A Chicago marketing agency that writes the strategy, builds the website, ships the app, and runs the campaigns — one team, one invoice, and code we can actually open when something needs fixing.
Most agencies in this city do one of two things. They market, and hand the technical work to your developer. Or they build, and hand the marketing to somebody else. Either way you end up project-managing two vendors who blame each other when the numbers stall.
Chicago Tech Solutions does both. We are a digital marketing agency and a software team — custom web engineering and mobile app development sit in the same building as the SEO and the ad accounts. When a campaign is losing people at the checkout, we do not file a ticket. We rewrite the checkout.
Search and local SEO. Getting found for the terms that bring paying work, and holding the map pack in the suburbs where your customers actually live.
Custom web development. Not a theme with your logo on it. Sites built to load fast, convert, and be edited by you without calling us.
Mobile app development. iOS and Android builds for Chicago businesses that need booking, ordering, loyalty or field-service tooling in their customers’ pockets.
Paid search and social. Run only when the organic groundwork is in place, so you are not renting traffic to a page that cannot convert it.
Reviews and reputation. The quiet ranking factor most Chicagoland businesses leave entirely to chance.
AI reception and follow-up. Because the cheapest lead you will ever get is the one already calling you that nobody answered.
A marketing plan for a Lincoln Park restaurant looks nothing like one for a Schaumburg staffing firm or an Oak Park roofer. Seasonality is different, the competition is different, and the neighbourhoods people search in are different. We are based in Lake Forest and work across the metro, so the towns on your service map are towns we have built pages for before.
Our clients are mostly Chicagoland businesses where one new customer is worth hundreds or thousands of dollars — HVAC, plumbing, roofing, construction, law, home care, restaurants and staffing.
One. A free audit. A person looks at your site, your Google Business Profile and the terms you should be winning, then tells you what is broken and what it is worth fixing. You get that whether or not you hire us.
Two. A ranked plan. Not a 40-page deck — a short list in order of what returns money soonest, with a real number attached.
Three. We build. Month to month, no long lock-in, with a one-page report that says what moved, what we did, and what is next.
The most common reason marketing underperforms is not the marketing. It is that the recommendations never get built. Page speed stays slow, the schema never ships, the mobile form keeps dropping people, and every month the report explains the same problem again.
When the agency writing the recommendation is also the team that writes the code, that loop closes. It is the single biggest practical difference between us and a Chicago marketing agency that only markets.
We build software as well as run marketing. Custom web development and mobile app development are in-house, so technical recommendations get implemented instead of forwarded to your developer. Most agencies cannot do the second half.
No — most of our clients are Chicagoland small and mid-sized businesses. We are built for owners who need the phone to ring, not for enterprises who need a brand refresh.
No. Month to month. We would rather earn the next month than trap you in the last eleven.
Local map-pack and review work often moves in 4 to 8 weeks. Competitive organic terms take longer — plan on six months. Paid search can produce leads immediately, which is why we sometimes run it while the organic work matures.
Our office is at 580 N Bank Ln in Lake Forest, IL, and we serve the whole Chicago metro. See areas we serve.
Yes, and we do it often. We will tell you honestly whether it is worth improving or worth rebuilding — and if improving is the right answer, we will say so even though rebuilding pays us more.
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Tell us the site and the terms you want to win. You will get a real assessment from a person, with the fixes ranked by what they are worth. If we are not the right fit we will say so.
Chicago Tech Solutions · 580 N Bank Ln, Lake Forest, IL 60045 · (773) 516-3780 · marketing@chicagotechsolution.com