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Get Referrals from fellow ActiveRain Members

Pssst! I'll let you in on a little secret: Did you know that YOU can get leads and referrals from fellow AR members? That's right, AR members who have buyers and/or sellers post their referrals at:

http://activerain.com/action/lead_referrals

To find a lead in your state & city, click "Browse Available Referrals".

http://activerain.com/action/lead_referrals/browse

I posted a referral today and received an email within 10 minutes. Then another response. And another. In all total, 7 responses from top agents within the first few hours of the referral! Wow I am impressed with the quality of the agents responding and how many are paying attention to the AR referral site!

I got so many leads so quickly that I had to go in and cancel the ad! So I guess it's not such a big secret after all, right?

Regina P. Brown
Broker, Realtor®, e-Pro
Author of eBook "Stop Foreclosure Fast: Solutions to Save your House"
Author of forthcoming book, "Virtual Office Guide for Business Professionals: Work & Profit from Home"
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Posted by Regina P. Brown, e-Pro Realtor® on 05/19/2009 12:40 AM

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28 Comments on Get Referrals from fellow ActiveRain Members

MAY

I had a similar but slightly different response. I posted a referral and received 12 responses in the first 2 hours. I thought - pretty good. This should be pretty easy. Then, I took a look at their profiles 8 of the 12 had virtually none and had few if any posts. Also, most of the responses were laden with commission breath and didn't really provide me any compelling reason to refer my customer to them. Luckily, another AR member was able to give me a name of Realtor and my clients were more than pleased.

Ryan, it is important to screen agents. But I wouldn't use AR posts as the sole criteria, because there are many agents who are too busy to write blogs -- because they work 60+ hours per week selling real estate!

Regina- I am glad that you got a good response. I have just the opposite. No one calls back, no one answers emails and it is the hardest thing even with agents on AR to get them to be effective for our clients. I have had to go outside of AR many times to give out referrals.

Katerina, I used to check it for referrals, but there were never any in my area, so I stopped checking the list!

Regina - I didn't judge based solely on posts. My conversations with the few agents that bothered to actually answer their phone and return the telephone call can best be described as parasitic at best. It was a marginal referral. Yet, I never want a client to come back with a negative experience so I ended up going a different route.

Regina, I forget to look at the referral list! I did receive a referral based on my blog and I have given a referral - again based on that person's presence here. I guess it would be okay to post a referral, but I'm so picky that I think it's better if I check out the people in the area and then contact them.

Sharon

Regina, ActiveRain is an excellent place to get and pass referrals. I have sent several myself over the year and a half that I have been associated with this online community...

Your building consultant for life in Nashville, TN

Regina, I posted a referral yesterday, but haven't found the right match. Actually I did a google search and one of the agents I found happened to be on AR, but they hadn't responded to the referral I posted. Go figure.!

I am New Here in AR ,, and I will check all this good info out as time as progresses ,,,,

I will learn alot from all of you ,,,,

Jeanice

All I have ever gotten was those awful Nestors bogus no credit bad credit leads or newbies that just created a profile to turn over a lead. Any referral I give is done after research and then sometimes it still gets screwed up!

I thinks the referral resource is a good system. It just needs to be used by the right people. I responded to a couple of posted referrals a few months ago and received NO email/call back. One of them, I contacted at least three times as I had a potential buyer - he never replied or removed the listing. Oh, well...

Laura, I agree that it's important to screen the prospective agents, and then do some research on them before referring. We want to make sure our clients are in the right hands!

Thanks, Regina. That is yet another thing about Active Rain that I did not know existed.

MAY

Regina- Thanks for the info on referrals and I have looked at it before but never tried working any of them. Maybe this is something that might be up Vegas Bob's ally!

MAY

Vegas Bob, well then give it a spin!

Thanks Regina i just check this out. There are a lot of referrals out there that are over 6 months old. Do you know if they take them down if they are not longer active. it's hard to believe that nobody has worked the old leads. Thanks!

Kate, my guess is that anyone over 1 week old is not a valid lead, I doubt if clients are waiting 6 months to get a real estate agent to help them!

Regina - I am going to give it a try and thanks!

MAY

I had no idea this was here. Thanks alot. Always something new to learn on AR.

Wendy, Robert: you are welcome, hopefully you can find a referral in your area!

MAY

Regina - After looking at your post several times I think it's a great post for friends so I featured it at .......

FRIENDS AT ACTIVERAIN

Vegas Bob

MAY

THANKS for your support, VEGAS BOB! ;)

JUN

Regina,

That's so exciting! In today's market, we can all use any help we can get, especially referrals. Thanks for sharing the information.

JUN

Linda, I agree! We need to help each other, and then it's win-win for everyone.

JUN

Regina - I have sent several referrals out to AR agents. My only complaint is once they received the referral I never heard back from them again. it would have been nice to know what the follow up was and if they met with the prospective client. I hated that I had to chase everyone of them down by phone and e-mail just to find out if they had made contact and what was going on.

I am with Laura ,all I ever seem to see is "Nesters" leads and thay all want to rent w/option . WHY ?

Laura, when I give a referral, I simultaneously prepare a "Referral Fee Agreement" and email it to the referring agent to let them know I am serious about the agent following up, and about them sending me my referral fee. Then I follow up every week.

JUN

I just found this ! I'll keep an eye on it and post "wants/needs".

Great, Michael, hope it helps you!

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