Building a Lead Marketplace is Hard, as Zillow is Learning

Zillow has been at the lead marketplace building business for about two weeks, and I bet internally they are saying, "wow this is hard!" Early responders to the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace were easy to categorize, as I pointed out in my Zillow Gets … [Read more...]

Zillow Mortgage Gets Negative Reviews (from Non-Adopters)

I have been following the Zillow Mortgage discussion with great interest. By reserving follow-up to my early commentary in BusinessWeek I have an opportunity to survey the discussion and distill a few important observations: Zillow did something … [Read more...]

Zillow Giving Out Free Mortgage Leads

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Has Zillow gone mad? They are obviously pursuing an innovative path. Zillow is not yet revealing the whole strategy, but here is a peek at what to expect from Zillow Mortgage: "...our new mortgage offering is coming soon. While we’re still … [Read more...]