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Honest comparison
The cheapest hourly rate in the market, and usually the most expensive way to make calls once you count everything else.
| Dialing for Dollars | A marketplace freelancer | |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly rate | Higher than a typical freelancer rate | The lowest rate in the market |
| What you supply | Nothing, the dialer, CRM, list and QA are included | Dialer, list, CRM, scripts, training and daily management |
| Who manages the caller daily | A named account manager | You do, or you do not and quality drifts |
| If they stop responding | A trained replacement off our bench | You start the hiring search over |
| Real estate specific training | A wholesale bootcamp before the first dial | Whatever they picked up on previous gigs |
| Lead guarantee | 40 qualified leads per caller per month, in writing | No guarantee, hours billed regardless of outcome |
| Compliance handling | Do not call scrubbing, calling window rules, recorded calls | Your exposure entirely unless you set it up yourself |
A marketplace freelancer is the right pick if you already own a dialer and CRM, you enjoy writing and refining scripts yourself, you have time to review call recordings daily, and you mainly want to test a small list before scaling anything. It is a low commitment way to learn whether phone outreach fits your deal flow.
We are the better fit once you want a repeatable channel rather than an experiment. That means a caller trained specifically on real estate seller objections, a dialer and CRM already configured, daily oversight from someone other than you, and a written floor on how many qualified leads should come out of the work each month. Read more about hire cold callers for real estate or about running a full real estate virtual assistant seat if the role extends beyond calling.
Marketplace rates look cheaper until you count your own hours, the tools you buy, and the month you lose when the freelancer disappears. Rework is the real cost. If you pay someone and then spend hours fixing what they did, you paid twice for one outcome.
You can find individuals willing to make calls, but marketplace platforms do not vet for real estate specific training, do not provide a dialer or CRM, and do not guarantee output. It can work as a short test, but it rarely scales into a repeatable channel without significant management from your side.
At minimum you need a compliant dialer, a skip traced and scrubbed list, a CRM to track conversations, call recording software, and a script built for real estate seller objections. All of that is included when you work with a managed team.
Freelance hourly rates are usually the lowest in the category, but the total cost depends on tooling, training time and how much of your own time goes into managing the work. A managed team folds training, tooling and management into one predictable arrangement.
You are responsible for re hiring, re training and reconnecting whoever replaces them to your list and CRM. With a managed team, a trained replacement can be dialing again within days using the same list and history.
Most freelance arrangements bill by the hour with no guarantee tied to outcomes. A written floor on qualified leads per month is something to ask about directly before you commit to any provider, including us.
40 qualified seller leads per caller per month, in writing. Dialing in 2 business days. Thirty minute call, no pitch deck.
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