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Digital marketing in Tacoma, Washington

A marketing agency for Tacoma service businesses that brings in more calls.

One plan for your Tacoma business ties the website, search, ads and phone line together, at published prices.

  • Four services, one Tacoma plan
  • Calls tracked back to their source
  • Prices published before work starts

Google searches each month

What Tacoma searches for, by service

810

searches a month

  • Web design
    440
  • SEO
    260
  • Digital marketing
    100
  • PPC management
    10

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

Start with the whole picture

What a Tacoma marketing plan should hold together

Lithium Marketing runs the four services that put a Tacoma service business in front of customers: the website, the search pages, the ads and the phone line. Pierce County holds 20,051 business establishments, which means a homeowner deciding on a plumber or a roofer has plenty of names to choose from before they ever reach yours.

The plan below ties those four services to one question: which door your next customer walks through. A website that converts, a Google profile that ranks, ads that cover the urgent jobs and a receptionist that never sleeps all feed the same report, and that report is what decides where the next dollar goes.

The city in figures

What Tacoma's growth means for your plan

Tacoma's population grew 4.6% between 2020 and 2025, and the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area around it holds 4,161,883 people. People move in without a plumber or a painter on speed dial, and the website, the profile and the phone line are how a newcomer picks a name.

55.8% of Tacoma's occupied homes are owner-occupied, so a large share of the city's households rent. That split decides how the site and the profile should read: the copy cannot assume the person paying for the work is the one living in the house, so service scope and pricing have to be plain enough for a landlord or a manager to act on.

residents (2025 estimate)
229,816
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+4.6%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
97,298
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
55.8%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
64.3%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$479,600
median home value

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

Pierce County trades

The trade mix around Tacoma, by the numbers

Residential remodelers lead Pierce County's trades at 518 businesses, followed by 318 new home builders and 297 landscaping companies. In a crowd that thick, the fight is won on things a buyer can see: photos of finished work, reviews that are current, and a page written for the exact job that was searched.

Smaller fields work differently. Pierce County has 25 pest control companies, and a homeowner with ants does not care how big the category is; they call the first name with a page that matches the problem. Narrow trades win on focus.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Pierce County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    518
  • New home builders
    318
  • Landscaping services
    297
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    271
  • Electrical contractors
    266
  • Painting contractors
    196
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    167
  • Roofing contractors
    150

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

The order of the work

The sequence a Tacoma plan follows

Nothing gets funded until the calls can be counted, then each service earns its turn.

1

Make every call countable

Tracking goes onto the phone number, the forms, the Google profile and the ads, so each caller gets a source you can read in the first month's report.

2

Repair what the click lands on

If the site is slow on a phone or buries the number, it gets fixed or rebuilt first, because everything else sends customers there.

3

Point search and ads at your best work

SEO turns your best services into pages and profile categories, and Google Ads covers the jobs that need booking this month.

4

Answer the phone around the clock

The receptionist picks up every call day and night, and the follow-up work after a job, from text reminders to review asks, can be automated as its own scoped project.

Proof from the trades

F&W Fence Co., from website to search to ads

F&W Fence Co. worked with Lithium on three fronts: its website, its SEO and its Google Ads, and the card beside this text is where that work landed. The quote comes from Daniel Busby, president of Willard Power Vac, the air duct, dryer vent and chimney cleaning business.

F&W Fence Co. website homepage for fence installation, supply and repairFence

F&W Fence Co.

4Xmore ranking keywords

190 to 745 keywords

top-3 rankings (3 to 28)
9X
top-3 rankings (3 to 28)
core search conversion rate
27.78%
core search conversion rate
Read the case study
“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

Where your trucks go

Cities your trucks already reach

Service calls cross city lines all day long, and the pages below follow them. Every city around Tacoma gets its own marketing page, the metro page widens the view to the whole Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue region, and Washington's page holds every city on our list.

Pricing

Published prices for Tacoma marketing services

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 Tacoma owners ask before choosing a plan

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

Where should a Tacoma owner start with the plan?

Wherever the calls escape. Voicemail at night points at the receptionist. A slow, cramped site points at a rebuild. A site nobody finds points at SEO or ads. A co-founder reads your site, profile and tracking on the first call, then names the order.

Do I have to hire Lithium for all four services on day one?

Start with one and grow. All four services pour into one dashboard, so a second service can be judged against the calls the first one already brings in.

How does a Tacoma business work with Lithium day to day?

Lithium Marketing is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with a team in Portland, Bend and Seattle, working with every client by video. Day-to-day questions land with Allison McKenney, the account manager, strategy calls run with a co-founder, and a Tacoma owner keeps a project moving without ever crossing the state.

How does the bill work when we add a second service?

Every service has its own price tag, and the total is whatever combination you choose. The SEO number depends on your market, the ads fee tracks the spend behind it, and a site with more pages than the standard build gets a fixed proposal before work begins.

Is there a contract, and can we stop?

Month to month once the opening term ends. Most services start with six months so the work has a chance to land, then run month to month with 30 days' notice. The AI receptionist is the exception: $179 a month, no contract, cancel anytime.

Free action plan

Plan your next Tacoma marketing dollar

Tell us what you sell and where your trucks go, and link your site. The plan comes back with the first moves, in order, after a short video call with a co-founder.

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.

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  • Response within 24 hours
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