Angie’s List won’t stop blowing up my phone. I’ve told them to stop calling and the next voicemail I got was some goon who said, “I’ve tried numerous times to reach you and would appreciate the respect of a return phone call…”. I called and the joker told me I wasn’t being seen on Angie’s List and wanted to sell me ad space. I told him to take me off their contact list and then I got this email. The jokers you guys have been dealing with at HomeAdvisor must’ve gone to Angie’s List.
Not sure how much truth to what he was telling me about the buy out. I Think it was just a attempt to get me to sign up for home advisor right there on the spot by telling me the prices were gonna be higher if I waited. I don’t use home advisor this guy has been calling me for 3 months now once a week so I think he may have just been blowing smoke.
@squidskc Sounds like u have u a Lil fruit cake on ur hands there
I’m confused. I thought Angie list and home advisor, where one in the same now. I thought you and them loved each other… Did you stop advertising with them? If not and you are still advertising with HA, then why is Angie bugging you???
Angie’s List and HomeAdvisor are now owned by the same parent company, but at the moment still very different. I love HA and AL because they make me money. I love HomeAdvisor a lot more. They’ve always been helpful when I call, I don’t remember getting hounded by them, and never had any rude calls either.
Customers find me on Angie’s List so I like it, but I don’t enjoy getting hounded by a couple of turds who can’t seem to follow a single direction. “Remove me from your contact list.”
I just wanted to put in my input on this topic. I think the success of HA definitely depends on your market. Every market is saturated, however I consider mine heavily saturated. HA told me there are 120 contractors located in my service area. Recently leads have been a bidding war to the bottom, which I like to make profit so I have been losing lots of jobs. I am pretty good at selling however no matter how hard I try, all the leads just care about the lowest prices. For example I had a lead yesterday that cost me $30…the lead was for a driveway and sidewalk cleaning. I quoted $100 which is my minimum. I spoke to the guy yesterday and today and explained how it was important to make sure whoever he hires to have insurance. Today when I talked to him he said he had found someone, when I asked if the person had insurance, he said he did not care. I asked him how much they were doing the job for, get ready for this!!! $50!!! They made $20 profit… So if you are in a market like me, good luck competing with guys who work for $20 profit. In the past week i have spent $100 in leads and lost all jobs to low ballers. Another guy wanted driveway, sidewalk, and good size pool cage and pool patio cleaned. I quoted $250, and lost to a guy who did it for $100… Once again the lead was $25 so that guy made $75… its a joke.
It is possible I need to work on selling skills however I really work them, but it seems that when they see a super low price they just take it.
It certainly sounds like a tough market. I would like to suggest that caveats (warnings) to prospects about the competition is negative, while affirmaations about your reviews and strengths is positive. Positive sells. I NEVER talk about my competition, and when, as yesterday, a customer told me he had gone with my competition, I suggested he keep my card and call me if I could be of service in the future. I thanked him for the call and wished him and his new Pro well.
Ditto. I don’t give two hoots and a fart who my competition is. I do however recommend a company called Southern Clean here all the time if I’m booked up. He has a crew, more machines, more capacity, has helped me out, and seems like a good guy.
Find a good company you can refer to. Good karma and you can still be a resource even if you don’t get the job.
Josh was the name of my foreman that passed away in 2014. Dropped him off at his house aftet working in TN for 2 weeks and he died in a motorcyle accident before I got home
His locker is on the left. His work boots have been sitting in there for 3 years. Can’t bring myself to clean it out. He started with me one week after he got out of the Marines and was part pod the crew for 8 years.
I do. Then I try again several times, including e-mail with reference to my website and HomeAdvisor ratings.
The next day I try again and then request a refund on the lead. Had a window cleaning prospect whose lead I received yesterday that I couldn’t reach, she called me several hours ago because I reached out with voice mail and text, and I go to quote and hopefully clean her windows tomorrow morning at 8
Didn’t mean to be a Debbie Downer. Just made me think about him. He was the funniest guy in the world. I would watch him stop his Harley 300 feet from the shop to light a smoke so he would look cool when he rode up. He referred to himself in the third person.“The Josh manis going fishing after work” I fired him about 5 times but he would give me these puppy dog eyes and say “Come on bossman, the Josh is sorry, you know you love me” Crazy knuckle head but he was one to ride the river with.
