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76%more conversions
January vs the January before
- ads conversion rate
- 15.57%
- ads conversion rate
- organic traffic
- +18.2%
- organic traffic
Digital marketing in Watertown, South Dakota
A marketing agency that brings Watertown service businesses the calls they want.
Watertown service businesses get a website, SEO, Google Ads or an AI receptionist, each at its own published price and reported in calls and leads.
- A fast site on a phone
- Search pages by trade and town
- The whole plan in one report
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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
What Watertown needs first
What a Watertown marketing plan has to cover
Lithium Marketing handles the website, search, Google Ads and phone answering for Watertown service businesses, and the four are planned together. Watertown added 4.8% more residents between 2020 and 2025, and the Watertown micropolitan area includes all of Codington County, so a plan built only for the city limits leaves work on the table.
Codington County’s trade mix leans toward project work: 23 landscaping services, 21 residential remodelers, 16 new home builders, 16 plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors and 10 electrical contractors. Those businesses sell different work at different prices, so the plan starts with the jobs you want and arranges the four services around them.
The four services
Where the four Watertown services meet your work
Pick the service that answers the problem you can point to, and add the rest when the numbers support it.
Search work for each tradeService and area pages, a complete Google profile and reviews that help a Watertown search end at your number.Learn more A site built for the callYour own project photos on each service page, a call button beside the work and a quote form a customer can finish on a phone.Learn more Ads on the jobs you wantGoogle Ads in an account you own, a landing page matched to each campaign and a report on calls, leads and cost per lead.Learn more Calls answered, jobs bookedEvery call gets an answer, the visit goes on your calendar, and a caller who asks for a person is transferred under your rules, with custom automation priced as its own project.Learn more
What a Watertown search shows
The map listing introduces you before the website does
When we checked “plumber watertown,” the map result sat at the top of the page, and the listings showed 10, 33 and 25 reviews. A customer who taps one of those listings has already seen a name, a rating and a phone number, so the website behind it has to match the services, hours and service area on the profile.
Google decides which businesses appear in the map results. The work on your side is the profile itself: the right categories, the trades you serve listed as services, photos of finished work and a service area that names the towns you cover. When the profile and the website agree, a customer has one less reason to keep looking.
| Search | Searches a month | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| digital marketing agency watertown | under 10 | not reported |
| digital marketing watertown | under 10 | not reported |
| marketing agency watertown | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| electrician watertown | 90 | $20.29 |
| plumber watertown | 140 | $17.56 |
| pest control watertown | 170 | $13.30 |
| garage door repair watertown | 30 | $10.37 |
| landscaping watertown | 90 | $2.59 |
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
- 10 to 33 Google reviews each
- Directories in the top 10
- Angi, Better Business Bureau, Facebook, MapQuest, Yellow Pages, Yelp
- AI Overview
- Not shown
- People also ask
- Shown
Source: one Google results page for “plumber watertown”, as Google showed it to a searcher located in Watertown. Search ad counts exclude sponsored local listings. Results shift by searcher and day.
The Watertown market
23,736 residents and 11,110 places to live
Watertown has 23,736 residents and 11,110 housing units. A roof or a remodel is a real decision for a homeowner here, so the site should show finished work and the profile should show what other customers said.
Watertown covers 18.439 square miles, and the trades that serve it are spread across Codington County. Put the towns you cover on the website and in the profile, so a customer at the edge of your area can tell if you will come out.
- residents (2025 estimate)
- 23,736
- residents (2025 estimate)
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- +4.8%
- population change, 2020 to 2025
- housing units
- 11,110
- housing units
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- 65.3%
- of occupied homes owner-occupied
- of homes built before 1980
- 51.5%
- of homes built before 1980
- median home value
- $229,400
- median home value
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2025 population estimates, ACS 2020–2024 and 2023 County Business Patterns.
Trades in Codington County
Codington County’s biggest trades sell projects
Codington County has 1,210 establishments in all, and the mix runs toward project work. The biggest groups sell a project a customer has to picture, so a gallery and a page for each kind of job carry the argument.
The repair trades run on the phone. A plumbing or electrical caller often has a problem that will not wait, so those pages lead with the number, the service area and the hours. A plan that treats every trade the same fits none of them.
County Business Patterns
Trade and home service businesses in Codington County
Establishments by industry, 2023
- Landscaping services23
- Residential remodelers21
- Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors16
- New home builders16
- Electrical contractors10
- Excavation and site preparation contractors7
- Painting contractors4
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 County Business Patterns (NAICS establishment counts).
The order of work
How the four services come together in Watertown
The first job is to find out which service is losing work now, then fix that one before adding the next.
1
Measure the calls you get
We put call and form tracking on the website, the Google profile and any ads already running, so the first report shows where the calls come from.
2
Fix the page the customer lands on
If the site is slow or thin, it gets rebuilt first, because search and ads both send people there.
3
Run search and ads per service
We write the service pages the plan calls for and run ads on the ones that need calls sooner.
4
Answer the calls the work creates
The AI receptionist answers every call, and custom automation, scoped as its own project, handles the follow-up steps you approve.
Proof
A glass company that used all three services
Dixie Glass, a glass company on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, hired Lithium for a new website, SEO and Google Ads, and the card shows what the combined work produced. Marc Rickabaugh of Rickabaugh Construction gives his own account of the website and SEO work his company had done.
Glass“We used the team at Lithium Marketing to update our website and increase our SEO. We couldn't have been happier with the results! We receive compliments about our updated website on a regular basis!”
Marc RickabaughRickabaugh ConstructionAround Watertown
The same four services in the nearby cities
The links below carry the same four services into the nearby cities. West Fargo and Fargo are in North Dakota, so their pages sit outside the South Dakota list, and the state directory holds the rest of the state.
Pricing
What a Watertown marketing plan costs
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
Choosing what to fix first in Watertown
Still curious?
Call (503) 766-5964 or email [email protected].
Where does a Watertown owner start when the site, the ads and the phone all need work?
Start with the service that has the most to gain. If the profile is thin, fix that first. If the site is slow on a phone, rebuild it first. If both work, look at how calls are handled while a crew is on a job and start there. A co-founder looks at the tracking, the site and the profile on the first call and puts them in order.
Can we hire one service without the other three?
Yes. One service is a normal starting point for a Watertown business, whether that is a new site or a campaign, and the others can follow once the first one is paying for itself. The reporting stays the same across whatever you run, so the calls and leads are counted the same way.
Who will we talk to after the plan starts?
A co-founder runs the first call and the strategy calls, and an account manager handles day-to-day questions. Lithium is headquartered in Portland, with team members in Portland, Bend and Seattle, and we work with every client by video.
What does the monthly report show?
One report covers everything you buy: the calls and form fills each service produced, the leads behind them, and the pages or ads we changed that month. You can set it beside last month’s numbers and see what moved.
Does every service come with a published price?
Four of the five do: the website, SEO, Google Ads and the AI receptionist. Custom AI automation is scoped after a free discovery call, because the workflow decides the work. You see that scope before anything is built.
Free action plan
Get a Watertown plan for the work you want more of
Bring your site, your service list and the towns you want to reach. A co-founder will go through them on a short video call and name the first service to fix, then the next.
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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