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Websites for St. Paul contractors and service businesses

Website design for St. Paul, MN that helps customers hire you.

Give St. Paul customers a website that explains your work and makes requesting an estimate easy, with ownership that stays with your business.

  • Your projects explained in plain words
  • Easy estimate requests on mobile
  • WordPress access for your team
Robinson Restoration website homepage built by Lithium Marketing
26Xorganic traffic for Robinson Restoration (79 to 2,200+ visits a month, SEO only)
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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

Help a buyer choose

St. Paul web design with your experience up front

Lithium Marketing turns your project experience into websites that help St. Paul customers decide whom to hire. The city's median housing construction year is 1952. If your team works on older properties, show that experience where a buyer can see it before asking for an estimate.

A polished photo needs a short explanation: what the customer wanted, what your crew did and how the job turned out. We build those details into WordPress pages with obvious call and quote buttons. You get a site that sells your experience and remains yours to edit.

Show the kind of property you work on

Make your portfolio fit St. Paul's housing

Homes built before 1980 make up 77.6% of St. Paul's housing stock. If your work involves repair, renovation or replacement on those properties, give buyers examples with enough detail to judge your experience. Photos of the starting condition can explain a job as well as the finished result.

Housing built in 2010 or later accounts for 6.4% of St. Paul's stock. Companies that handle construction work should give those projects their own space, too. Keep construction and existing-property services clearly labeled so a buyer can find the work that resembles their own plans.

residents (2025 estimate)
306,684
residents (2025 estimate)
population change, 2020 to 2025
-1.5%
population change, 2020 to 2025
housing units
133,051
housing units
of occupied homes owner-occupied
52.9%
of occupied homes owner-occupied
of homes built before 1980
77.6%
of homes built before 1980
median home value
$294,500
median home value

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

Different jobs, different buying questions

Design around the estimate your customer needs

Painting contractors total 53 establishments in Ramsey County. A painting website can help a buyer compare the rooms or exterior surfaces you work on and see how preparation affects the job. For roofing or landscaping, use the same discipline: describe the project beside the images.

Ramsey County has 39 home builder establishments. A builder may need a fuller project story and a form about the proposed build; a customer requesting a repair may need a short form and a prominent call button. We set the page structure around the decision you need the customer to make.

County Business Patterns

Trade and home service businesses in Ramsey County

Establishments by industry, 2023

  • Residential remodelers
    194
  • Landscaping services
    117
  • Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors
    91
  • Electrical contractors
    66
  • Painting contractors
    53
  • Roofing contractors
    41
  • New home builders
    39
  • Excavation and site preparation contractors
    29

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

The website project

Take a St. Paul website from brief to launch

You see the designs and review the content before the build reaches your customers.

1

Decide what visitors need to see

We discuss your services and collect project photos, customer questions and existing website access. The page plan gives each priority service enough room to be understood.

2

Review the screens and copy

Mobile and desktop designs show how the service explanation, photos and quote request fit together. You review the language against the work your business performs.

3

Test the complete customer visit

We build the WordPress site and check forms, phone links and tracking. Old page addresses are matched to their replacements so existing links still take people somewhere helpful.

4

Give your team control

You receive access to the site and a private Loom walkthrough for edits. We explain optional hosting and maintenance so you can choose how the site will be looked after.

What every Lithium website includes

The same eight parts go into every website build, wherever the business is.

See the full web design service

  • Sub-2.5-second mobile load
  • Mobile-first conversion path
  • A clear first screen
  • SEO-ready architecture
  • Google Business Profile alignment
  • Real proof where it converts
  • Tracking tied to revenue
  • Accessible and AI-search ready

A website within a marketing program

Town & Country Glass: design, SEO and Google Ads

For Portland's commercial glass company Town & Country Glass, a Lithium website was part of the work alongside SEO and Google Ads. Read the case for that full program. Dave Turin of Dozer Dave recommends DJ Van Zanten's help with websites and internet marketing in the accompanying quote.

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

More website planning

Plan pages for every Minnesota city on your schedule

The linked web design pages cover Minneapolis, Woodbury, Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Plymouth and Rochester, with regional context on the Twin Cities page. Minnesota's statewide page helps you find other cities that belong in your website plan.

Published price

Budget for the St. Paul website you will own

$5,000

typical project

Larger sites get a fixed proposal after a 30-minute discovery call. Six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch. You own the domain, hosting account, WordPress install and content.

FAQ

Before approving a website project

DJ Van Zanten

Still curious?

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

What can put a service website above the typical build price?

More pages or integrations can make a build larger than a typical service-business website. A company with many services and an extensive project portfolio may need more writing and page layouts. We review that scope on the discovery call and give you a fixed proposal for the larger project.

How much time should we allow for design and launch?

A website typically takes six to nine weeks from kickoff to launch. The project includes gathering your materials, reviewing designs and content, building the pages and checking them before release. Have someone available to answer questions and approve work so decisions don't hold up the build.

Do we keep the website if we change marketing providers?

Your business owns the domain, hosting, WordPress installation and content. Those assets remain yours if you move to another provider. We give you access and a walkthrough so you're able to manage the site, with the option to hire help for ongoing upkeep.

Can you keep the pages that already bring us calls?

We review existing traffic and leads before deciding what to rebuild. Pages that already attract customers inform the redesign, and changed addresses receive redirects to the appropriate replacements. We check the move around launch, although no rebuild comes with a promise that search positions will stay unchanged.

Who handles website maintenance after the build?

You can manage upkeep yourself or choose Lithium's optional hosting and maintenance for $99/month. That includes secure private hosting on a dedicated high-speed server, daily backups, software and security updates, and basic website changes. We quote ongoing care separately from the build so you can budget for both.

Free action plan

Sketch out a stronger website for your St. Paul business

Bring your current site and a few jobs you would like more customers to see. A co-founder will review them on a short video call and prepare a free website plan covering scope, price and timing.

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

Get my free action plan

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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