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PPC in Chattanooga, Tennessee

A PPC agency for Chattanooga that reports calls and not clicks.

Google Ads for a Chattanooga service business come with call tracking before the first click and a report that shows which keyword produced each job.

  • Call tracking from the first click
  • A landing page for each service
  • Monthly cost per lead
Search visibility report ranking sarkinenplumbing.com first among local plumbing competitors
2Xleads for Sarkinen Plumbing (on the same budget)
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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

Ads that answer the phone

What one Chattanooga click has to earn back

An average click on “plumber chattanooga” costs $37.69, and a service business that cannot tie a call to its keyword is buying guesses. Lithium Marketing runs Google Ads for Chattanooga companies with tracking in place before the first click, so the budget goes to the searches that end in booked work.

“Garage door repair chattanooga” averages $34.89 a click, and “roofing company chattanooga” averages $28.22, so plumbing is not the only expensive search here. At those prices, every wasted term costs real money. The campaign starts with a landing page for one job, a tight keyword list and a daily look at the terms that spent without a call.

The months that move the budget

Heat, cold and the months that fill a calendar

Chattanooga summers are hot and humid: 52 days annually with 90 °F (32 °C) or greater temperatures. If your HVAC or landscaping calls bunch up in that stretch, the budget should be ready before it, not spread evenly across the year.

If a cold snap keeps the high at or below freezing, keep a small campaign live through it. The budget can rise when the forecast turns, and your own call history shows whether the cold brought calls.

residents (2025 estimate)
194,144
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+6.9%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
87,970
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
52.4%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
54.5%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$283,200
median home value

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

Which trades carry the bid

Where the trade click prices change the plan

Hamilton County lists 29 roofing contractors, the smallest trade in the top eight. At $28.22 a click, a landing page that names the repair or replacement job is worth more than a broad bid on every roof term.

Landscaping is a different buy: $3.68 a click and 590 searches a month for “landscaping chattanooga”. That low price makes a small test possible, but the page has to show designs, installation work and a service area before the click pays off.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Hamilton County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    125
  • Residential remodelers
    106
  • Landscaping services
    101
  • New home builders
    83
  • Electrical contractors
    62
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    42
  • Painting contractors
    30
  • Roofing contractors
    29

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

The first month

From account review to weekly tuning

Tracking goes in before a dollar moves. After that, campaigns follow the jobs you can staff and the months you can staff them.

1

Start from the current spend

The first pass through your account keeps the campaigns that book work and flags the search terms that cost money without a call.

2

Tie each lead to a source

Every call and form gets a source, so the monthly report can name the keyword and the ad behind it.

3

Build a campaign per service

Your best services get separate campaigns, each with a landing page written for that search and that offer.

4

Thirty days of daily checks

Bids and search terms get checked every day for the first 30 days, then once a week against the budget calendar.

What every Google Ads account includes

The same eight parts go into every Google Ads account, wherever the business is.

See the full Google Ads service

  • Conversion tracking, properly wired
  • Landing pages per intent
  • Match types and negatives
  • Responsive search ads
  • Geo and audience targeting
  • Bid management
  • Remarketing
  • Looker Studio reporting

A complete glass-company account

One glass company's combined search work

Town & Country Glass is a commercial glass company in Portland, and the card reports what its website, SEO and Google Ads work produced. The quote is from Dave Turin, whose company Dozer Dave handles excavation.

Town & Country Glass website homepage for commercial storefront glass in PortlandCommercial glass

Town & Country Glass

13Xorganic traffic

145 to 1,849 visits a month

top-3 rankings, up from 1
109
top-3 rankings, up from 1
Google Ads conversion rate
29.9%
Google Ads conversion rate
Read the case study
“I highly recommend Dj Van Zanten if you need any help with your website and your internet marketing.”
Dave TurinDave TurinDozer Dave

Campaign locations

Campaign locations across three states

An ad campaign can be split by city, and the campaign map can follow the same list. Knoxville and Murfreesboro in Tennessee have PPC pages below, as do the Alabama and Georgia cities, and the Tennessee directory lists the rest.

Published price

What Google Ads costs a Chattanooga business

From $500

per month in management

Management is separate from your ad spend. Typical: $500–$1,500 a month in management on $2,000–$5,000 a month in ad spend. No haggling, no hidden upsells.

FAQ

Before you spend on Google Ads

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Still curious?

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

What monthly ad budget makes sense here?

Work backward from your closing rate. If a booked job is worth enough to absorb several clicks, a modest budget can pay for itself; if it is a small repair ticket, the landing page has to convert at a higher rate before the same spend works. We look at your trade's click cost, the jobs you want and the page that receives the click, then agree a starting figure.

How soon can ads produce calls?

Calls usually start arriving within the first week, but the account keeps changing after that. A $37.69 plumbing click in Chattanooga has to be watched more closely than a $3.68 landscaping click, so early work is removing search terms that never book and moving budget to the ones that do.

How long is the PPC agreement?

Plan on a six-month start, then month to month with 30 days' notice. Management begins at $500 a month plus ad spend. If the plan adds channels or landing pages, the quote covers them, and you decide on that quote before the account spends anything.

Are Google Ads the only channel you run?

Microsoft Ads and Meta ads on Facebook and Instagram are available when they fit. The test is where your buyers already spend time and what a call costs on each platform. Google usually goes first because the search intent is clearest, and another channel joins only after the first one has enough data to compare.

How do I see which search terms produced work?

Your monthly report starts with the keyword and ad behind every call and form. It groups calls, leads and cost per lead by campaign, and once staff mark the leads that turned into work, the next month's budget moves toward those campaigns.

Free action plan

See what your trade's clicks cost in Chattanooga

Your trade, the months you can staff and the revenue a booked job brings are the inputs. A co-founder lines them up against Chattanooga click costs in a short video call and says where the budget should rise or wait.

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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