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Paid advertising for Cincinnati service businesses

Cincinnati PPC built around the jobs you want to book.

Spend your Cincinnati advertising budget on defined services and locations, with campaign reports that show calls, leads and average cost per lead.

  • Ads matched to the service offered
  • Campaign call and form tracking
  • Search terms reviewed for waste
Drake’s 7 Dees garden center and landscaping website homepage
380%more organic traffic for Drake’s 7 Dees (in one year)
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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

Make the click worth buying

Start Cincinnati PPC with a job worth advertising

Lithium Marketing manages Cincinnati PPC campaigns around the services your business can profitably sell. “HVAC repair cincinnati” carries an average click cost of $52.72. At that price, a vague ad and a general homepage leave too much unexplained. We match the search, offer and landing page before asking you to increase spending.

Different trades start with different costs: a click for “electrician cincinnati” averages $15.02. Your campaign budget also depends on how often visitors call and how many leads become bookings. We set up conversion tracking and compare campaign performance with your feedback, so spending decisions reflect the work you receive.

Plan spending around capacity

Use your booking history to set the advertising calendar

Cincinnati summers are hot and humid, with significant rainfall in each month. If heat brings more cooling calls or rain changes the jobs you can schedule, account for that in the campaign plan. We discuss staffing and availability before promoting an offer you cannot deliver.

Cincinnati winters are moderately cold with intermittent mild periods. If your heating or outdoor-service bookings change through winter, compare those patterns with your ad performance. Seasonal adjustments should follow the services you want to sell and the room in your schedule, with budgets reviewed as those conditions change.

residents (2025 estimate)
314,367
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
+1.5%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
160,409
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
39.8%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
79.9%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$230,900
median home value

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

Choose an offer you can defend

Compete with a specific service and a credible page

Roofing contractors account for 53 establishments in Hamilton County. An ad promising a roofing estimate should lead to a page that explains the roof work you handle and shows completed jobs. We test the offer and the call-to-action against lead quality before deciding that the bid needs to rise.

For landscaping, Hamilton County’s count is 284 establishments. Separate installation and ongoing care where your business sells both, so the ad speaks to the customer you want. Search exclusions, location choices and page improvements can all change how the budget performs without adding another service to the campaign.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Hamilton County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Landscaping services
    284
  • Residential remodelers
    280
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    220
  • Electrical contractors
    134
  • New home builders
    69
  • Painting contractors
    60
  • Roofing contractors
    53
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    46

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

Account work you can inspect

Give every Cincinnati campaign a service to sell

The setup connects the advertised work to a tested contact step; continuing management uses the resulting calls and leads.

1

Review spending against the services sold

We inspect an existing account or research a starting campaign. Search terms, locations and your preferred jobs determine what belongs in the plan.

2

Check the tracking before trusting the totals

We configure analytics and call tracking, test forms and verify the conversion events. Completed forms and received calls give you customer contacts to compare across campaigns.

3

Write the ads and the page as a pair

The landing page answers the promise in the ad, with your service details and a clear request to call or book an estimate. Negative keywords filter searches outside that offer.

4

Review daily at launch, then weekly

During the first 30 days, we review campaigns daily; after that, reviews continue weekly. We adjust search terms, bids and spending using campaign performance and your booking feedback.

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

Advertising within a complete project

Read the Town & Country Glass campaign results

Town & Country Glass is a commercial glass company in Portland. Lithium supplied its website and handled SEO as well as Google Ads, the full engagement represented by the case study. Drake Snodgrass, owner of garden-center business Drake’s 7 Dees, describes his experience with Lithium in the separate recommendation.

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
“Lithium has moved us to page 1 in Google search organically. Prior to working with them we spent a huge part of our marketing budget on paid search. Website redesign was a great experience.”
Drake SnodgrassDrake SnodgrassDrake’s 7 Dees

Review a market before you target it

Set campaign coverage city by city

Before adding a city to a campaign, check its click costs against the work you want to win there. Start with Dayton, Ohio, or Covington, Kentucky, among the separate markets linked here; the Ohio collection offers more places to research.

Published price

Separate the campaign budget from the management fee

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

Decisions before you pay for the next Cincinnati click

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What changes the fee for running my PPC campaigns?

Ad spend, the channels we run and landing page work determine the management fee. Pricing starts from $500 a month in management, plus ad spend. We agree the fee and the campaign budget before launch, so you can judge the total investment and the work it includes.

How quickly can a campaign begin generating leads?

Initial results typically arrive within the first week of running campaigns. That gives us a starting point for reviewing search terms, calls and forms, with daily checks during the first 30 days and weekly checks afterward. The pace and cost depend on your offer, market and landing page.

How do we decide if Cincinnati PPC is worth continuing?

Compare each campaign’s average cost per lead with the kind of jobs those leads produce. Our reports show calls and leads, and your team tells us which customers booked and what work they needed. That combination helps decide which services to keep promoting, revise or pause.

Can you run Facebook or Microsoft campaigns as well?

Lithium manages Microsoft Ads and Meta advertising on Facebook and Instagram as well as Google Ads. We choose channels against the audience and offer, with tracking for each campaign. Adding a platform should have a clear purpose and a budget you can evaluate separately.

What are the terms if I hire you to run ads?

Expect an initial six-month service agreement, then month-to-month service with 30 days’ notice. We put the scope, fee and terms in the proposal. Advertising spend remains separate, and we review performance with you so decisions about the next campaign are based on leads and booking feedback.

Free action plan

Check the economics of your next Cincinnati ad campaign

Send your website, the services you want to advertise and what you currently spend. A co-founder will review the opportunity on a short video call and put the priorities into a free PPC plan.

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.

  • 100% free, no obligation
  • Custom plan for your business
  • Response within 24 hours
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