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How Many Leads In March??
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04-09-2007, 06:29 PM
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How Many Leads In March??
I got 30 calls in march thats the best since i started tracking in oct, how about the rest of you.
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04-09-2007, 06:53 PM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
I got 3. Disqualified 2, and lost the 3rd to a lower price.
But it is all good, I was already booked up to the end of April. |
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04-09-2007, 07:02 PM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
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04-09-2007, 07:21 PM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
I got 22, that's pretty good for me too.
George, are you the only painter in Toronto?  Just kidding, I know exactly why you get those leads. 
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04-09-2007, 07:51 PM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??Oops, my bad. I tried to make a seperate thread pertaining to part of this one in order to avoid hijacking. I must have hit the reply button by mistake. Last edited by boman47k; 04-09-2007 at 08:23 PM. Reason: Almost hijacked thread by mistake |
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04-09-2007, 07:52 PM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
Had 5 got 3 but my summer is booked with exteriors so I am looking for help for the summer.
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04-09-2007, 10:55 PM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
George Z most of those leads are coming from online right?
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04-09-2007, 11:45 PM
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04-10-2007, 06:56 AM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
I dont track leads. I'm busy and steady, I know that. I actually have been considering the pay per click's lately...
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04-10-2007, 07:39 AM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
Good idea for a post it is nice to have other peoples numbers to compare to.
12 estimates booked 5 jobs. Jim Bunton |
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04-10-2007, 08:49 AM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
It would be nice to see a ratio of leads to the size of company. I am only a two man operation with the limited advertizing I do I do not expect to get 100 leads etc..
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04-10-2007, 09:23 AM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
Hi Guys,
Im just getting started. Can you let me know where I can sign up for the lead source? Thanks! Larry |
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04-10-2007, 09:25 AM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
well it's tight here but we got 8 calls in 3 months and landed 5 jobs. it could be allot better hope the weather breaks people start calling once it warms up.
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04-10-2007, 11:16 AM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
117 leads, God bless america.
George, didn't you say you were built for $300k in business. You could do that in 2 months looks like to me  What in the world do you do with 117 leads? How many of those do you actually go do an estimate for? Do you have a crew of 10 estimators? |
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04-10-2007, 11:47 AM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
I have been doing 7-12 estimates a week for about four weeks now. Booking about half. Summer is looking real good right now.
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04-10-2007, 06:32 PM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??Quote:
1.5 estimators We are hiring painters. Qualifying many of them for now (like exterior, price shoppers etc.) I turned down the bidding very low on Adwords, that should help. We can only get to what we can get to. As I said, we are hiring but it takes time.
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04-10-2007, 07:38 PM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
Hey George, question... i've finally decided to scrap my flash template as it's been sitting out there for a year, not done and ugly... noone will touch it and I need to improve my online presence. Perhaps you can do a post with a basic who when how kinda thing? I'm sure whoever I hire can point it in the right direction but.... 100+ in March, would love to hear more about specifics in your market to customize to mine. You mentioned adwords.. is that all you use?
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04-10-2007, 10:17 PM
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Do the math, even at 25% closing and average job $2,500... Lead sources: Pay Per Click Yahoo, Google and that new MSN Internet Directories Local newspaper ad Door hangers, job proximity Some leads from colour consultants Couple of General Contractors Referals By far most come from Organic searches on Google. It is not free though, we pay someone about $600 per month. The best I can tell people is: Go to Google.ca and search for the usual terms: Painters Toronto, Painting Toronto, House painters Toronto, House painting Toronto, Painting company Toronto, Painting Contractors Toronto etc. Spend sometime investigating who comes up and why. Really investigate. our site is www.ecopainting.ca Then do as they do (within reason) It takes years for Google though. The quickest you can get there is Footbridgemedia. They didn't do our main site, but AA will talk your ear off, about them. Sean Kennedy and Humble are very happy with them too.
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04-10-2007, 10:42 PM
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Re: How Many Leads In March??
Ya, basically what I have now... footbridge wouldn't touch my flash either btw.
Only thing I don't have is the pay for click, how many you running? Just the three mentioned? Although I don't have a strong inet presence atm, I also have two lead services going so I suppose it evens out.. but 100+... heh. wow. Thanks for the info though.. i'll check into the clickies....
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and internet search is very popular here.
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