1. 01Thomas Electrical & Solar
  2. 02The story
  3. 03Quarter by quarter
  4. 04More results
  5. 05Reviews
  6. 06The audit

Results · Solar · Meta lead generation

From $136
to $43 a lead,
year on year.

Meta lead generation for a solar and battery installer, counted past the lead to the design and the signed job, through a dashboard wired into their job system.

02 · The story

Past the lead, to the signed job.

The business

Thomas Electrical & Solar designs and installs solar and batteries from Molendinar on the Gold Coast.

The problem

A solar lead is only worth something once it books a design and signs, so the campaigns had to be judged on signed jobs, not on leads.

What we built

Meta lead generation from April 2023, led since September 2025 by the Game Plan offer, and a dashboard wired into their SimPro job system through Pylon, so every lead is followed to the design and the signed job.

What happened

In the twelve months to 14 September 2026, AU$111,755 of Meta spend brought 1,650 leads, 528 designs and 90 signed jobs worth AU$2,455,972. One Game Plan ad alone signed 51 jobs. On Meta's own count the cost per lead went from $136.03 in January to March 2025 to $43.06 in the same quarter of 2026, on 654 leads against 101.

03 · Quarter by quarter

Cost per lead, quarter by quarter.

Meta's own cost per lead in each calendar quarter, solar campaigns only (the 2026 recruitment campaign is left out).

$0$50$100$150$200Oct 24Jan 25Jan 26 $136$43.06
Meta Ads API, account 439698296817364, campaign level, pulled 27 Oct 2026. Quarters from October 2024 to March 2026.
The figures as a table
QuarterCost per leadLeadsSpend
Oct to Dec 2024$14493$13,347
Jan to Mar 2025$136101$13,739
Apr to Jun 2025$157107$16,802
Jul to Sep 2025$79.05243$19,209
Oct to Dec 2025$71.65334$23,931
Jan to Mar 2026$43.06654$28,164

05 · In their words

Five stars, 59 times.

5.0

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