I like how you are talking about trolls, but you are clearly trolling with this comment.
Ever notice how itās ALWAYS everyone elseās fault.
Yet another thread ruined by awesome wash. I canāt read anything here without seeing him cry or watching him try to start shit. Mute
You do understand you guys are hijacking the thread. I am not going to reply to you guys anymore out of respect for mrsparkle.
I am giving HA a try. On the base of it, I donāt like the concept but thatās another discussion.
They sold me by saying āthere is a large demand for my service in my area but they had no one to give the leads toā. After I signed up, it was over two weeks before I got a lead? Of the leads I have gotten, I gave them a very good price & was out bid. Or, someone 40 minutes away from me wants their 120 sf patio washed. The customer doesnāt want to pay my minimum fee so I donāt get the job but still have to pay HA the lead fee. It sounds like it works for some people in some areas but so far I am not getting a return on my investment.
The rep has been blowing my phone up wanting me to join. My 2 ālocalā friends and several on the fb forum hate home advisor. Thereās even talk of a class action lawsuit. Iām willing to explore opportunities to get more business, but I donāt foresee a lot of residential request coming in over the winter. It may be the perfect time to acquire some commercial contracts though.
Who else has had positive experiences with home advisor?
who else has horror stories?
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Thanks for the feedback
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I use it, itās a pain in the wallet. It has given us a lot of work but at a cost, like i donāt get few jobs but then i get one that pays for this lost leads. But then i get a good lead that gets me a few hundred bucks. I have it set to only commercial work, and residential gutter cleaning. Itās slow now, but i like collecting all that data, peopleās name and email. Eventually Iāll send them emails selling our other services.
I figure itās a fine lead generator, just like a magazine or the paper can be.
Honestly in on the fence about it, what keeps me in is the occasional really good lead.
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Yep, almost 13 years for methamphetamines. Success is relative, and I was forced to give this a go because no one would even give me an interview unless the job paid $10 an hour (did that crap while in halfway house because I couldnāt work for myself from there). Left the halfway house and home detention June 26th. Been grateful for the instruction from many of the folks that have been leaving lately. This leads me to my next point:
AW, I avoid drama like the plague until it gets into my back yard. That served me well in prison. But when my bunkie was under threat and it came into our cell, I found myself under threat. Right now, and you know youāre all right with me, you are jeopardizing our community with all of this bellicosity. I WANT IT TO STOP, please. All of this bickering is costing us valuable assistance, and if you think that at this stage of our burgeoning careers we are ready to lead and instruct, you are completely delusional.
Having gotten that off of my mind, my next recommendation to you and the rest of us here is to devote more energy to gratitude. Gratitude helped me through the roughest time of my life, because if I could find something for which to be grateful about somebody, I could certainly put up with their ā ā ā ā .
Being grateful for the instruction and tutelage that we get here makes us more tolerant of the crap that might otherwise divert us from our intended path.
This childlike behavior from EVERYONE involved needs to stop. Letās return to the respectful community that I discovered a few months ago, OK?
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OK, back to the topic: HomeAdvisor is a juggernaut. Love it or hate it, it has a huge impact on the market. After just a few days, I have shut off leads because I have no reviews, and reviews are KING. No reviews speaks badly, and although many of my customers have volunteered (and I presume posted) their recommendations, none are displayed. I fully intend to turn my leads back on when I have reviews.
Over half of my leads so far have been unreachable (good for credit, charges reversed) Between Wed PM when I was approved (background check must not have cared about my drug felony), I have received 7 leads. One was price shopping and already had somebody that did it regularly for less than I was willing to crank up the truck, one probably went with somebody else because of my lack of reviews, one was a sale for $647, At this point, Iāve spent around $50 for one sale.
More later, my friends!
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This is why I donāt trust home advisor. They tell the hone owner that they do in depth background checks. But they donāt. So if they lie to their home owners. What makes us think they donāt lie to us.
Mr sparkle I donāt say this as a slight against you. This is about the integrity of HA. They are rude, charge you for false leads, and they bring you in by lying by saying we have many people who need work now. On one hand you spent 50 dollars to get a 647 dollar job - if you donāt count the yearly fee. But if time is money how much time have you spent replying to emails, sending quotes, asking for refunds etc etc
Back in fhe old days it was called bird dogging. A ābird dogā would go out and get leads for you. ONCE you got the job THEN you would pay a finders fee. In addition the bird dog ONLY sent YOU the leads. Now Home advisor make you pay up front, then charges per lead and makes you compete with other contractors. Dosent make sense to me.
PS for you pinheads who are going to say I hate HAā¦ Iām not a " hater" I. Just donāt like companies that miss represent themselves and screw over their customersā¦
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Well, HA gives me legitimacy that might take years to build. I take no offense to your comments , nor should anyone else to anybody elseās comments at this forum. I merely report my experiences, and let you be the judge. BTW, although I am a drug felon, my integrity is well intact. My customers satisfaction IS more important than my income. Period.
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Like I said it is about HA integrity being in question not yours. You are doing a good job building a business.
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I am pretty much done with HA. Its to much time & BS to hope you break even. Most of the leads are bad. You get a lot of requests to āwash one side of houseā or āwash a spot off my drivewayā. Soā¦ you have to go through a bunch of phone calls and credit requests to maybe or maybe not get a credit. Itās like paying for a headache. When you have an issue with them its like dealing with Direct TV or ATT. Every aspect of their business is designed to their benefit & when you call them its always a run around. As a business owner I donāt have time or patience for that. I would rather put my marketing dollars else where. In my opinion they are an unnecessary middle man that drives up costs for both contractors & homeowners. Some guys have said it works for them but most to them seem to be in a market where they can get $500 to $700 for a house wash & up sell from there with driveway cleaning. Not the case in my market.
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Manā¦ I got pretty dang lucky. I love HA. I have noticed that August to November things slow down.
Iāve never received a fake lead that I can remember, never had a problem getting credits on leads, and my closing ratio is about 70%. Maybe Iāll put making a video on how we use HomeAdvisor on my off season to do list.
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please. This lady keeps calling me to sign up, but I just canāt pull the trigger.
I will. My biggest ongoing commercial customer, my first apartment complex, and the mega church, my highest single revenue job all year, we start on tomorrow ALL came from HA.
Dude Iāve been waiting forever to see this thing! Get it done!!
This is the first apartment complex and when the property manager left for a different company she took me with her. We have two other complexes we go to once a month perpetually and our last job of the season is a townhome community with her new company as well.
Iām baffled that more people have bad luck with HomeAdvisor than good. Maybe Iām just undeservingly luckyā¦
