Comparison
Rated People sells you credits to quote on jobs other trades are quoting too. We run your own ads and book the job in for you.
How it works
Rated People runs on a plan plus credits. You hold a monthly subscription, credits come with it or are topped up, and you spend them to take a job lead and quote on it. The lead itself is normally available to more than one trade, so the credit buys you the chance to compete rather than the work. We do not sell access to anything. We build advertising on your own ad account, our team rings every enquiry that comes in, and the jobs worth quoting are booked into your diary. There is no per-job currency to run down and nothing to top up when it does.
| Rated People | Meere Marketing | |
|---|---|---|
| What you spend | A monthly plan plus credits per lead | A monthly fee plus ad spend to Meta |
| What the spend buys | The right to quote on a job | The campaign, the calls and the bookings |
| Who else is quoting | Other trades who spent credits too | Nobody — one firm per trade, per area |
| When unused budget expires | Credits have expiry terms — check current ones | Nothing expires; spend is spend |
| Who rings the customer | You do, after spending the credit | We do, usually within minutes |
| Where the demand comes from | Homeowners already posting on the platform | Advertising that creates demand that was not there |
| Who owns the audience afterwards | The platform | You — account, pixel and data stay yours |
| If it does not work | The credits are spent either way | 45 booked quotes in 90 days or we keep working free |
Side by side
Being fair about it
If you want to dip in and out, pick off the occasional job and spend nothing in a month when you are flat out, a credit model fits that and a monthly campaign does not. Advertising has to run continuously to be worth anything — stopping and restarting it throws away what it learned and costs you the learning twice. If your year is genuinely feast and famine and you want the tap to be off sometimes, buy credits.
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. A monthly management fee and your ad spend, and that is all of it. Nothing is metered, nothing expires and nothing runs out halfway through a good month.
Yes. One business per trade per area. We check the postcode before taking the work, and if it has gone we say so rather than sell you into a queue.
Keep it running if you want to. Nothing we do conflicts with it, and comparing the two side by side for a quarter is a reasonable way to decide.
£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.
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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