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Will You Add? - Why Are Internet Real Estate Leads so Bad? And How to Win Anyway
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When you buy real estate leads, you often don't know if the lead, Mr. John Doe, responded to an ad for a particular property or simply req
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If so, you are probably one of the many real estate professionals I consult with who AREN'T happy with the results.
Of course there are some out there who live by buying internet leads. That's fine. Good for them.
But I am talking to the rest of you. The ones who have not yet started buying internet real estate leads or have bought them but are disappointed with the results.
And I KNOW there are a lot of you out there...
Here are a few quick facts from the 2005 REALTOR(r) Technology Efficiency Survey, Co-Sponsored by the Center for REALTOR(r) Technology and the National Association of REALTORS(r).
Talking about buying real estate leads:
So that's 3 out of 386 that are satisfied - less than 1%.
In a nutshell, the quality of the "leads" stinks. They are unqualified and many of them are of no more use to you than the other "leads" that you can find in your local phonebook or by standing and yelling on the corner of a busy street.
When you buy real estate leads, you often don't know if the lead, Mr. John Doe, responded to an ad for a particular property or simply requ
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And I KNOW there are a lot of you out there...
Here are a few quick facts from the 2005 REALTOR(r) Technology Efficiency Survey, Co-Sponsored by the Center for REALTOR(r) Technology and the National Association of REALTORS(r).
Talking about buying real estate leads:
So that's 3 out of 386 that are satisfied - less than 1%.
In a nutshell, the quality of the "leads" stinks. They are unqualified and many of them are of no more use to you than the other "leads" that you can find in your local phonebook or by standing and yelling on the corner of a busy street.
When you buy real estate leads, you often don't know if the lead, Mr. John Doe, responded to an ad for a particular property or simply req
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So that's 3 out of 386 that are satisfied - less than 1%.
In a nutshell, the quality of the "leads" stinks. They are unqualified and many of them are of no more use to you than the other "leads" that you can find in your local phonebook or by standing and yelling on the corner of a busy street.
When you buy real estate leads, you often don't know if the lead, Mr. John Doe, responded to an ad for a particular property or simply req
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So that's 3 out of 386 that are satisfied - less than 1%.
In a nutshell, the quality of the "leads" stinks. They are unqualified and many of them are of no more use to you than the other "leads" that you can find in your local phonebook or by standing and yelling on the corner of a busy street.
When you buy real estate leads, you often don't know if the lead, Mr. John Doe, responded to an ad for a particular property or simply req
In the last article in this series, we talked about some of the hardest ways that people try to build a customer base for a store. We also talked about why these methods do not normally work well. This article will give some ways of finding new customers for a retail store that can work much better.There are many different ways to find customers for a retail store. The traditional way is to open a store and wait for people to come. If this is not bringing you as man
When you buy real estate leads, you often don't know if the lead, Mr. John Doe, responded to an ad for a particular property or simply requested information on how to make money buying foreclosures or refinance his mortgage.
What's even more startling is that with the low levels of satisfaction with buying internet real estate leads, only 12% of those who responded to the survey use any other service beyond third party lead generation programs to qualify their Internet leads.
There clearly is a problem here... but where there is a problem, there is always an opportunity.
So let's stop dwelling on the negative already - that doesn't really help you after a certain point, does it?
So what's the answer?
Don't buy leads, create your own...
And I don't mean filling up your appointment books with cold calling, door knocking or all of those networking meetings that have a knack for attracting some of the neediest business people on the planet.
It's not that there is anything wrong with doing the stuff above, I just know for a fact that there are better, more effective and efficient ways to generate business.
The smartest real estate businesses don't go out and GET business, they figure out a system that brings the business to them.
What you need is to create a system that accomplishes the following things for your business:
1. Keep a large group of folks aware of you and what you do.
2. Help filter out the people who will soon be in the market to buy or sel
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