Google ads & LSA for painters.

We run Google Ads and Local Services Ads for painting contractors — the searches that happen after the decision is made. Calls from people booking an estimate this week, not scrollers you still have to convince.

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★★★★★  4.9 / 5 from 120+ painting contractors
4.9 / 5
★★★★★  Google & Facebook
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Booked 5 weeks out by month 3.
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$42 leads. We were paying $180.
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Trusted by painters in 38 states.
THE PROBLEM

Google Ads doesn’t fail painters. Unmanaged Google Ads does.

The intent is already there — somebody typing “house painters near me” is further down the path than any audience you can build. The money gets lost between that search and your phone.

01

You’re paying for the wrong searches

“Painting ideas.” “How to paint kitchen cabinets.” “Painter salary.” Broad match hands your budget to people who will never hire anyone.

02

Every ad lands on your homepage

They searched for exterior painting in one suburb and got your company history and a menu. The ad did its job; the landing page threw the click away.

03

Your LSA is on autopilot

Badge half-verified, budget capped at whatever Google suggested, and nobody has ever disputed a bad lead. You’re paying full price for wrong numbers and tire-kickers.

04

Nobody knows which calls booked

Without call tracking tied back to keywords, “leads” is a number in a dashboard. You can’t cut what’s wasting money because you can’t see it.

05

The phone rings and nobody answers

Half of paid calls come in while your crew is on a ladder. A missed call from a $6,000 repaint costs the same as the click that made it — plus the job.

06

Google’s rep “optimized” your account

A helpful call, broad match switched on, budget raised, Performance Max added. Spend went up. Booked estimates didn’t.

WHERE THE BUDGET GOES
From a typical account audit
1 in 2
clicks wasted.
In most painting accounts we audit, a large share of spend goes to search terms that have never produced a single booked job — and it keeps going there every month until somebody reads the search terms report.
EXAMPLE SEARCH TERMS REPORT
CLICKS
BOOKED
house painters near me
38
6 booked
BOOKING
painting ideas
31
0
WASTED
exterior painters [city]
24
4 booked
BOOKING
how to paint kitchen cabinets
22
0
WASTED
cabinet painting cost
19
3 booked
BOOKING
painter salary
17
0
WASTED
HOW IT WORKS

Buy high-intent leads, not impressions.

Not “run some ads.” A booked-call engine — search, LSA, landing pages, and call handling managed as one thing. Four parts, fully managed, one accountable team.

01 / STRATEGY

Intent & Geography

Campaigns split by the job you want — interior, exterior, cabinets, commercial — and by the suburbs worth paying for. Negatives built before launch, not after the money’s gone.

02 / SETUP

Badge, Budget & Disputes

Google Guaranteed verification pushed through, service areas and job types set properly, and every junk lead disputed — which is money most contractors never claim back.

03 / OPTIMIZE

Pages & Call Handling

A landing page per campaign that matches what they searched, plus missed-call text-back so a call you couldn’t take doesn’t become a call to your competitor.

04 / SCALE

Bid to Booked Jobs

Calls recorded and scored, booked estimates fed back into the account, and bids moved toward the terms that actually put work on the calendar.

THE ROLLOUT

From access to booked calls in [10] days.

Search is the fastest channel you have — the demand already exists, we just have to stop paying for the wrong half of it. Here’s the rollout.

Average rollout: 10 days to live. First booked estimates inside the first two weeks.
DAY 1–2
01

Access & teardown

We pull your search terms, call logs, and LSA history, then map where the budget actually went and what it produced. You get the findings whether or not you hire us.

DAY 3–14
02

Build search & LSA

Campaigns rebuilt by job type and suburb, negatives loaded, landing pages published, call tracking and conversion actions installed and tested end-to-end.

DAY 14–21
03

Go live

Ads switch on with conservative bids while we watch every search term daily for the first week — the period where unmanaged accounts do most of their damage.

DAY 21+
04

Optimize to booked jobs

Weekly search-term pruning, call reviews, LSA disputes filed, and budget shifted toward the terms booking estimates. Monthly report in booked jobs, not clicks.

CASE STUDY · SUMMIT PAINTING CO. · DENVER, CO

We didn’t raise the budget. We stopped setting half of it on fire.

Ryan Tanaka
Owner, Summit Painting Co.
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We were spending nine grand a month and had no idea which keywords booked anything. Fresh Coat rebuilt the account in a week, killed about 400 search terms, and got our LSA badge sorted. Same spend, and we went from eleven booked estimates a month to over forty.
Same budget. Three times the booked estimates.
QUOTES FROM GOOGLE / MO
11  41
COST PER BOOKED CALL
$280  $112
WASTED SEARCH TERMS
413  0
LSA CREDITS RECOVERED
$0  $364
RETURN ON AD SPEND
1.9×  5.4×
WHAT’S INCLUDED

Everything’s included. One monthly number.

No setup surprises, no “reporting add-on.” Your ad spend goes to Google; our management fee covers everything below. [CONFIRM — who owns the ad accounts.]

Fresh Coat Google Ads + LSA · Done for you
6 COMPONENTS

Search + LSA together

Both channels managed by one team, with budget moved between them based on which is booking jobs this month.

Landing pages that match the ad

A page per campaign, built and hosted by us, so an exterior search in one suburb lands on exterior painting in that suburb.

Call tracking + recordings

Every call tied back to the keyword that caused it, reviewed weekly, and scored as booked or not — that’s what we bid on.

LSA disputes filed for you

Wrong numbers, out-of-area calls, and jobs you don’t do disputed every week. Most contractors leave this money on the table.

Weekly negative keyword work

Someone reads the search terms report every week. That single habit is most of the difference between a good account and a bad one.

Reporting in booked jobs

Spend, calls, booked estimates, and cost per booked job. No impression-share charts nobody acts on.

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

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THE BREAKDOWN

See how we turn searches into booked estimates.

REVIEWS

See what other painting contractors are saying.

FAQ

Honest answers to what every painter asks.

If you don’t see your question, ask on the strategy call — we won’t dodge it.

Q1How much should I budget for ad spend?
Your ad spend is paid to Google; our management fee is separate.
Q2How fast will I see results?
Search is the fastest channel you have. Average rollout is about 10 days to live, with first booked estimates inside the first two weeks.
Q3What’s the difference between Local Services Ads and Google Search ads?
Local Services Ads are the Google Guaranteed listings at the top of the page — you pay per lead. Search ads sit below them — you pay per click and send people to a landing page. We run both together and move budget toward whichever is booking jobs that month.
Q4Do you dispute bad LSA leads?
Yes, every week. Wrong numbers, out-of-area calls, and jobs you don’t do get disputed so you can recover those credits — money most contractors never claim back.
Q5I’ve run Google Ads before and wasted money. Why is this different?
Most wasted spend comes from broad match, homepage landing pages, and nobody reading the search terms report. We build negatives before launch, send every campaign to a matching landing page, and prune search terms weekly.
Q6Who owns the ad accounts?
You own the ad accounts, you just give us access to run the campaigns on your behalf. ]
Q7What’s the contract — am I locked in?
[ANSWER — contract length and cancellation terms.]
GET STARTED

Stop paying for clicks.
Start paying for booked calls.

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