Quote Originally Posted by laylaJ View Post
Can anyone around this forum recommend a [genuine fair ethical] lead source which has not recycled a ton and which you might have proven reasonable conversions?
Yes, I can make that recommendation and that recommendation would be yourself.

There is no such thing as an external, high quality, "lead" generation source other than a referral network that you setup personally. Nobody is going to sell you a hot lead, that makes absolutely no sense because if the lead was "hot" then they would be closing the leads themselves.

What they are selling you is data, some vendors provide good data, but a lot of them provide very bad, outdated, and inaccurate data. It's your job to take that data and turn it into "leads" internally, which creates your sales pipeline. From your sales pipeline, you then create new applications. Because you are being sold data and not "leads", you need to make sure you are paying a price for said data that would allow for you to obtain a decent ROI.