Move, Inc. Makes a Real Move on the Online Mortgage Market

MortgageMatch.com - New Website from Move, Inc.

The Internet mortgage market has traditionally been full of marketers pitching hopeful offers to hopeful homebuyers. Today, Move, Inc. placed a significant outlier into the Internet mortgage market. With the launch of MortgageMatch.com, Move, Inc. … [Read more...]

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...]

Social Media Emerging Factor in Lead Generation

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There’s been much debate over the role and impact of social media on lead generation. However, after all the pontification it looks like marketers themselves are taking the plunge. According to a recent Unisfair study of Technology Marketers the … [Read more...]

Forecasting the Lead Market. It’s the Economy, Stupid!

Lead Generation Traffic Trends

Image by c.e.andersen via Flickr I've had several clients recently ask me the same question: "Where's the lead market headed next?" Well, I'm no soothsayer or seer, but I think these kind of trends are pretty easy to breakdown into reasonable … [Read more...]

Are You Generating Your Own Leads?

Image by kpwerker via Flickr I’m seeing a growing trend of companies generating their own Internet leads. Even those currently buying leads from large lead providers and marketing companies are learning the business. I think there are two major … [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...]

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?

Lead Management Software - LeadMarketwatch.com

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...]