Comparison
Bark sells you credits to unlock a phone number. We ring the number ourselves and put the job in your diary.
How it works
Bark works on credits. You buy them, and you spend them to unlock the contact details of somebody who has made an enquiry. The spend happens before the conversation — before you know whether they pick up, whether the job is real, or whether it is in your area. Bark also covers hundreds of categories rather than the trades specifically, so the enquiries sitting beside yours were written to the same general form. We work the other way round entirely: we generate the enquiry through your own advertising, ring it ourselves, establish whether there is a job, and only then does it reach you — as a booking.
| Bark | Meere Marketing | |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | Credits to unlock a contact | A campaign that produces booked jobs |
| When you pay | Before anybody has answered the phone | Monthly, for the campaign |
| Who else gets the contact | Other professionals who unlock it too | Nobody — one firm per trade, per area |
| Specialism | Hundreds of categories, trades among them | UK trades only, and one trade per area |
| Who establishes the job is real | You do, after you have paid | We do, on the phone, before you see it |
| Unused balance | Credits carry expiry terms — check current ones | Nothing to expire |
| Who owns the audience afterwards | The platform | You — account, pixel and data stay yours |
| If it does not work | The credits are gone | 45 booked quotes in 90 days or we keep working free |
Side by side
Being fair about it
If you work across several unrelated categories, or you are chasing one-off jobs well outside a normal trade patch, a general marketplace reaches further than a trade campaign will. And it costs nothing until you choose to unlock something, which a monthly campaign cannot match in a month when you do not need the work. If what you want is an occasional job and no commitment, that is a fair way to get it.
The Job Suite guarantee
An appointment means a homeowner with a real job, a real budget and a time in your diary. Not a name on a list. Every one is checked by phone before it reaches you.
On the standard plan, with £1,000 a month behind the ads.
That ad spend is yours and goes to Meta — we take no cut of it.
No long-term contract. One month’s notice, whenever you like.
What it includes
Questions
No. There is nothing to unlock and no decision to make about whether an enquiry is worth paying for. Everything qualified reaches you, and the cost is the monthly fee and the ad spend.
Because we rang it. A homeowner reaches your diary only once our team has spoken to them, established what the job is, confirmed it is in your area and that they own the property.
Facebook and Instagram advertising, run on your own ad account. They are people who were not actively searching yet, which is why the job is not already out to three other quotes.
£1,000 a month in ad spend, which goes to Meta and not to us, plus a flat monthly management fee. Below that ad spend the guarantee does not hold, so we would not take the work.
No long-term contract. One month’s notice whenever you want to stop.
Check your area
Running the same ads for two roofers in one town bids them against each other and makes both of their leads more expensive. So we do not do it. Tell us where you work and we will say straight away whether it is open.
Six questions, about a minute.
You will need £1,000 a month to put behind the ads.
Below that the guarantee does not hold, so we do not take the work.
Free, and useful whether or not you ever ring us
Most trades have been burned once. Usually not by an agency that did nothing — by one that did something and called it a result. These are the nine questions that make that impossible to hide, with our own answers printed beside them.
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