How long will it take your subscription to The Hail Reporter™ to pay for itself? It depends a bit on your situation, but by all accounts, we offer a great value!
- Q. Researching hail market areas?
- If you do this for a living, you probably get your first information from NOAA, then you look up the coordinates at Google Maps to see where the hail hit exactly, then you look up some demographic information for that town at a site like Census.gov or City-Data.com, then you go back to Google Maps and look up how many potential competitors or companies that might hire you are in the hail fall area. The Hail Reporter™ has put all this information in one place, potentially saving you tens or even hundreds of hours in research time each year. If you figure your time at a modest rate of $25/hr, and if we save you only 10 hours per year, you just paid for your $249 Nationwide subscription right there!
- Q. Seeking hail damage repair work?
- Whether it’s roofing, paintless dent repair, or one of the many other industries built around hail damage repair, in most cases, you can earn back your subscription price in just one job. Even a Nationwide-with-SMS subscriber paying $648 a year can earn that back with just one car or roof repair. And when you leave town, it’s not for just one repair! In fact, The Hail Reporter™ helps you get the information you need to pick the best locations to which to travel!
- Q. Trying to protect people, property, or events?
- Whether you’re an events or sports coordinator, a car dealer, or a concrete layer, hail falling at the wrong time can be very costly in more than one way. A free, one-county account, or a $29 Statewide account narrowed down to the number of counties you choose could possibly give you a very valuable heads-up that there’s hail upwind of your position and headed your way. If you can save one person, car, slab, or event from exposure to hail, haven’t you paid for your subscription already?
- Q. Want to get the scoop?
- Are you in media or weather and always on the lookout for a hot story? Knowing that hail is already hitting in your area can give you the preparation time you need to capture some great images and stories if it does come your way. And everybody knows that a picture of hail falling is much better than a picture of hail melting on the ground! $29 will do this for you if you have a smart phone, or $128 if you need text alerts.
- Q. What’s the value of being prepared?
- You run a body shop and it just hailed in your market area while you’re out fishing over the weekend. You need to know this ASAP so you can get back to your shop and start preparing for the deluge of activity you’ll see on Monday morning! You have adjusters to call, paintless techs to subcontract, and you have to figure out how you’re going to handle all the estimates! So what’s the value of getting a few hours’ head start?