Bottom of funnel
In Chicago the address does not tell you the job
Same block, same year built, and one is a walk-up with a clear alley while the next wants a certificate of insurance and a freight elevator booked two days out. Quoting from a phone number is guessing.
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Get Chicago enquiries you can price
Say what you do and we will tell you whether Chicago is taken.
Ask before you drive
Where a Chicago quote falls apart
Almost never on price. Usually in the first ninety seconds on site, when the building turns out to be a different job than the one you priced.
Stairs, alleys, and nowhere to park
A third floor walk-up with no alley and a permit zone out front is a different labor number than the same square footage in Beverly. Asked on the form, the quote survives the visit.
Buildings that come with rules
Associations and downtown management want a certificate of insurance, named additional insureds, and a freight elevator reserved in advance. Learning that on the day costs you the slot.
The drive you never have to make
An hour out to the collar counties and back for a job you decline is not a lost lead. It is a lost afternoon, in a metro where afternoons are the expensive part.
Coverage said out loud
Naming the community areas and suburbs you genuinely work filters out the enquiries you were always going to refuse, and it does it before you pay Chicago prices for the click.
Leads that are yours alone
Enquiries land in your own accounts and CRM. Nothing is shared, resold, or delivered to three competitors the way the marketplace platforms operate here.
One client per industry per market
We do not run the same intake system for the company two neighborhoods over and call you both clients.
What clients say
Businesses that stopped wasting the day
Clients from our roster, quoted verbatim. Every metric client-reported.
≈100Calls / day / client-reported
“After working with Alfonso and ROIvault we had to buy more trucks and have expanded to new cities. We are struggling to keep up with the sales. Sometimes 20-25 in a day by 2/3pm almost 100 calls.”
Javier LasoOwner, The Florida Termite Guys≈300Jobs / year 2 / client-reported
“Alfonso and ROI Vault are the reason I am a millionaire. Our first year we did maybe 25 inspections. Second year with ROI we almost hit 300. My fleet is now 9 trucks.”
Danny NievesOwner, South Florida Inspectors2xBusiness growth / client-reported
“ROI Vault did our logo, website, everything. We doubled our business. I had to tell him to pause the ads.”
Chef Billy G.Owner, Billy G CateringWhat is included
The Chicago intake system
Six pieces, all pointed at the gap between what an enquiry says and what the property actually is.
Site conditions inside the form
Building type, floor, stairs, alley or street access, and parking restrictions asked at the point of enquiry rather than discovered by a technician standing on the sidewalk.
- Access and stair questions
- Unit floor and building type
- Parking restrictions captured
A path for buildings with paperwork
Associations, property managers, and downtown towers get a route that answers insurance limits, additional insureds, and elevator windows before anybody has to ask twice.
- Coverage limits published
- Elevator and work-hour questions
Photos at the point of enquiry
A picture of the panel, the stack, the roofline, or the room settles most of what a phone call was going to argue about, and it lets you price with far more confidence.
- Photo upload in the form
- Attached to the enquiry record
Coverage named by area
One page per service and area, saying plainly which community areas and which suburbs you work, so the wrong half of the metro stops filling your inbox.
- Per-area pages
- Explicit service boundaries
Price tiers by property type
Ranges published against the kind of building rather than one number that fits nothing, so a three-flat owner and a high-rise manager both see something honest.
- Tiered ranges
- Set before the call, not during
Cost per visit that converted
Reporting that counts the site visits which turned into work, split by area, so an unprofitable suburb cannot hide behind a good citywide average.
- Visit-to-job rate
- Per-area economics
The process
How the wasted visits get removed
Everything here starts from one list: the conditions that change what you charge.
01 /
List what changes your price
Sit down with the estimator and write out every property condition that moves the number, from floor height to alley width to whether a board has to approve the work.
02 /
Move that list into the form
Asked in the order a customer can answer, kept short enough to finish on a phone, and attached to the enquiry so the estimator sees it before picking up.
03 /
Launch with the coverage stated
Campaigns and pages go live naming the areas you work and the buildings you handle, with call tracking wired in so every enquiry carries its own record.
04 /
Score visits, not leads
Budget follows the areas and property types where a site visit reliably becomes a job. Enquiry volume is allowed to fall, and usually should.
Two ways to price a Chicago job
Quoting from an address versus quoting from the conditions
One of them looks better on a lead report and worse on the schedule.
Swipe to compare
| Topic | Take the address, go look | Capture the conditions first |
|---|---|---|
| What the estimator knows | A name, a number, and a street | Building, floor, access, parking, photos |
| Enquiry volume | Higher | Lower, and deliberately so |
| Visits that become jobs | A minority, and nobody counts them | The number the whole system is judged on |
| Quotes that change on site | Common, and awkward | Rare, because the surprise was asked about |
| Association and tower work | Lost to whoever had a certificate ready | Answered on the page before they call |
| What you keep if you stop | Nothing | Pages, rankings, forms, call history |
Case study
When the day is measured in site visits
South Florida Inspectors
Home inspections, South Florida
- Jobs in year two
- ≈300
- Trucks running today
- 9
up from ≈25, client-reported
client-reported
The problem
A business whose entire output is arriving at a property and assessing it. Year one produced roughly 25 inspections, and nearly every customer was a stranger in the middle of a move with nobody nearby to ask for a recommendation.
What we did
ROI Vault built the business to be found and trusted at the moment those buyers start looking, so the calendar filled with visits that were worth making rather than visits that merely happened.
The outcome
The owner reports almost 300 inspections in year two, up from around 25, and a fleet that now runs 9 trucks. All figures client-reported. The transferable part for a Chicago contractor is the unit of measurement. When revenue is produced one property at a time, the only number worth watching is how many of today's visits turned into work, and that is largely decided by what you knew before leaving the shop.
FAQ
Intake questions Chicago owners ask
Building type, floor, stair count, alley or street access, parking restrictions, and whether an association or management company is involved. Six questions, and between them they change the price on a large share of city work.
Yes, and that is most of the value. The enquiries it removes are the ones you would have declined after driving there. Cost per lead goes up. Cost per booked job normally goes down, which is the number that pays wages.
As its own path. Certificates of insurance, named additional insureds, freight elevator windows, and permitted work hours belong on the page, because a building manager checks for them before anyone gets a call back.
More than any description a customer can type. A picture of the panel, the stack, the roofline, or the room settles most of what the first phone call was going to argue about, and it lets an estimator quote with real confidence.
Only where you genuinely want the drive. DuPage, Lake, Will, and Kane behave like separate markets with their own permit rules and their own competitors, and they deserve separate budgets and separate reporting from the city.
Both change the job. A January call on a residential permit block with nowhere to stage a truck is not the same work as the same call in June, and agreeing that at intake avoids an argument on the doorstep.
Constantly, particularly with associations and management companies. Putting license numbers, insurance limits, and your permit process on the page removes an objection before anybody thinks to raise it.
Yes, in two ways. They arrive in your own accounts and CRM and are never shared or resold, and we run one client per industry per market, so we are not generating the same demand for your competitor.
Management is $3,495 per month flat with no percentage of ad spend, ever. Ad budget goes straight to the platforms with a $5,000 monthly minimum and is never billed through us.
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