How to choose: Scorpion or outbound meetings
Start with the buyer, not the brand. Are people already searching for what you sell, or do you need to reach accounts that have the problem and are not shopping yet?
Ask four questions before you hire Scorpion or SalesGlider. One: are buyers already searching for you by name or category? If yes, inbound (SEO, ads, content) can capture that demand. If no, waiting on search means waiting on people who have not started shopping.
Two: how fast do you need a meeting on the calendar? SEO follows crawl and compounding. Google’s SEO starter guide says some Search changes take several months to show. Ads can move faster if you fund them. Outbound can start conversations without a search, but neither side on this page publishes a calendar-day SLA for the first held meeting unless we cite it below.
Three: what is published on price? If the firm lists a monthly dollar figure, we quote it. If they do not, we write “not published” and we do not invent a retainer or an ad-spend number.
Four: who runs the work? Scorpion’s public pages describe a program you buy (inbound, tools, or outreach they operate). SalesGlider runs outbound and agrees a qualified-meeting target before we start.
Scorpion fits HVAC and contractors selling commercial work who want the inbound program they publish and can wait for search and content to compound. SalesGlider fits HVAC and contractors selling commercial work who want meetings from accounts that are not already on the site.
Who Scorpion is good for
Scorpion is a real option for the buyer they describe on their own site. This section is that fit, stated fairly.
Choose Scorpion when the published motion matches the job: inbound for people already searching, tools you operate, or outreach they run under their own guarantee language. Stay if you need the website, ads, content, or peer group they list.
Do not treat this page as a ranked list, and do not treat SalesGlider as “the best.” Scorpion and SalesGlider do different work. Many firms should keep Scorpion and add outbound later.
SalesGlider vs Scorpion: inbound vs outbound
Inbound captures people already searching. Outbound reaches people who have the problem and are not shopping yet.
Scorpion is built around inbound for home-services brands: websites, SEO, ads and Local Services Ads that wait on search and local demand. Google’s SEO starter guide says some Search changes can take several months to show, and you should often wait a few weeks before judging impact.
Search is a real motion. A buyer who types a problem into Google already has intent. The agency’s job is to be there when that search happens: rank, advertise, convert the visit, then nurture the inquiry. That is a fair description of inbound, not a slight.
SEO does not flip on in a week. Google’s SEO starter guide says some Search changes can take several months to show, and you should often wait a few weeks before judging impact. Some technical changes can show in hours; content and authority work compounds over months. That is Google’s published guidance, not a SalesGlider estimate.
Paid ads can show faster than SEO. They also add media spend on top of any agency retainer. Unless the firm publishes that media spend, we do not invent a dollar figure. A starting management fee is not the same as the money that goes to Google or Meta.
Content can work for MSPs and commercial contractors when buyers already search for the category (“managed IT in Dallas”, “commercial roofing GC”). It does not, by itself, put a meeting on the calendar with an account that never typed your name. Someone still has to work the form fill, the call, or the chat.
Outbound is the other job. You pick the accounts — HVAC and contractors selling commercial work who have the problem — and you start the conversation on email, LinkedIn and phone, whether or not they searched today.
The people you want are often not shopping. They feel a pain (an aging roofing bid list, an MSP book that is all referrals, a cybersecurity gap a PE partner just asked about) and they have not opened a tab to hire you. Outbound is how you get in front of that group now.
Outbound is not a website replacement. It does not rank you. It does not run Local Services Ads. It is a meetings system: a human owns targeting and reviews what goes out; volume work can be assisted by software.
Fair trade-offs
Both motions can work. They do different jobs.
Inbound pros: you own a site and content that can keep working after a campaign. Buyers who find you already have intent. Rankings and ads can compound. Cons: timelines follow search and crawl; ads need ongoing media spend on top of a retainer; someone still has to work the inquiries; unpublished prices mean you will not know the all-in number from a public page.
Outbound pros: you pick the accounts and start conversations without waiting for a search. Email, LinkedIn and phone can run as one system. Cons: the message has to be specific; volume without a human review is noisy; outbound does not replace a website or a local-search program.
Can you use both?
Yes. Inbound and outbound are not a fork you have to pick forever.
Keep Scorpion if you want the inbound program they publish. Add SalesGlider when you want meetings from accounts that are not already on your site. The two systems do not have to fight. A site that ranks and a calendar that has outbound meetings can sit next to each other.
What you should not do is pay two firms for the same job. If Scorpion already runs the website and ads, do not hire SalesGlider to redo that. If you already have outbound meetings on the calendar, do not hire an inbound shop expecting them to replace that motion unless their public pages say they will.
What Scorpion publishes
Scorpion’s site (scorpion.co) lists home-services industries including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, landscaping, pest control, and roofing, plus legal, medical, franchise, and multi-location brands. Services include websites, SEO (Ranking AI), digital advertising, Google Local Services Ads, reputation, and Scorpion Connect — an AI intake tool that answers questions, books appointments, and accepts payments.
Their HVAC FAQ states they typically require a 12-month contract for marketing technology and certain services such as SEO. Google Ads, LSAs, and Meta are typically month-to-month. Pricing is not published as a dollar figure; they say the investment depends on business goals. The company lists an office in Lehi, Utah.
Cost and timeline
Scorpion does not publish a monthly dollar price on scorpion.co. SalesGlider is $3,500/month.
Their HVAC FAQ says the investment depends on business goals. They typically require a 12-month contract for marketing technology and certain services such as SEO. Google Ads, LSAs and Meta are typically month-to-month. Media spend on top of that is not published, so we do not invent it.
SEO takes months to compound. Google’s SEO starter guide says some Search changes can take several months to show, and you should often wait a few weeks before judging impact.
