A new marketing tool I'm using with ridiculous ROI

[Disciple96]

Just signed up for RedX for 3 months so I can get phone numbers from addresses.

I work in storm restoration so I'll have to cross reference this tool with my hail data to prequalify my leads.

I'm thinking this will come in handy to beat the rest of the storm chasers to the punch. The morning after a hail storm, while everyone scrambles to knock the most affected areas, I'll have already left a message for every homeowner in the neighborhood before the competition even arrives.

As grant cardone says, don't compete, dominate!

We'll see how it goes. I'll update with the progress report.

 

[Johnny boy]

I will probably try this out again tomorrow. Sitting here with a local Yellowpages on my desk...hundreds upon hundreds of local biz numbers.

Find a way to streamline that and add 1000 numbers to a list per day instead of manually entering them.

 

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[Tom.V]

Interesting. I'll check it out. Thanks for sharing!

 

[21elnegocio]

This is interesting and well-timed.

I got ahold of a list of 17,800 registered contractors in the state of Iowa (from a public records request). They released their names, addresses, phone numbers, and even email addresses to me in one excel spreadsheet. I got it for a friend as a favor but he didn’t end up needing it.

Anyway, now, I just need something to sell to contractors and I can use the numbers on my list along with slybroadcast.

Thanks!

I got a similar list that I will start working on here soon. Just debating on what to sell them, were you able to find somethign to sell your contractors ? I have a list of real estate agents 37k of them.

 

[Johnny boy]

I got a similar list that I will start working on here soon. Just debating on what to sell them, were you able to find somethign to sell your contractors ? I have a list of real estate agents 37k of them.

Read this

Why I build an engaged Audience First before starting my Company

Only for the crazy ones.

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[James Klymus]

Have you considered buying small landscaping businesses in your area and taking over their book of business? If you can get seller financing, you can potentially get new business with essentially no money out of pocket.

I literally just finished interviewing a guy for my podcast that is doing just this -- he buys small landscaping companies for their equipment value, gets seller financing to keep his out of pocket costs low, and then consolidates their book of business into his brand. He's bought 5 companies so far, and has consolidated them into a $1M business, and doesn't need to do much outside marketing because he's pulling in the existing clients when he purchases.

Just something to think about -- I'll post a link to the episode when it comes out next week in case you find it helpful...

Thats smart, since most of the landscaping companies near me are just small operations.

@Johnny boy Im going to try this for my local lead gen business, thanks! I really dont like cold calling too, it seems really tedious and harder to scale than ppc, or this method.

 

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[The Abundant Man]

This is a great strategy that I have been looking into. I learned it from Dan Peña. Is there a sweet spot price range for landscape acquisitions ?

Sounds more like the Bob Iger/Disney method:
Pixar
Marvel
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20th Century Fox

 

[Swift]

I'm promoting pay per call offers.

My goal is to get them to call a telephone number and stay on the line for at least 1 min. 30 second to get paid by the pay per call network.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOAjd99nxw0




That's nice for you bro. But, I'm not just gonna randomly call up people and say "hey, do you need home improvement services? - give me a call back. Byeeeee."

That strategy would probably only work when the people you're calling are already pre-qualified somehow - like contacting business owners, or people that have homes for sales...

What you do is scrape a list of numbers off people who might need your service through d7leadfinder so they're sorta qualified. I do lead gen for accounting firms so I just went into d7leadfinder entered accountants and got a bunch of numbers for each city. Maybe you could target real estate offices and say you'd do home improvement for their properties or something. It'd be a more lucrative deal to do home improvement on say an apartment complex or neighborhood owned by a real estate firm than just a couple residential homes.

 

[GetShitDone]

Have you considered buying small landscaping businesses in your area and taking over their book of business? If you can get seller financing, you can potentially get new business with essentially no money out of pocket.

I literally just finished interviewing a guy for my podcast that is doing just this -- he buys small landscaping companies for their equipment value, gets seller financing to keep his out of pocket costs low, and then consolidates their book of business into his brand. He's bought 5 companies so far, and has consolidated them into a $1M business, and doesn't need to do much outside marketing because he's pulling in the existing clients when he purchases.

Just something to think about -- I'll post a link to the episode when it comes out next week in case you find it helpful...

Sounds like what private equity companies do except at a smaller scale with home services. Very impressive and I can see huge profit there if he simply rinses and repeats what he's doing.

HOw do you guys get a list of phone numbers? Where do you look for phone numbers list?

I'm planning on combining GetProspect (lead finder) with LinkedIn. Basically, after my automation software messages 100 linkedin prospects per day, it will find their phone numbers and then link it to the voicemail software.

This way, I hit the person on LinkedIn + Email + Voicemail. All automatically. 100 a day.

 

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[Johnny boy]

Gonna try this out. Are you using on already contacted prospects? Or completely cold?

Is there a resource or tool for us to verify the phone numbers before we attempt, so as to not waste calls on inaccurate phone number from our list source.

Thanks!


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You only pay for successful messages. You get 100 voicemails and upload 100 numbers and only 50 of them send successfully, you still have 50 left.

 

[Johnny boy]

I have a couple questions:

Does anyone know of a service that will append phone numbers to a list of addresses that you upload? It makes sense that might be a missing piece of the puzzle for folks who have a list of addresses and want to know the phone numbers associated with those addresses.

Does anyone know of a service that will allow you to upload a list of phone numbers then it tells you which ones are landlines and which ones are cell phones? This might help save time for those who want to target cell phones only.

Skip tracing services provide phone numbers for addresses if you have it formatted correctly. I use this for real estate. They need (First name, last name, street address, city, state, zip) all in their own boxes in an excel spreadsheet. You can get phone numbers for these people for .30 each. I use needtoskip.com and upload the file to their site and get numbers back in less than 2 days sometimes 1.

 

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[minivanman]

Decided to run a test to verify it doesn't ring the phone - and it does. I have good cell service + connected to wifi - which may be affecting it. The phone might not have rung if my signal strength was low enough to not immediately catch the call.

It was half a ring from an unknown number and then <60 seconds later, a voicemail from the number I selected to show. I tested it on 2 different cell phones.

If @minivanman is right about the legal part of it, could be very risky.

No, it either drops it in the box or it rings. It doesn't have anything to do with strong service.

 

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[USN-Ken]

https://www.supermpower.com/

These guys do. Separate columns for landlines and cell.

Dang-- that's awesome! Super helpful! Thanks!

 

[floridaman]

About to try this out and would like some feedback on my voicemail script. Trying to keep it fast and casual since it's only a voicemail.

The target market is local service businesses and tradesmen.

Hey, this is ____ from _______.

The reason I called is to schedule an appointment with you about how my team and I can get you some more phone calls to your business every week.

If you're interested, I would love to schedule a call or meeting with you sometime this week.

I'm available from 9am to 4pm, Monday through Friday, so feel free give me a callback or text and we can move forward.

Look forward to speaking with you, bye.​

The only thing I would add is a piece about them making more money, closing more sales. You DO mention that you can get them some more phone calls, which is good. But what do they really want? More time or money, so connect your value prop (more calls) to what they want (more deals closed/more money/more time). "The reason I called is to schedule an appointment with you and show you how I can get you more phone calls to your business each week, so you can close more sales and make more money."

That's my 2 cents! I'd love to hear feedback from others.

 

[Timmy C]

gonna use this lol



Hi whats up?

My name is Tim,

I am a chef and started a food delivery business which does gourmet food for people who are time poor..yeh gourmet as in like the best food ever like not cheap calories in a box meals…. I only want to do it for a few people as you know I put so much effort into these meals I don’t have time to do a gazillion a week. Think of me as your personal chef who delivers your food in a doggy bag……ok not a doggie bag that sounds wrong… more like vacuum sealed so it keeps nice and fresh. I guess it’s a company for gym junkies or not I honestly have no idea right now. I mean all the calories are counted and provided on the menu. But anyone can eat right……. so ah yeh basically I was bored and picked up a phone book and thought id give you a buzz. Anyway ah yeh feel free to shoot me a message on ********** to get a menu you could call but ill probably be in food service and also I hate getting sales calls from randoms so I never pick up the phone if I don’t know who it is…cough.. all good ill call you back if I know who you are.



This will be fun hahahahaha

 

[focusedlife]

"I signed up your neighbor for lawn care and offered them 20% off if someone on their street signed up too so they gave me your number, call me back and lets sign you up so I can take 20% off for both of you".

@Johnny boy would you mind if I ask, how did you reply to the folks that called in and were like "Who gave you my number?" (assuming that might've happened a few times, no?).

Trying to get ideas to smooth through those initial awkward stages when first breaking the ice with folks.

Any helpful feedback is much appreciated.

 

[abrakamowse]

I will try it!!! Thank you so much for posting it!!!!

 

[Kyle T]

Has anyone used this as a way to do lead gen for a client? I have a client who is signing up for PPC ads and was thinking about maybe trying this out as a way to impress them with a lead or two.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Is it this guys what you were talking about?

No, these are ringless. Go straight to VM.

First Ringless Voicemail Message TCPA Decision Sides With Plaintiff

Great find.

 

[Tanu1234]

I've tried door-to-door sales, door hangers, sending physical mail, email marketing, PPC ads, Facebook ads, cold calling, craigslist, etc...

All of it "kinda" works. It's either too expensive, too inefficient, too tedious, too something.

I have a lawn care company and I've been doing some real estate wholesaling (to stay busy in the winter). I've been using all sorts of advertising and it never worked as well as I wanted.

I recently came across a website that sends people a recorded voicemail that you make, except the person thinks it is an actual person who left a voicemail, not a robocall they have to listen to. It doesn't ring their phone, just leaves a voicemail and says "missed call" from whichever number you choose. It's called SlyBroadcast.

So I tried it. I paid for 100 voicemails for $10. I uploaded a couple lists. Some for real estate (people who had ugly homes). And some for people I wanted to sign up for lawn care (numbers in my zip code for women over 40 who have nice homes).

I recorded one message saying "I drove by your home and wanted to see if you'd be interested in selling it to me" and another saying "I signed up your neighbor for lawn care and offered them 20% off if someone on their street signed up too so they gave me your number, call me back and lets sign you up so I can take 20% off for both of you".

I got back tons of calls, made appointments and signed people up, and got leads for real estate deals.

It cost me $10.

Depending on where you get your numbers, you might have to pay for that part. But for me it was cheap.

That's a mind-numbing ROI...

It's scalable, efficient, and best of all, it is ACTIVE marketing. It's not sitting around waiting for responses, you can tell in a couple hours if it works or not.

Think about it. What do you do if you see a facebook ad? "meh". A google ad? "meh". A robocall? You hate them. Telemarketers? Burn em alive. Physical mailers? Straight to the garbage. Someone leaving a voicemail that sounds personal? You're actually going to listen to that. They listen on their own time and nearly every single person will give a voicemail their undivided attention if it sounds like a human with a real message.

And it costs $0.10 down to $0.06 each if you buy in bulk. It doesn't charge for undelivered messages either.

I can think of a ton of ways to use this to kick a$$ in sales.

Car sales? Get a list of people recently discharged from bankruptcy and send them a voicemail saying you can help them get a car loan. Or send voicemails to all previous customers.

Digital marketing agency? Search for local services and upload every phone number that doesn't have a website link on their google business result, same with craigslist services. Send them a voicemail that you can build them a website.

I remember cold calling people when I worked as a car salesman, I would rather just take that list, upload the numbers to a system, spend a few bucks and get way more results without bothering people and annoying them.

I found this because I'm lazy. I hate knocking on doors. I hate bothering people with a phone call. I hate having to compete with facebook ads that don't convert. I hate sending expensive mailers that are going to get tossed in the trash. Every time I do something that will never scale, I get angry. When I find something that will scale, I get excited.

I'm not a salesperson for SlyBroadcast, I've posted on here for my lawn care company before.

Check it out. To be safe you might want to run numbers through the do-not-call list.

I'm very happy I found this. I'm going to use it as my primary marketing tool if it continues to perform this well.

Sounds amazing[emoji54]


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[Janeter1nADrum]

I checked out this site. Looks like a good method, providing you already have the phone numbers of the prospects on your list. No list, no deal.

 

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[Johnny boy]

Thank you again for this... Closed my first deal using this method.

On Wednesday. Used a VA to scrape 400 phone numbers: $12

On Thursday. I use SlyBroadcastst to drop voicemail, only 200 were successful. Cost: $16

On Friday, I closed a deal in which the client is paying $600 /month.

NICE!!!

 

[mbilal]

How do you use this software?

In B2B, landline numbers are the norm, not mobile numbers. The software unfortunately does not accept landline numbers for me, does anyone have any tips for me?


Many Thanks

 

[rynor]

The software unfortunately does not accept landline numbers for me, does anyone have any tips for me?

Have you already tried to send the messages? I uploaded 2x separate recipient lists with 100x numbers each, many of which were landlines, and didn't receive any errors.

Their FAQ states:

Slybroadcast can send voicemails to U.S. and Canadian mobile numbers and select landline phones. In order to be compatible, a landline must include a voicemailbox provided by their phone service provider. Slybroadcast does not connect to PBX. When sending to these types of phone systems, users may experience a short ring.

 

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[mbilal]

Thank you for your reply.


I would like to send out the messages, but the software does not even accept the landline numbers. I live in Europe maybe thats a problem?

And in my FAQ stands:
"No, Slybroadcast Global does not work to fixed phone lines. When sending or scheduling a campaign, our system will automatially remove any fixed phone numbers from your list."

 

[Andy Daniels]

I used their "Try it Now" option and sent a message to my own phone. It rang for half a second from "UNKNOWN" and didn't leave me any voicemail...

Has this happened to anyone else? I'm going to ask their support team about it.

 

[alexson]

My company provides SoundCloud services. Can we generate a lead from this website?

 

[AniM]

My company provides SoundCloud services. Can we generate a lead from this website?

Who is your market?

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[Dianne Cohen]

This is very interesting. I have heard of it before but didn't know how I would put it to work in my buisness (residential painting).

I'm currently placing yard signs in front yards and blasting out a mailer to the surrounding houses (Usually 100).

I wonder if there is a way to buy a list of the phone numbers of all the houses I'm already mailing too.

There are a couple of ways. Try theredx.com . If that doesn't work for you, there are a couple of others. I think there is another place called Mojo. If you have a freind who is a realtor, they can get them for you for free.

 

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[Solais]

I've tried door-to-door sales, door hangers, sending physical mail, email marketing, PPC ads, Facebook ads, cold calling, craigslist, etc...

All of it "kinda" works. It's either too expensive, too inefficient, too tedious, too something.

I have a lawn care company and I've been doing some real estate wholesaling (to stay busy in the winter). I've been using all sorts of advertising and it never worked as well as I wanted.

I recently came across a website that sends people a recorded voicemail that you make, except the person thinks it is an actual person who left a voicemail, not a robocall they have to listen to. It doesn't ring their phone, just leaves a voicemail and says "missed call" from whichever number you choose. It's called SlyBroadcast.

So I tried it. I paid for 100 voicemails for $10. I uploaded a couple lists. Some for real estate (people who had ugly homes). And some for people I wanted to sign up for lawn care (numbers in my zip code for women over 40 who have nice homes).

I recorded one message saying "I drove by your home and wanted to see if you'd be interested in selling it to me" and another saying "I signed up your neighbor for lawn care and offered them 20% off if someone on their street signed up too so they gave me your number, call me back and lets sign you up so I can take 20% off for both of you".

I got back tons of calls, made appointments and signed people up, and got leads for real estate deals.

It cost me $10.

Depending on where you get your numbers, you might have to pay for that part. But for me it was cheap.

That's a mind-numbing ROI...

It's scalable, efficient, and best of all, it is ACTIVE marketing. It's not sitting around waiting for responses, you can tell in a couple hours if it works or not.

Think about it. What do you do if you see a facebook ad? "meh". A google ad? "meh". A robocall? You hate them. Telemarketers? Burn em alive. Physical mailers? Straight to the garbage. Someone leaving a voicemail that sounds personal? You're actually going to listen to that. They listen on their own time and nearly every single person will give a voicemail their undivided attention if it sounds like a human with a real message.

And it costs $0.10 down to $0.06 each if you buy in bulk. It doesn't charge for undelivered messages either.

I can think of a ton of ways to use this to kick a$$ in sales.

Car sales? Get a list of people recently discharged from bankruptcy and send them a voicemail saying you can help them get a car loan. Or send voicemails to all previous customers.

Digital marketing agency? Search for local services and upload every phone number that doesn't have a website link on their google business result, same with craigslist services. Send them a voicemail that you can build them a website.

I remember cold calling people when I worked as a car salesman, I would rather just take that list, upload the numbers to a system, spend a few bucks and get way more results without bothering people and annoying them.

I found this because I'm lazy. I hate knocking on doors. I hate bothering people with a phone call. I hate having to compete with facebook ads that don't convert. I hate sending expensive mailers that are going to get tossed in the trash. Every time I do something that will never scale, I get angry. When I find something that will scale, I get excited.

I'm not a salesperson for SlyBroadcast, I've posted on here for my lawn care company before.

Check it out. To be safe you might want to run numbers through the do-not-call list.

I'm very happy I found this. I'm going to use it as my primary marketing tool if it continues to perform this well.

This does sound like a great idea for local service businesses. I would use this but unfortunately, my niche is too narrow/specific to warrant this strategy/pipeline.

I would probably use it if I have to start some kind of tutoring/test prep/"career counseling" type business.

Here's my take on the other options you mentioned:

Yes, knocking on doors is shit. I've never seen it work - this isn't the 80's where you're selling Kirby vacuums (ROFL!)

Cold calling "works" but it's tedious as F*ck.

SEO takes a very long time (it does work, but you have to be very knowledgeable of SEO practices. Thankfully I am.)

PPC is OK. You have to be a bit patient and bid low to ensure a good ROI.

Facebook Ads is situational, contrary to what others tell you. If you're selling cat food or dog toys or "Lose 50 pounds in 50 days!" bullshit, I would assume it could work very well. Otherwise it's garbage.

Direct mail is also situational. I think if you're creative with direct mail, your ROI could be decent.

Anyways, hope everything worked out in the end!

 

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