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 _____ From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@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 ----- Original Message ----- From: HYPERLINK "mailto:solarwo...@gmail.com"Kirpal Khalsa To: HYPERLINK "mailto:re-wrenches@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:mso...@mcn.org"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 _____________________________________________________________ Netscape. 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