I went to a very interesting seminar today that made it known that my own server provider could be ripping me off of my own leads.  I will be reviewing my contract to see if they have the ability to do this, and the worst part is, it is perfectly legal. 

Here is the problem, say you are a LO with your own website and you are obtaining information from leads from your website.  Your server provider could be delaying sending you the information that you worked so hard to obtain as they may try and sell it first before giving it to you.  At the seminar today, the speaker said that he has negotiated with his server provider that his leads are his and his alone.  He has tested the server provider weekly and he states that when he enters information, he gets a text message within seconds and an email within minutes. 

If you have spent thousands dollars getting your website set up to draw potential clients to you, don't you deserve to reap the benefits and not some other company who basically has done nothing but act as a leech?  I suggest that you read your contract and test your system if you are in this situation.  If you are not receiving your texts or emails within minutes of entering your information in your own website, you are losing leads.

If your website is not set up to gather lead information, you are throwing money away.  Your website is up 24/7.  You can be sure I will be revising mine to gather lead information soon.  I could use every lead I get, couldn't you?

 

 

6 Comments on Attention LO's, is your host or server stealing your leads from your website?

AUG
17
2007

 Go figure....Seems like our wide world of info is a wide world of crooks.  Thanks for the info I will deff check out my site.  Ginger

12:06am • #1
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Thanks for the Post,

 I am in the middle of having a web site developed.  I will now ask this question.  Thank you.

12:17am • #2

Joe-

 Interesting blog.  I'm looking into it for my website.  I just had a lead from one of them yesterday.  I wonder if I was the only agent that called her...

 

4:32pm • #3
AUG
21
2007
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>>>as they may try and sell it first before giving it to you. 

That doesn't seem legal to me. Are you saying there are providers out there that are hosting your web site, monitoring the requests that come through the site and then contacting those customers? How do they even explain that to the customer? Do you have an example of who is doing this? I have never heard of it before.

1:16pm • #4
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Joe

Thanks for the info, seems as if no one can be trusted anymore, what is this world comming too?

1:21pm • #5

Ginger - The world is full of "interesting" people who look to take advantage of any opportunity available, the only bad thing is that they didn't do the work necessary to create this opportunity.

Gary- Contact your hosting company but read your contract first. 

Lisa - Hold on tight to that lead, wow them with your helpfulness

Angie - The speaker at the seminar said that the hosting companies may also own "lead" companies or "info" companies, it seems that the hosting company has it written into the contracts that they are allowed to obtain the information entered on their servers/systems.  Everyone gasped when they heard that, I couldn't believe it myself.  I am not saying that every hosting company is also a lead generating company but the possibility exists, look at it from their point of view, the info is right there for the taking, all they need to do is write it into the contract and it's legal.  The speaker at the seminar said he did get the leads but after doing some research and talking to these leads, the lead told him that they entered the information on Monday but the speaker didn't get it until Thursday and that they lead were already contacted by other people.  I guess it is legal as long as they deliver the lead information albeit, 3 days later.

Gary - People can be trusted, at least I would like to continue to think so, you just have to be a little more wary and if something is too good to be true, it just might be.   

2:19pm • #6

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