How many leads in may??? - Contractor Talk - Professional Construction and Remodeling Forum

Dave Mac · 06-01-2007, 06:06 AM

We got 20, how many did you get

thanks
dave mac

MakDeco · 06-01-2007, 08:06 PM

I am a two man operation and I got 8. Four have all ready sign contracts (they were early in May)

Brian · 06-02-2007, 05:53 PM

We had 75 leads. I gave 70 estimates and sold 23 jobs. We have verbal agreements on another 6 or 7 jobs.

Brian Phillips

George Z · 06-02-2007, 06:07 PM

Too many.
153.
I declined:
all exterior, decks, too difficult to travel to, very demanding
and not polite sounding ones.
Among others, I also priced 17 and got six jobs, without seing them and they should all
be great jobs. These are usually the best.
Sales calls from my desk! I like that.

Tmrrptr · 06-02-2007, 08:36 PM

Wow!
You guys are GREAT!

Really gives me a positive attitude!

Slow here in CA, but picking up a bit...
r

Robby · 06-09-2007, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by George Z

Too many.
153.
I declined:
all exterior, decks, too difficult to travel to, very demanding
and not polite sounding ones.
Among others, I also priced 17 and got six jobs, without seing them and they should all
be great jobs. These are usually the best.
Sales calls from my desk! I like that.

Just wonder, did you get the calls from advertising or did you
make the sale calls yourself? P.S. Can you share a tip on advertising?
Thanks!

kanadaeh · 06-09-2007, 09:27 PM

We received 26. We usually receive about 15 to 20 a month this time of year. We have 3 good painters and 1 helper. I am just wondering, how many leads do you think is possible with a population of 150,000? We are located in eastern Canada. This is my third year in bus. and I am trying to plan for controlled growth. In other words, I am trying to figure out how large (profitable) I can get from where I'm located. I have this thing where I think the more leads we get, the more I can charge for our services. I tried to grow through volume but too many headaches and I couldn't find skilled painters so I ended up working 7 days a week. I decided to drop my less profitable jobs and take weekends off. Life is good.

Terrence · 06-10-2007, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by kanadaeh

We received 26. We usually receive about 15 to 20 a month this time of year. We have 3 good painters and 1 helper. I am just wondering, how many leads do you think is possible with a population of 150,000? We are located in eastern Canada. This is my third year in bus. and I am trying to plan for controlled growth. In other words, I am trying to figure out how large (profitable) I can get from where I'm located. I have this thing where I think the more leads we get, the more I can charge for our services. I tried to grow through volume but too many headaches and I couldn't find skilled painters so I ended up working 7 days a week. I decided to drop my less profitable jobs and take weekends off. Life is good.

You ended up working 7 days a week?

You need to look around you and realize that there are a LOT of painted houses out there...

and they weren't painted by you... and you have to be able to trust that others will be able to paint a house (after all how did all those other houses get painted?).

Work ON your business, not IN it. Get out of the bucket.

George Z · 06-10-2007, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Robby

Just wonder, did you get the calls from advertising or did you
make the sale calls yourself? P.S. Can you share a tip on advertising?
Thanks!

I make most of the sales calls myself. I got a bit of help too.
I also mentioned we got some jobs without seing them.

Some from community newspaper,
Some leads from signage, some was referals and repeat work.
Some from Pay per Click internet,
but most by far come from organic searches.
It is interesting now, a lot of visits are direct visits with no keywords,
or the keyword is our company name or url.

Frankawitz · 06-10-2007, 08:15 AM

Well being in the DEAD State as far as work goes we had 6 calls and we got 4 jobs, it seems like we get a job or two then we sit for two to three weeks. But with all the people laid off theres little money to spend on home improvements, Only the Wealthy can do that, And if you aint in the Click you get very little work. We have phone book ads, and the web site I just put up and we are getting some calls. We'll see.

BMAN · 06-10-2007, 02:13 PM

Did about fourty estimates in May.

STUMPFOOT · 06-10-2007, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by George Z

but most by far come from organic searches.
It is interesting now, a lot of visits are direct visits with no keywords,
or the keyword is our company name or url.

What is an "organic search"?

plazaman · 06-10-2007, 05:40 PM

Can you guys tell me a bit more about your operations? How do you handle so many leads? Any Estimators? How many employees/subs/helpers? Office? Staff?

If i were to start doing real advertising, and a volume of leads started pouring in.... how would i handle it?

4 man Operation plus me and dad.

Mr. D · 06-10-2007, 09:23 PM

3 for me

George Z · 06-10-2007, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by STUMPFOOT

What is an "organic search"?

When a prospect searches something in the internet
and they find us in the regular search results, not the paid listings.

SuperiorBuilt · 06-11-2007, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by George Z

When a prospect searches something in the internet
and they find us in the regular search results, not the paid listings.

Hey George have you tried citysearch.com to list your business? If you have , what have the results been? I have every Tom, Dick and Harry SEO company wanting to make me number one on an organic seach. Of coarse the prices starts at $30 per year and go all the way into the hundreds per month. I have done this for free by finding free places to post. It does take a matter of months to get to the first 3 pages of google.
Thanks
Steve
Superior Built Construction

SeanATL · 06-11-2007, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by plazaman

Can you guys tell me a bit more about your operations? How do you handle so many leads? Any Estimators? How many employees/subs/helpers? Office? Staff?

If i were to start doing real advertising, and a volume of leads started pouring in.... how would i handle it?

4 man Operation plus me and dad.

If you want to make a lot of money, you have to do what the other poster said and work "on" your business, not "in" your business.

I've had probably 50 leads in the last two weeks. I have a fulltime estimator....that's all they do is estimate jobs....and follow up on jobs in progress.

I have 3 crews of 3 that I mainly work with, plus another one or two if I need them in a crunch.

Think if you could keep 10 mean busy all week. You charge them out at say $35 an hour and pay between 15-20, plus taxes, etc....if you pay payroll taxes.

Say you make $10 per man every hour they work (ah, and that's probably low in some cases).

10 men, 40 hours a week. That's 400 hours a week......you make $10 per man hour......that's $4,000 a week.....that's $16k a month.

I will make more than that this month, and I don't do this fulltime and I've painted maybe 4 rooms in my life.

premierpainter · 06-13-2007, 06:03 AM

80 leads

plazaman · 06-14-2007, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by premierpainter

80 leads

80?

Wow!

The more i think about, i thinks its impossible to even bring that many leads in NYC. We have so many illegals standing on corners that we cannot compete. Very few jobs are within the city. Most are in the suburbs. With Home depot, illegals, and not so knowledgable homeowner, its very tough to compete. I would say 95% of Home owners in the city doesnt understand about a real paint job and quality paint.