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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Three Questions:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) Has any wrench closed a sale on a paid-for
lead?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) Has any wrench closed a sale on the free leads
that I gave you?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3) Has any wrench closed a sale on the free leads
that other wrenches gave you?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joel Davidson</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=solarworks@gmail.com href="mailto:solarworks@gmail.com">Kirpal
Khalsa</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org
href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">RE-wrenches</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:06
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [RE-wrenches] pay for sales
leads</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>We used <A href="http://find-solar.com">find-solar.com</A> 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.......<BR>When <A
href="http://find-solar.com">find-solar.com</A> 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.....<BR>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........<BR>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........<BR>Cheers.....<BR>--
<BR>Sunny Regards,<BR>Kirpal Khalsa<BR>NABCEP Certified Solar PV
Installer<BR>Renewable Energy Systems<BR><A
href="http://www.oregonsolarworks.com">www.oregonsolarworks.com</A><BR>541-218-0201
m<BR>541-592-3958 o<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Mendocino Solar
Service <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:msolar@mcn.org">msolar@mcn.org</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>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?
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<DIV>Bruce Erickson</DIV>
<DIV>Mendocino Solar Service</DIV>
<DIV>PO Box 1252</DIV>
<DIV>Mendocino, CA 95460</DIV>
<DIV>707-937-1701</DIV>
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<DIV>On Apr 22, 2009, at 6:20 AM, Jeff Yago wrote:</DIV><BR>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">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.<SPAN> </SPAN>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.</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">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?</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Jeff Yago</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">DTI Solar</DIV>
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