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Beware of BugMeNot.com!

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Are you happy with your website's ability to capture leads?  You may have spent time, energy and dinero creating a user-friendly lead capture widget for your website but there is a new tool (which I am dubbing real estate public enemy #1) that may be preempting you from receiving those leads.  Egad!

 

BugMeNot.com allows real and dummy user logins to various websites to be shared, destroying the intricate lead capture system you thought your website had.  
 
For example, I entered two of the websites that I have generated leads from in the past, Realtor.com and RE/MAX.com.  Both sites are on BugMeNot.com with dummy logins that have been used - arrgh!  
 

 
Obviously these are people that do not want to be harassed today by a slew of emails and calls but many times these are still folks that will eventually buy and will most likely use a real estate agent so let it be you!  But if you never have any information to contact them with, the only result is you lose out on a possible lead, no matter how far in the future the site visitor may become ready to purchase and connect with an agent.
 
 
I encourage you to go to BugMeNot.com asap and enter the websites for both your real estate company and your personal sites to see if a dummy login is being used to prevent you from capturing leads.
 
 
If you find that BugMeNot.com has any of your sites featured, you can scroll to the bottom of the page and click, Removal to request that your site no longer be featured.  I hope this helps you to fill in gaps that may be undermining your lead capture system and techniques.
 
Here's to your success!

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Todd & Devona Garrigus
Garrigus Real Estate - Beaumont, CA
Broker / REALTORS®

Thank you SO much, Lee! I'm heading over to see if any of my sites are on there.

Aug 06, 2014 01:11 PM
Jan Green - Scottsdale, AZ
Value Added Service, 602-620-2699 - Scottsdale, AZ
HomeSmart Elite Group, REALTOR®, EcoBroker, GREEN

I just tried both my sites and they aren't showing up - thankfully.  Thanks!

Aug 06, 2014 01:13 PM
Todd & Devona Garrigus
Garrigus Real Estate - Beaumont, CA
Broker / REALTORS®

By the way, you should consider changing the link to the website to a no follow so your blog doesn't give their site any Google Love.

Aug 06, 2014 01:16 PM
Tammy Lankford,
Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA
Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

Nope not there and I actually give people a choice to "sign up and see and save" or "don't sign up and see all you want, but you can't save your search" More sign up with real emails than just look and don't sign up.

Aug 06, 2014 01:19 PM
Joan Whitebook
BHG The Masiello Group - Nashua, NH
Consumer Focused Real Estate Services

Interesting - I had never heard of this site or how it operates.  I'll have to check it out.  Thanks for the heads up.

Aug 06, 2014 01:23 PM
Larry Johnston
Broker, Friends & Neighbors Real Estate and Elkhart County Subdivisions, LLC - Elkhart, IN
Broker,Friends & Neighbors Real Estate, Elkhart,IN

Hi Lee,  Wow! It's always something that someone is doing to mess things up.  Thanks for the heads up.  I'll have to check it out.

Aug 07, 2014 01:52 PM
Mark Don McInnes, Sandpoint-Idaho
Sandpoint Realty LLC - Sandpoint, ID
North Idaho Real Estate - 208-255.6227

How in the world do you keep up with all this...stuff?  Thank you

Aug 11, 2014 02:47 PM
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