Everycontractor = Bad Eggs

golester

I have done all my own SEO for my website until recently. I have managed to get my pages up to a Google page rank of 4. They are currently changing due to the SEO Company I hired. Along with the SEO they make links to other popular and rellevant website ( where they link to me not me to them), I have spent hundreds of hours on my content and SEO and getting my own links. Sometimes you can pay for them. The best thing to have is a website that is a basic shell, and you program in all the key information that you want IE; Title, title tage, all meta data, descriptions, links, alt tags, content, pictures and picture galleries etc. Take a look at the people who are number one in the areas where you want to be number one and see how that might work for you and your site. Come up with something different like I did to make yourself stand out. Remeber do not tell people you do quality work, show them with pictures, referals etc. Also state what seperates you from the other guy who say " we do quality work" that phrase has been beat to death.

Lester
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Yes that is my pic, let's them know who is coming to see them.

golester

My CTR on my campaigns range from 9% to 15% depending on campagneand time of year. You can change many setting so that you do not appear out of your area, such as opting out of content network etc. If you have analytics set up on your site you should check to see how many people are clicking through from your PPC and what amount of time, how many pages they are visiting, what page they left on and what key word they used. All of this will help you refine your campagne and get you higher ranking. Check to see if your keywords you are using rank as Great or OK, if they are not ranking as great, you are paying to much for those keywords, the higher they rank you and your CTR with your relavence the less each click will cost you. You can also call them and tell them you have fraud on you account. They will look at it and see. More than likely they will tell you something like this, we looked at your account and found that you had a total of 540 clicks but we filtered out 210 for repeats (to same ip address in a small amount of time, and no I do not know what that time frame is), and you only paid for 330 clicks. This is your advertising money you are spending. If you are running your own PPC campagne, I would recomend looking at the Google PPC King Perry Marshal, this is one person I learned allot from and it was free. Just by reading his recomendations, I took my CTR from less than 1% up to 15%, not to mention people from my PPC staying on my website for an average of 3 min 54 seconds and looking at an average of 6.5 pages each. If this is information you are not familiar with, you should learn, because it is costing more than you realize. I have found out the hard way. Certain internet providers do have hubs, if you are running a national campagne for a reason, than good. Otherwise you should look at how to change your setting for just your area.
Lester

golester

Verify you have that in writing, otherwise they will deny it. Even by email is ok, because it is a legal document.

Lester

golester

Remember, you can go after them personally. If they knowingly frauded you and knew it ( and we know they all do), then they can be held personally accountable for their own fraud. This can also include criminal prosicutions. I would love to see that. Make sure you have everything in writing, including emails wich are a legal document because they can be proven in court who they came from. Let them know that you hold the people you spoke to personally responsible and that you will be talking tothem not the comapany when they do not make good, maybe then they will realize to stop perpetuating their fraud and we are coming after them and whatever they have and we will take it away.
Lester

Kenny K

Yay I hear you. I receive more leads out of state than I do in my areas. I have been approached from lead co to sell my leads on a commission basis. declined, rather provide them to fellow dealers. This is probably another way they get leads soliciting websites.. I'd rather offer them here to our forum? Hey maybe a lead exchange program? well just looking at some legitimate services which seems unobtainable.

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dougchips

I sell my out of area ones to a service that has yet to get any bad reviews on here (crossing my fingers). It's not a big money maker but it's enough for a nice vacation. A couple of the other companies with bad reviews have offered me about twice what I'm getting now but I really don't need headaches.

If you get any in my area and you want to trade let me know, I much rather give/trade them with someone I know than make $17 and have them go to some company that I don't know.

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Kenny K

k. Ill start searching through my leads/ I assume you are in boston. new england area?

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golester

Who do you sell them to, and how good are these people.

dougchips

Correct, on the service area.

Golester, I sell them to ABC leads.

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ProWallGuy

Golester, that particular company has been discussed here several times. I have never heard good feedback about them from anybody. The few that do post here with praise for them turned out to be employees of their company disguising themselves as contractors. They were sniffed out quickly and dealt with. You can read more at the links below.

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Duane1982

these guys actually gave me a lead today to get me signed up. I actually talked to the homeowner. It seemed really legit but at the same time too good to be true.

Have they tried to make amends at all?

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procircuit

I am new to all of this. I have been going through hell with everycontractor.com and thought hey i wonder if i google "Is everycontractor a good company" and link after link of its a scam, terrible company and terrible experinces. My story is i signed up for $700 for a year to recieve 12 leads or my money back. I am a new Electrical contractor in southern california and am trying to grow i am very small right now. The salesman gave me the whole song and dance and i thought this was great. Then a month later i got a call to sign up with there preferred contractor program saying they have like 3 jobs that match my profile and they need a contractor right now and they garintee me $45,000 in profite for 1 year at $5,000 dollars to them. I denied them at first then got a call a few days later and offered it to me for $2,300 and what the salesman who was John Taylor told me that i could right a check for $1.000 now and $1,300 a month later and i expressed to him 5 times i dont have the money at all right now im struggaling to stay affloat as it is and he assured me that the first check for $1,000 would not go through until i landed a job and got my first payment for that job. This was all on 2/19/09. Well low and behold the $1,300 dollar check went through my account 3 days later making my account $1,200 overdrawn. I called my bank and what happen was i transferred all my money out of that account on saterday just to be safe well on monday the check went through first and then the transfer. So at this point im fliiping out and throughout this whole week ive talked to 6 different people at everycontractor and they all give me the run around the leads they said they had for me no where matched my profile and ive been demanding my money back and no one will call me back. Im reading to drive to vegas and start hurting people there at everycontractor. Of course I wont but does anybody know is there anything i can do i totally was scamed and im screwed right now i dont have rent money now for this month and i have a family i dont know what to do any help will be greatly appreciated.

Ed the Roofer

Did you put a stop payment on your check ever?

Ed

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alsunrunner

Sorry to hear your misfortune I have a guy Larry calling me 2 to 3 times a day and dropping his price from 6500 to 1500 down and pay the balance in 45 days after I receive 100,000 in signed contracts. He can lower the down payment for me cause I have an excellent rating with the BBB. We danced for 2 weeks and he calls me Friday afternoon and says the deal is good till 4pm EST if I dont take the deal we shake hands and part ways and when monday comes the new deal is 6500. I decided to wait it out and guess what he called Saturday cause he was concerned and was still able to convince his boss to keep my special deal. Beleive it or not I felt like I was being scamed but was still nibbling on the bait after reading your stories I will!!! call Larry Monday and I have plenty to say I will jerk him around for as long as I can F%#@em. All the contractors that are waiting for a refund I wish you well and a refund but I hate to say it dont look good.
Good luck
Al

alsunrunner

I forgot to mention Larry's new hook is a link he sends you showing Forbes mentioning EV and there new 25000 sq ft building and how they are helping the contractor through these tough times very very sly.
Al

Chris Johnson

I'm thinking if you guys had anything in writing of what you are writing this could be construed as theft...that crosses State lines...

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curapa

I received a call from everycontractor.com today. The first salesman I spoke with was obviously green and had little information to give. Their selling point was going to be 315' of wood fence in a near by town, little did they know I had already been contacted by the homeowner to bid on the job. The first salesman handed the phone off to a second "more seasoned" salesman that I thought was quite rude.

I spoke with him and I had a few questions such as how they qualify the homeowners and I told him upfront that I had seen bad reviews about their company. His response is "we are a large company and any large company is going to have some bad reviews" which I understand and agree with.

At that point I wasn't turned off by the company yet, I told him that I network with several contractors from all over and I am sure there are a few that had done business with them and I would like some feedback from actual customers. He was not hearing it, he basically said sign up today or forget it. I told him if he wanted someone to sign up today then he better call another fence company.

I was sincere when I told him I wanted to check into the company myself, when the first salesman called I was about to have a meeting with a HO and I told him to call me back. I could tell by the sound in his voice that he thought I just jerking him around.

What kind of company expects me to drop $600 after one phone call that I was not expecting, and then gets aggravated when I tell them I want to do some research first.

F**k Everycontractor.com

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SLSTech

8 Calls in the last month - 3 in one day from the same jerk off whom I actually blew up on & finally told them to go to he11 - the first 5 while aggravating (all within 2 days) were cool & apologized when I said no thanks - please drop me off your list

Now as for getting off there list, I guess they need to learn to follow through on what they say.

Next time I see there 888-326-0653, I just might have to play that game that the DJ's did - about a murder & that there a suspect, cops will be there shortly....

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ByGeorge

Thanks for the heads up about everycontractor.com, I just got off the phone with them they were trying the same strong arm tactics to try and get me to join.
I have used "Home Resource Network" for a year now and they are great, you don't pay anything until the customer pays you in full. They do verify that you did work for the customer so they don't get ripped off and a copy of the invoice. It is well worth the % they charge and I just add it to the bill.

karunnt

May I ask what % they charge?