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Digital marketing in Spokane, Washington

One marketing plan for a Spokane service business, built to bring in more calls.

Spokane service businesses get four services on one plan, with the prices published before work starts and a co-founder on the first call.

  • Site, search, ads and phones from one team
  • Published prices, no haggling
  • One report in calls and jobs

Google searches each month

What Spokane searches for, by service

2,880

searches a month

  • SEO
    1,270
  • Web design
    930
  • Digital marketing
    670
  • PPC management
    10

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

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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

One plan for the whole job

How the four services fit together for a Spokane business

Most Spokane service businesses juggle several vendors: a web person, an SEO person, an ads person and whoever answers the phone. Lithium Marketing puts those four jobs under one plan, so a customer who finds you on Google can call, get an answer and book the work.

Spokane County counts 14,426 businesses of all kinds, and 317 of them are residential remodelers alone. With that many companies chasing the same searches, the website, the Google profile and the phone have to say the same thing, because a customer usually compares a few tabs before dialing.

The Spokane market

Slow growth, owner-heavy streets and a wider metro

Spokane grew 0.8% between 2020 and 2025, to 230,783 residents, and 58.8% of the city's occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Growth that slow means the market is decided by who already looks established, so the website, the profile and the reviews carry more weight than a bigger ad budget.

The Spokane-Spokane Valley metro area counts 608,012 people, so a good share of the customers a Spokane business wants live outside the city line. Area pages and a service-area setting reach them; a website that names only Spokane leaves that work to the next company.

residents (2025 estimate)
230,783
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+0.8%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
102,834
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
58.8%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
68.4%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$363,500
median home value

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

Trades around Spokane

Where Spokane County's trades are crowded, and where they are not

Two more crowded fields: 253 new home builders and 223 landscaping companies. In a market that deep, finished-project pages, current reviews and a complete profile are what keep a company in the running.

The county counts 155 electrical contractors and 78 roofing contractors. Those are thinner fields than remodeling, and a company in one of them can cover its services with fewer pages, so the plan can put more into reviews and ads.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Spokane County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    317
  • New home builders
    253
  • Landscaping services
    223
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    179
  • Electrical contractors
    155
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    127
  • Painting contractors
    116
  • Roofing contractors
    78

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

The order of work

The order a Spokane plan follows

The plan opens with measurement, so every decision that follows stands on a real number.

1

Count the calls first

A tracking setup goes onto the site and the profile in week one, so the plan starts from what your marketing already brings in.

2

Repair the front door

A website that stalls on a phone or buries the phone number gets fixed ahead of new spending, because that page receives every visitor.

3

Publish, then advertise

Service and area pages go up for the searches you want to own, and Google Ads buys the ones you need covered before the pages mature.

4

Keep the phone covered

The AI receptionist takes the calls the site and the ads generate, and custom automation looks after the texts and review requests that follow.

Proof

A website and search case from Lithium

The case card covers a website and SEO project for Robinson Restoration. Matt Johnson, from his time running On-Target Landscape, gives the quote beside it.

Robinson Restoration website homepage built by Lithium MarketingRestoration

Robinson Restoration

26Xorganic traffic

79 to 2,200+ visits a month, SEO only

organic visits a month
79 → 2,200+
organic visits a month
top-3 rankings
120
top-3 rankings
Read the case study
“Lithium Marketing is awesome to work with and the results you’ll get are outstanding. Once I started working with them I saw increase in my online presence and my sales increased too. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for help with marketing!”
Matt JohnsonMatt JohnsonOn-Target Landscape

Around Spokane

Marketing for the cities around Spokane

The city links below each have their own page, so a plan can name only the markets the crews cover. Spokane Valley and the metro area sit closest, Coeur d'Alene is across the line in Idaho, and the Washington page covers the smaller towns.

Pricing

What a Spokane business pays for each service

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

What Spokane owners ask before choosing a plan

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

Where should a Spokane business point its first marketing dollar?

Start where the most work leaks away. Unanswered calls point at the receptionist, a slow site on a phone points at a rebuild, and a site nobody finds points at search or ads. A co-founder sets that order with you on the first call.

Can we run one service first and add the others later?

Yes, and most owners do. All four services report into one call-tracking setup, so a second service added next quarter still shows up in the same calls, leads and booked jobs.

What moves the monthly cost of a Spokane plan?

Three things. SEO sits in a range set by your market and the value of one lead, the ads fee scales with what you spend and where you run, and the website price climbs only when the build needs more pages than a standard service site.

How does Lithium work with a Spokane business it has not met?

The work runs on video calls. Lithium Marketing is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with a team in Portland, Bend and Seattle, working with every client by video. A co-founder runs your strategy calls, and an account manager handles day-to-day questions.

What should happen in the first three months?

Tracking goes in first, so the calls and leads you already get are counted from the start. Expect the earliest movement from technical fixes, then local rankings over the following months, with the report showing the trend the whole way.

Free action plan

Start with a free plan for your Spokane business

Send over your current site and the work you want more of. On a short video call, a co-founder will name the first fix across all four services.

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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