Painting PPC Agency

The Tradesmen Agency has generated over $3 million 

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HOW IT WORKS

➤ Initial Consultation
➤ Local Keyword Targeting
➤ Compelling Ad Copy
➤ Landing Page Design
➤ Budget Management
➤ Conversion Tracking

Maximize your reach with expert Google Ads Management. Our team crafts data-driven ad campaigns that boost visibility, attract qualified leads, and enhance ROI for your business.

Enhance your online presence with professional SEO Management. Our team optimizes every aspect of your website to drive traffic, improve rankings, and deliver measurable results for your business.

Transform your digital presence with our Website Design services. We create user-friendly, visually engaging websites tailored to your brand, designed to captivate visitors and drive conversions.

Our team understands the unique challenges and needs of tradesmen. We have the knowledge and experience to optimize your campaigns targeting relevant keywords and demographics to attract the right customers for your trade business. 

Turn past leads into paying clients with targeted email marketing campaigns built for fence companies and tradesmen. We craft automated sequences that nurture leads, re-engage old customers.

Streamline your business with smart automations, from lead follow-ups to quote reminders and job scheduling. We connect your tools so you can focus on building, not button-clicking. Less admin, more action.

Tradesmen Agency Pricing Packages

Choose from our growth-ready plans, each designed to turn your ad spend into booked jobs. All packages include Google Ad Management, conversion tracking, and monthly reporting.

Apprentice

For companies under $1M

$2,500/mo

  • ✅ Google Ad Management
  • ✅ Conversion tracking & monthly reporting

Journeyman

For $1M–$5M businesses

$7,500/mo

  • ✅ Custom Website Design
  • ✅ Starter SEO Services
  • ✅ Google Map Pack SEO
  • ✅ Google Ads Management
  • ✅ Conversion tracking & monthly reporting

Master

For $5M+ businesses

$10,000/mo

  • ✅ Custom Website Design
  • ✅ Full SEO Services
  • ✅ Google Map Pack SEO
  • ✅ Google Ad Management
  • ✅ Conversion tracking & monthly reporting

Craftsman

For $10M+ organizations

$15,000+/mo

  • ✅ Enterprise SEO, PPC & Website
  • ✅ Larger amounts of content + linking
  • ✅ Weekly check-ins & custom reports
  • ✅ For companies with many locations

Painting PPC Agency

The Tradesmen Agency has generated over $3 million 

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Painting is the one trade that should never have an off season.

Every other contractor we work with has dead months. Concrete cannot pour in a freeze. Landscapers stop mowing. Roofers slow down in winter.

Painting does not have that problem. It has two seasons that run opposite each other. Exterior work peaks in summer. Interior work peaks when homeowners are stuck indoors and thinking about the room they hate.

Almost every painting account we audit is built for one of those and goes quiet during the other. The account should not be pausing. It should be rotating.

We own trade businesses. We run our own accounts before we run yours.

What painting ads actually cost

Core terms like house painter near me run $8 to $25 a click depending on market, averaging near $14. Cost per lead on a well-managed campaign lands between $45 and $130, with Local Services Ads typically producing leads in the $30 to $75 range.

Daily budgets under $30 to $40 generally produce inconsistent delivery in competitive markets, which is why painting is a trade where a small budget spread thin produces nothing at all.

Those numbers are the reason structure matters more here than in cheaper categories. At $14 a click, one untargeted ad group is a wasted month.

What breaks in a painting Google Ads account

Interior and exterior in one campaign

They have different seasons, different buyers, different project values, and different urgency. Blended into one campaign, your budget follows whichever has more search volume that week rather than whichever you can actually schedule.

The account going dark half the year

The most common version of the above. Exterior spend gets cut in October and nothing replaces it, so the account loses momentum, conversion data, and bidding history right when interior demand is climbing.

Cabinet work buried inside interior painting

Cabinet painting and refinishing is a different product with a different margin and a buyer who has usually been researching for weeks. It carries its own search behavior and deserves its own campaign.

Paying to reach DIY homeowners

Painting has the heaviest DIY search volume of any trade we work in. Paint brands, color matching, how-to, hardware store searches. Without a negative list built before launch, a meaningful share of $14 clicks goes to people buying a roller.

Commercial mixed with residential

A property manager repainting twelve units and a homeowner painting a bedroom are unrelated sales. Different cycle, different decision maker, different landing page.

No conversion tracking

Painting leads arrive as calls and form fills, and the estimate happens days later at the house. Without call and form tracking, you cannot tell which keywords produce booked estimates.

Budget spread too thin

At $14 a click and a $30 daily budget you are buying two clicks a day. Google cannot optimize on that, and neither can you.

How we build a painting account

Campaigns split by service and season

Exterior painting

House painting, siding, trim, deck and fence staining. Peaks in warm months. Higher ticket, weather dependent, and worth loading budget into ahead of the season rather than during it.

Interior painting

Rooms, whole home interiors, ceilings, trim. Climbs as exterior falls. This is what keeps the account alive from October through March.

Cabinet painting and refinishing

The highest margin work most painters do. Long research cycle, photo driven, and a buyer comparing craftsmanship rather than square footage price. Deserves its own campaign, its own ad copy, and its own landing page with real before and after work.

Commercial and property management

Multi-unit, HOA, and commercial repaints. Contract sale, procurement timeline, repeat relationship. Nothing about the homeowner pitch works here.

A rotating seasonal budget instead of a paused one

Budget moves between exterior and interior rather than switching off. The account keeps its conversion history, its bidding stays trained, and you keep booking work in the months your competitors go quiet.

This is the single biggest structural advantage available in painting and almost nobody uses it.

Campaign settings we correct first

Location targeting

Presence only, people in or regularly in your service area. The default also serves anyone who has shown interest in your city, which at $14 a click gets expensive quickly.

Network settings

Display Network and Search Partners both off. Google pre-checks them on every new Search campaign and neither carries search intent.

Match types

Phrase and exact on money terms. Broad match in painting finds paint brands, color names, and DIY tutorials at a scale that will drain a small budget in days.

Tightly themed ad groups

Cabinet painting and exterior house painting should never share an ad group. Tight keyword to ad to landing page matching raises Quality Score, and Quality Score lowers your cost per click across the account.

At $8 to $25 a click, a Quality Score improvement is worth more than any manual bid adjustment.

Negative keywords installed before launch

DIY and retail

DIY, how to, tutorial, sherwin williams, behr, benjamin moore, home depot, lowes, paint colors, color match, paint sale, roller, brush, primer.

Employment

Jobs, hiring, salary, careers, painter wanted, apprenticeship.

Wrong service

Auto painting, car painting, powder coating, art, artist, face painting, paint and sip.

That last group matters more than it sounds. Painting is a word with many meanings and Google will happily spend your budget on all of them.

Landing pages per service

Cabinet traffic hits a cabinet page with before and after galleries. Exterior traffic sees exterior work.

Click to call above the fold on mobile, service area named, license and insurance visible, and a short quote form.

Tracking that follows the job to close

Call tracking

Dynamic number insertion, so you know which keyword produced which call.

Conversion tracking

Calls and forms both primary, through Google Tag Manager.

Offline conversion import

When a $14,000 cabinet and interior package closes three weeks after the click, that revenue feeds back into bidding so Google learns which keywords produce jobs rather than estimate requests.

What we report

Cost per booked estimate and cost per closed job, split by service. What cabinet work produced against general interior. How the seasonal rotation performed against the prior year.

Not impressions. Not click-through rate. Not a dashboard screenshot with a green arrow on it.

What it costs

Google Ads management

$2,500 a month, flat.

What’s included

Google Ads and Local Service Ads managed together. Campaign build and restructure, seasonal rotation between interior and exterior, negative keyword management, call tracking, conversion tracking, offline conversion import, and monthly reporting on cost per booked estimate.

How ad spend is handled

Ad spend is billed to you directly by Google. We never take a cut of the media, and you own the account. If we part ways, you keep the history and everything the account has learned.

Most painting contractors we work with also run painting contractor SEO, because cabinet refinishing and color consultation searches are far cheaper to rank for than to buy at $14 a click.

Why us

We own trade businesses. That’s the difference, and most agencies pitching you can’t say it.

Bear Brothers Cleaning is ours. We’ve priced jobs, hired crews, run the phones, and lived with a cost per lead that had to work against real margins. We also run paid search for Plastic Fusion Fabricators and TriHaz Solutions, both industrial operations with long buying cycles and large contracts.

We’ve generated over $3 million in revenue for the businesses we market.

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Frequently asked questions

Do Google Ads work for painting contractors?

Yes, and painting has an advantage most trades do not. Interior and exterior demand run counter-seasonally, so a properly structured account produces work year round instead of going dark for a season.

How much do Google Ads cost for painters?

Core terms like house painter near me run $8 to $25 a click, averaging near $14. Cost per lead on a well-managed campaign typically lands between $45 and $130, with Local Services Ads producing leads around $30 to $75.

What is the minimum budget for painting Google Ads?

Daily budgets under $30 to $40 generally produce inconsistent delivery in competitive markets. At $14 a click that is two to three clicks a day, which is not enough for Google or for you to learn anything from.

Should interior and exterior painting run in separate campaigns?

Yes. Different seasons, different buyers, different project values, and different urgency. Blended together your budget chases whichever has more volume that week rather than whichever you can schedule.

What should painters do in the off season?

Rotate rather than pause. Exterior peaks in warm months and interior climbs as it falls. Pausing costs you conversion history and bidding momentum right when the other half of your business is heating up.

What negative keywords do painting contractors need?

The DIY and retail cluster above all: paint brand names, color matching, home depot, lowes, how to. Plus the wrong-industry terms, since painting also means auto painting, powder coating, and art classes.

Should painters bid on cabinet painting separately?

Yes. Cabinet refinishing is the highest margin work most painters do, the buyer researches for weeks, and the decision is made on photographs. It needs its own campaign and its own gallery page.

Do you mark up ad spend?

No. Ad spend is billed to you directly by Google and you own the account. We charge a flat $2,500 management fee and never take a cut of the media.