How much does a painting lead cost with RankMeHi?

We have not set a fixed price for painting leads yet. It follows our published rule: no more than 5% of your average job, and never above the lowest price a lead marketplace charges for painting. The exact price is worked out from your own job sizes and written into the agreement before you sign. Before any lead there is a $490 founding-partner setup, which covers the design and build of a five-page fast site, and $99 a month for hosting, the tracking number and your lead ledger. Your first three approved leads are free, and you set a monthly cap before we start.

What counts as a billable painting lead?

A new customer, in your service area, asking about painting work you offer, on a call over 60 seconds or through a form or text that describes the job. Supplier pitches, painters looking for work, past customers with warranty touch-ups, wrong numbers and repeat contacts within 90 days are never billed, and you can reject any lead within seven days with one tap.

Exterior work is seasonal where I am. What do I pay in the slow months?

The $99 a month for hosting, the tracking number and the ledger continues, but leads are billed only when they arrive and you approve them. If fewer people call in winter, you pay for fewer leads. Interior and cabinet pages also give the site something to be found for in the colder months.

Do you work with more than one painting company in my city?

No. Leads are exclusive, so we take one partner per trade in each city. If your city is already taken we will tell you on the first call, and the fixed-price website project is still open to you.

Painter marketing · pay per lead

Painter marketing where the only leads on your bill are the ones you approved.

A fast painting website with your finished rooms and houses up front, local SEO and your Google Business Profile. After launch you pay only for the estimate requests you approve.

Get my per-lead price What counts as a lead

$490 founding-partner setup, $99 a month, first three approved leads free. One painting company per city.

5%
at most, of your average painting job: the cap on the price per approved lead, written in before you sign
RankMeHi partner terms, confirmed 27 Sep 2026
26%
have no tap-to-call link on the homepage
RankMeHi study of 662 Orange County business websites. Crawl 25 to 26 Sep 2026; PageSpeed Insights, mobile, 26 Sep 2026.
79%
of sites take more than 4 seconds to show their main content on a phone
RankMeHi study of 662 Orange County business websites. Crawl 25 to 26 Sep 2026; PageSpeed Insights, mobile, 26 Sep 2026.

Why painters lose calls

What a painting company's site has to do differently.

In one linePainting marketing from RankMeHi is a site, local SEO and a Business Profile built at cost, billed at a price set by the 5% rule per lead the painting company approves.

Nobody needs a painter at midnight. Painting is planned and the customer usually gets more than one estimate, so what moves them is the look of your finished work, how clean your crew leaves the house and whether you will still answer if something peels a year later.

The site we build for a painting company shows exactly that: photos of your own interiors, exteriors and cabinets, a page on prep and protection, and your warranty in plain words. Exterior work gets a page on timing and weather, and the estimate form asks for photos and room counts so you can rough out a number before the walkthrough.

What we build

Six things every painting company site gets, written for your jobs.

The same build as our fixed-price project: designed in Figma, shipped as a fast static site, edited in a CMS your team can use. These are the parts specific to your trade.

01
A gallery by job type
Interiors, exteriors, cabinets and commercial jobs, with before-and-after photos from your own crews and the town each one is in.
02
One page per painting service
Interior, exterior, cabinet refinishing, deck staining and drywall repair, each written for the customer who searched that job.
03
A prep and protection page
How you cover floors and furniture, repair surfaces and clean up, and how you handle older homes where lead-safe rules apply.
04
An estimate form that takes photos
Rooms, rough square footage, photos and the finish the customer wants. You rough out a price before the walkthrough and the enquiry lands in your ledger.
05
Warranty, licence and insurance
What your warranty covers and for how long, with your licence and insurance in the page text where Google and AI search can read them.
06
Colour help and HOA notes
How colour consultations work, the paint lines you use, and how you handle HOA colour approval for exterior work.

What you pay for

What counts as a painting lead, and what never does.

The rule is the same for every trade: a new customer, in your service area, asking about a service you offer, on a call over 60 seconds or through a form or text describing a real job. Here is what that looks like for you.

Billed at your written price

A homeowner in your area asks for an exterior estimate, with photos of the house and the HOA colour list
A new customer calls about painting kitchen cabinets and the call runs over a minute

Never billed

A paint store rep or a lead vendor calling to sell you something
A painter looking for subcontract work
A past customer calling about a touch-up under your warranty
Anything you reject within seven days, one tap, no reason needed
Your first three approved leads

Cost of a lead

What a painting lead costs, side by side.

Painting has no published price with us yet: the rule sets it at no more than 5% of your average job, below the lowest marketplace price for painting, and it is written into the agreement before you sign.

Ways a painting company buys leads
Aspect	Price per lead	Shared with others	You approve first	A site you keep
Shared-lead marketplaces in general	Set by the marketplace	Three to five businesses	No	No
Retainer agency	Same fee with or without leads	Usually not	No	Usually
RankMeHi pay-per-lead partner	Set by the 5% rule, first three free	Never, one partner per city	Yes, seven days	Yes

Marketplace figures are the public price ranges on their pricing pages, read on 27 September 2026. The RankMeHi price is the published partner rate. Compare cost per lead across trades.

Proof

What we can show, honestly.

We have not published a result for painters yet. The lead logs we can show are from an auto glass shop and a collision shop, and the method is the same: a fast site, a tracked number and a form that logs every enquiry. That is why the first partner in each trade gets founding terms.

See the lead logs we do have

How it works

From first call to first lead in 21 days.

Four steps, and the money only starts moving at step three.

01
Free audit and a yes or no
Day 1
We check your demand, who answers the phone and whether your city is open. You get a written audit of the current site either way.
You getA price per lead in writing, and a straight answer on fit.
02
Design and build at cost
Days 2 to 21
A five-page site designed in Figma and built on a static stack, with the tracking number, call recording and the quote form wired in. Live within 21 days of receiving your content or the setup is refunded.
You getA fast site that is yours to keep, and a Business Profile pointed at it.
03
Leads land in your ledger
From launch
Every call and form arrives within the hour with the recording or the form text attached. Reject anything with one tap within seven days.
You getExclusive leads, and the first three free.
04
One invoice a month
Monthly
One line per approved lead, after the month ends, under the cap you set. New service and area pages are added as the ledger shows what converts.
You getA bill that only grows when the phone rings.

Questions

Questions painters ask first.

: We have not set a fixed price for painting leads yet. It follows our published rule: no more than 5% of your average job, and never above the lowest price a lead marketplace charges for painting. The exact price is worked out from your own job sizes and written into the agreement before you sign. Before any lead there is a $490 founding-partner setup, which covers the design and build of a five-page fast site, and $99 a month for hosting, the tracking number and your lead ledger. Your first three approved leads are free, and you set a monthly cap before we start.
: A new customer, in your service area, asking about painting work you offer, on a call over 60 seconds or through a form or text that describes the job. Supplier pitches, painters looking for work, past customers with warranty touch-ups, wrong numbers and repeat contacts within 90 days are never billed, and you can reject any lead within seven days with one tap.
: The $99 a month for hosting, the tracking number and the ledger continues, but leads are billed only when they arrive and you approve them. If fewer people call in winter, you pay for fewer leads. Interior and cabinet pages also give the site something to be found for in the colder months.
: No. Leads are exclusive, so we take one partner per trade in each city. If your city is already taken we will tell you on the first call, and the fixed-price website project is still open to you.
: We have not published a result for painters yet. The lead logs we can show are from an auto glass shop and a collision shop, and the method is the same: a fast site, a tracked number and a form that logs every enquiry. That is why the first partner in each trade gets founding terms.