In three weeks, the people looking for you can actually find you

Here's my guess at your setup. There's a domain you bought a few years ago that still shows a parked page. Your Facebook page is doing the job a website should be doing. There's a Google listing you never created — wrong hours, no photos, maybe an address from two shops ago — and nobody knows the login. Somewhere there's a half-built site a guy started and then stopped answering texts about.

If you did pay somebody, you got a monthly report: a PDF with a green arrow, the word impressions, a graph nobody explained, and not one phone number on it. Months of that, and not once did a customer say "I found you online."

The phone still rings — referrals, repeat work, the guy from church. That's a real business with a hole in it. Every stranger who looked for your trade this week hired somebody else. That's where your jobs are leaking.

Nothing about this is mysterious. It's a punch list, and you can watch it get done.

• Five to seven pages, designed for you and not pulled off a shelf — what you fix, the towns you drive to, gallery, testimonials, a contact form. Built mobile-first, because he's looking at you on a phone in his driveway.
• Your Google listing gone through top to bottom: your name, address and phone made to match everywhere Google cross-checks them, the duplicate junk cleaned up, then a post, photos and answered questions every week. A listing nobody has touched in a year reads as closed.
• Review requests going out on their own after the work is done, instead of you remembering to ask.
• Two rounds of revisions written into it. You get to say "change that" twice without it turning into a favor you're asking for.
• Then somebody watches it: hosting, updates, daily off-site backups, security patching, uptime monitoring, edits every month, and a four-hour response target when you tell me something's broken.

It goes live inside two to three weeks. You send photos, you tell me which towns you actually drive to, and then you go back to work.

Pull out your phone. Type your trade and your town — water heater repair Wheeling, whatever it is you do. Three businesses come up in a box with the little map over it, and those three get the calls. Count how many of them are you.

Then do it to me. Search for the kind of company that does this work in Libertyville, then in Mundelein, and see who comes up. Check Vernon Hills too — that's my own town, and we're still climbing there. I'm not printing a number on this page and asking you to believe it. Go look.

Then there's the count. The map work comes with a report every month of the calls it produced. One number, not a graph. If that number isn't moving, you have every reason to fire me, and the short start means you can.

Two I can show you. A contractor in San Antonio needed a mobile-first site and was live in five days. A pressure washing outfit in Tamarac came to me with no website and nothing on Google at all; a quarter later he was in the top ten locally and taking calls off Google. And a plumber in Wheeling started with me this month — no results yet, so I won't pretend otherwise.

Jason Barrios. I own Amply Systems, out of Vernon Hills. Before this I spent about seven years in government and enterprise IT — A+, Network+, Security+ — which mostly means I've been the guy who gets called when something is down at six in the morning. I scope the work, I build it, and I answer the phone: (224) 212-9029, Monday through Friday, 8 to 6 Central. I answer in English or Spanish. Building your site in both languages is a bigger package with a bigger price, and I'll tell you that instead of slipping it into this one.

If you want the whole picture before you commit to anything, the Search Everywhere Audit is $497. I do it by hand: 25-plus checks across Google, the map, and what the AI assistants say when somebody asks them for your trade, then I walk you through all of it for 45 minutes. Hire us and the $497 comes back to you in full. Don't hire us and you keep the teardown, including the part where I show you which competitor is eating your lunch and how he's doing it.