How can contractors get more leads from their job sites?
Treat every job as a showroom for the street. Ask the homeowner if you can put up a sign, keep the site and the trucks clean, tell the neighbors what you're doing, and give anyone curious a fast way to ask — then answer them while your crew is still there.
Why do job sites bring in leads?
Because the neighbors can see the work. Someone thinking about their own roof, fence or kitchen gets to watch yours happen, size up the crew and judge the result — without calling anyone. The job is the proof. What's left is making it easy for them to reach you.
What should I do before the job starts?
Three things, before the first truck pulls up.
- Ask the homeowner if you can put up a yard sign, and write the start and end into the estimate.
- Tell them neighbors may ask about the work — and that you'll never share their name or what the job cost.
- Plan where the trucks and the dumpster go, so they don't block the street or anyone's driveway.
What gets a neighbor's attention during the job?
The things they can see from the sidewalk.
- A yard sign that names the work in a few big words, not a list of every service you offer.
- Clean, lettered trucks parked where people walk by.
- A tidy site at the end of every day — the neighbors are watching how you work, not just what you build.
- Door hangers on the houses next door: what you're doing, for how long, and how to reach you.
How do I make it easy for them to reach me?
Give them a way to ask that doesn't mean knocking on the door or remembering a phone number. A code on the sign that opens the job in front of them — the work, the photos, the crew — with a button to ask is the shortest path from curious to talking.
Then answer quickly. A neighbor who asks at six in the evening and hears back the next afternoon may have already called someone else.
Should I offer the neighbors a deal?
A street-only special gives them a reason to ask now instead of someday — for example, a discount for anyone on the street who books while your crew is there. Put it on the job page, not on the sign, so you can change it without reprinting anything.
What should happen after the job?
Finish the job in a way the next neighbor can see.
- Take before-and-after photos and put them where the next neighbor will find them.
- Ask the homeowner for an honest review while the work is fresh.
- Take the sign down, or point it at your next job.
- Look at what the job brought in — scans, questions, leads — so you know which streets are worth it.
How does InsideJob help?
An InsideJob sign turns the job into a conversation. A neighbor scans the code, sees the job, and Val — your AI assistant — answers their questions and takes their name and number while you keep working. Your phone buzzes the second they scan, and every sign keeps its own count of scans, conversations and leads.