? 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.