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Do you want to be a "lead?" ... and ... someone has to pay these fees

In a recent article, the founder of a leading online real estate referral site, tried to make the case to beleaguered real estate agents that buying leads is good for their business and intimated that failure to buy these leads from third party companies (such as theirs) is to miss out on business.

First, let's start with the basic premise - I agree with them that there is a cost to agents of obtaining business. Whether they do old-fashioned farming, mailings, phone calls, or put your resources into your client base and get your business from referrals, business has to come from somewhere and it has a monetary cost.

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Recent Entries

  • Online Referral Sites: What you need to know
    Paula Bean wrote:
    In a recent article, the founder of a leading online real estate referral site, tried to make the case to ...
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