Time to change the niche or use a different outreach system?

So i have spent $3200 on paid ads to get leads for my own agency ( Residential painting niche), I have only made back $3000 from it. I have done it for the past 5 months (Obviously i paused the ads sometimes) I had $30/daily for the adset. Got a shit ton of leads but they were all extremely poor quality (Solo traders who just wanted free work or didn't have money to invest). I added several qualifiying questions in the instant form but kept getting the same kind of people.

So i am really stuck at a crossroad here, i don't know what else to do, Should i stop running ads and go for email campaign? Or should i stick with this and maybe change my offer to accomodate solo traders?

Any help would be appreciated

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