About Toughjobs FAQs

Depends on market size and how many trucks you are trying to keep busy. We quote a flat monthly number after a free assessment — no percentage-of-spend games, no surprise line items, no twelve-month handcuffs.

Central Illinois and the Iowa Quad Cities are home base, but the work itself isn't geography-locked — websites, SEO, and ad management run for trades outside that radius too. If boots-on-the-ground local presence matters for a specific service, we'll say so upfront.

Paid search can fill a calendar inside two weeks. Local SEO compounds over three to six months and keeps paying long after the invoice clears. We run both so the schedule never has a dead window while the organic side builds.

We look at what you have now — site, rankings, ad accounts, reviews — and tell you plainly what's working and what's costing you jobs. No pitch deck, no pressure to sign anything on the spot.

Yes. Electricians, HVAC, plumbers, roofers, concrete crews, contractors. We turned down the boutiques and the SaaS startups because a shop that understands one industry cold beats a shop that understands forty of them halfway.

No. The people building your site, running your ads, and writing your reports work directly for Toughjobs and know the trades they're serving.

About an hour a month and someone who answers the phone. We handle strategy, build, and reporting. You handle the work your customers are calling about — that division of labor is the whole point.

We report every month, in plain numbers, so you see exactly what's moving and what isn't. If something underperforms, we adjust it — that's part of the job, not an extra.

You do. Domain, hosting, analytics, ad accounts, call records — all in your name from day one. If we ever part ways you walk out with every asset intact. That is not a courtesy, it is the only honest way to do this.

It doesn't go dormant. Updates, fixes, and content changes are handled as part of ongoing service, and most clients layer SEO or ads on top once the foundation is live.