Painting leads are cheap to buy and expensive to chase, because a painter cannot quote a job without seeing it. That is why what you get here is screened first: live transfers and booked appointments from homeowners who asked to speak with a painting contractor and were screened for project scope, timeline and budget. Every lead is exclusive to you and branded to your company. Every call is recorded, and you pay only for the qualified prospect. We hold every campaign to one standard: your marketing cost per sale needs to land at 15% or lower, or it is not working. Tell us your territory and we will check whether it is open before anything else happens.
Why You Can Trust Us
A homeowner looking for a painter is asking about price before anything else. How much would a painter charge to paint a 12 by 12 room. What does the outside of a two-story house cost. Can it be done before the party, before the listing, before winter. The answer to the first question is a few hundred dollars and the answer to the second is a few thousand, and a form that says "painting" does not tell you which one you are driving to. Painting leads are only worth paying for when someone has already asked those questions and the answers fit the jobs you want. That is what screening for scope, timeline and budget means in practice.
Here is what shared leads cost a painter. Sellers that publish prices list painting leads from about $34 for an organic call up to $104 to $313 per lead on Google Ads, and the Angi help center says a single homeowner request goes to up to five pros. So say a $4,000 exterior job, and say you buy ten shared leads at $50 each. That is $500 spent, and four other companies got the same ten names. If you win one of the ten, your marketing cost on that job is $500, which is 12.5% of the job before you count the hours spent on the other nine estimates. Win one in twenty and it is $1,000, a quarter of the job. On painting, the estimate visits are the hidden cost, and shared leads multiply them.
The 15% standard puts a ceiling on what any lead should cost you. On that same $4,000 paint job, 15% is $600. That is the most you can spend on marketing per sale and still scale. Now work it backward as an example, not a price. If you close one in four qualified live transfers, you can pay up to $150 per transfer and stay at 15%. If you close one in three, the ceiling is $200. For comparison, one seller that posts prices lists painting live transfers at about $95. The close rates above are examples for the math, not a promise, and none of these figures are our prices. The point is that a screened, exclusive call is judged on cost per sale, not cost per name.
Here is what happens when a painting lead comes to you through us. A homeowner asks to speak with a painting contractor. They are screened for project scope, timeline and budget, using your qualifications and your script, so the questions asked are the ones you would ask. The call is then transferred to you live, or the appointment is booked for you, and it carries your company name. The whole call is recorded, so you can listen to exactly what was said before the homeowner reached you. You pay only for the qualified prospect who asked to talk to you.
This is for painting contractors who can answer the phone and run the estimate when a screened homeowner is on the line. Residential interior and exterior painters, cabinet refinishers, and companies that run several crews and markets all fit. We work local service territories and national campaigns, so one metro or forty states both work. The first step is the same for everyone: a territory check, so you know whether your market is open before you commit to anything. Call 941-307-0488 or send the form with your company, trade and territory.
Our process
- 1Tell us your trade and territoryYou tell us you paint interiors, exteriors or both, and where you want the work. A local service territory or a national campaign, either works.
- 2We confirm the territory is openWe check your market before onboarding. If it is open, we move forward. If it is not, we tell you.
- 3A homeowner asks for a painter and is screenedA homeowner asks to speak with a painting contractor. Before that call reaches you, they are screened for project scope, timeline and budget, using your own qualifications and script.
- 4The call is transferred live or the appointment is bookedThe screened homeowner is transferred to your phone live, or an appointment is booked for you. Either way it is branded to your company, not to a marketplace.
- 5The call is recorded and you pay only for the qualified prospectEvery transfer and appointment is recorded so you can check it yourself. You pay for qualified prospects who asked to talk to you, not for a list of names.
Why Choose Us
- Exclusive to you. Never shared, never resold.
- Every homeowner screened for scope, timeline and budget before the transfer.
- Every call recorded so you can verify what you paid for.
- You pay only for qualified prospects who asked to speak with you.
- Direct publisher, 25 plus years in the industry, local or national territories.
You bought ten painting leads. Four never answered. Three wanted one room done for less than it costs you to drive there. The two whole-house jobs had four other painters on them, and the homeowner was collecting quotes to hand to the cheapest one. You paid for all ten and painted one.
Common questions
How to get more leads for a painting business
You cannot quote a paint job without seeing it, so every shared lead costs you an estimate visit, and most of them are one room or a homeowner collecting quotes to hand to the cheapest painter.
Buy screened leads or none. Every homeowner is asked what the project is, when they want it done and what they expect to spend before the call reaches you, using your qualifications. The lead is exclusive, the call is recorded, and you pay only for the qualified prospect. That turns the estimate visit from a gamble into an appointment.
Painting leads pay per lead: what one lead should cost
You are paying per lead and nobody will tell you what a fair price is for a $4,000 exterior job.
Sellers that publish prices list painting leads from about $34 for an organic call to $104 to $313 per lead on Google Ads, and painting live transfers at about $95. Work it back from the job. On a $4,000 exterior, 15% is $600 per sale. We do not publish a per-lead price. You pay per qualified prospect, not per name.
How to get free painting leads, and what they cost
Free painting leads sound like the answer for a small crew, until you count the afternoons spent driving to estimates that were never going to close.
Referrals, your own website and local listings are the free sources worth building. Free marketplace leads are shared names with no screening. We do not sell free painting leads. You pay only for a homeowner who asked to speak with a painter and was screened for scope, timeline and budget.
Painting leads near me: is the territory open
You searched for painting leads near you and got national apps that sell your town to every painter who downloads them.
Territories are worked by trade and by market. We check whether yours is open before onboarding and tell you plainly. A homeowner in your territory who asks for a painter is screened and transferred to you alone.
Frequently asked questions
How do I get more leads for my painting business?
You can generate them yourself through your website, referrals and ads, or you can buy them. If you buy, ask whether the lead is exclusive or shared, whether the homeowner was screened for scope, timeline and budget, and whether you pay for names or for qualified prospects. Our painting leads are exclusive, screened, recorded, and billed only when the prospect is qualified.
How to get free painting leads?
Referrals, your own website, and local listings are the free sources, and they are worth building. What we do not do is sell free painting leads. Free leads from marketplaces are almost always shared names with no screening, and you pay for them in estimate visits instead of money.
How much do painting leads cost?
Sellers that publish prices list painting leads from about $34 for an organic call to $104 to $313 per lead on Google Ads, and painting live transfers at about $95. We do not publish a per-lead price here. What we tell you is the 15% standard: on a $4,000 paint job, your marketing cost per sale should land at $600 or lower.
Are your painting leads exclusive?
Yes. Each live transfer or booked appointment goes to one painting contractor and is branded to that contractor. We do not share leads and we do not buy leads from other sources and resell them.
Do you sell painting leads pay per lead?
You pay per qualified prospect, not per name. A homeowner who asked to speak with a painter, was screened for scope, timeline and budget, and was transferred to you live or booked on your calendar. The call is recorded so you can check it.