ROOFING COMPANY Leads

11 years ago

Buy a mailing list of houses that are coming on 10-15 years old would be my first suggestion.

If this is a national company, I'd check if there were any areas of the country with bad storms recently (and continually watch the weather channel) and contact people in the area of the bad storms. Many of them may have gotten roof damage.

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Jon Martin

11 years ago

Originally Posted by James Foster

Buy a mailing list of houses that are coming on 10-15 years old would be my first suggestion.

If this is a national company, I'd check if there were any areas of the country with bad storms recently (and continually watch the weather channel) and contact people in the area of the bad storms. Many of them may have gotten roof damage.

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WPMaker

11 years ago

Also try online advertising:
- facebook ads (to more mature people who own houses)
- google adsense (target local area for cheaper clicks)
- SEO - search engine optimization (target local area with keywords from adsense)
- classfield websites (craiglist etc.)

All of this will not be worth much without a nice and good converting landing page on which you should build a mailing list of potential clients

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SiL^Er_HunTeR

11 years ago

Create a detailed website and be sure to include a phone number and a large amount of contact information
Create local listings for the cities in which the roofing company operates
Craigslist and other classified ads websites
Pay-per-click marketing, such as Google AdWords, but be sure to do a lot of research on keywords before choosing keywords to target
Post on forums that are in the home improvement niche, and search for the roofing sections. Post valuable information about roofing and answer people's questions. Add a link to your website or your phone number in your signature, and if people find your posts helpful, they are very likely to contact you or to click on your link!

Best of luck!!

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DABK

11 years ago

In my area, roofs seem to be changed either right after a house is purchased (new owner), right before it's sold (investor) or about 10-12 years after it's sold (home owner).

So, I'd think that making friends with real estate agents, mortgage brokers, home inspectors, appraisers and investors might be a good idea. Also good: the one mentioned above, buying lists of people who bought a house 10-15 years ago.

You might also want to make friends with house alarm sales people... offer them a finder's fee kind of deal.

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webdigitalmarketing 11 years ago

Do Local listing
Classifieds,
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Rus Sells

11 years ago

Making friends with real estate agents, mortgage brokers, investors is the quickest way to get used, abused, and pressured into cutting profit margins so low to get the job it's asinine.

Roofers who've been down that road before know the deal. Real estate agents are notorious for using roofing contractors to get bids just in order to assure they make a sale. The roofer rarely gets the job and if they do they are expected to do it so cheap that they end up not making the profit margins they should.

I highly advise not connecting with people in the real estate business.

Originally Posted by DABK

In my area, roofs seem to be changed either right after a house is purchased (new owner), right before it's sold (investor) or about 10-12 years after it's sold (home owner).

So, I'd think that making friends with real estate agents, mortgage brokers, home inspectors, appraisers and investors might be a good idea. Also good: the one mentioned above, buying lists of people who bought a house 10-15 years ago.

You might also want to make friends with house alarm sales people... offer them a finder's fee kind of deal.

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SirThomas

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Rus Sells

Making friends with real estate agents, mortgage brokers, investors is the quickest way to get used, abused, and pressured into cutting profit margins so low to get the job it's asinine.

Roofers who've been down that road before know the deal. Real estate agents are notorious for using roofing contractors to get bids just in order to assure they make a sale. The roofer rarely gets the job and if they do they are expected to do it so cheap that they end up not making the profit margins they should.

I highly advise not connecting with people in the real estate business.

That's exactly correct! If anything, much better choice for roofers and siding companies would be a connection with insurance companies that deal with "storm" claims etc. Some of my buddies made a nice living of insurance deals.

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DABK

11 years ago

In my connection with the world of real estate, the pressure is on speed not on price.

They need roof fixed/replaced in order to get a loan approved...

Originally Posted by Rus Sells

Making friends with real estate agents, mortgage brokers, investors is the quickest way to get used, abused, and pressured into cutting profit margins so low to get the job it's asinine.

Roofers who've been down that road before know the deal. Real estate agents are notorious for using roofing contractors to get bids just in order to assure they make a sale. The roofer rarely gets the job and if they do they are expected to do it so cheap that they end up not making the profit margins they should.

I highly advise not connecting with people in the real estate business.

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Rus Sells 11 years ago

You're exactly right and in my world (being a roofing contractor) they want it done by hacks so they don't have to pay as much for it.

I stress again, don't hook your roofing clients up with real estate agents or investors. You'll end up ruining your reputation because they'll hate you for it.

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In my connection with the world of real estate, the pressure is on speed not on price.

They need roof fixed/replaced in order to get a loan approved...
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tallman

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Rus Sells

Making friends with real estate agents, mortgage brokers, investors is the quickest way to get used, abused, and pressured into cutting profit margins so low to get the job it's asinine.

Roofers who've been down that road before know the deal. Real estate agents are notorious for using roofing contractors to get bids just in order to assure they make a sale. The roofer rarely gets the job and if they do they are expected to do it so cheap that they end up not making the profit margins they should.

I highly advise not connecting with people in the real estate business.

You are "spot-on" with that assessment. In 15 years in the roofing business, we have received dozens upon dozens of calls from RE agents and brokers. I can count on one hand, the number of roof replacements projects we have performed from those "leads".

After banging my head against a wall for years, we now, politely let the agent/broker know we charge for the estimate/proposal. However, if we do secure the project, we deduct it from the proposal price.

It should be mentioned, we don't do too many of these estimate/proposals anymore, using this approach, but we don't waste time either.

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NewParadigm

11 years ago

Homeowner associations and association management companies. Make large deals. Same goes with unorganized neighborhoods, use a "group buy" approach for homeowners to get their neighbors in on a great deal.

My 'hood just did a deal to get 50 homes painted for a good discount but big revenue for the painter. We'll be doing roofing next.

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ATAC

11 years ago

I have been doing the same for a couple of years now .
First I always work selling the lead NEVER the sale...
This is big because 'You can not rely on someone else to close the deal and to tell you if it was sold or not.
Too much room to rip you off.

I would suggest going back and setting the deal up that you get paid per lead otherwise you are working for FREE.
Second you want to sell your leads to more then one source, This is how you sell them on the sale per lead .. You tell them you are working with a couple other roofing companies and you can I am offering to sell leads to the highest bidder if you want in make me a Offer to what a lead is worth and I will send you your leads according to your bid...

Now once you fix that mess that you started here is how you generate the leads
there is a guy on fiverr that will make your ad click-able on Craigslist create a sales funnel giving away free info to your perspective lead.

Second method you will need a deposit up front but you should be giving away a few free leads to get one from all your lead buyers then you can go over to opt-intelligence and buy them for Low and sell for High.

Do not forget to change your arrangement otherwise you are working for free been there done it ....
Best of luck I hope this helped

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bsummers

11 years ago

You can try cold calling. It is by far one of the most effective way of generating leads.

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qnatalee

10 years ago

I think Craigslist is best. I did same type of campaign before.

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xlfutur1

10 years ago

You could find a neighborhood where the houses were built in the late 80s, early 90s, then use EDDM to target them. New subdivisions go up fairly quickly, so you'd be hitting houses with roughly the same age of roof. 1000 postcards through EDDM would be fairly cheap to test anyway.

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cruisinman

10 years ago

EDDM is carrier route based. Can't drill it now any more specific than by route.

Originally Posted by xlfutur1

You could find a neighborhood where the houses were built in the late 80s, early 90s, then use EDDM to target them. New subdivisions go up fairly quickly, so you'd be hitting houses with roughly the same age of roof. 1000 postcards through EDDM would be fairly cheap to test anyway.

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DABK 10 years ago

In my area, there are many carrier routes where most, if not all, of the homes were built by one or two builders over a period of 2 or 3 years. So, though you're right that all houses on the route get the mail, it's possible to choose routes that fit the bill.

Originally Posted by cruisinman

EDDM is carrier route based. Can't drill it now any more specific than by route.
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