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Client leads from Telegram, MAX and VK: where requests live in each messenger

I run Lidolovets (mpleads.ru), a service that finds people asking for a contractor in open chats and channels. We catch leads for businesses, private contractors, freelancers, sole proprietors and sales teams, and we work both as a subscription service and as a lead generation agency. Here is how requests are distributed across three messengers.

Telegram

Requests live in open chats and channels: city chats, residential complex chats, topic groups. A person writes "need a plumber, any recommendations" and everyone in the group sees it. This is the main source and it works in the self-service dashboard.

MAX

MAX is different. In our testing there are no open group chats in public search, group chats are available by invitation. Requests live in announcement channels by city and niche and in comments under channel posts. The history of a public channel can be read without joining, but there is no global search by message text, so channels are found by name and read one by one.

VK

Requests live in city communities, residential complex communities and in discussions and comments under posts of topic groups. We read public content only and do not message group members from a list.

How it connects

Telegram connects in the dashboard. MAX and VK we connect per client request, together with the team, as part of the managed plan or the setup with an expert.

The key number

Across all sources, 542,795 messages matched keywords and only 14,774 were real requests, that is 2.7%. The remaining 97.3% was ads, vacancies and chatter, so the filter matters more than the search.

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More (in Russian): mpleads.ru/poisk-klientov-v-telegram-max-i-vk/

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