Pay per appointment lead generation — pay for meetings, not activity
Pay per appointment lead generation means you're billed per qualified sales meeting booked into your calendar, instead of paying a monthly retainer for prospecting activity. The risk of a slow month sits with the provider rather than with you.
What counts as a qualified appointment
The whole model collapses if 'appointment' isn't defined tightly, because a provider paid per meeting is incentivised to book anyone who says yes.
So we agree the definition in writing before we start: who the prospect must be, what problem they must have confirmed, what budget authority they must hold, and what happens when someone doesn't show.
- Matches the ideal customer profile you signed off
- Has confirmed the problem your offer solves
- Holds or directly influences the budget decision
- Has agreed a specific time, with reminders and confirmation sent
- No-show and reschedule policy agreed up front
Why cost per appointment beats cost per lead
Cost per lead rewards volume. A provider can hit a lead target with people who downloaded something and will never take a call, and the metric still looks healthy on the report.
Cost per appointment forces the provider to care about whether a human being actually turns up ready to talk. It's a far closer proxy for revenue, and it makes pipeline forecasting straightforward: meetings times show rate times close rate.
Appointment setting and closing in one chain
Most appointment setting agencies stop at the calendar invite, which is where a lot of value leaks — a great meeting handed to an untrained closer still loses.
We can run the closing call as well, on the same commission-led basis, so one team owns the handover instead of two suppliers blaming each other for a flat month.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
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