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
Marketing for St. George service businesses
A marketing agency for St. George service businesses, built around the phone call.
St. George grew 14.0% in five years, and one team can run the website, the search, the ads and the phone line for your business.
- Four services, one point of contact
- Calls tied to the search that made them
- Prices published before you start
Google searches each month
What St. George searches for, by service
310
searches a month
- SEO210
- Web design80
- Digital marketing20
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
Start with the whole picture
What a St. George marketing plan has to cover
A website, a set of search pages, an ad account and a phone line only pay off when all four point at the same jobs. Lithium Marketing does that work for St. George service businesses, so the searches a customer makes turn into calls and booked jobs.
St. George has 108,713 residents, and the St. George metro holds 213,670. New residents do not know the established names yet, so a clear service page and an answered phone decide which business they try first.
The four services
Where each service fits a St. George business
Fix the most expensive problem first. The cards below open each service's St. George page.
Search pages for each tradeService and area pages plus Google Business Profile work, so the trades you sell show up when someone nearby searches for them.Learn more A site that earns the callA WordPress site in your name, with photos of real jobs and a call button within thumb reach.Learn more Ads aimed at the jobs you wantGoogle Ads with call tracking, so you can see which keyword and page produced each call.Learn more A phone that always answersAn AI receptionist on the line 24/7 that books work and passes callers to a person, at $179 a month with no contract.Learn more
Search in St. George
The trade searches that should shape the plan
Trade searches around St. George are uneven, and the spread should decide where the first pages go. “plumber st george” draws 1,000 searches a month, “pest control st george” 880 and “landscaping st george” 590. A plumber or a pest company has enough volume to justify a page for each service and a profile category that matches it.
At the other end, “garage door repair st george” draws 260 searches at an average click of $56.12. Fewer searches at a high click price mean the page and the ad have to be precise, because there are fewer chances to get the call.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| digital marketing st george | 10 | not reported |
| marketing agency st george | 10 | $17.10 |
| digital marketing agency st george | under 10 | not reported |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| garage door repair st george | 260 | $56.12 |
| plumber st george | 1,000 | $38.34 |
| hvac repair st george | 70 | $35.61 |
| pest control st george | 880 | $18.86 |
| electrician st george | 260 | $17.95 |
| landscaping st george | 590 | $3.85 |
| water damage restoration st george | 10 | not reported |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
- Map Pack
- On the page, below other results
- Search ads
- 2 recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 11 to 1,100 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- HomeAdvisor, Nextdoor, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Shown above the results
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber st george”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in St. George. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The St. George market
Newer homes, new residents and a wide service area
St. George has 43,039 housing units, and the city covers 77.403 square miles of land. That is a lot of ground for one location, so the plan gives the towns and neighborhoods you serve their own pages, not one generic service-area line.
A wide service area changes the phone work as well: a caller at the far edge needs to know if you cover that address before booking a visit. The website and the AI receptionist should answer that question the same way, and your team's coverage list decides what both of them say.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 108,713
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +14%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 43,039
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 66.7%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 10.6%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $496,100
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Washington County
Builders and landscapers lead the county's trade list
New home builders and landscaping services are the two largest trade groups in Washington County, at 211 and 162 establishments. In a county of 7,191 establishments, those two trades shape a lot of the work: new lots, new yards and the finish work that follows. A builder or landscaper needs project pages that show finished work, while the repair trades need a phone number a customer can find in one tap.
The county also counts 144 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors, 98 residential remodelers and 65 painting contractors. A remodeler or painter sells a large, planned purchase, so the page has to carry finished work, a plain scope and a reason to call now.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Washington County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- New home builders211
- Landscaping services162
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors144
- Residential remodelers98
- Electrical contractors93
- Excavation and site preparation contractors92
- Painting contractors65
- Pest control companies45
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The order of work
What gets fixed first in St. George
The first month should show where your calls come from before anyone spends more on advertising.
1
Agree on what counts as a lead
You define the calls and forms worth counting, and that definition goes into the tracking before any page or ad changes.
2
Make the site fast on a phone
All four services send people to the website, so it gets checked first for speed, a visible call button and a form that works with one thumb.
3
Put a page behind each trade
Each trade you sell gets its own page and its own ad group, so the budget follows the work you want more of.
4
Keep the line answered
The AI receptionist takes the calls the other three produce, and custom automation can carry the follow-up text or review request.
Proof
A garden center's website, SEO and Google Ads
Drake’s 7 Dees, a garden center, hired Lithium for a new website, SEO and Google Ads. The card shows what those three services produced. Nathan Boos of Hillsview Building gives the quote beside it.
Garden center“A lot of options out there for websites and SEO. I’ve worked with this team for years now and would highly recommend them. They know their stuff and deliver results. More importantly to me- they care about service and follow through on what they say they will do. Easy to work with and communicate with. Thank you!”
Nathan BoosHillsview BuildingAround St. George
Marketing for the markets beyond St. George
The pills below open the same service in five Nevada markets and on the Utah page, each with its own figures.
Pricing
What a St. George 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
FAQ
What to settle before you sign with an agency
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
Should we start with SEO, ads or a new website?
Start where the tracking shows the biggest loss. If no one can say which search produced the last booked job, tracking comes first. After that, the report points to the page, the profile, the ad account or the phone line, and the budget follows that answer.
What does a plan cost before any work starts?
The prices above are separate, because each service is priced on its own. A larger website gets a fixed proposal, and custom AI automation is scoped after a free discovery call. The proposal lists the services you choose and the price for each before work begins.
What terms come with the usual service agreement?
Most services start with six months, then run month to month; after that, either side can end the agreement with 30 days’ notice. The first term gives local search work time to show results. The AI receptionist is the exception: $179 a month, no contract, cancel anytime.
How do strategy calls work for a St. George business?
On a video call, at a time that fits your week. Lithium Marketing is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with a team in Portland, Bend and Seattle, working with every client by video. You get a co-founder on strategy calls and an account manager for the day to day.
Do you work outside St. George itself?
The work covers Washington County and the St. George metro. Service-area pages and ad targeting by city let a business that works in more than one town show up there without a second location. The Nevada cities linked below sit in another state and have their own pages.
Free action plan
Name the first fix for your St. George business
Tell us what you sell and where you work. A co-founder looks at the site, the profile and the ads by video, then names the first fix.
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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