Stumpage Leads runs targeted marketing directly to landowners with standing timber across Lower Michigan, then hands you the inquiry — county, acreage, species, and timeline included — so your buyers can focus on making offers instead of chasing prospects.
Digital marketing is almost nonexistent in the timber buying industry — most buyers still find sellers through reputation, referrals, and a forester's personal network, the same way this business has worked for decades. That's starting to change. In 2026, landowners increasingly search online long before they ever pick up the phone, and the buyer showing up when they do is the one who gets first crack at the conversation. Almost nobody in timber buying is even trying to be found online yet. Right now, being early is still worth something.
Every buyer sets a buy box — region, timber type, and minimum acreage — so we only send leads that actually fit what you buy. No wasted leads on tracts you'd never take.
Targeted digital marketing puts your buying territory in front of landowners who are actively thinking about selling standing timber — not cold names off a list.
Every lead arrives with county, nearest town, approximate acreage, timber species, timeline to sell, and photos when the landowner provides them.
A $50 flat fee covers each lead delivered — priced to cover our lead acquisition cost, not to mark it up. A performance commission applies only when a lead becomes a signed contract — not when harvest happens.
Priced to cover our lead acquisition cost — the cost of the advertising it takes to source each landowner — not to build in a markup. We make our margin on results, not on volume.
A percentage of contract value, owed when a lead results in a signed timber contract — capped so a large tract doesn't distort the economics, and floored so a small one still makes it worth tracking.
Stumpage Leads exists to solve one problem for timber buying companies: finding landowners who are actually ready to sell, before your competitors do. We're not foresters, and we don't cruise timber or negotiate contracts — that part stays entirely yours. What we do is run the marketing, filter the noise, and hand you a lead with the information you need to decide whether it's worth a call.
We think about this the way a buyer does: stumpage value, not mill-door price; board footage, not vague acreage claims; a signed contract, not a vanity metric. Our fee structure reflects that — you pay a small amount for every lead, and a real commission only when the deal is real.
We focus exclusively on Lower Michigan, so coverage stays dedicated to one region instead of spread thin.
Landowner name and phone number, county, nearest town, approximate acreage, timber species, timeline to sell, and photos when the landowner has provided them.
Yes. Every lead is exclusive to you — we don't sell the same lead to more than one buyer.
When the lead results in a signed timber contract between you and the landowner — regardless of when, or whether, harvest is completed afterward.
We currently focus on Lower Michigan.
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