How do I qualify jobs with questions that change based on the answers?
Short answer
Add branching logic so an early answer, like job type or property size, determines which follow-up questions appear next. This keeps the form short for every visitor while still gathering the specific details each job type needs to be quoted accurately.
Before you start
- A form builder that supports conditional or branching logic.
- A defined list of job types or service categories.
- Knowledge of which follow-up questions each job type actually needs.
- A way to flag or score answers that indicate a poor-fit lead.
Step by step
- 1
Pick the one question that splits your jobs
Usually job type, property type, or urgency is the branch point.
One good branch question avoids building a maze of logic later.
- 2
Map the follow-up questions per branch
Write out exactly what a roof job needs versus what a plumbing job needs.
Irrelevant questions waste the visitor's time and lower completion.
- 3
Build the branches in the form
Set each follow-up section to show only when the matching answer is selected.
This is what keeps the form short for everyone despite covering many job types.
- 4
Add a disqualifying path
If an answer indicates you cannot serve them, route to a polite explanation instead of the full form.
It saves the visitor's time and keeps your pipeline free of dead ends.
- 5
Tag the submission with the branch taken
Store which path someone followed as a field on the contact record.
Staff can see the job type at a glance without rereading every answer.
- 6
Test every branch end to end
Walk through each path as if you were a customer before it goes live.
A broken branch can silently skip required fields for an entire job type.
- 7
Review low-quality submissions monthly
Check which branches produce leads that never book.
This tells you where the qualifying questions need to be sharper.
What good looks like
- Every job type gets exactly the questions it needs, no more and no less.
- Poor-fit inquiries are filtered before they reach the schedule.
- Staff can see job type and key details without extra back and forth.
- The form stays short even as the range of services you offer grows.
Common mistakes
The ways this goes wrong in marketing, and what to do instead.
Same questions for every job type›
A generic form asks irrelevant questions of most visitors and misses details for others.
Do this instead: Branch the follow-up questions based on the job type selected early in the form.
Too many branch points›
Splitting on three or four different answers turns the form into a confusing maze.
Do this instead: Pick one primary branch question and keep secondary variation to a minimum.
No path for poor-fit leads›
Every submission lands in the same pipeline regardless of whether you can serve them.
Do this instead: Add a disqualifying branch that routes those answers away from the active pipeline.
Frequently asked
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