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Digital marketing in San Bernardino, California

A marketing agency that runs San Bernardino websites, search, ads and phones as one plan.

A San Bernardino plan puts your website, search, ads and phones on one budget, with the published prices listed up front.

  • Site, search, ads and phones as one plan
  • Calls traced back to where they started
  • One report across every channel

Google searches each month

What San Bernardino searches for, by service

50

searches a month

  • SEO
    30
  • Web design
    20

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

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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

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What a San Bernardino marketing plan should cover

A San Bernardino service business rarely gets the whole plan at once, so Lithium Marketing builds it in stages and starts where calls leak. The city sits inside the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metro area, home to 4,769,007 people, and most customers there reach a trade through a phone or map search.

San Bernardino's population has held steady from 2020 to 2025, so growth is not adding new customers. What changes is who calls: 60.2% of the city's homes were built before 1980, and older houses keep sending repair and replacement work to local trades. One plan should point all four services at the trades you run.

The San Bernardino market

Owner-heavy homes and an aging stock

Owner-occupiers live in 50% of San Bernardino's occupied homes, so renters hold the other half. A plumber, an electrician or a landscaper who writes only for homeowners leaves out a share of the callers, and the site should say how you handle a tenant's request and who signs off on the work.

The housing stock shapes the work. The typical San Bernardino home went up in 1973, so most calls here are about repair and replacement on existing houses, not new ones.

residents (2025 estimate)
222,044
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+0%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
67,108
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
50%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
60.2%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$422,300
median home value

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

Trades in San Bernardino County

A crowded county chart, and where the openings are

San Bernardino County lists 566 residential remodelers and 563 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors, two fields crowded enough that a customer has dozens of established names to weigh. In a field that busy, your finished jobs, your reviews and a page for each service carry more weight than a bigger ad budget.

Smaller fields reward a complete profile. The county has 71 glass and glazing contractors, and a business in a field that size can compete for the searches for its exact work by publishing the jobs it takes and the ones it sends elsewhere.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in San Bernardino County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    566
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    563
  • Electrical contractors
    499
  • Landscaping services
    324
  • New home builders
    304
  • Painting contractors
    181
  • Roofing contractors
    165
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    161

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

The order of work

Putting the four services in order

Tracking comes first, so every choice after it rests on real call numbers.

1

Measure the calls you already get

Month one is about measurement: tracking goes onto the site, the Google profile and any live ads, so you can see which channels bring San Bernardino jobs before anyone spends more.

2

Repair the page that takes the call

When the site runs slow on a phone or hides the phone number, that page gets fixed first, because the other three services all push customers toward it.

3

Point search and ads at your busiest work

SEO earns the pages and map visibility for the services you want to grow, and Google Ads chases the jobs you need booked this week.

4

Put the phone on autopilot

When the phone gets busy, the AI receptionist answers, books the visit and texts you a summary, and automation follows up on the texts and reviews.

Proof

A Gulf Coast glass company's website, SEO and Google Ads

Dixie Glass is a Mississippi Gulf Coast glass company in business since 1946. Lithium's work for it covered a new website, SEO and Google Ads, and the card shows what that combined work changed. Daniel Busby of Willard Power Vac, an air duct, dryer vent and chimney cleaning business, gives his own account beside it.

Dixie Glass website homepage for glass services on the Mississippi Gulf CoastGlass

Dixie Glass

76%more conversions

January vs the January before

ads conversion rate
15.57%
ads conversion rate
organic traffic
+18.2%
organic traffic
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“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 San Bernardino

Marketing for the cities next door

The cities around San Bernardino have their own pages and numbers below. Rialto, Fontana, Jurupa Valley, Riverside, Rancho Cucamonga and Moreno Valley are all covered, and the Inland Empire page widens the plan to the full metro. The California page carries every remaining city Lithium serves.

Pricing

Service pricing for San Bernardino businesses

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

Questions San Bernardino owners ask before hiring

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What does a full marketing plan cost a San Bernardino business?

The prices are listed above, so you can read every one before you call. A website is typically $5,000, SEO runs $1,300 to $3,000 a month, Google Ads management starts at $500 a month plus ad spend, and the AI receptionist is $179 a month with no contract. You choose the first service and build from there.

Do I have to sign for a full year?

Most services run month to month after an initial six-month term, with 30 days' notice to stop. The AI receptionist has no contract, so you can cancel it at any time.

Where is Lithium based, and how do we work together?

Lithium is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with a team in Portland, Bend and Seattle, working with every client by video. You get strategy calls with a co-founder, one account manager for daily questions, and published prices you can check up front.

Can Lithium help a business my size in San Bernardino?

The size of your business decides the plan; there is no minimum. A two-truck plumber and a remodeler with a dozen crews buy the same services; the difference is how many pages, how much ad spend and how many calls the receptionist handles. We scope it against what one new job is worth to you.

What do you need from me to get started?

A link to your current site, the services you want more of, and the cities you cover. If you have call records or a list of the jobs you turn down, those help us pick the first task. The rest, from tracking to copy, is work we do.

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Build your San Bernardino marketing plan for free

Bring a link to your site and the trades you want to grow in San Bernardino. On a short video call, a co-founder will point at the first service to fund and the price that comes with it.

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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