The QuoteCatcher^® Story

During our years of consulting and advertising experience, we purchased leads from a variety of sources.  However, the quality of most lead sources was so poor that we spent most of our time chasing leads instead of working for clients.  We knew there had to be a better way to connect businesses looking for services with companies that provide them.  With that in mind, we created QuoteCatcher^® with the purpose of providing business quotes, qualified sales leads and excellent customer service.

During our first few months of existence, we verified lead contact information using online services to make sure the phone, email and address were valid.  But we quickly found out that wasn't good enough.  The online services weren't accurate and the project information still wasn't qualified.  So we conducted a two week trial of calling every buyer until we were able to speak to them.  This trial yielded some interesting results. 

First off, we weren't able to reach many of the prospects, even calling 3 times per day for 3 days.  Second, many of the phone numbers that our online service reported as valid, were either disconnected or wrong numbers.  Third, we found that many of the buyers were just shopping around or had no authority or budget to make a purchase.  During this two week trial, we rejected over 40% of the leads we received. 

While a great service to our customers who didn't need to waste their time calling bad leads, it was costly for us.  If we were to continue with our vision of providing truly qualified leads and be the first company of our type to speak to every buyer, we would need to raise our prices above the competition.  Surprisingly, we didn't have much fallout from that decision and most vendors preferred to pay a little more to save valuable time. 

The old adage, "You get what you pay for" rung true for our loyal clients, and many of them are still with us years later.  We've spoken with many of them about this and most say that while they pay more per lead with our service, they pay less per project than they do with comparable services.  In other words, they spend less time working bad leads and more time working for new clients.  Our vision has been realized.

That decision years ago was very influential in how we run our business today.  We created an entirely new job position:  Lead Qualifier.  We now have a staff of Lead Qualifiers who do nothing but call buyers and discuss their project details.  The role has evolved over the years and now they spend several minutes speaking with each buyer.  Some conversations last 10 minutes or more as we try to help the buyer make the best decision and complete their request as accurately as possible. 

In addition, we now reject 54% of the requests we receive so our vendors have the best chance of winning new business.  As more and more people go online for their purchasing needs, we will continue to improve our qualification processes so our vendors will get the highest quality leads of any lead source in our industry.

We are constantly updating and improving the functionality on the site.  If you have feedback or would like us to include a new feature on a future release, please drop us a note using our Contact Us form.  We hope you will enjoy using QuoteCatcher^®, and we look forward to serving you and your business.

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About the Principals

Greg Ahern, CEO has been an Internet Consultant since 1994 and is co-founder of Colorado Innovations, LLC and QuoteCatcher^®. Mr. Ahern specializes in software and website usability analysis, user centered website design, and strategic marketing.

While serving as Creative Director at Xpedior, an international Internet consulting firm, Mr. Ahern developed and managed the creative group, which specialized in visual design, information architecture, multimedia and web engineering. Projects ranged from Flash multimedia to consumer websites to corporate intranets and extranets to wireless applications, internationally. Clients included Coors, Telus and KBHomes, formally Kaufman and Broad.

Mr. Ahern was also the VP of Marketing and E-commerce for a credit union service company and six companies in the automotive, real estate, insurance, lending, investment, and leasing industries. Mr. Ahern built and launched a portal, which served each industry with both traditional and online advertising and marketing campaigns.

Mr. Ahern also served as the Director of Internet Marketing and Multimedia for a Boston advertising firm where he built the department and served small and large clients such as Hitachi and Foxboro.

Mr. Ahern has a BSEE from Northeastern University and practiced electrical engineering for a decade, holding a patent for his original concepts in human motion detection. Mr. Ahern is versed in multiple programs and languages used in visual design, multimedia and web engineering.

JP Stonestreet, CTO has been a Software Developer, Internet Consultant and Business Analyst since 1994 and is co-founder of Colorado Innovations, LLC and QuoteCatcher^®. He has extensive experience in the Microsoft suite of technologies, including both web and traditional application development tools.

Mr. Stonestreet served as Technical Manager and Architect at two consulting companies in the Washington, DC area where he was responsible for managing developers, testers and graphic artists through the entire software development life cycle. Clients included NASD (parent company of the NASDAQ Stock Exchange), The Associated Press, Aspen Systems (contractor for the Department of Housing and Urban Development), THESOURCE.COM, The Griffin Group (Merv.com), and others.

Mr. Stonestreet also served as Network Engineer, Capacity Planner and Traffic Manager at Sprint in Overland Park, KS where he was solely responsible for network capacity planning and human resource capacity planning for Sprint’s Toll Free, Prepaid and SprintFax platforms. In addition, Mr. Stonestreet created a network financial model that was used by several executives, including the CTO of Sprint, to decide a course of action for network expansion. The model was based on a budget of more than $124 million and yielded a Net Present Value of $25 million over the currently accepted expansion plan.

Mr. Stonestreet has a BA in Communication Studies from the University of Kansas and a Master’s in Organizational Communication from the University of Kansas. Mr. Stonestreet's Master's degree focused on the relationship between technology and communication.