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Digital marketing for Lewiston service businesses

A marketing agency for Lewiston service businesses that publishes its prices.

Lewiston service businesses get one plan built around the work they want, and a co-founder runs the first call.

  • A site built around the phone call
  • Search pages for the jobs you want
  • Google Ads and the phone line, one team
Search visibility report ranking sarkinenplumbing.com first among local plumbing competitors
2Xleads for Sarkinen Plumbing (on the same budget)
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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

Four services, one team

What a Lewiston business gets from one marketing team

Lithium Marketing runs the website, the search work, Google Ads and phone answering for Lewiston service businesses so the calls they earn turn into jobs. The four services share one tracking setup, so a call or a form shows up in the same place whether it came from the site, the local listings, an ad or the receptionist.

The Lewiston-Auburn metro has 116,487 people. Auburn sits across the Androscoggin River, and the towns of Greene, Sabattus and Lisbon border the city. A customer who needs a plumber, a roofer or a landscaper may be in one of those towns, so the pages and the ad targets should name the places you cover.

The Lewiston market

Older homes, renters and a river city

Lewiston has 38,866 residents. 79.8% of Lewiston's homes were built before 1980, and 51.2% of Lewiston's occupied homes are owner-occupied. The older housing stock points to repair and replacement pages first, and the rented share means a landlord may need to approve the work, so the site should say who can authorize it.

Lewiston has 44 properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A remodeler, painter or electrician who works on older houses can say so on the page, with the prep and repair work those houses call for.

residents (2025 estimate)
38,866
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+4.7%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
17,105
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
51.2%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
79.8%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$235,100
median home value

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

Trades in Androscoggin County

The county's trade mix, and what it means for a plan

Androscoggin County has 69 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors, 62 residential remodelers and 47 landscaping services. Those are three different sales conversations: an emergency repair, a planned renovation and a project planned weeks ahead. The plan should give each one the page and the phone setup it needs.

Androscoggin County has 45 electrical contractors, a group that sells everything from a panel upgrade to a lighting install. The page should say which of those jobs you take, because a customer searching for one does not want a list of everything.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Androscoggin County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    69
  • Residential remodelers
    62
  • Landscaping services
    47
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    47
  • Electrical contractors
    45
  • New home builders
    23
  • Painting contractors
    16
  • Roofing contractors
    14

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

The order of work

The four steps a Lewiston plan follows

The order matters: count what the phone produces now, make the site fast enough to take the call, then add the channels that send more.

1

Start with what the phone already tells you

Call and form tracking go on the site, the Google profile and any running ads, so the first report shows what the phone produces now.

2

Make the site fast on a phone

If the site is slow or hides the number, that gets fixed before more traffic is sent to it.

3

Build the pages and campaigns

Service pages, profile work and Google Ads follow the trades you want, in the cities you cover.

4

Put a receptionist on the line

The AI receptionist answers calls 24/7, books the jobs your rules allow and transfers a caller to a person when your rules say so.

Proof from a septic company

Byers Septic Service: a website, SEO and Google Ads

Byers Septic Service is a septic business. The card's numbers come from one engagement that covered a new website, SEO and Google Ads, all built and run by Lithium. Dave Turin of Dozer Dave gives the quote beside the card.

Byers Septic Tank Service website homepageSeptic

Byers Septic Service

9Xorganic traffic

91 to 799 visits a month

more ranking keywords (36 to 395)
11X
more ranking keywords (36 to 395)
conversion rate
23.1%
conversion rate
Read the case study
“I highly recommend Dj Van Zanten if you need any help with your website and your internet marketing.”
Dave TurinDave TurinDozer Dave

Around Lewiston

The cities a Lewiston plan can cover

The links below give each nearby market its own page for this work, so a business working in Auburn, Bangor, Rochester or Dover in New Hampshire can pick the one where it wants more calls. The Maine page at the end lists the rest of the state.

Pricing

Prices for a Lewiston website, search, ads and phone line

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

Before a Lewiston business hires a marketing partner

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

Where should a Lewiston owner start when four services are on the table?

Start with the gap that costs the most calls. If the phone rings out while crews are working, the receptionist comes first. If the site is slow on a phone, the site comes first. If both work and customers cannot find the company, search or ads come next. A co-founder reviews the site, the profile and the tracking on the first call.

How do you plan for a trade that sells more than one kind of job?

Give each job its own page. A plumber who sells drain cleaning, water heater replacement and bathroom rough-ins has three different customers, and a single page that lists all three serves none of them well. We map the jobs you want, write a page for each, then point search and ads at the ones worth the spend.

What will the monthly report show me?

Calls, leads and cost per lead, by channel and by campaign. The report shows what the site, the profile, the ads and the receptionist produced, and it does not dress up a ranking as a lead. If a channel is not paying for itself, next month's budget moves.

Who owns the website and the ad account if we stop?

You do. The website, the domain and the content sit in accounts with your name on them, and the Google Ads account is in your name, so the history stays with you. Lithium works inside your accounts, not in an agency account it controls.

What does it look like to work with Lithium from Lewiston?

Your first call and the monthly review happen on a video call. The work is set up the same way: Lithium is headquartered in Portland, with team members in Portland, Bend and Seattle, and we work with every client by video. The first month sets the baseline, then the report shows what each service produced and where the budget goes next. The published prices are the same wherever the business is, so you know the number before the first call.

Free action plan

Ask for a Lewiston plan that names the first fix

Bring a link to the site and the trades you want more of. On a short video call, a co-founder will review the site, the profile and the tracking and name the first service to start with.

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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