If you’re using Bark.com
Bark.com is one way to find work. Here’s the other.
A UK marketplace with deep provider supply, operating across Ireland. It sells you a homeowner’s job, shared with other trades who then compete on price. PlanningLeads works the other way round: it shows you the project the job came from, earlier, filtered to your trade, and never resold to a rival.
What Bark.com does well
Immediate volume and the broadest national supply. Free to register, and you're never short of requests to respond to. If reach and speed are what you want, it has both.
Where the model leaves you exposed
The model is an open auction. The request goes to everyone, so you're racing on speed and price from the first message, and the credits expire whether you win or not. That's not a flaw in Bark, it's what a broadcast lead marketplace is. You're renting a moment of demand that several rivals are renting at the same time.
The different approach
Own the pipeline, not one shared job
Ireland publishes every planning application and commencement notice. PlanningLeads assembles all of it, from all 31 authorities, and hands you the part that matters to your trade, first.
Earlier in the story
You see a project when it files for planning or a commencement notice, before it's ever advertised as a job.
Yours, not shared
It's the public pipeline, not a lead we resold to three rivals. Nobody else buys the same one from us.
Filtered and sized
Narrowed to your trade and your counties, with the modelled value of the work to you on every site.
Side by side
Bark.com vs PlanningLeads
| Bark.com | PlanningLeads | |
|---|---|---|
| When you hear about the work | When a customer posts a request | At planning or commencement, first, before it's advertised |
| Who else gets the same thing | Every local provider, broadcast at once | Nobody. It's the public pipeline, not a resold lead |
| What you're competing on | Speed and price, against an open field | Being first, on bigger and earlier work |
| What you're paying for | Around €20 to €50 per lead, expiring after 3 months | From €29/mo for every project in your county |
| What you actually see | One customer's request | Every project in your county, mapped, filtered to your trade and sized by what it's worth |
You don’t have to choose
Bark is built for reach on reactive jobs. PlanningLeads is built for the earlier, bigger work upstream of it. Keep Bark for volume if it pays; use PlanningLeads to be first on the projects it never surfaces.
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Every figure links back to the official public record.
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