Electrician working inside a circuit breaker panel
Electrician Specialists

Electrician Google Ads + LSA, Run by Specialists. Not Generalists.

We optimize for booked jobs, not leads. Most agencies don't. Electrical work has a ticket spread most agencies never account for: a $150 outlet repair, a $2,800 panel upgrade, a $2,500 EV charger install, a five-figure commercial project, all through the same phone line. Our EV Charger & Panel Upgrade Growth System exists because the searches for that high-margin work are thin in most markets while the money is enormous. We capture the demand that actually exists, price it against the job it can become, and filter the EV traffic that never converts.

Panel + EV + generator campaign architecture Call tracking with booked-job marking 20 accounts per AM, hard cap Free custom landing pages 20+ electrical accounts managed
$445Flat monthly Local Services Ads management. Not a percentage of your spend.
$695Google Ads management from, flat tiers by ad spend rather than a cut of it.
$0Custom landing pages built for your campaigns. No design fee.
30 daysMonth to month. No setup fee, no minimum term, and the account stays yours.

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! The Lead Quality Problem

Buying electrician leads that never turn into paying customers?

Most electricians do not have a lead volume problem. They have a lead quality problem: shared leads sold to four competitors, DIYers researching outlet wiring, job seekers clicking paid ads, and phone numbers that never pick up. Every one of these has a specific cause, and every one has a specific fix built into how we structure the account.

Pain 1

"The same lead was sold to four other electricians"

Angi, HomeAdvisor, and Thumbtack sell one homeowner to multiple electricians, then everyone races to call first and discounts to win. By the time you connect, someone already quoted the job. Google Ads and LSA leads are exclusive: the homeowner searched, saw your ad, and called you. Nobody else has that phone number. That difference alone changes your close rate before anything else is touched. Full math: Angi leads vs Google Ads.

Pain 2

"Half the leads never pick up when I call back"

That is the signature of shared-lead platforms: the homeowner filled one form, got five calls in ten minutes, picked whoever answered live, and stopped answering their phone. Exclusive search leads flip the dynamic. The homeowner calls you, at the moment the breaker will not reset, which is why search leads book at rates shared platforms cannot match for the electricians who call third, fourth, and fifth.

Pain 3

"Job seekers and apprentices clicking my ads"

"Electrician salary", "electrician apprenticeship near me", "how to become an electrician", "journeyman license requirements". Career searches around the electrical trade are enormous, and without a negative keyword wall they click your paid ads with zero chance of becoming customers. The block list goes in on day one (job seekers, schools, licensing lookups, DIY, parts and supply), with weekly search-term reviews while the account learns.

Pain 4

"Small-job calls eating my big-job budget"

A $150 outlet repair click and a $2,800 panel upgrade click can cost the same. Run them through one campaign and Smart Bidding optimizes for an average customer that does not exist, usually overpaying for small service calls at panel-upgrade bids. We separate service calls, panel and service upgrades, EV chargers, generators, and commercial into their own campaigns with their own CPL ceilings, so the budget buys the job mix you actually want.

Pain 5

"I want specialty work but the leads never come"

Here is the pattern we see repeatedly in local keyword data: searches for generator installs, EV chargers, and other specialty services are a fraction of generic "electrician near me" volume in most markets. If you only bid specialty terms, the phone stays quiet. The winning structure captures the generic demand with strong campaigns, then routes callers to high-value specialty work through the estimate conversation and a landing page that showcases it.

Pain 6

"Google says 40 conversions. I wrote 12 work orders."

A default account counts every 60-second phone call as a conversion, so Smart Bidding optimizes for whatever makes phones ring: price shoppers, solicitors, wrong numbers. Our build marks actual booked jobs in call tracking and imports them back into Google Ads against the original click, so the algorithm learns which clicks become signed work orders and bids for those.

The Fix

What a clean electrician build sends instead

Exclusive calls from homeowners and facility managers in your real service area, filtered through a career-search-proof negative wall, separated by job value with their own CPL ceilings, routed to landing pages built for each service line, and tracked through to booked revenue so the bidding gets smarter every month. That is the difference between buying leads and owning a lead system. It is also why the guarantee below is on cost per booked job, not cost per lead.

The Signature System

The EV Charger & Panel Upgrade Growth System

The highest-margin work an electrician can sell is a service or panel upgrade. The problem is that almost nobody wakes up and searches for one. This is the system we build to capture the demand that does exist and route it into the work that actually pays.

Start with the uncomfortable number. In one real Boise-metro keyword study we ran for a client, EV charger installation drew roughly 100 searches a month and panel upgrades roughly 130. "Electrician near me" drew 1,000. Any agency promising to flood you with EV charger leads either has not looked at your market's data or is counting on you not asking. The volume is not there. The money is there, which is a different problem with a different solution.

Step 1

Capture where the demand actually lives

Generic electrician searches carry most of the local volume, and they are where the budget can actually spend. We build those campaigns properly (tight geo, negative wall, call tracking) and treat them as the front door rather than as low-value filler. A "no power to half the house" call and a panel upgrade lead are frequently the same customer forty minutes apart.

Step 2

Bid to the panel ceiling, not the service-call ceiling

This is the whole unlock. A $250 service call at 40% margin and a 38% booking rate breaks even near $38 per lead. A $2,800-$3,000 panel upgrade at the same booking economics breaks even near $473. Panel upgrade leads run $50 to $80. Most electrician accounts are managed to the $38 ceiling on every campaign, which caps them out of the work worth having.

Step 3

Kill the EV waste before it eats the budget

The single biggest trap in electrician advertising: people searching to find a charger, not install one. In that same Boise study, "ev charging stations near me" alone drew 880 searches a month, and total deduped waste (6,300/mo) exceeded the actual money terms (4,500/mo). An unfiltered EV campaign spends most of its budget on drivers looking for a parking spot. The negative list is not optional here, it is the entire difference between profit and burn.

Step 4

Treat the EV inquiry as a load calculation, not a charger sale

Level 2 chargers need a dedicated 240V circuit at 40 to 60 amps. Most modern 200-amp homes handle that fine, and Qmerit data puts the share needing additional electrical work at roughly 20%. That 20% is where an $800-$2,500 charger install becomes a $2,800+ panel job. The estimate process is the conversion event: the electrician who leads with a load calculation instead of a charger price finds the panel work that was always there.

Step 5

Run panel upgrades as their own campaign, on their own economics

Aging housing stock, 100-amp services, insurance and inspection triggers, home additions, hot tubs, heat pumps, and EV all push the same job. A dedicated panel campaign with an educational landing page (signs you need one, permit and utility coordination, timeline, financing) can support bids that no service-call campaign could justify, because the break-even is more than ten times higher.

Step 6

Track the upgrade back to the click that started it

A panel upgrade that came from a troubleshooting call three weeks earlier looks like nothing in a default Google Ads account. We mark booked jobs in call tracking with the job value attached and import them back against the original click, so the algorithm learns which cheap-looking calls turn into four-figure work and starts buying more of them.

Net effect: instead of bidding into an empty EV auction and blaming the channel, the account buys the volume that exists, prices it against the job it can become, and filters the traffic that never converts. Full break-even models by job type: electrician ROI benchmarks.

1 First Audit

What we find when we audit your electrician Google Ads account

Before we touch your campaigns, we run an audit. Below are the 10 problems we identify in most electrician Google Ads accounts we look at. The patterns repeat across every account regardless of operator size or market.

Issue 1

Service calls, panel upgrades, and EV chargers mixed in one campaign

Smart Bidding cannot separate $150 outlet repairs from $2,800 panel upgrades when both run on the same campaign signal. Result: overspend on small-job keywords at panel-grade bids. Fix: campaign separation by job value (service calls, panel/service upgrades, EV charger, generator, commercial), each with its own CPL target.

Issue 2

Call tracking never tied back to completed work orders

Smart Bidding optimizes to phone calls, but a big share of electrical "calls" never become booked jobs. Without offline conversion import the algorithm cannot distinguish a price shopper from a $4,500 panel upgrade lead. Fix: call tracking with closed-job marking + offline conversion import with the original gclid.

Issue 3

Specialty-only keyword strategy in a generic-demand market

Accounts bidding only "generator installation" and "EV charger installer" in markets where those searches barely exist. The demand lives in generic electrician terms. Fix: generic-demand capture campaigns that carry the volume, with specialty campaigns layered where local volume actually supports them, verified against keyword data before a dollar is spent.

Issue 4

No panel upgrade campaign despite the best economics on the board

Panel upgrade leads run $50-$80 but the ticket averages $2,800-$3,000, which puts break-even CPL near $473. Almost any realistic CPL is profitable, yet most accounts have no dedicated campaign. Fix: dedicated panel/service upgrade campaign with an educational landing page (signs you need one, permits, timeline, financing).

Issue 5

EV charger demand handled through LSA only

EV charger installation is not a separate LSA job type; those searches route through the general electrician vertical. Operators waiting for LSA EV leads are waiting for a category that does not exist. Fix: dedicated Google Ads EV charger campaign ($800-$2,500 jobs, research-phase buyers) with charger-brand landing page content, plus EV mentions in the LSA profile description.

Issue 6

Career and DIY traffic burning the budget

"Electrician salary", "apprenticeship", "how to wire a ceiling fan", "wire home depot". The electrical trade attracts more career-search volume than almost any other, and it clicks ads. Fix: negative keyword block list at launch (careers, schools, licensing, DIY, parts), weekly search terms review for the first 60 days.

Issue 7

Service area wider than the truck can drive

Emergency electrical has same-day intent. Operators bidding a whole metro from one shop location cannot deliver in fringe zones, which damages close rate and Quality Score in the core area. Fix: tight geo for emergency campaigns, broader radius only for planned work (panels, EV, generators) where response time matters less.

Issue 8

No commercial campaign for property managers and facilities

Commercial electrical leads run $70-$95 on LSA but carry multi-thousand-dollar projects and repeat-client potential. Most electrician accounts ignore the segment entirely. Fix: dedicated commercial campaign with business-hours scheduling, B2B ad copy, and a quote-request landing page.

Issue 9

Storm and outage demand not captured

Storms drive surges in emergency electrical searches (downed service lines, damaged masts, outage troubleshooting) and generator interest spikes after every extended outage. Fix: storm-response bid adjustments on the emergency campaign and a generator campaign that activates in the weeks after major outage events, when interest peaks.

Issue 10

LSA leads never rated

Google's system needs to know which leads booked and which were wrong-service or out-of-area. Unrated accounts keep getting the same junk. Fix: every LSA lead rated weekly, booked jobs marked, and anything Google's auto-credit system missed disputed inside its window.

2 Onboarding Call

The questions we ask in the first call

A good Google Ads agency thinks about your business, not just your ads. These questions are the data we need to design the campaign architecture against your actual service mix and capacity.

Service call versus panel job economics

1

What is your average ticket for service calls, panel upgrades, EV chargers, and commercial work?

This sets the CPL ceiling per campaign. A $250 service call at 40% margin and 38% booking rate breaks even near $38 CPL. A $3,000 panel upgrade breaks even near $473. They cannot share a bid strategy.

2

Which service lines are most profitable for you?

Some shops make their margin on panel and service upgrade work. Others on volume service calls. Others on commercial contracts. Budget follows your actual margin distribution, not industry averages.

3

What percentage of inbound calls actually book?

This turns CPL into cost per booked job, the number that decides whether the account is profitable. If booking rate is low, we find out whether the problem is lead quality or the phone process before scaling spend.

4

Do you want more specialty work (EV, generators, remodel wiring)?

If yes, we check the local search volume first. In many markets specialty demand is thin and the play is generic-demand capture routed to specialty upsell, not specialty-only bidding into an empty auction.

Crew capacity and dispatch

5

What is your service radius for emergency calls?

Same-day intent for no-power and breaker emergencies. We do not bid on suburbs you cannot reach quickly, and planned-work campaigns get the wider radius instead.

6

How many electricians do you run, and can you absorb 30-50% more volume?

If not, we pace the launch. Drowning a 2-truck shop in volume causes missed calls, and missed calls damage LSA ranking and Google Ads Quality Score together.

7

Do you answer after hours, and who picks up?

This determines whether the emergency campaign runs 24/7. Bidding around the clock while answering business hours only burns budget and rankings at the same time.

8

What is your call answer rate?

Paying to generate unanswered calls is the fastest way to burn a budget. If answer rate is the weak link, we fix routing and coverage before scaling spend.

Where the account stands today

9

What is the current monthly spend across Google Ads and LSA?

Electrician LSA budgets typically run $600-$1,200/mo solo, $1,200-$2,500 for 2-3 truck shops, $2,500-$5,000+ for larger operations. Spend tells us the baseline and the realistic next step.

10

What does a lead cost you, and what does a booked electrical job cost?

If you do not know these numbers, that is the first thing we set up. Most operators know CPL but not cost per booked job, and cost per booked job is the one that matters.

11

What CRM and call tracking are you running?

Without the call-tracking-to-CRM connection, Smart Bidding has no way to know which leads became jobs and which became voicemails.

12

What is your Google Verified (LSA) status?

Approved, in review, rejected, or never applied. Electricians are not an Advanced Verification trade in the US, but state license verification and insurance documentation still gate the badge.

Licence and trust signals

13

Do you hold master electrician licensure, and in which states?

Master license display materially lifts landing-page conversion in markets where consumers do pre-call diligence. License number belongs above the fold.

14

Are you certified for any charger or generator brands?

Tesla, ChargePoint, Generac, Kohler and similar programs give you brand keywords with buyer intent and a trust signal for the landing page, where local volume supports bidding them.

15

What is your GBP review count and average rating?

Reviews drive LSA ranking and landing-page trust. A steady post-job review cadence beats occasional bursts, and we build the request scripts your electricians actually use.

16

Whose name is on the Google Ads account, and who holds admin?

If a previous agency holds the keys, we walk you through ownership transfer before we touch anything.

3 Technical Setup

How we actually run electrician Google Ads accounts

The setup below is what we build on day one. It is the technical stack that handles electrical's ticket spread ($150 outlet repair to five-figure commercial) without Smart Bidding averaging the value out.

Step 1

Call tracking with closed-job marking

We install WhatConverts on every electrician account. Every call captures the gclid. Each call gets reviewed and marked: booked, not booked, price shopper, wrong service. The closed-job ticket value (service call vs panel vs EV vs commercial) is logged against the original lead.

Step 2

Booked jobs as the primary conversion

Default setup counts every 60-second call as a conversion, so Smart Bidding optimizes to phone rings and overpays for tire-kicker traffic. Our setup imports the booked-job event back into Google Ads with the original gclid, so the algorithm optimizes against actual booked work.

Step 3

Value-based bidding for the ticket spread

Once volume supports it, the real dollar value of each closed job flows into Google Ads as conversion value. Smart Bidding learns the difference between "this click booked a job" and "this click booked a $4,500 panel upgrade" and bids accordingly.

Step 4

Demand-verified campaign design

Before building specialty campaigns, we pull the actual local keyword volumes. If generator searches in your market are a rounding error, we do not build a generator campaign that will sit idle. We build the generic-capture engine first, and layer specialty campaigns only where the data supports them.

Step 5

CRM integration for planned-work sales cycles

Panel upgrades, EV chargers, and commercial bids close over days to weeks. CRM integration credits the eventual signed job back to the original click, so the planned-work campaigns get judged on what they actually produce instead of same-day bookings alone.

Step 6

What six months of job-value separation compounds into

Months 1-3: structural fixes (campaign separation, negatives, geo) drop raw CPL. Months 3-6: offline conversion import teaches Smart Bidding the difference between a price shopper and a booked job. Months 6+: value-based bidding unlocks revenue-quality optimization on the accounts with volume to support it.

4 Real Numbers

The electrician benchmarks we manage against

The honest version, from the benchmarks published across our electrician library. Your specific numbers depend on market competitiveness, response capacity, and service mix.

LSA CPL Range
$18–$95
By job type + market
Small Repair CPL
$25–$40
Outlet / switch work
Panel Upgrade CPL
$50–$80
$2,800-$3,000 avg ticket
Commercial CPL
$70–$95
Multi-thousand projects
Panel Break-Even CPL
~$473
Almost always profitable
Service-Call Break-Even
~$38
$250 ticket, 40% margin

The spread between those two break-even numbers is the entire argument for campaign separation. A $65 lead is catastrophic for outlet repairs and spectacular for panel upgrades, and an account that cannot tell them apart is losing money on both ends. Full worked models: electrician ROI benchmarks and electrician cost per lead.

5 Account Ownership

The Ownership Guarantee

Ownership Guarantee

“ You will own your Google Ads account, Local Services Ads account, tracking systems, landing pages, and conversion data from day one. Your accounts stay in your name. Your billing stays on your card. Your data stays yours. If you decide to leave, everything stays with you. No account transfers. No hostage situations. No starting over from scratch. ”

Julian, Author at Blue Grid Media
6 Specialist Depth

Electrical accounts at every spend tier. 20-account cap per AM.

The single most important question to ask any marketing agency is not "how big is your company." It is "how many active accounts does the person who will actually manage my account have right now."

Structure

Twenty accounts per manager, so job types stay separated

The cap exists so account managers actually have time to rate LSA leads weekly, review search term reports, optimize bid strategies, and answer messages within 4 hours. Above 20 accounts the model breaks.

Specialty

Demand-reality expertise

The most common electrician account mistake is not bad bidding, it is building campaigns for demand that does not exist locally. We verify keyword volumes before campaign design, which is why our electrician builds capture generic demand and route it to specialty work instead of bidding into empty auctions.

Scale

Full spend spectrum experience

From solo operators at $600/month LSA budgets to multi-truck operations at $5,000+/month across channels. Pattern recognition tells us when an account is ready for value-based bidding vs basic conversion discipline.

Access

The person who separates your campaigns is the person you talk to

No salesperson-to-account-manager handoff. The person who walks you through onboarding is the person making campaign changes at month six.

Transparent Pricing

Flat fee, and the panel-upgrade landing page is included

No setup fee, no annual contract, no commitment. Month to month, cancel any time.

LSA Management
$445/mo
Full LSA setup, lead rating + disputes, review strategy, bid tuning. Most operators start here. Drops to $300/mo when we also run your Google Ads.
Google Ads Management
From$695/mo
Campaign architecture by job value, call tracking setup, offline conversion import, demand-verified specialty campaigns.

Custom landing pages free on every plan, normally $500 each. No setup fee. No long-term contract. A flat monthly retainer from $695/mo, no percentage of spend.

Book a Free Audit Call
90-Day Booked-Job Guarantee

“ We do not optimize for leads. We optimize for booked jobs. Give us 90 days to implement campaign restructuring, offline conversion tracking, and revenue-based bidding. If your cost per booked job is not moving in the right direction by day 90, we will continue managing your account at no charge for an additional 30 days. ”

Julian, Author at Blue Grid Media
? FAQ

Electrician operator questions, answered honestly

How much does an electrician marketing agency cost?

Most marketing agencies serving electricians charge $1,500-$3,500/mo or a percentage of ad spend, often with setup fees and long contracts. We charge $445/mo flat for LSA management, from $695/mo for Google Ads management, or from $995/mo for the bundle. No setup fees, no contracts, free custom landing pages.

What is the average electrician cost per lead on Google?

Electrician LSA CPL runs $18-$95 depending on job type, market, and residential vs commercial. Major metros: $30-$65 is competitive. Suburban: $45-$55 typical. Small repairs: $25-$40. Commercial: $70-$95. Panel upgrade leads run $50-$80 against a $2,800-$3,000 average ticket.

How do electricians get EV charger leads?

EV charger installation is not a separate LSA job type; those searches route through the general electrician vertical. For dedicated EV charger targeting, Google Ads is the stronger channel: $800-$2,500 jobs, research-phase buyers, and a landing page that answers charger-brand and panel-capacity questions.

What is the EV Charger and Panel Upgrade Growth System?

It is how we solve the central problem in electrician advertising: the highest-margin work has the thinnest search volume. In one real Boise-metro study we ran, EV charger installation drew roughly 100 searches a month and panel upgrades roughly 130, while "electrician near me" drew 1,000. The system captures the generic demand that actually exists, bids it against the panel-upgrade break-even (~$473) rather than the service-call break-even (~$38), aggressively filters the EV public-charging traffic that never converts, treats every EV inquiry as a load calculation rather than a charger price quote, runs panel upgrades as their own campaign with their own economics, and tracks the eventual upgrade back to the click that started it.

Can you actually get me more EV charger installs?

Honestly, not by bidding EV keywords alone in most markets, and any agency promising otherwise has not looked at your data. Local EV install volume is usually thin, while EV public-charging searches (people looking for somewhere to plug in) are large and worthless to you. What works is capturing the broader electrician demand, then converting the EV and capacity conversations that surface inside it. Qmerit data puts the share of EV installs needing additional electrical work at roughly 20 percent, and that 20 percent is where an $800 to $2,500 charger job becomes a $2,800+ panel job.

Why bid more for a panel upgrade lead than a service call lead?

Because the math is not close. A $250 service call at 40 percent margin and a 38 percent booking rate breaks even near $38 per lead. A $2,800 to $3,000 panel upgrade at similar booking economics breaks even near $473. Panel upgrade leads typically cost $50 to $80. An account managed to a single blended CPL target treats both the same, which means it is simultaneously overpaying for outlet repairs and refusing to compete for the work that carries your margin.

Why is specialty electrical work hard to advertise?

Because local search volume for specialty terms is thinner than most electricians expect. In many markets, generator and EV searches are a fraction of generic "electrician near me" volume. The winning structure captures generic demand and routes callers to specialty work through the estimate conversation, instead of bidding into an empty auction.

Is electrical work a restricted category under Google Ads policy?

No. Electricians in the US are not an Advanced Verification trade (that applies to locksmiths and garage door companies). State license verification and insurance documentation still gate LSA eligibility and the Google Verified badge.

What is your guarantee on results?

The 90-Day Booked-Job Guarantee. Give us 90 days to implement campaign restructuring, offline conversion tracking, and revenue-based bidding. If cost per booked job is not moving in the right direction by day 90, we continue managing at no charge for an additional 30 days.

Do I own my Google Ads account if I work with you?

Yes. You own your Google Ads account, your conversion data, your landing pages, your call tracking, your Google Business Profile, and any creative we build. We are added as a manager-level user. If you ever leave, you keep everything.

Are you Google Ads certified?

Yes, active Google Ads Search certifications through Google Skillshop. We mention it because buyers ask, but the differentiator is the campaign separation by job value, the demand-verified specialty strategy, the offline conversion stack, and the 90-Day Booked-Job Guarantee.

How do I know if my electrical marketing agency is actually making me money?

Ask for five numbers, and treat a dodge as an answer: cost per booked job (not cost per lead), booking rate on the leads they send, revenue booked from their channel, how many leads were unreachable or wrong-service, and what they changed in the account last month. A report full of impressions, clicks, and "leads" without a booked-job number is a vanity report. If your agency cannot connect spend to signed electrical work, they are not measuring the thing you are paying for.

Why do my ads produce calls that never turn into work orders?

Almost always because the account is being scored on the wrong outcome. A default Google Ads setup counts every 60-second phone call as a conversion, so Google's bidding learns to produce phone rings: price shoppers, wrong numbers, solicitors. It has no idea which calls became electrical work. The fix is marking actual booked jobs in call tracking and importing them back into Google Ads against the original click, so bidding optimizes toward the calls that turn into revenue. The second cause is campaign structure: when a $150 outlet repair and a $4,500 panel upgrade share one campaign, the algorithm optimizes for an average customer that does not exist.

Should I fire my electrical marketing agency?

Not on a bad month, and not without the numbers above. Give them one specific request: cost per booked job for the last 90 days, broken out by campaign, with service calls separated from panel and specialty work. An agency doing the work either has it or can build it in two weeks. An agency that deflects, blames a normal seasonal dip, or sends more impressions data has told you what you needed to know. Before you switch, confirm you own the Google Ads account, the LSA profile, the call tracking, and the conversion history, because starting over without them costs months of learning data.

How do I stop paying for apprentices and DIY wiring searches?

Job seekers and DIYers are the most preventable waste in electrical advertising. Searches like "electrician salary", "electrician apprenticeship near me", "how to wire an outlet", "breaker panel home depot" click paid ads and can never become customers. The fix is a negative keyword block list installed before the first dollar is spent (careers, schools, licensing, DIY, parts and big-box retailers), plus weekly search-terms reviews for the first 60 days. On Local Services Ads, the equivalent is tight job-type configuration, a service area cut to your real response radius, and rating every lead so Google's system learns what fits and credits what does not.

Are Angi and HomeAdvisor worth it for electrical contractors?

Shared platforms skew heavily toward small jobs, so you end up paying full lead price for outlet and fixture calls while the panel upgrades and service changes that actually carry your margin rarely come through. And the same homeowner was sold to several electricians at once, so you are racing to a phone that stops answering. In April 2023 the FTC finalized an order requiring HomeAdvisor to pay up to $7.2 million, alleging it sold leads that did not match the services providers offered or the areas they asked to work in, and claimed job-conversion rates it could not substantiate. The order bars it from making claims about how often leads become jobs. Treat shared leads as a bridge: answer in under a minute, track close rate by source, cap the spend, and build exclusive channels that can reach the higher-value work.

Why does a smaller electrical contractor outrank me in the map pack?

Because the map pack is not an auction. Ads and the Business Profile are two separate systems, and spend in one does not move the other. Map ranking is driven by proximity to the searcher, category and service configuration, review volume and recency, profile completeness, and engagement. Three hundred reviews and a complete profile will beat a bigger ad budget and forty reviews. The fix is a review cadence after every electrical job plus a properly configured profile, which also lifts your LSA ranking and your landing page conversion rate at the same time.

The phone rings and the work does not get booked. Is that on the ads?

Frequently it is not, and an agency worth hiring will say so plainly. ServiceTitan measured an average call booking rate of 41% for electrical specifically, against a 42% cross-trade average, and shops with fewer than 5 technicians averaged just 24% (ServiceTitan's analysis of more than 3,000 trade businesses across the US and Canada, June 2022). Separately, call-tracking benchmarks put missed calls at roughly 20-30% of inbound volume for home service businesses, rising to 40-50% during seasonal peaks. So before adding budget, pull last month's call recordings and check three things: how many rang out unanswered, how many were answered but never asked for the appointment, and how many were quoted a price over the phone instead of booked for a visit. Fixing that is usually worth more than any bid change, and we will say so during the audit rather than sell you more spend.

Electrician Operator Series

Deeper reads in the BGM electrician library

If you want the operator-level depth before booking the audit call, the educational playbooks cover every section at 3-5x the length:

Running electrical ads right now?

Our electrician marketing breakdown covers the break-even math on service calls, panel upgrades and generator installs, plus how we sequence SEO against paid once the account is stable.

Markets

Electrical markets split three ways, and the campaign changes with them

We run electrical accounts nationwide, but the campaign is not the same everywhere. These are the three market types that change how a electrical account gets built, and the metros where each one applies.

EV and solar-heavy metros

San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Austin

Charger installs and panel capacity upgrades carry real local volume here rather than the thin numbers most metros show, so the specialty campaigns are worth funding directly.

Storm and generator markets

Houston, Tampa, Orlando, Miami, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Dallas

Standby generator demand spikes after outage events. The campaign is pre-built and paused, then switched on inside a day when the grid goes down.

Old housing stock, panel upgrades

New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Detroit, Baltimore

Pre-war and mid-century wiring means panel upgrades, knob-and-tube replacement and service increases are steady year-round work rather than a seasonal spike.

Campaign structure

The electrical job types we split campaigns by

Each of these breaks even at a different lead price, so each gets its own campaign, its own bid and its own landing page. Run together, the cheapest work wins the budget every time.

Emergency electrical

Same-day intent, highest CPC.

Sparking outlets, dead panels, partial power loss. The customer is not comparing quotes, so the page needs a phone number and an answer about tonight.

Panel upgrades

Roughly ten times the break-even of a service call.

A $1,800 to $4,000 job that a blended campaign will always underbid. Needs its own campaign, plus financing and permit answers on the landing page.

Service calls and repairs

Volume work that funds the account.

Cheap clicks, fast close, small ticket. It also carries the worst negative keyword problem, because DIY and electrician-salary searches sit right on top of it.

EV charger install

Not a separate LSA job type.

Comes through the general electrician category on Local Services Ads, which surprises most owners. In Google Ads you can target it directly, which is the better route.

Generator install and service

Event-driven, large ticket.

Demand follows outages. A pre-built paused campaign beats trying to write one while the phones are already ringing.

Rewiring and new circuits

Considered purchase, long cycle.

Usually sold at the estimate rather than in the ad. The page has to earn the visit, not the job.

Lighting and fixtures

Low ticket, high frequency.

Useful for route density and for keeping a van productive between the jobs that carry the margin.

Commercial electrical

Different buyer, different hours.

Facilities managers and GCs on a longer cycle. Close rate looks poor until you price the contract sitting behind it.

Before you sign

Red flags when hiring a electrical marketing agency

Ask these before you hand anyone your ad account. The answers separate most agencies faster than any portfolio will.

1They bid panel upgrades and service calls together

The break-even gap is about ten to one. Blended, the service calls take the budget and the upgrades never get funded.

2They promise EV charger leads through LSA

EV charger is not its own Local Services Ads job type. Anyone selling it as one has not read the category list.

3They quote a percentage of ad spend

Their income rises with your budget whether or not it books work.

4They will not say who owns the account

If it is in their name, your history is not yours. Ask, and get it in writing.

Exclusive leads

Exclusive electrical leads, because you own the account they come from

We do not sell electrical leads and we do not resell them. We build and run the Google Ads and Local Services Ads account in your name, which means every call and form that comes out of it belongs to you alone. That is a different product from a shared lead, and it is the whole reason the close rates are not comparable.

A shared lead from a lead seller

  • Sold to three or four electrical companies at once
  • You are racing two competitors to call first
  • Priced per lead, so volume is their incentive
  • Stops the day you stop paying, with nothing left behind
  • No account, no history, no keyword data that is yours

An exclusive lead from your own account

  • Yours only. Never sold on, never shared
  • The homeowner called you, not a directory
  • Flat management fee, so nobody profits from more spend
  • The account, history and landing pages stay with you
  • Local Services Ads disputes filed weekly on your behalf

Exclusive electrical leads, by market

We provide exclusive electrical leads in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta and Phoenix, and in roughly 50 United States metros in total. Campaigns are managed remotely, so the market is set by where your crews work rather than where we sit.

NortheastExclusive electrical leads in New York, Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Philadelphia, Boston, Newark, Pittsburgh, Hartford, Buffalo
SoutheastExclusive electrical leads in Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Charlotte, Raleigh, Nashville, Birmingham, Richmond
MidwestExclusive electrical leads in Chicago, Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis
South CentralExclusive electrical leads in Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Memphis, Tulsa, Baton Rouge
WestExclusive electrical leads in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City
Do you provide exclusive electrical leads in New York?
Yes. We run exclusive electrical lead campaigns in New York, including Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens, and in more than 45 other United States metros. The leads are exclusive because they come from a Google Ads and Local Services Ads account held in your name, so they are never resold and never shared with another electrical company.
Which cities do you run exclusive electrical lead campaigns in?
We run exclusive electrical lead campaigns in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta and Phoenix, and across roughly 50 metros nationwide. Campaigns are managed remotely, so coverage is set by where your crews actually work rather than where we are based. Smaller and rural markets are covered too, and the auction there is usually cheaper than any major metro.
Are your electrical leads shared with other companies?
No. We are not a lead seller. A shared lead is sold to three or four electrical companies at once, which is why you end up racing competitors to call first. We build and run the ad account in your name instead, so every call and form belongs to you alone, and the account, history and landing pages stay with you if we ever part ways.
How many electrical accounts have you managed?

Blue Grid Media has managed 20+ electrical accounts across the team's career. That is the number worth asking any agency for, because it tells you whether the person building your campaigns has seen your job types, your seasonality and your margins before, or is about to learn them on your budget.

Not on the list does not mean not covered. We run electrical accounts nationwide across the United States, including smaller and rural markets where the auction is usually cheaper than any metro above.

Websites and landing pages

Panel upgrades do not convert on a service call page

If service calls and panel upgrades get their own campaigns, they need their own pages. A $4,000 upgrade needs financing, timeline and permit answers. A $150 service call needs a phone number above the fold and nothing else in the way.

Fast and mobile first

Most contractor searches happen on a phone, so the page is built to load fast there. Faster pages convert more of the clicks you have already paid for.

Call and form tracking wired in

Every call and form is connected to tracking from day one, so you can see which ads and which pages actually produce booked work rather than just traffic.

Local SEO and schema

On-page SEO and local schema markup so the site earns map and organic visibility over time instead of only working while the ads are switched on.

$497 one-timeWebsite on its own. Design, copy, mobile, forms and tracking. You own it and the domain.
$299 one-timeThe same build when we also run your Google Ads or Local Services Ads. One time, not monthly.
$10 /moHosting, updates and backups. That is the only recurring cost.
24hr to liveLive in 24 hours, no contract and no lock-in.
Landing pages stay free. Campaign landing pages are included with ad management at no design fee, the same as they always have been. The pricing above is for a full website build, which is a separate thing you may or may not need.

The first audit is free. So are your landing pages.

30-minute call. Operator-to-operator. We look at your electrician account, tell you what we would change, and you decide whether to continue. No pitch deck.

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