I have plenty of prospects still pretty active but no new leads the past few days with the last lead noted on April 14th but a total of 19 during the first 22 days of April.  As we near towards the end of month and I suspect that the advertising budget may be depleted,things have quieted down significantly as far as new leads but there is still good activity for the 80+ active leads getting listing updates. 

There are about a half dozen or so that I expect will want to purchase during the next 6 months of the year. The average price profile suggests that there is still a lot of pent up demand for short sale in the more modest areas of San Diego. San Diego real estate in some areas of the San Diego real estate market seem heavily concentrated with REO's and Short Sales and many of the leads are focused on them with daily listing alerts.

I received an invitation to attend the  advanced training again which took last month and I have decided to sign up for it again, polishing the edges, if you will. Each time we go through the many features of the program, it is good to stay familiar with the features that can turn the tide for some of these leads.

There had been requests for a group type of e-mail which is not available as yet but I believe sometime in the future the designers of the program will see the the benefits for announcement type email that might spur some of the leads to take action. One of those might be about the $8000 tax incentive for new buyers and what the federal definition is of the “ New Buyer” . In the lead generation system, it is not always clear who is first time or not but too much information is better than too little. I think it is important enough to create the message and then send it out individually since that tax benefit provision expires on Dec 1, 2009. It could I guess get extended, but no word of that thus far. But judging from how many buyers have jumped into San Diego market, it seems to be resonating well with those that know about it.

I am still very supportive of this lead generating system and know it will only be a matter of time before some of the conversions from leads to clients takes place.