Anyone tried ratedpeople.com

[Billy]

As above prices for leads are a bit much. £7 for a. £100 job !!! And the customers generally want to stick to their budget rigidly , at first I thought they went in low to entice more people to buy the lead, but they really do think you'll remove 10 30ft conifers for £250 or less lol

[MGSLandscape]

I have a mixed review... I've been on ratedpeople for just over a year now, and I mean properly on ratedpeople - I get customers to leave reviews etc and maintain a 5 star listing as with all of these things you only get out what you put in! Work will never just land in our laps!

In the beginning ratedpeople was very good for my business, we picked up several good contracts that we still have now running into over 30k per annum. We also had various landscape build jobs through the summer last year and it was a nice 'top up' from our regular word of mouth customers.

Tree work has NEVER worked on ratedpeople. Landscape and gardening yes, but not the trees.

Unfortunately now ratedpeople have changed the way they charge you for their leads, this now means that there is no way of refunding a dodgy lead (of which there were always a few!) and this gave me the confidence to buy several as I always had that backup. Now the leads are cheaper and no quarterly fee but without that backup of the refund my usage has dropped significantly. Don't think I've bought a lead in the last month, whereas this time last year I would have bought 20.

It really is a shame IMO that ratedpeople have made these changes as they genuinely had a good model there before which genuinely worked for my business.

Oh well...

 

 

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[arbogrunt]

I gave this a go when work was a bit slack. I got a few jobs out of it, I just put 10% on top of the price to pay for each lead. Problems were; people could have a 'budget' and jobs were 'under' £500 or whatever the customer wanted to spend. These were almost always ridiculously low prices. The other thing was, many jobs were landscaping/fencing jobs with trees involved...not really tree-specialist jobs. I got myself off it when work got busy, but they still sent me leads...I have now put them down as spam, its been getting on my wick. So, if you haven't got any work...do it, work is work. Otherwise, don't bother.

[hamdogg]

Anyone else got any reviews? I'm working with a lad at the moment that swears by it!

[TTS North]

If your local authority has a safe trader register get yourself on it - we have and it brings in a ton of work because they list all the safe traders on their web site.

 

I get a ton of unsolicited calls from safevettedcheckdratedandjudged yad yada yada .com telling me I'm about to go bust unless I pay them money and sign up with them. Well I'm still here.

 

My facebook page and my google+ page both allow customers to leave reviews and they work well. Plus they're both free.

[hamdogg]

If your local authority has a safe trader register get yourself on it - we have and it brings in a ton of work because they list all the safe traders on their web site.

 

I get a ton of unsolicited calls from safevettedcheckdratedandjudged yad yada yada .com telling me I'm about to go bust unless I pay them money and sign up with them. Well I'm still here.

 

My facebook page and my google+ page both allow customers to leave reviews and they work well. Plus they're both free.

 

 

I'll look into that list

[Billy]

I get leads through but the budget is always ridiculously low with very little info available, with no refund available they're not worth gambling on IMO

[BrendanTreeFeller]

Rubbish, pay to get a phone number then go do a quote and find out the average job is like taking 3 conifers down they expect you to do it for like £100. You've then both wasted your time and paid rated people money to have your time wasted. Rubbish!