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Finding work without buying resold contacts

The platforms sell the same contact to four companies. You pay to arrive fourth on a job that was already decided.

With a channel you own, you are the one who chooses the job.No thanksNo thanksTHIS ONEYou pick the job. Not the other way round.
With a channel you own, you are the one who chooses the job.

What a channel of your own changes

On a platform you buy a contact three competitors also have. The price gets discussed before the visit, and the margin goes with it.

A campaign in your name brings people who have seen you, and who are not comparing you yet. It does not necessarily cost less per contact. It costs less per signed job.

Choose the job rather than take it

A renovation company has jobs it prefers: a type of trade, a budget range, a radius. Advertising lets you speak to those rather than take what turns up.

In practice the creative does that sorting. A video showing a full flat renovation does not attract the same enquiries as a video about replacing windows.

Filter before driving out

A site visit costs half a day. The form has to do the work the visit would otherwise do too late.

  • Owner or tenant, and property occupied or empty.
  • Nature of the work and the area concerned.
  • A budget range, however wide.
  • Timescale, and quotes already received or not.

Does your situation look like this? Let's talk for 30 minutes.

Common questions

I tried Facebook and only got time-wasters.
That is the expected result of a form with no questions and a callback three days later. The channel does not sort by itself: qualification and callback time account for most of the gap between a time-waster and a job.
How long before the first jobs?
Enquiries arrive within days, signatures much later. On renovation, count several weeks between the enquiry and the signed quote, and judge the channel on three months, not thirty days.
Do I keep the platforms running alongside?
At first, yes. You do not cut a source of work until the other has proved itself. The comparison is made on cost per signed job, not cost per contact.

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