Weddings Weddingwire vs The Knot vs Bridges vs onewed

[jose]

Hi!!, my name is Jose and I'm comming from Spain. I came on holidays to NYC and I liked it so much that I decided I wanted to live here. I was DJ and used to work in weddings, so I'd like to do the same here. In Spain I was customer of a web that helped me a lot to get leads, and after searching a bit I found much more of the in the US.

It seems that the 2 main websites are Weddingwire and The Knot.

Does some of use hire their services? Are they efective?

How does it work? do you pay a fixed fee, or you pay per lead? In case you pay the fee you also have to pay per each lead?

Any answer will be really apreciated!!!!!!

Thanks,
Jose

 

[ahoustondj]

View attachment 23739 Give us some more info. Are you going to specialize in Weddings. What gear do you have or planning on getting?

 

[rickryan.com]

jose, I've never used Knot but have a lot of bad comments on it. The free version of weddingwire generates leads. The paid version, while fairly costly, does return biz, IMHO. I'm a paid WW client and use it to store all my reviews. It's a good tool. Good luck with your transition.

 

[jose]

jose, I've never used Knot but have a lot of bad comments on it. The free version of weddingwire generates leads. The paid version, while fairly costly, does return biz, IMHO. I'm a paid WW client and use it to store all my reviews. It's a good tool. Good luck with your transition.

I was reading info about WW, and at the end I saw that they have a lead market, were you can find bridges and buy them. When you became a paid client, they give you a number of leads in this lead market for free, or any kind of discount? Are these lead of good quality?

Does it make sense to go premium, or it's better to stay free and eventually buy some leads?


Thanks a lot!!!

 

[themellowcanary]

I used decidio, it's okay, put didn't generate the amount of leads i wanted, it cost $1 per lead

 

[rickryan.com]

I was reading info about WW, and at the end I saw that they have a lead market, were you can find bridges and buy them. When you became a paid client, they give you a number of leads in this lead market for free, or any kind of discount? Are these lead of good quality?

Does it make sense to go premium, or it's better to stay free and eventually buy some leads?
Thanks a lot!!!

WW has generates very few DirectMatch leads and I hate the way their system doesn't notify you, proactively. If you happen to login and happen to notice them, well, you get the picture. I bought a paid listing after having a client who bought my premium package told me he came from WW. Like many services, the hard results are rather intangible and it's have to quantify exactly what I have and have not got from WW. I've used Decidio and for fast start-up, those $1 leads are hard to beat, if you're charging entry-level pricing, IMHO. For startup, I'd spend my time and energy in freebie ad sources (Backpage, Craigslist, etc.) before just throwing down cash and hoping for the best. You'll see more return for your time/energy.

 

[jose]

WW has generates very few DirectMatch leads and I hate the way their system doesn't notify you, proactively. If you happen to login and happen to notice them, well, you get the picture. I bought a paid listing after having a client who bought my premium package told me he came from WW. Like many services, the hard results are rather intangible and it's have to quantify exactly what I have and have not got from WW. I've used Decidio and for fast start-up, those $1 leads are hard to beat, if you're charging entry-level pricing, IMHO. For startup, I'd spend my time and energy in freebie ad sources (Backpage, Craigslist, etc.) before just throwing down cash and hoping for the best. You'll see more return for your time/energy.

Sure 1$ per lead makes Decidio hard to beat. Very good advise to use free sites. I'm starting here and I don't have many cash to spend...

Unbelievable!!! WW didn't send you an alert email when receiving a news information request... Why are they doing this? Are they using these lost leads for their lead market? As a customer, do you have free access to their lead market, or any kind of discount?

 

[rickryan.com]

Sure 1$ per lead makes Decidio hard to beat. Very good advise to use free sites. I'm starting here and I don't have many cash to spend...

Unbelievable!!! WW didn't send you an alert email when receiving a news information request... Why are they doing this? Are they using these lost leads for their lead market? As a customer, do you have free access to their lead market, or any kind of discount?

The leads on WW do not cost me. Not sure if it works that way for freebie accounts. I guess their thought was to use it to force vendors to keep coming back to their dashboard on a regular basis but IMHO, it was pretty stupid system design. They should AT LEAST fire an email to tell you there's a fresh lead.

 

[themellowcanary]

What is your favorite lead vendors to use?

 

[Papa Deuce]

The leads on WW do not cost me. Not sure if it works that way for freebie accounts. I guess their thought was to use it to force vendors to keep coming back to their dashboard on a regular basis but IMHO, it was pretty stupid system design. They should AT LEAST fire an email to tell you there's a fresh lead.

They used to. I was the first person here to mention weddingwire, so I was with them from very early on. I don't use them anymore, really, as I don't want to do a lot of weddings.

To "ME" Decidio felt like a HUGE scam. I bought about 15 "fake" leads? I replied to all of them and not once did I get a response. Not once. After a while it felt like it was other DJs pretending to want info. Haven't used Decidio in years because of that.

 

[MtownDJ]

They used to. I was the first person here to mention weddingwire, so I was with them from very early on. I don't use them anymore, really, as I don't want to do a lot of weddings.

To "ME" Decidio felt like a HUGE scam. I bought about 15 "fake" leads? I replied to all of them and not once did I get a response. Not once. After a while it felt like it was other DJs pretending to want info. Haven't used Decidio in years because of that.

I've gotten two gigs from Decidio so Eh, really depends on the area mebbe.