Ask for 100 leads, Maps returns 80, you pay for 80. On PlotLeads you are charged for what a search delivers. Credits never expire.
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Electricians on Google Maps: 20.6% have no website, 26.4% have fewer than 10 reviews. HVAC: 11.0% and 12.0%.
The thinnest online presence of six contractor trades.
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Of 3,000 Google Maps listings for six contractor trades in 10 US metros, 14.2% had no website and 19.2% had fewer than 10 reviews.
If you sell websites or review tools to contractors, those two columns are the filter.
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Check any lead list for three things before dialing: wrong trade, closed businesses, empty or mixed-format phones.
Run those checks on our free 50-row sample:
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Median Google Maps reviews, same six contractor trades:
Phoenix 80.5
Austin 79
Los Angeles 33
New York 29.5
A "low reviews" filter needs to be set per metro.
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Contractors on Google Maps with no street address (service area only):
Painters 30.6%
Landscapers 26.8%
Roofers 6.0%
Routing by address? Check that column first.
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New PlotLeads accounts start with 10 credits, which is a real 10-lead search: one trade, one US city, CSV out. No card at signup.
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84.3% of contractor listings on Google Maps are rated 4.5+. HVAC: 91.0%.
Stars don't separate anyone. Filter on review count instead.
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Painting contractors on Google Maps: 32.0% have fewer than 10 reviews. Plumbers: 12.0%.
Same platform, very different starting points. Pitch accordingly.
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Google Maps lists no email for any business. When we searched company websites on one delivered list, 3 of 49 rows had one. About 6%.
Contractor outreach is phone-led. Plan for that.
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Before Monday's calls: sort the list by review count, lowest first. Few reviews usually means newer or smaller, and still buying the basics.
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Contractor listings on Google Maps with no website, same six trades:
LA 25.0%
Chicago 24.3%
New York 22.0%
Austin 7.7%
Selling websites? Pick the metro first.
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Across 3,190 contractor listings from Google Maps (10 trades, 10 US metros): phone 99.1%, rating 94.9%, website 84.4%, email none. Maps publishes no emails.
A Maps list is a calling list first.
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60 days of posting in public about a brand-new product.
Still small. Still honest about that. But we have a working tool, a growing list of people who got value from a free sample, and a clearer idea of who this is for than we had on Day 1.
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If we could give one outbound tip to someone selling into home services:
Narrow until it feels too narrow, then narrow once more.
"HVAC, Phoenix, 50+ reviews, no booking software" is a list you can write a perfect opener for. "Contractors, US" is a list you will never call.
The dirty secret of "exclusive leads": they are exclusive until the vendor sells the same record to the next buyer.
Public Maps data is the opposite -- everyone can get it, so nobody pretends it is exclusive. You compete on execution, not on a vendor's promise.
If you have read our posts and thought "I should test this" -- here is the low-stakes way:
$35, 500 leads in your metro, CSV in minutes, no subscription.
Or DM us a trade + metro and we will send a free sample first. Your call.
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The "no website" home-services listings are not junk. They are a segment.
If you sell websites, booking software, or marketing -- a busy plumber with 150 reviews and no website is the most qualified lead on your list.
The gap IS the pitch.
Outbound managers: a stale list is a morale problem, not just a data problem.
Reps who dial dead numbers all morning stop trusting the list, then stop dialing.
Fresh data is the cheapest motivation tool you have. They feel it on the first connect.
A quiet milestone: the product does the thing we promised end to end.
Pick trade, pick metro, get a real CSV with real phone numbers that actually ring.
No revenue story yet. But the machine works. That is the part you cannot fake.