I just wanted to know has any one used Angies List?? If so how was it? or Have yall used Home Advisor? and how was that? Now that I am full time in the business I am throwing all my chips in, I still canvass market on slow days, I also use thumbtack when I am at home at night ( which once you learn how to tell a real lead from a tire kicker, it does pretty good, last month just thumbtack we landed about 6 extra houses, decent size to and we werent the cheapest by all means…just have to sell them on it lol), but I am looking to get into either Angies list or Home Advisor just to hopefully bring in more…Please let me know I would really like some input.
Where are you located? Hard for folks to give advice/input without knowing this. What works in my area may or may not be the same in your city. Angie’s List, Home Advisor, and even Thumbtack have different response rates based on your area of coverage.
In addition to that you need to have good copy for each of these sites to draw people into consider using your service. Just saying you do windows is not enough, you need to tell a story on why people should considering hiring you.
You also need a solid web site because potential customers will look here as well.
I tried to find someone who could retile my bathroom on Home Advisor, they only gave me one referral and it was a window cleaning company…it gets better…the window company they referred me to for retiling my bathroom was my own window cleaning business! (No, I didn’t call myself for a quote) 
Safe to say I have little faith in Home Advisor.
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They are really struggling it seems
They started sending me preview leads for “my area.” Even though i gave them my zip code, I guess they still figured Wyoming Valley Window Washing meant I’m in the state of Wyoming. Emailed them that I’m actually in Pennsylvania. Useless. Kept getting Wyoming leads. … Well to be fair, there were a few Idaho ones in there too.
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If you do a search on either one here on the forum you’ll find that most opinions about Angie’s list or home advisor are negative. HA called us in the wee days of our beginning with promises of sooooo much work BUT it costs this much for this and that etc etc. Big gimmick, they won’t stop calling even after you ask them politely or scream at them.
As for thumbtack, now I only quote if there is a phone number to call. It’s like 5 dogs fighting for a bone, only to have it be a tease more often than not. Haven’t bought credits in nearly 4 months. Instead, we get most of our work now through nextdoor or referrals. Hope this helps.
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I forgot who just acquired nextdoor… there is a thread a few weeks ago about it.
Who acquired them @CAS ?
The best bang for you buck is the one with the least competing ads. This can be Yelp, Angie’s List, Thumbtack or Google. If there are already 4-6 or more companies advertising you are going to get a lot less return. If there is 0-2 you can standout with a good advertisement.
I don’t think they were bought out by anyone. @CAS mentioned in a thread that Homeadvisor was advertising in Nextdoor.
Which I think defeats the purpose of it. According to Wikipedia “As of March 2015, Nextdoor had not earned a profit.[9][10]” Now that they are selling spots in their thread feed, maybe they’ll start to make a profit.
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Thanks Alex…nextdoor just “rang the bell in my mind”
Thanks for making look stupid…Lol 
I’ll just watch from the “crows nest” for awhile…
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Lol 
Steve not my intentions to do that. Just putting my two cents in. Please feel free to let that bell ring out!
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I know! Thanks for posting the link to the thread brother.
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I believe it was Home Advisor’s parent company that recently acquired Angie’s List. Maybe the other around. Not that it matters, since I won’t do business with either.
Ah maybe that’s what I’m remembering.
I don’t either.
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