My experience with Angie's Leads/Home Advisor

[Nomad74]

When I hired my guy I ramped everything up. I started spending about $2500 a month on marketing. All that did was get me really busy but I really didn't see any profits. One of the things I tried was Angie's Leads Formally Home Advisor. Holy cow was that a crazy ride.

The leads would come in but a majority weren't ready to clean and were just price shopping. More than half really didn't want to be called and filled out the lead by mistake. I got a lot of elderly people not knowing why I was calling. When notified by the lead service of a new lead, I would have to go through their phone lines and could not contact the customer directly. So when contacting the customer, the first thing I would do is get their phone number so I wouldn't have to go through the VOIP lead line. It sucked! Then on top of all that, the leads were expensive. They were charging me over $40 per lead.

This morning I liberated myself and canceled the service. Good grief. I guess it would be good for a noob that's desperate for any type of work, but it just didn't workout for me.

 

[hogjowl]

Before the rocket scientist starts in on you, let me thank you for sharing.

 

[Nate The Great]

We used Service Magic years ago.. The customers who were savvy would look at our name and call directly.. They "thought" they were being charged a higher price because they were going through the service providers number..

I have never liked the yellow pages tracking phone numbers, or any other lead generator using a tracking number.. I understand the concept, however if a customer saves your number under that, it may not work down the line..

We were at $15-20/call

 

[Clean Rug Doug]

Tried HA years ago. My call volume decreased and I noticed that the calls coming in were from them or from repeats. I ended up sitting around a lot. The calls from them were either asking a lot of questions and not booking or would say they already scheduled with someone else even though I would call right away. After about two months of this I checked my website ranking. I had been second in my area before. I had to scroll to the 4th page to find my own site. I called HA and told them what was happening. They denied their actions would cause that. I told them they need to stop and undo whatever they did. A day and a half later I was the second listing again.

 

[smastio]

There's a trend hear you know... Service Magic sucked, so they changed their name to Home Advisor; which then sucked again, so they merged with Angie's list. Rinse and Repeat!

 

[Desk Jockey]

There's a trend hear you know... Service Magic sucked, so they changed their name to Home Advisor; which then sucked again, so they merged with Angie's list. Rinse and Repeat!

 

[BIG WOOD]

The guy kicks me in the balls for parking funny and not using a sock to filter my nasty water…then he turns around and uses HOME ADVISOR

MORON

 

[hogjowl]

There's a trend hear you know... Service Magic sucked, so they changed their name to Home Advisor; which then sucked again, so they merged with Angie's list. Rinse and Repeat!

I’ve here’d that somewhere before.

 

[Nate The Great]

The guy kicks me in the balls for parking funny and not using a sock to filter my nasty water…then he turns around and uses HOME ADVISOR

MORON

Takes Juan to know Juan..

 

[Moser Brothers]

Damon this week is dead, I need to get some work, but don't want to spend all the profit just to get leads

When I hired my guy I ramped everything up. I started spending about $2500 a month on marketing. All that did was get me really busy but I really didn't see any profits. One of the things I tried was Angie's Leads Formally Home Advisor. Holy cow was that a crazy ride.

The leads would come in but a majority weren't ready to clean and were just price shopping. More than half really didn't want to be called and filled out the lead by mistake. I got a lot of elderly people not knowing why I was calling. When notified by the lead service of a new lead, I would have to go through their phone lines and could not contact the customer directly. So when contacting the customer, the first thing I would do is get their phone number so I wouldn't have to go through the VOIP lead line. It sucked! Then on top of all that, the leads were expensive. They were charging me over $40 per lead.

This morning I liberated myself and canceled the service. Good grief. I guess it would be good for a noob that's desperate for any type of work, but it just didn't workout for me.

 

[Mikey P]

 

[Mikey P]

When I hired my guy I ramped everything up. I started spending about $2500 a month on marketing. All that did was get me really busy but I really didn't see any profits. One of the things I tried was Angie's Leads Formally Home Advisor. Holy cow was that a crazy ride.

The leads would come in but a majority weren't ready to clean and were just price shopping. More than half really didn't want to be called and filled out the lead by mistake. I got a lot of elderly people not knowing why I was calling. When notified by the lead service of a new lead, I would have to go through their phone lines and could not contact the customer directly. So when contacting the customer, the first thing I would do is get their phone number so I wouldn't have to go through the VOIP lead line. It sucked! Then on top of all that, the leads were expensive. They were charging me over $40 per lead.

This morning I liberated myself and canceled the service. Good grief. I guess it would be good for a noob that's desperate for any type of work, but it just didn't workout for me.

What's next, paying Tre to SEO your site?

 

[Brian H]

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I saw a similar type story about a guy who joined the US Navy. Join the Navy and see the world is what he signed up for. He ended up on an aircraft carrier cleaning toilets!

 

[Nomad74]

What's next, paying Tre to SEO your site?

Nope. I’m doing just fine. The ship has been righted.