Garden centerDrake’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
More work for Maine service businesses
Maine digital marketing and SEO to help you win more booked jobs.
Work with a co-founder on a Maine marketing plan built around the services you sell and the towns you cover.
- Search pages for your target towns
- Estimate forms built for phones
- Managed call answering day and night
Google searches each month
Searches for marketing help that name Maine
Searches for marketing, SEO, web design and ads, by the place they name
- Portland70
- Bangor40
- Searches naming Maine780
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
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
A plan for the jobs you want
Maine marketing that starts with your next customer
Lithium Marketing helps Maine home service businesses win calls and estimate requests with digital marketing and SEO. A homeowner needs to recognize the service they need, check that you cover their town and see a reason to trust your work. We handle the website, search visibility, advertising and call answering needed to make that happen. You choose the services that address your business's gaps.
Homes built before 1980 make up 54.4% of Maine's statewide housing stock. For a business doing repairs or remodeling, completed jobs in older properties can answer questions that a list of services leaves open. Show the condition you found, explain what the customer hired you to do and put the estimate request beside that example. Use the city guides to narrow your marketing to the places you serve.
Choose where you need help
Connect a customer search to a conversation about the job
These service links explain the work behind each offer. Tell us what is holding bookings back, such as low search visibility, an outdated site or unanswered calls, and we can recommend where to begin.
SEO with AI search includedRepair and project questions shape the content we write, while technical fixes and local listing work help search engines understand your business.Learn more Websites that explain your workA WordPress rebuild puts your Maine job examples beside the details customers need before requesting an estimate.Learn more Google Ads by service and townWe check which customer searches suit your offer, exclude places you cannot serve and report recorded leads and campaign-average cost per lead.Learn more Call answering and custom AIManaged AI reception handles questions and appointments while you work, and a free discovery call defines any separate automation project.Learn more
Start closer to your customers
Open a marketing guide for your Maine city
Explore the separate guides for Portland, Lewiston, Bangor, South Portland and Auburn. Each connects its city's housing and search figures to decisions about attracting customers. Start with the town where you want to add jobs to the schedule.
Two different kinds of search
An agency keyword is only the start of your research
Someone typing “web design maine” is shopping for a website provider; that phrase gets about 480 monthly searches. Another agency search, “maine seo”, receives about 170 searches a month. As you compare agencies, ask which searches they would target for your own services and which page a customer would reach. The answer should name the jobs you sell and the towns you cover.
City names appear in customer searches too: the Portland, Maine query “plumber portland me” and the Bangor query “plumber bangor” each receive about 50 monthly searches. A plumbing company serving either city needs its coverage stated where someone can find it before calling. We research your trade's terms in your chosen towns, then use your feedback on booked work to judge the leads those pages and ads bring.
| Search | Searches a month |
|---|---|
| web design maine | 480 |
| maine seo | 170 |
| seo company maine | 70 |
| marketing agency maine | 50 |
| digital marketing agency maine | 10 |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
Properties and scheduling
Help a Maine homeowner prepare for the estimate
Across Maine, homeowners occupy 74.3% of occupied homes. Make requesting an estimate easy for someone who has never hired your trade before. A roof replacement page can explain what you inspect and which photos help you prepare; a remodeling form can ask about the rooms involved. Keep the questions short enough to answer on a phone, then explain who will respond.
Maine has long, cold, very snowy winters, with especially severe winters in the north and west and slightly milder conditions along the coast. If those differences affect when you can complete outdoor jobs, publish the scheduling details for your territory. We can adjust ads around your available appointments and pause an offer if your crews are booked. Use your own booking records to decide when to restart.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 1,414,874
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +3.8%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 751,876
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 74.3%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 54.4%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $296,600
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Give the service a clear description
Let customers recognize their project in your work
Residential remodeling accounts for 1,074 business establishments statewide in Maine. An owner selling that work can make a project gallery do more than show finished rooms: explain the requested changes and what the job included. We write the service description beside the gallery so visitors can check that you handle their kind of project before sending a request.
Maine's statewide business count includes 964 landscaping establishments. A customer comparing routine care with a garden installation needs different information for each. Separate those offers on your site and ask which one the person wants when they call. The same approach helps other trades avoid spending an estimate appointment explaining a service they do not provide.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Maine
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Residential remodelers1,074
- Landscaping services964
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors781
- Electrical contractors662
- Excavation and site preparation contractors620
- New home builders612
- Painting contractors267
- Roofing contractors110
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
Read a garden center's experience
Website, SEO and Google Ads results for Drake's 7 Dees
The Drake's 7 Dees case study covers Lithium's website, SEO and Google Ads work for the garden center. Its results include organic traffic growth and paid advertising conversions. In his recommendation, Drake Snodgrass discusses the website redesign and the business's move up in organic search.
Garden center“Lithium has moved us to page 1 in Google search organically. Prior to working with them we spent a huge part of our marketing budget on paid search. Website redesign was a great experience.”
Drake SnodgrassDrake’s 7 DeesPricing
Published costs for your Maine marketing plan
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
Deciding what your Maine business needs next
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
Can we market in a Maine town without a city guide?
Tell us the town and the services you offer there; the guide list does not limit where we can plan your marketing. We check the searches and existing results for that location before suggesting pages or ads. If you only travel there for certain jobs, that limit belongs in the offer and in the questions asked before an estimate is booked.
Should I rebuild the site before paying for more traffic?
Fix the problems that prevent a visitor from contacting you before increasing traffic. We check the mobile layout, service explanations, forms and phone links on your existing site. Some businesses need focused repairs; others need a rebuild. Tell us which pages already bring calls so we can account for those during the work.
What can I take over myself after the website launches?
Your team can edit the WordPress pages and add job photos, using a private Loom walkthrough made for your site. You retain ownership of the domain, hosting, WordPress installation and content. Keeping those assets in your control lets you choose who maintains the website afterward, including if you change marketing providers.
What should we check before letting AI book appointments?
Start with the appointment types you want callers to book and any exceptions that require a person's judgment. We check calendar compatibility before connecting it, and you choose who receives transferred calls. Test situations such as a customer requesting work outside your service area. The managed AI receptionist has no setup fee; custom automation is quoted separately after a free discovery call.
How do you decide what to change in our Google Ads?
We use recorded calls, campaign-average cost per lead and your feedback on which leads became jobs. Adjustments run daily through the first 30 days, then weekly. Tell us when crew availability changes so ads keep promoting work you can take. Your management fee depends on ad spend, the channels we run and landing-page work; we explain those costs before you commit.
Free action plan
Ask us to map out your next Maine marketing investment
Your free plan begins with a short video call led by a co-founder. Include your website address, current marketing concerns and preferred job types in your message. We will discuss the places you serve and recommend what to tackle, with the costs explained before you decide.
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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