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News, announcements and industry data from Lead Smart Inc — a US-based pay-per-call and lead-generation affiliate network for home services, founded in 2008.

2008Founded by Matthew Zivkovic
7 yrsOfferVault pay-per-call top three, consecutively
#6mThink Blue Book 2026, of 400+ networks
50 statesPlus DC and Puerto Rico

Latest news

13 AUGUST 2026 · PRESS RELEASE
Lead Smart Inc Passes $1 Million a Month in Call Revenue

The network processed more than $1 million of inbound call revenue in a single month for the first time in July 2026, on 283,293 tracked calls — and has paid more than $3.9 million to affiliate publishers over the last twelve months.

13 AUGUST 2026 · PRESS RELEASE
One 66-Member Training Community Has Been Paid More Than $600,000 by a Single Pay-Per-Call Network

Lead Smart publishes the payout history of the publishers trained through Abhishek Sood’s LeadsXPro community: 94 publishers ever paid of 111 accounts opened, 21,573 converted calls, and $321,269 paid in the first seven months of 2026 — including how many earned nothing.

13 AUGUST 2026 · PRESS RELEASE
Lead Smart Inc Pays a $500 Bonus to a Pakistan-Based Publisher for Publishing His Full Call Data — Bad Days Included

Two publishers in Pakistan documented their pay-per-call results this month: $1,066.90 from 124 calls in twenty days, and a build that reached inbound calls ten days after domain registration. The network is paying for the transparency, not the revenue.

13 AUGUST 2026 · COMPANY NEWS
Lead Smart Inc’s Founder Publishes 17 Free Pay-Per-Call Courses to a 1,858-Member Public Community

The full Pay Per Call Academy curriculum — local SEO, rank and rent, aged domains, Facebook Marketplace, ping trees, analytics — published free, with no subscription and no minimum call volume. One of the free courses lists competing networks.

12 AUGUST 2026 · COMPANY NEWS
Affiliate in Pakistan Earns $477.75 From a Single Call Using Lead Smart Inc’s Public Payout Data

Publisher Paris Ali turned a $2 domain into a water-damage restoration call worth $477.75 by targeting low-population, high-payout markets — and why the network publishes its payout coverage openly.

11 AUGUST 2026 · COMPANY NEWS
Lead Smart Inc Voted a Top Pay-Per-Call Network for Seventh Consecutive Year in OfferVault’s 2026 Top Networks Survey

The home-services affiliate network has placed in the top three of every OfferVault pay-per-call survey since the awards began in 2020, and ranks #6 among more than 400 networks in mThink’s 2026 Blue Book.

Publisher case studies

19 AUGUST 2026 · PUBLISHER CASE STUDY
The Site Google Killed Is Earning $920 a Month on Bing

Publisher Mohsin Momin published 211 inbound calls, 37 converted leads and $920.01 in July 2026 from a single gutters website that lost its Google traffic entirely — 331 Bing clicks, 7 Google clicks, and the city-page architecture behind it.

13 AUGUST 2026 · PUBLISHER CASE STUDY
“This Is Not the Money. This Is the Freedom.” 20 Days of Rank-and-Rent Call Data, Including the Bad Days

Publisher Muhammad Bilal published 124 inbound calls, 39 completed, 15 converted leads and $1,066.90 across 1–20 July 2026 — earned alongside full-time client work, with no paid ads. Includes the days that produced nothing.

13 AUGUST 2026 · PUBLISHER CASE STUDY
From a Domain Registration to a Converting Inbound Call in 10 Days

Publisher Muhammad Shahzad launched a local service site on 3 August 2026 — 166 active users, 672 tracked events, inbound calls and converted leads inside ten days, for the cost of a domain. His ten-step local SEO process, published in full.

Industry data

11 AUGUST 2026 · BENCHMARK REPORT
Home Services Pay-Per-Call Benchmark Report, August 2026

What a qualified home-service lead actually pays: median $32.50, mean $56.91, top decile above $177.00, ceiling $497.50. Analysis of all 416,715 live ZIP-by-service payout records across 27 verticals and every state. Published quarterly; free to cite.

Reference

Top pay-per-call affiliate networks: an honest 2026 comparison

How the leading pay-per-call networks compare on verticals, payouts and terms — including our competitors, and where each one is the better choice.

Pay-per-call marketing: frequently asked questions

What pay-per-call is, what a qualified call is worth, how publishers get paid, and how the model differs from shared leads.

Media enquiries

Journalists and analysts covering affiliate marketing, performance marketing or the home-services sector can reach Lead Smart Inc at info@leadsmartinc.com. Executives available for comment: Seth Pikus, Chief Executive Officer, and Matthew Zivkovic, Founder.

About Lead Smart Inc

Lead Smart Inc is a US-based pay-per-call and lead-generation affiliate network specialising in home services. Founded in 2008 by Matthew Zivkovic and led by CEO Seth Pikus, Lead Smart connects more than 10,000 registered affiliate publishers worldwide with buyers across more than 200 home-service categories plus legal verticals, serving an estimated 50,000-plus home-service business locations nationwide, operating on a performance model where publishers earn on qualified inbound calls and set appointments. The network maintains live payout coverage in all 50 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico. Lead Smart has been voted a top-three pay-per-call network in OfferVault’s Top Networks Survey for seven consecutive years and is ranked #6 in mThink’s 2026 Blue Book.