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I agree that having 200 great buyers on my site closing 50 is better than the cost of securing 800 buyers on your site that close less than 50. I have done the math and tracked clicks to closings since 2001. By far my greatest lead source of top quality buyers and sellers specifically looking to buy or sell is through Homegain....hands down. Consumers that find me through buyer link or agent evaluator are well qualified buyers and sellers as they specifically had to click on several links directly related to their specific real estate needs before landing on my site and registering to work with me. You can spend many thousands of dollars and great quantities of time trying to be SEO ranked or buy generic or specific keywords, or you can listen to one that has done all that and can't say enough about Homegain buyer and seller leads as being far and above the best and most motivated consumers. Using Buyer Link and Agent Evaluator since 2001 I have earned well over $1,000,000 in commissions from Homegain leads. So as long as your not in Central Massachusetts, I say try it...you will like it. If your in my neck of the woods...then disregard this tip:) Right on again Bernice! Jeffrey Bastress Startpoint Realty jeffrey@startpoint.com www.HomesByJeffrey.com blog: www.RealtyRag.com
Ouch! Jeffrey Bastress Startpoint Realty jeffrey@startpoint.com www.HomesByJeffrey.com blog: www.RealtyRag.com
I would agree that competition bashing is out of control. But I must say that it is just as reprehensible for the largest real estate company in the world, that Sherry just happens to be affiliated with, blocks email accounts from companies they don't want agents communicating with their agents from, place their people on all the MLS and REALTOR boards as directors to influence practices that don't suit their ends, write white papers and threaten NAR into squashing anything not in their interests, and on and on of reprehensible back room tactics in outright squashing their competition. I think this largest real estate company in the world will fall like Goliath, as they simply have not seen the stone hurling directly at their forhead...until just now...and it is to late to get out of the way. So it is a very competitive business, and I am afraid Goliath's tactics and business plan simply have taught the David's to fight back for their own existense...and for what consumers really want. What has given the industry a bad name, is simply filling offices on every corner with hordes of inexperienced agents and charging clients top producer fees based on policy and not agent experience. So as they laughed at little David coming to take on Goliath...they are not laughing now. Jeffrey Bastress Startpoint Realty jeffrey@startpoint.com www.HomesByJeffrey.com blog: www.RealtyRag.com
