Stop Paying Per Lead, Start Paying Per Sale

I have found that a lack of personal attention to your clients can be detrimental to any business.  I like the "Jerry McGuire" approach:  "Fewer clients - more personal attention".  In the end, people want to be inspired and will be more motivated to work with people who are sincerely passionate about building relationships rather than building clients.

Your title is very misleading.  You are still asking for a rather steep monthy fee.  I still say NO WAY

In today's economy marketing dollars need to be spent effectively.

Now is the time for all agents to look at 2009 for where their leads came from and how many converted to a CLOSING. Based on this information, you should form your 2010 marketing plan and implement it.

Remember to carefully review each month and adjust your plan accordingly based on ROI. (lead $ vs. closing$ - you should take in consideration your "hourly rate" too when determining ROI)

No matter where your leads come from, they should be immediately followed up with and constant communication maintained until they convert or are considered dead.

If you need someone to review your marketing plan - let me know. (It's a free)

Create a POWERFUL 2010 year - there's business out there... go get it!

Rudd

Interesting concept and different from current lead providers.

I will pass on this.

28 leads in 5 days.. 1/2 with good numbers. 1/2 of those weren't with agents. Not too shabby.

Sure there are 7 billion people out there that need housing, but how many are ready, willing and able to buy in Lee County Florida within a year or two. And how may of them are taking some action to identify themselves to me. And how do I find them before you do.

Thats what a marketing plan (and budget) is for. ie giving these folks a way to find me and me them

Reply.com has given me a place to spend  part of my advertising and marketing money.  And so far its working much better than I had hoped

3 days
13 names and numbers
4 no answers (still trying)
2 no interest
3 bad numbers
4 interviews, These folks are ready, willing and able to buy and are not working with another agent, They have agreed to receive my email (mls searches) and accept my calls

If we extrapolate to a full month I will have 120 leads and 40 interviews.  Thats 40 buyers in my pipeline that I expect to produce 4 sales over the next year

Im happy

I have had a very negative results with Reply! and would like to share with other agents looking to spend thier hard earned money. They contacted me and pitched thier program on me so I thought that i would give it a try since they gave me a 15 day money back guarantee with no monthly fees or membership fees and i only had to pay per lead. Well as it turns out I was having the same problem as everyone else is, invalid leads, when i returned them to get credit they would not credit my Reply! account, after no response to several emails from the customer service I sent in a written email cancelling my account with them just after 4 days. They then got back to me finally and tried everything possible to keep me on board, however, I knew better and went through with cancelling my account.

Today, almost a month later, I got a call from them asking me why I wanted to cancel my account, so i explained to the gentleman that I had already terminated my services with them and had a confirmation email stating so, I also advised him that I had also at the same time emailed them written notice as required by law to no longer have authorization to access my credit card. He assured me this wouldnt be a problem and they would not deduct any money.

Well, I checked my bank account today and guess what, they took $460 out of it almost a month after cancelling my services. I am actually beyond upset that Activerain would allow this type of scam on thier Website since this a website for Real Estate Professionals and there is nothing Professional about Reply!. Tomorrow morning i am filing a report with the BBB, State Attorney General Office, Rip Off report, as well as the Federal Trade and Commerce Department. This company needs to be shut down and stop ripping off hard working Realtors.

Thank you John for pointing that out and i would agree 100% and brough that up to them right away, posting someones person details and email conversations is not right, and I can not even confirm that all of the emails were there as I was receiving emails from 3 different people from Reply!

However, After my post Reply! contacted me today and we are in the process of getting the situation taken care of. I will be speaking with them tomorrow and I will post on here to keep everyone posted as to the outcome.

I was very frustrated with Reply! and I was able to discuss my concerns with them after they had called me on Wednesday to dicuss my concerns. Although it was a communication problem with the customer service person when I signed up, Reply! was very intent on resolving my concerns upon speaking with them this week. They made sure to follow up with me and stay on top of things. Taking this kind of approach with responsive customer care and service allowed me to feel better about my frustrations and we were able to come up with a resolutution together and move forward.

I think that if you are going to use a company such as this one, there is many benefits, however, be very careful in understanding the program and policies. This was not explained to me in complete detail and it seemed confusing for most agents that have posted on here about Reply!. It seems that their new business model may work much better and I am happy to see that they are listening to the agents that are posting and making some adjustments. I am more than please with how Reply! stepped up and took the time to address my concerns and come up with a viable resolution. Thank you Reply!.

Hi Rudd

Please call me ASAP regarding my account. 831-636-8858

Thank You

Israel Gonzalez