Siding & Windows / Chicagoland
One Business.
Five Campaigns.
Five Growth Levers.

How a Schaumburg exterior contractor turned one marketing budget into a portfolio of five independent campaigns — each one controllable, scalable, and steering their growth exactly where they want it to go.

125+

Verified Leads
Per Month

5

Active Separate Campaigns

6+ yrs

running, month-to-month

Full case study, monthly data, and campaign-by-campaign breakdown available on request.

The Client

Buzz Home Pros

4.9 / 160+ reviews

Location: Schaumburg, IL

Services: Siding, Windows, Roofing

Preferred Installer: James Hardie

In Business Since: 2000

Client Since: 2019

The Client

An Exterior Specialist.
Not a Generalist.

Buzz Home Pros has been working on Chicagoland homes for nearly 25 years. Family-run.
Schaumburg-based. 98% customer recommend rate. A James Hardie preferred remodeler — which is a certification Hardie
only gives contractors who consistently deliver on product quality and installation standards.

Unlike general contractors who do a bit of everything, Buzz built their reputation by doing a few things exceptionally well:
siding, windows, and roofing. Their repeat clients knew them by those specialties. Their online reviews reflected it.
But their marketing, when they came to us in 2019, was built around one big siding budget that treated all of Chicagoland as a single market.

One budget for the whole territory.
One set of results, no matter how the territory behaved.

SIDING
Core Specialty

Vinyl. Cedar. Hardie.

The heart of the business. Three material types, dozens of styles, year-round demand. The campaigns that carry the biggest volume and the widest service area coverage.

WINDOWS & ROOFING
Growth Verticals

Windows. Roofs.

Parallel verticals with their own journeys and keyword sets. Adding these streams lets Buzz capture homeowners who aren’t searching for siding today but will be tomorrow.

Three product lines. Five campaigns managing them. One reason it works: each campaign has its own leash.

The Challenge

One Budget.
One Set of Results.

When Buzz first started marketing siding with us in 2019, everything was funded from a single pool.
One campaign. One territory — all of Chicagoland. One dashboard. Every marketing decision was all-or-nothing:
spend more everywhere, or spend less everywhere.

That worked fine when the goal was “get leads.” It stopped working when the goals got more specific.
When Buzz wanted to grow faster in one region because they’d just expanded their crew there — too bad,
the budget was spread equally. When a specific product line started
outperforming — too bad, still one pot. When windows became its own category they wanted to scale —
there was nowhere to put that budget without cannibalizing siding.

The problem wasn't the leads. It was the fact that growth couldn't be directed.

The Approach

Five Campaigns.
Five Levers.

One big siding budget gives you one set of results. Five smaller campaigns give you five levers — each one independently controllable, independently scalable, and each one pushing growth in a specific direction.

Extra budget to the northern areas this quarter because a new crew joined? Pull that lever. More budget to the western suburbs next year because a major competitor stalled? Pull that lever. A specific product line quietly outperforming? Scale that one, without touching the others.
The money moves with the plan, not the other way around.

Axis 01

By Geography

Three areas · Three budgets
3 Siding Campaigns
Independent Budget Control
The Move Buzz's main siding budget got split into three geographic campaigns. Each one covers a different slice of Chicagoland. Each area has its own keyword coverage, its own local listings, its own dashboard. Instead of all of Chicagoland competing in one pot, each area runs on its own terms.

Axis 02

By Product & Vertical

Specialty product · New vertical
2 Specialty + Vertical Campaigns
0 Cannibalization of Core
The Move A specific product line — Hardie fiber cement — attracts a different customer than vinyl shoppers. Different budget, different search intent. So it got its own campaign. Windows became a separate vertical entirely. Adding these streams expanded the business without diluting the core.

125+

Five campaigns. Five budgets. Five dashboards. Over 125 verified leads per month averaged across the year — coming from five separate systems that each scale on their own schedule.

Five campaigns don't just mean more leads. They mean more control over where your business grows next — and easier ways to scale exactly there, without pulling resources from anywhere else.

The Numbers

Real Leads. Real Numbers.
Through Every Season.

Everything on this page counts only verified leads. Real phone calls and genuine quote requests.
We filter out spam, robo-calls, and drive-by hangups. No impressions. No clicks.
No “engagement metrics.” Just customers who took the next step.

Siding Is Seasonal.
Five Campaigns Handle It.

Siding, windows, and roofing are seasonal businesses. Peak demand from April through August. Slower in winter.
We don’t hide that — we plan around it. Here’s what the year actually looks like, averaged across all five campaigns.

Window
Leads / Month
Cost Per Lead
Peak Season (Apr–Aug)
~150
~$55
Year-Round Averages
~125
~$67
Off-Season (Nov–Feb)
~80
~$110

Even in the slowest months, the numbers land in a range most contractors would take year-round.
Peak season is where the five-campaign structure pays for itself — you scale budget where demand is peaking, without overpaying where it isn’t.

What These Leads Would Cost
On Google Ads.

Siding and windows are some of the most expensive keywords in home services paid search.
“Siding contractor near me.” “James Hardie siding Chicago.” “Window replacement.”
Typical cost per click on those terms: $30 to $100. Ten clicks, minimum, for one real lead.
That puts Google Ads at $300 to $1,000 per lead for the same outcome.

Google Ads
1 real lead
$300 - 1,000
per lead
Buzz Home Pros
Slowest months
$110
per lead
Buzz Home Pros
Busy months
$40
per lead
Seasonal doesn't mean expensive.
For New Clients

You Don't Need Five Campaigns
on Day One.

Buzz didn’t start with five campaigns. Nobody does. This is a portfolio that was built piece by piece over six years, with each new campaign added only when the previous ones proved the model. The same pattern is available to any contractor who wants to build this way.

01
Weeks 1 - 4
Start Where You Are

Whatever your core service is — siding, roofing, windows, remodeling — that’s where the first campaign goes. One budget, one territory, month-to-month. No commitment. No complicated setup.

02
Months 2 - 6
Let First Campaign Earn Next

Leads start coming in. The dashboard fills up. You look at the numbers. If the first campaign is paying for itself, you have a choice: keep it where it is, or use what it’s earning to fund the next campaign.

03
Month 6+
Build the Portfolio That Fits You

Second campaign targets a new area, product, or vertical. Then a third. Each added on its own timeline, justified individually. Your five campaigns won’t match Buzz’s — that’s the point.

Buzz didn't start at 125 leads a month across 5 campaigns. They started with one siding campaign back in 2019. The other four came from looking at the numbers and deciding, one at a time, what to scale next.

Next Step

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Sent to Your Inbox. We have two detailed documents we share with serious contractors. One shows exactly how this Google Maps approach works. Real data. Competitor comparisons. The full playbook. The other is a set of complete case studies for five of our roofing, siding, and remodeling clients, with the monthly numbers we don't put on public pages.
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See What This Could Do
for Your Business. Your situation isn’t Buzz’s. Maybe you’re newer, in a different market, or not ready for five campaigns — still figuring out if one makes sense. We’ll pull up your Google Maps listing live, check your visibility across your service area, and tell you honestly if this approach fits. Fifteen minutes. You get the analysis whether or not you work with us.
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