What are Aged Leads?

Aged Leads

Aged Internet leads are generated just the same as real-time Internet leads. The only difference is time and that passing of time significantly reduces your leads cost. Aged leads can give your business some unique opportunities and … [Read more...]

The Best Lead Buyers Watch the Consumer Market

Image via Wikipedia Buying leads shouldn’t mean you close down your marketing department. Even more dangerous is turning a deaf ear to the consumer market. Granted lead providers are expert Internet marketers, but like most companies they have … [Read more...]

LendingTree Understands Their Brand and Strategy

Mike Simonsen has a post over at Altos Research about potentially tough times at LendingTree. His article stresses the concern in their being an incumbent, slow moving old style lead machine that needs volume of traffic to survive. Mike's point was … [Read more...]

Lead Provider Shuffle: Mortgage Leads Out–Debt, Education, Insurance Leads In

The mortgage market is having a bit of trouble. Was that understated? And it has lead aggregators scrambling for new lead generation niches. Lead Critic has a great post on why providers are moving, which is probably pretty obvious, and a few … [Read more...]

LeadMarketwatch and MortgageOnlineBlog Team Up to Go Behind the Scenes of Lead Generation

Join me as I team up with Owen Raun, of the OnlineMortgageBlog, to go behind the scenes of Internet Lead Generation and interview the top leaders in this exciting and ever changing market space. Our first in the series is an interview with Marc … [Read more...]

Why AutoByTel's Loss is Your Gain

AutoByTel released their 2nd quarter earnings report yesterday. While earnings were 12% off from last years numbers, a cursory read would indicate this is just another market indice, and cause for depression among car dealers. Most would see this as … [Read more...]

Will a Rapidly Reshaping Mortgage Market Change Mortgage Lead Buying?

The collapse of the mortgage market has rapidly reshaped the face of mortgage lending. Wiped out are top lenders and notable consumer brands like: American Home Mortgage, Ameriquest, Countrywide, IndyMac, New Century, among 271 other … [Read more...]

Sales Pipeline Equilibrium: Optimizing Time and Opportunity to Maximize Lead ROI

Equilibrium: def.-The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced. Time Is the Enemy of Opportunity In any sales pipeline, there are competing influences. The most common influence is time. Time is a competitor of … [Read more...]

What is the Promise of Lead Management?

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Lead management is certainly becoming the new buzz word in CRM. My theory is that it is to obscure the failure of the CRM concept and the budgetary fiascos it has brought to most organizations. As you know, CRM always promised big ROIs and WOW … [Read more...]

Q&A with Lead Generation Leadership: Talking with Payam Zamani of Reply!

Have you ever wanted to sit down with the CEO of your lead aggregator or provider and ask a few questions? Recently, I had this opportunity with Payam Zamani of Reply!. I am sure you will enjoy our discussion. It is both interesting and full of … [Read more...]