Exclusive vs Shared Roofing Leads: What You're Actually Paying For
Exclusive leads cost more but the per-job math isn't obvious. Here's how to compare them honestly, spot the resale traps, and figure out when buying leads at all is the wrong call.
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Exclusive leads cost more but the per-job math isn't obvious. Here's how to compare them honestly, spot the resale traps, and figure out when buying leads at all is the wrong call.
Stop renting the same homeowner that five other crews already called. Here is how to find roof replacement work from streets, storms, and your own customer book you already own.
A practitioner's workflow for turning a city map into a ranked list of doors worth knocking, so your crew spends the day on roofs that are actually due.
The doors worth knocking are the roofs that are aging out or storm-worn. Here is how seasoned roofers find them house by house instead of guessing the whole street.
Most roofers argue about lead sources based on gut feel. Here is the actual math on cost per acquired job, close rates, and the hidden costs that decide whether bought or self-generated work pays.
Stop driving random subdivisions. Here is how experienced crews pinpoint neighborhoods full of aging, storm-worn roofs using permits, plat dates, aerial age signals, and storm history.
The streets are full of roofs. Only some of them are old enough to replace. Here is how working contractors actually find the 20-year-old roofs near them, street by street, without buying leads.
A practical, no-fluff system for spotting the roofs in a neighborhood that are actually due for replacement, so your crews knock the right doors instead of every door.
Most roofers knock the whole street and hope. Here is how the sharp ones find the roofs that are actually worn out or aging out, door by door, before anyone climbs a ladder.
The visual cues, records math, and aerial workflows roofers use to spot roofs that are aging out, plus how to turn a whole subdivision into a ranked knock list.
Most tools sold to roofers tell you where a storm passed, not which roofs it wore out. Here is how to actually find the houses that are due, address by address.
A working roofer's method for assembling an address list of aging roofs from public records, imagery, and storm data, so your crew knocks the doors that actually need a re-roof.
There's no database with every roof's install date. Here's how pros assemble roof age by address from county records, permits, imagery, and storm history, then turn it into a knock list.
Bought leads are rented, resold, and shrinking your margin. Here are the alternatives that build a pipeline you actually own, with the numbers and workflows behind each.
Bought leads can fill a slow week or quietly bleed your margin. Here is how to run the cost-per-job math, read a lead source honestly, and decide when to rent pipeline versus build your own.