Comparison
MyBuilder charges you when a homeowner shortlists you. We charge to run your ads and we book the job in before you hear about it.
How it works
MyBuilder is free to join and free to express interest in a job. The fee lands when a homeowner shortlists you and releases your contact details — so the charge happens at the moment you get permission to start competing, not at the moment you get work. A posted job is normally shortlisted to several trades, which is the part that decides the economics: the fee is per shortlist, and only one of you gets the job. We do not charge per enquiry at all. We run advertising on your own account, qualify every enquiry by phone and book the ones worth quoting, so the cost sits on the campaign rather than on each attempt.
| MyBuilder | Meere Marketing | |
|---|---|---|
| When you are charged | When a homeowner shortlists you | Monthly, for running the campaign |
| How many trades get the same job | Typically several, who all pay | One — you |
| What the fee buys | Contact details and the right to quote | The ads, the phone team and the booking |
| Cost of a job you lose | You still paid the shortlist fee | Nothing extra — it is not priced per lead |
| Who rings the customer first | Whoever is off the tools soonest | We do, usually within minutes |
| Where the demand comes from | People already on MyBuilder looking | Advertising that reaches people who were not looking yet |
| Who owns the audience afterwards | The platform | You — account, pixel and data stay yours |
| If it does not work | You have paid for every shortlist | 45 booked quotes in 90 days or we keep working free |
Side by side
Being fair about it
If your work is irregular, or you want to top up a quiet fortnight without committing to a monthly spend, pay-per-shortlist does something our model cannot: it costs nothing until you choose to use it. A campaign has to run for weeks before it is worth judging, and it costs money while it learns. If you need work this week rather than next quarter, buy a shortlist — that is the honest answer.
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
That depends entirely on how often you win. The number worth comparing is not the price of a lead, it is what you paid in total for each job you actually got. Work out your own, then ring us and we will tell you straight whether we would beat it.
No. There is a monthly management fee and your ad spend, and that is the whole of it. Whether the campaign produces fifteen booked quotes or thirty, the cost is the same.
Yes. We run one business per trade in an area, so no enquiry we generate is ever sent to anyone but you, and you are never quoting against another of our clients.
Usually live within a week of the call, with the first enquiries days after that. The 90-day guarantee starts the day the campaign goes live, not the day you sign.
No long-term contract. One month’s notice whenever you want to stop.
Other comparisons
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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