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Digital marketing in Tempe, Arizona
A digital marketing agency that helps Tempe service businesses turn searches into calls.
Tempe service businesses get a website, SEO, Google Ads and phone answering on one plan, with published prices before the first call.
- Site, search, ads and phones
- Prices published before work starts
- Calls and leads in one report
Google searches each month
What Tempe searches for, by service
340
searches a month
- Web design190
- SEO120
- Digital marketing30
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
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
The Tempe plan
What a Tempe marketing plan covers
Lithium Marketing plans and runs four services for a Tempe service business: the website, the SEO, the Google Ads and the AI phone answering. Work that crosses into Mesa, Chandler or Gilbert stays on the same plan, since the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler metro area, home to 5,228,938 people, is the market a Tempe contractor already works in.
Tempe is an inner suburb between Phoenix and the rest of the East Valley, so the searches that matter cross city lines. The site takes the call, search and ads send people to it, and the AI receptionist answers every call that arrives, whatever the hour.
The four services
What the four services do for a Tempe business
Pick the gap that costs you the most jobs and start there. The rest can wait until the call counts make the case. Each service below has its own Tempe page.
SEO for Tempe searchesPages for each service and each city, a profile with every service listed, and links that lift the pages doing the selling.Learn more A Tempe website that booksYour own WordPress site, built so a phone visitor finds photos, services and a tap-to-call button in the first screen.Learn more Google Ads for the jobs you wantCampaigns built around your best work, with every call tagged to its keyword and the budget moved toward what books.Learn more An AI receptionist on your phonesEvery call answered 24/7 for $179 a month with no contract, jobs booked and callers handed to your team. Custom automation is quoted on its own.Learn more
Search in Tempe
What Tempe searches say about the order of work
About 30 searches a month name Tempe with a marketing phrase, and the trade searches underneath them are larger: 320 a month for “pest control tempe” and 260 for “landscaping tempe”. If a homeowner is looking for a pest treatment, they are not shopping for an agency, so the plan starts where their search starts: a service page, a profile and a phone that gets answered.
When we checked “plumber tempe”, Google opened with the Map Pack, and Facebook, Houzz, MapQuest and Yelp all sat in the top 10. That mix tells a Tempe owner two things: the Map Pack carries the first click, and the directory listings have to match your site or the customer meets two different businesses.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| digital marketing agency tempe | 10 | not reported |
| digital marketing tempe | 10 | not reported |
| marketing agency tempe | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| plumber tempe | 880 | $56.43 |
| pest control tempe | 320 | $49.45 |
| roofing company tempe | 110 | $40.29 |
| garage door repair tempe | 170 | $28.21 |
| landscaping tempe | 260 | $24.46 |
| electrician tempe | 260 | $20.64 |
| water damage restoration tempe | 70 | $14.89 |
| hvac repair tempe | 70 | $11.33 |
Source: Google Ads keyword data, average monthly U.S. searches. "Under 10" = below Google’s reporting floor.
- Map Pack
- The first thing on the page
- Search ads
- None recorded
- Local listing reviews
- 321 to 5,200 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Facebook, Houzz, MapQuest, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber tempe”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Tempe. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Tempe market
Homes, renters and the shape of Tempe
Tempe has 86,182 housing units, and 42.3% of the occupied ones are owner-occupied, so renters and the managers who look after rental properties are part of the market you serve. Your pages should answer the tenant question as plainly as the homeowner one: who approves the work, and who pays for it.
Tempe's housing is old: 41.2% of homes went up before 1980, and repair, replacement and upgrade work follows from housing that age. Each of those offers deserves its own page, not a line on a service list.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 190,571
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +3.5%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 86,182
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 42.3%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 41.2%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $455,400
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Maricopa County
The trades a Tempe plan has to fit
Maricopa County has 1,604 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors and 1,406 residential remodelers, its two largest trade groups. Those numbers matter to a Tempe owner for one reason: the same search results are full of companies that look alike, so the difference has to come from your pages, your photos and your reviews.
The smaller trades need the same foundation: a page for each service you sell, a profile that lists them all, and call tracking that shows which service the caller wanted.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Maricopa County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors1,604
- Residential remodelers1,406
- Landscaping services1,148
- Electrical contractors1,135
- New home builders588
- Painting contractors419
- Pest control companies369
- Excavation and site preparation contractors361
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The order of work
What gets fixed first in Tempe
The order is deliberate: count what arrives today, fix the page that takes the call, then add reach and answering.
1
Tag every call and form
Before anything changes, every call and form gets a source: the site, the profile, the ads and the phone line all report into one place, so the first month shows which Tempe jobs came from where.
2
Make the site worth the click
A slow page, a hidden quote button or a phone number that does not dial gets fixed before more traffic lands on it.
3
Point search and ads at the right jobs
SEO builds the service and city pages and the profile work; Google Ads buys calls sooner than organic results can deliver them.
4
Put the phone in better hands
The AI receptionist answers every call at $179 a month with no contract, books the job or hands the caller to your team. Custom automation is scoped separately for the follow-up work.
Proof
What three services did for a Portland-area plumber
Chris Martin of Mt. Hood Pro Painting gives his own view of working with Lithium in the quote. The case beside it is Sarkinen Plumbing, a Portland-area plumbing company that hired Lithium for its website, SEO and Google Ads.
Plumbing“Ever since we've used Lithium Marketing, our phone has been ringing off the hook and we can hardly keep up with the leads we get from Google, Facebook or through our website. Most of our leads other than referrals are through Google and it's all because of Lithium Marketing.”
Chris MartinMt. Hood Pro PaintingAround Tempe
The rest of the East Valley and the state
Lithium is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with a team in Portland, Bend and Seattle, working with every client by video. Six nearby cities have their own version of this plan: Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, Phoenix, Glendale and Scottsdale. The Arizona link beside them covers the rest of the state.
Pricing
What the four services cost a Tempe business
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 a Tempe owner should ask a marketing agency
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
How do I know whether I need SEO, ads, a website or a phone line?
Start with whatever is losing you jobs now. If the site is slow or has no quote button, fix that first, because every ad and search result lands there. If calls ring out, the AI receptionist comes first. If the site works and nobody finds it, the answer is SEO or Google Ads, and a co-founder sorts out which on the first call.
What if I only want the website right now?
That works. Each service is scoped and priced on its own, and call tracking is shared, so a Google Ads campaign added later is measured in the same calls as the site. Nothing requires all four.
Who runs the first call, and who handles the account after that?
DJ Van Zanten, a co-founder, runs the first call and every strategy call. Allison McKenney, the account manager, is your day-to-day contact. You are not handed to a junior.
What happens when one service needs more budget than another?
Each service keeps its own price, and the split follows the work. SEO stays inside its monthly range, Google Ads runs from $500 a month in management, plus ad spend, and a website is typically $5,000. The plan shows the total before anything starts.
Will this work for a one-crew shop?
A one-crew shop can start with one service and add the rest as the work grows. The first plan usually picks the gap that costs the most jobs, such as a site or Google Ads for the work you want next, and the report counts calls and booked jobs, not impressions.
Free action plan
Build a free plan for your Tempe business
Tell us what you sell, where you sell it and what you already pay for. A co-founder will review your site, listings and ads on a short video call and put the four services in the order that pays back first.
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
(503) 766-5964
[email protected]
2000 NE 42nd Ave Ste D Unit 2370, Portland, OR 97213
Prefer to pick a time? Book a 30-minute call with DJ