, Bend and Seattle, and every client relationship runs on video calls, Gresham included. Your strategy calls are with a co-founder, and Allison McKenney, our account manager, answers the day-to-day questions.

What decides how much my Gresham plan costs?

The services you choose and how much work each one needs. SEO is priced on the pages, links and profile fixes your market calls for, weighed against what a lead is worth to you. Google Ads management scales with your ad spend and any landing pages or extra channels, and a website costs more than the typical price only when it is bigger than most service business sites.

How long is the contract?

Most services start with a six-month agreement and then run month to month, ending on 30 days’ notice. The AI receptionist has no contract at all, and a website is a one-time build that belongs to you once it launches.

Free action plan

Get a free marketing plan for your Gresham business

Tell us which services you sell and which cities around Gresham you want more of, and include a link to your site. On a short video call, a co-founder walks through your site, listings and ads with you and names the service to fund first.

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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