Paying for Leads, Part 2

In response to my blogg yesterday, I wanted to continue the discussion. Yes I was doing a Pay per Click Campaign and I was spending a lot of money, with fantastic results. I am not working with the tech guyes in Ann Arbor anymore. Long story...........I was being pressured to leave Re/Max and start a brokerage with them. " No thank you, I don't want to start a brokerage " Felt it was better we go our separate ways. Very disappointing to me but our dreams just didn't mesh. If anyone wants to contact them, email me off this site.

I have sense learned how to do the google ad word campaign and as soon as my custom site is ready and I don't come up on front page of google, I will do my own. In the intern, I am using a company out of Canada........realestatepal.com. So far good leads, but they will not make a phone number mandatory and that has been one of the keys of our success, is making the call once they come to your site. It is not a cold call, but a warm call and most people are very nice. Yes we get wrong numbers, we also get wrong email addresses;however overall we connect with people with good results.

I have been with Number1 Expert since 2001. I usually sell 7-8 homes a year from that site. I almost dropped them last year, but they promised to index my site. I still am unhappy with the leads. I also asked them to make the people registering add a phone number and they said NO, they would have to do it in the whole U.S. So my conclusion is it is time for a custom and not a template site. Also with Number 1 Expert, when I started with them there was only 4 of us for several years. When they sold the original company, they veered directions and it is diluted now with 13-14 local agents using the site.

I also do Homegain and usually sell 3 or so homes a year from them. Being a original HomeGain member, I don't have the monthly service fee.

I have a couple of questions:

1) Since I have owned MissyCaulk.com for about 10 years, should I point that to my new site so it will be considered " out of the nursery" ?

2) Has anyone started using Mary McKnights RSS pieces ? I am intrigued by that site and admire all her postings ?

In conclusion, thanks for all your comments yesterday. Have a good day, I am out to finish my Christmas shopping.