Thumbtack · window and door companies
Replacement buyers on Thumbtack collect three quotes over a month. You are charged the moment the request arrives; whether you are on that shortlist is decided in the first hour.
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Window replacement is a considered purchase: the homeowner writes to several companies and works through the replies over the following weeks. The one who answered in twenty seconds is read first and remembered; the one who answered at six is the third of five.
Someone comparing quotes goes quiet for a week, talks to their spouse, and comes back. Follow-ups that run over a week by default, plus one check-in when they say they need to think it over, are what bring them back to you rather than to whoever else is still in the thread.
Interested in getting quotes on replacing the windows on the front of our house. Probably 6 or 7. They are the original aluminum ones, house is from the 80s.
Original aluminum from the 80s usually means single pane, so you will feel the difference immediately — and six or seven on one elevation is a clean one-day job. Are they all the same style, or is there a picture window or slider in the run? That is what decides whether it is a straight swap or a mix, and it changes the number more than the count does.
Demand patterns, seasonality and what wins a job are the same whichever platform the lead came from — we cover that on the page for window and door companies. This page is about what Thumbtack specifically adds to it.
One extra job pays for hundreds of leads. That is the whole argument.
Only if you set ranges. Thumbtack requests rarely include the count, the style and the size together, and a per-window number quoted without them is one you spend the site visit explaining away.
Yes. Urgency is scored before a reply is written, so a smashed patio door on a Friday evening behaves differently from a whole-house replacement inquiry.
Thumbtack charges for the lead either way. On our side you pay per lead answered, and the per-lead price drops after the first 30 in a week.
Every Thumbtack lead already cost you money. Make sure each one gets a reply.
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