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: Kirpal Khalsa
To: RE-wrenches
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] pay for sales leads
We used 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 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
www.oregonsolarworks.com
541-218-0201 m
541-592-3958 o
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Mendocino Solar Service <mso...@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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