Looking to buy sales leads
Looking to buy sales leads
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christmc

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452 posts

269 months

Wednesday 18th March 2009
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Before i continue i must make it clear I am not offering back handers .

What i am willing to offer is a cash per lead situation. I have never tried this before but im willing to try.

"I will pay for a sales lead only if we have an oppourtunity to provide a price or to tender." I do not expect to be succesful to pay for a lead but it needs to be more than peoples names or the name of a project."

My Offer is as follows:

0.5% if unsuccesfull or 1% of final contract price if succesful, We install audio,lighting and video into schools,stadiums,clubs,bars,churches,cricket grounds,casinos etc.

Our typical contract price is between £80,000 to £1,500,000

We will have a written agreement between both parties, We have been trading for 22 years are a Ltd company and have no borrowing at all.

Andrew[MG]

3,360 posts

229 months

Wednesday 18th March 2009
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Do you cover all of the UK?

Don

28,378 posts

315 months

Wednesday 18th March 2009
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Chris,

Typically for sales leads one pays an "introduction fee". Our agreement is if the "introduction" leads to a sale we pay a small percentage to the introducer...around 5% of sale value depending (various factors - but regardless we don't expect an introducer to do that much of the sales work). We don't have a large cost of sales which is a factor.

It has to work on trust, of course, but we've never failed to pony up after a win.

I'm afraid I don't have any audio-visual leads for you but should I come across something I'll surely pass it along. If you keep your eye out for Time Recording Software needs whilst you are at it I'd be much obliged. yes

Edited by Don on Wednesday 18th March 12:58

christmc

Original Poster:

452 posts

269 months

Wednesday 18th March 2009
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Andrew[MG] said:
Do you cover all of the UK?
Yes we do and europe but would prefere to focus on the uk

christmc

Original Poster:

452 posts

269 months

Wednesday 18th March 2009
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Don said:
Chris,

Typically for sales leads one pays an "introduction fee". Our agreement is if the "introduction" leads to a sale we pay a small percentage to the introducer...around 5% of sale value depending (various factors - but regardless we don't expect an introducer to do that much of the sales work). We don't have a large cost of sales which is a factor.

It has to work on trust, of course, but we've never failed to pony up after a win.

I'm afraid I don't have any audio-visual leads for you but should I come across something I'll surely pass it along. If you keep your eye out for Time Recording Software needs whilst you are at it I'd be much obliged. yes

Edited by Don on Wednesday 18th March 12:58

christmc

Original Poster:

452 posts

269 months

Wednesday 18th March 2009
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christmc said:
Don said:
Chris,

Typically for sales leads one pays an "introduction fee". Our agreement is if the "introduction" leads to a sale we pay a small percentage to the introducer...around 5% of sale value depending (various factors - but regardless we don't expect an introducer to do that much of the sales work). We don't have a large cost of sales which is a factor.

It has to work on trust, of course, but we've never failed to pony up after a win.

I'm afraid I don't have any audio-visual leads for you but should I come across something I'll surely pass it along. If you keep your eye out for Time Recording Software needs whilst you are at it I'd be much obliged. yes

Edited by Don on Wednesday 18th March 12:58
oops/

I guess what im offering is similar, im not expecting the the deal to be brokered but just the foot in the door so to speak, I will keep an eye out for you. 1% of our final price will usually be £ 2,000 - £5,000 which is not bad work for pointing someone in the right direction,

JustinP1

13,364 posts

261 months

Wednesday 18th March 2009
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Chris,

My company has a client list of 1000 schools, and I have contact with a lot more than that. All of my contacts are specifically those who organise the music in schools.

Through advising this number of schools I do get a lot of questions regarding installations, and it was in fact something we have considered going into. In the same way we have a partnership with a nationwide instrument supplier and that has worked out very well for both of us.

For contacts as specific as this though, these are people who already trust us so it wouldn't be handing you just a 'lead' it would be more like a partnership as part of what we do is advise them on the new technology around, and to make it worthwhile you may need to expand from a 1% cut a bit.

If you are interested though, please drop me a PM...!

(Yellow TVR's are the best by the way... I did look at the Cerb before I got my Tuscan!)

Don

28,378 posts

315 months

Wednesday 18th March 2009
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christmc said:
christmc said:
Don said:
Chris,

Typically for sales leads one pays an "introduction fee". Our agreement is if the "introduction" leads to a sale we pay a small percentage to the introducer...around 5% of sale value depending (various factors - but regardless we don't expect an introducer to do that much of the sales work). We don't have a large cost of sales which is a factor.

It has to work on trust, of course, but we've never failed to pony up after a win.

I'm afraid I don't have any audio-visual leads for you but should I come across something I'll surely pass it along. If you keep your eye out for Time Recording Software needs whilst you are at it I'd be much obliged. yes
I guess what im offering is similar, im not expecting the the deal to be brokered but just the foot in the door so to speak, I will keep an eye out for you. 1% of our final price will usually be £ 2,000 - £5,000 which is not bad work for pointing someone in the right direction,
Not bad at all. Ours would work out around the same monetary value as a major new installation of our software would be in the £50K to £100K area. To qualify that - our software is typically used by people wanting to put several thousand people on it. We can scale it down to just a few tens or hundreds but at the price we sell it an introducer would only see a couple of hundred quid for that.

christmc

Original Poster:

452 posts

269 months

Thursday 19th March 2009
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JustinP1 said:
Chris,

My company has a client list of 1000 schools, and I have contact with a lot more than that. All of my contacts are specifically those who organise the music in schools.

Through advising this number of schools I do get a lot of questions regarding installations, and it was in fact something we have considered going into. In the same way we have a partnership with a nationwide instrument supplier and that has worked out very well for both of us.

For contacts as specific as this though, these are people who already trust us so it wouldn't be handing you just a 'lead' it would be more like a partnership as part of what we do is advise them on the new technology around, and to make it worthwhile you may need to expand from a 1% cut a bit.

If you are interested though, please drop me a PM...!

(Yellow TVR's are the best by the way... I did look at the Cerb before I got my Tuscan!)
Hi Justin when are you available for a chat?