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Why 'Marketing Companies' Fail in Solar
Solar is a completely different beast
Hello Solar Squad,
Have you ever hired a marketing agency that crushed it for another industry⦠and then completely flopped in solar?
Or worse⦠are you working with one right now?
Here's the truth: most marketing companies have no idea what they're walking into. They've run Facebook ads for gyms, lawyers, and e-commerce stores. They see solar as just another vertical. Same playbook. Different product.
Wrong.
Solar is a completely different beast. And the data proves it.
The Old Way Is Bleeding You Dry
Generic "Get a Quote" ad. Basic landing page. Auto-fill form. Maybe a retargeting pixel.
That's the system 90% of agencies hand you. And if you're running it right now, I'd be shocked if your cost per sale is below $2,000β$3,500 dollars.
Why? Because solar isn't a product people add to cart.
It's a 20-year financial decision. Made by a homeowner sitting at their kitchen table, suspicious of every ad they've ever seen.
Generic marketing was never built for that.
Why Generic Marketing Agencies Fail in Solar
π© Generic Everything β Stock photo of panels. "Get a Quote" CTA. A landing page that could belong to any of your 50 competitors. Nothing answers the one question every homeowner is secretly asking: "Why should I trust you?" They don't. They bounce.
π© Analysis Paralysis β You put cash, loan, lease, and PPA in front of them all at once. They don't know which to choose. They say they'll "think about it." They never come back. One offer. One decision. That's how solar sells.
π© You Look Like Everyone Else β After years of the same ads flooding every feed, homeowners are numb to solar. If your marketing doesn't stand out with a specific offer, a specific structure, and a reason to believe β you're invisible. A general marketing agency doesn't know how to fix that. They don't have the data. We do.
What 4 Years of Only Marketing Solar Taught Us
After 4 years of working exclusively in solar, zero other industries, we've built something no general agency can replicate.
We know what makes a homeowner book. What makes them ghost. What offer structure gets the cheapest cost per sale on the market. And we've built our entire system around it.
β 1-to-1 Systems β Your market, your offer, your data. We don't run shared funnels or cookie-cutter campaigns. Every client gets a system built around their specific offer.
β PPA-Specific Marketing β Not general solar ads. Not "get a quote." Campaigns built entirely around the PPA offer β the trust gaps, the confusion, the objections β handled before the homeowner even picks up the phone.
β Done-For-You Appointment Setting β We don't just bring you leads. We bring you booked calls with homeowners who already understand the offer and want to move forward.
β Energy Bill Extraction β We pull the homeowner's actual energy bill into the funnel. Real numbers. Real savings. That's what turns a sceptic into a booked appointment.
The agencies selling you "leads" don't do any of this. Because they don't know solar well enough to build it.
That's the difference. The homeowner experiences one continuous conversation from click to close
Want to the full system in action?
No long term contracts, no start up fees. 7 day set up timeβ¦
There is still time to have a lead gen machine before the summer rush comes.. if you act now.
Kind regards,

Samuel Kenny | CEO/Founder | getgreenleads.com
