Internet Lead Generating Company.

C4U

dougchips, I sell only real-time leads. The leads go out to the contractors as soon as the customer submits the lead by email, fax, text message or any combination of the three. Maximum contractors referred for any project is 3, no exceptions. Never recycle leads.

C4U

Ultimatetouch, I'm new to this forum so maybe I don't know what I'm doing, but I searched through the entire thread and did not see where you mentioned the fact that I was fair and that I accept returns. If you had mentioned those items I would not have responded to your original post where you did say that all the leads you received were "crap".

I thinks its important to understand that posting to forums is not like talking to your buddy at some bar. This thread has been viewed by over 400 people so far. I'm not saying you can't be critical of my company or anyone else's. I'm just saying that you have to be fair and tell the whole story if you're going to complain about someone in a public forum...Just my opinion.

Cole

Business is Business!

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George Z

Customer fills form of two Lead services
and gets couple estimates of his own through regular searches.
He thinks he gets 3-4 estimates but he is contacting at least 10 contractors

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C4U

George, none of us can control what the customer is going to do. He can just as easily call 10 contractors from the yellow pages. The only thing a contractor can do is follow up ASAP and find a way to differentiate himself from his competition.

ultimatetouch

I thought I did mention you returned some leads Jeff which was why I started up with you. Upon closer look it seems I havent. My intentions is not to bash you or your copany. I like you Jeff and you have a smaller company. The initial question here was, is 300 bucks in the winter enough of a test for cancellation The only reason I considered that was because I wanted it to work out. I also never mentioned the name of the company until asked. I never felt you have bad service matter of fact my impression of you Jeff was that your a good guy and that you are professional. I dont know the exact number of leads but I only got to go on 1 of them the rest I could not get a hold of, or they did call back, and I called within minutes. Grumpy said it, how could you get more leads maybe that would have canceled out the bad ones. Maybe a directory for contractors.

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dougchips

If you expand to the MA/RI markets, let me know.

WHODAMAN007

anybody know a web site, in mass. where you can find alist of new home owners?

vinylguy

now! now! boys fight nice. do like barney can't we all just be friends!

Grumpy

I just got a letter from Angies List. $25 a month, www.newmoversmailbox.com

ultimatetouch

I just got one of those to Grumpy but i think there is a catch to that. You only get three zip codes after that its 10 dollars a month more per zip code. It depends how many new people moved into those zip codes.

Grumpy are you on Angies list. I am thinking of getting my customers to sign me up.

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Steve Keirstead

This is all to common, that's why our company only buys leads from companies that are exclusive. Since it's the net you might end up with a couple companies involved but it's better then 10.
We had our SM experiences like that described above, customer called so much that by the time you call they are not answering anymore.
And credit backs are unhead of.

Theres only about 3 companies left that sell exclusive leads now. I buy from all of them, and it works well for us.

All these other companies all sell the leads 4 times and then off to affiliates and so forth. Their all just a bunch of service magic clones.
Selling off paper and never giving credits..
Buy exclusive or nothing at all.

ultimatetouch

What companies do you use?

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Steve Keirstead

Hi Ultimatetouch,

Let me say first that I love your web site, very warm, clean and tight. Great Design..

The Lead Gen companies we use you might already be with, from reading your past post's abit.

homeimprovementportal.com, -aka- United Home Improvement

Exclusive leads, credit back policy in writing, but they have a sign up fee, and the leads are abit costly.

Quinn St. Everyone knows these guys, their great, but recently as of late last year they went to selling leads off 3 times. We however are grand fathered in for exclusive, since we have been with them for so many years and such a wide coverage area.

ABCLeads.com - Good service if you can get the area's.
They are great because they lock up the zip codes for each area, no one else has access to the area until you quit. I have been with them since their early day's. Most likely the Chicago area would be taking up, and you will have to wait in line..(Might Take Years)
But they have a good credit back policy listed right on there web site, and their landing page's rank very high on all the major search engines.

I also run my own National Exclusive Lead generation company.

Which I won't mention here because I don't want to break the forum rules. All the leads in my service area's go to my window company, then I have a few hundred companies I supply nation wide. I call every lead first, check the number's, give a credit back policy in writing and so forth, which I break on a daily basis and give credit when I should not just to keep you guys happy..
It's killin me, but I'm working for the companies because they are what is important. I want you guys in the house pitching.

We are small with a very personal service.

Just a note Ultimatetouch,

I could defiantly increase your lead flow in your service area's for the products you provide, and work closely with you to get your guys into house's and pitching.

Steve K

The Sale Doesn't Start Once Your In The House, It Starts When You Begin Dialing The Number!!!

ultimatetouch

go to my website and leave me your contact info and website info

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HepaCore

I was tossing the idea around to sign my company up with these sites. I signed up as a HO to see what it was like from their point of view. All the sites ask for a brief job description, location, expected to spend and timeframe.

I suggest the user (the HO) pick the contractors he/she wants and send the bids to them. (Sorta, like LendingTree is for banks). I bet the user would take more ownership and be more responsive. Plus, you should pay per lead, not overall monthly payment.

Sorta off topic, but still relevant. Have you seen companys offering online gift cards for residential services. Receipients log in, type in the code to get the gift and picks from a rated local registered vendor list.
I am not sure how it works from there.

dirt diggler

hey! well, what a coincidence, dontcha know?

HepaCore

the majority of contractors participating with lead generating sites, expect the sites to sell their services for them as well. If that is the case, higher canvassers knowledgeable in your services and they will generate those sales. However, instead of leads you have door-to-door sales people.

I say give me a company that charges me $39.99 per lead from customers that actually selected my company based on on my past work and referrals. I'd be a happy puppy.

Grumpy

I wish! I have had customers promise to sign us up if we did a good job... I'm still not on her list Empty promises, since we did great jobs!

HepaCore

Can you create an account on there yourselves? Why make your customers pay 15 bucks to do so...