Metro East Illinois

Get Found. Get Called. Keep Working.

A world-class, conversion-optimized website — guaranteed — engineered with the science of turning a panicked Google search into a phone call. Plus the SEO and social that keeps you ranking. Done for you, every month.

Guaranteed

a world-class, conversion-optimized site that loads in one second and routes the call to you

Done for you

site, SEO, and social — built and run for you every month, nothing for you to touch

$499/mo

Growth plan — fast site, SEO content, GBP, and social that proves you're active

World-Class Website, Guaranteed Built & Run For You

The Problem

A homeowner with a flooded basement gives you three seconds.

Most Wix and GoDaddy sites quietly leak that lead — at conversion problems their owners don't even know exist. We know the science. We design past them.

They're panicking, thumbing through Google. A slow template, a buried number, a tap-to-call that misfires — and they're already dialing the next guy. World-class here isn't pretty design. It's load speed, mobile, and a path to the call we've tuned with the science of what actually makes people act.

The site alone isn't enough, either. Google ranks businesses that stay active — fresh pages, a tended Maps profile, social that proves you're working. You can't do that from a crawl space.

That's exactly the problem Cornerstone was built to solve.

One second

A fast, mobile-first site that loads instantly on a homeowner's phone and pipes the lead straight to you. Guaranteed — that's the standard we build to.

Done for you

We build it, host it, rank it, and keep your social active — every month. No meetings, no logins, no project management on your end.

Flat rate

One monthly price for the whole digital storefront — no $5,000 upfront sting, no retainer bloat, no "we need more budget to keep going."

Simple by Design

How It Works

01

We Build the Storefront

Custom-coded, lightning-fast, mobile-first — built to catch emergency searches and route the call straight to your phone. World-class, guaranteed. Live within the first week.

02

We Maintain Your Online Presence — Tailored to You

Content built around your trade and your towns — fresh pages, a tended Google profile, and a steady, professional social feed of clean trucks and tidy job sites that proves to a wary homeowner you're a real, active, local business.

03

You Stay on the Job

One onboarding call. Then we handle everything — site, search, social. No approvals, no back-and-forth, no project management on your end.

Transparent Pricing

Three Packages. One Job: Make You Visible.

Presence

$1,499 one-time

The world-class storefront, built once and yours to keep. No monthly fees.

  • Custom, lightning-fast business website
  • Basic contact form, wired up and ready
  • Google Business Profile setup & optimization
  • Hosting handled — you own the site
  • 3 rounds of revisions included
Get Started

One-time build. We host it; edits after launch are billed at our hourly rate.

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Growth

$499 /mo

The storefront, plus the signals that keep Google ranking you and customers trusting you.

  • Everything in Presence
  • 2 SEO blog posts per month
  • 8 social posts per month — proof you're active
  • On-page SEO optimization
  • Lead routing to your phone or workflow
Get Started

No setup fee. First payment before we build.

Authority

$899 /mo

The full machine. For shops that want to own the local map.

  • Everything in Growth
  • Text us job photos → 3 custom posts/mo (48-hr turnaround)
  • 4 SEO blog posts per month
  • Up to 20 social posts per month
  • Keyword strategy & research
  • Quarterly SEO review
  • Advanced CRM & dispatch integrations
Get Started

No setup fee. First payment before we build. 40% off for the first 10 clients.

Built for Trades & Home Services

We Know Your Market

We write for homeowners — the people already searching for what you do. Our content is specific to your trade and your Metro East IL community.

HVAC & Heating
Plumbing
Roofing & Gutters
Auto Detailing / Ceramic Coating
Electrical
Landscaping & Lawn Care
Pressure Washing
General Contractors
Pest Control
Painting

Behind Cornerstone

Kerry Ritter

Kerry Ritter

Microsoft Engineer  ·  Fortune 500 Digital Director  ·  CTO at Zipper

Kerry built Cornerstone after watching local trade businesses pay for websites that never got updated and never got found. Every site starts from scratch — no templates, no page builders, custom-coded for your trade. The content systems are built by someone who's run digital programs at Fortune 500 scale, applied to HVAC shops and roofers in Metro East IL.

Not a national agency repurposing templates. A Metro East operation that knows Collinsville from Edwardsville, and writes content that actually sounds like it belongs here.

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Our Work

Real shops we've built for

A few recent Metro East builds — fast, mobile-first, made to turn a panicked search into a phone call.

Ready to stop losing the call to the faster website?

A done-for-you digital storefront — world-class site guaranteed, ranking and social handled. Most Metro East IL trades don't have it. That's your opening.

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40% off Authority — founding offer, first 10 clients.

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