[RE-wrenches] pay for sales leads

Wed Apr 22 19:11:43 PDT 2009

1)       N/A/no (never paid for one) but one pay for service gave me a lead
a trial basis which of course wasn’t any where near my definition of
prequalified.

2)       No, but thank you very much

3)       Rarely (less then 5 and I can’t even be sure)

This very timely. I also have seen an explosion of pay for lead services
just in the last few weeks.

Service Magic has been one of the most persistent and has called numerous
times over the last 6 months. They are big time players in the contractor
lead referral business. Name the trade and they will help you find them.
Apparently they are on a push to sign up green (barf) contractors.  Energy
auditors, solar PV and solar thermal.  They want $42/each for PV leads!
Told them no thanks but they really put the hard sale on me.  I told them if
they would offer a no quibble money back guarantee I would happy to try them
out and that promptly ended the conversation.

Best,

Travis Creswell

Ozark Energy Services

HYPERLINK "http://www.ozarkenergyservices.com/"www.ozarkenergyservices.com

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[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Joel
Davidson
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 8:20 PM
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] pay for sales leads

Three Questions:

1) Has any wrench closed a sale on a paid-for lead?

2) Has any wrench closed a sale on the free leads that I gave you?

3) Has any wrench closed a sale on the free leads that other wrenches gave
you?

Joel Davidson

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From: HYPERLINK "mailto:solarworks at gmail.com"Kirpal Khalsa 

To: HYPERLINK "mailto:re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org"RE-wrenches 

Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:06 PM

Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] pay for sales leads

We used HYPERLINK "http://find-solar.com"find-solar.com when they originally
were aligned with ASES......then they had some internal mish mash and ASES
decided to turn it into a money making venture....they like all the other
offers we have been getting, wanted to charge for "qualified" leads......we
found them to offer the most expensive "qualified" lead match referral
program with each lead costing in the neighborhood of $119.00.......The one
benefit of using their service is the funds go to help ASES,- a worthwhile
and deserving organization in my opinion........All the othere private lead
referral services have been offering their services for in the neighborhood
of $14 to $45......We tried one of them and found that our idea of
"qualified" did not match their idea of "qualified".....after trying to
convince them that our idea of "qualified" was the most important and them
not being flexible we decided to stop using their service.......we got a few
leads but because their vetting process didn't weed  out folks who only
thought of solar as a cool product of the future that didn't warrant any
expense we never got a job out of it.......
When HYPERLINK "http://find-solar.com"find-solar.com switched to cooler
planet.....we transfrered our business to find solar.org........they were
still free and we recieved at least a few good quality leads.........they
now offer their service for a price but offer a variety of other benefits
such as placing ad words with google and other search engines......among
other things.....
We have decided to back off on using any of these referral services as they
seem to be coming out of the woodwork and we get most of our leads from
prior customers and other state programs which list licensed
installers.......These are of course free services........
I would love to hear of some success stories from some of these referral
servicees.......unitl i do, i will be refrainig from using them........
Cheers.....
-- 
Sunny Regards,
Kirpal Khalsa
NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer
Renewable Energy Systems
HYPERLINK "http://www.oregonsolarworks.com"www.oregonsolarworks.com
541-218-0201 m
541-592-3958 o

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Mendocino Solar Service <HYPERLINK
"mailto:msolar at mcn.org"msolar at mcn.org> wrote:

So how about the free lead-generating outfits? Findsolar.com was started by
ASES I believe, and is now "Cooler Planet". Anyone get results there or
elsewhere? 

Bruce Erickson

Mendocino Solar Service

PO Box 1252

Mendocino, CA 95460

707-937-1701

On Apr 22, 2009, at 6:20 AM, Jeff Yago wrote:

Unless you have been in this business about one week, you most likely are
receiving tons of emails from web sites offering all kinds of great solar
sales leads for a fee.  The fee is usually in the $15 to $20 range, and they
promise these are "pre-qualified" leads in that a filtering process has been
used to weed out those not really serious.

Considering we get lots of sales leads from other web sites that do not
charge anything, and have lots of work already, have any of you actually
used one of these pay for leads web sites and found it to be as good as the
hype?

Jeff Yago

DTI Solar

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