Does anyone know anything about this company?
Link: [url= https://www.realestateclientreferrals.com/index.php]RECR.com[/url]
I searched for complaints but found none.
Thanks!
Tom

Their website is not set up for prospective buyers and sellers. It is set up to catch real estate agents. If you sign up how are they going to find prospects for you? Have you seen their ad on TV? Usually these companies run ads right before they prospect for agents and then stop running ads. Do they have any internet presence other than PPC which you could do yourself?

Any more news on this company? I just got a call for a seller referral in my area and they want $99 up front and no more. Said I could change my mind in 7 days and get a refund...

They called me today too. Anybody have any info?

BTW - I'm not looking for the "Don't buy leads, all lead generation companies are crap." I'm looking for real information on this company.

Well I would use craigslist as a wa to find business or for sale by owner.com

Paul Gioffre
Real Estate Broker
http://www.listingflatfeemls.com

I'm am pretty new here and I don't know anything about this website, but I wanted to ask everyone something. Is the prevailing thought on this board and in the real estate industry that all lead generation companies are useless?

I wouldn't say that it is a prevailing thought. There are many, many Realtors using the services of lead generating companies - that is why they are still in business after all these years.

From some of the discussions here and elsewhere, the most vocal detractors are often those who resent having the competition for search engine positions because they believe their website should rank ahead of the lead generating companies who get their leads from those who find them in search engines. They believe that the lead generating companies are stealing leads that are rightfully theirs.

Those that like receiving leads from these companies often are not spending a lot of time thinking about their search engine positions. As a result they tend to be quieter in these discussions because they are not trying to make the lead companies go away like the detractors are - and they do not want to "advertise" their success with such companies that lets their competitors know what they are doing.

AVOID! DO NOT USE!
http://www.realtown.com/LeadGeneration/blog/reclientreferrals
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/real-estate-client-referrals-c36805.html

http://activerain.com/blogsview/742856/R...anteed-Headache

http://activerain.com/blogsview/725302/A...ank-you-Recrcom

Lead companies seldom generate quality leads.

You have, no doubt, seen lead companies claiming they have target market leads for your business. They target very generally, to produce massive numbers of leads for their own profit, not yours. All seven points here are lies you are literally being sold.

These are only a few reasons to generate your own leads.

Lead Generation Company Lie #1. "We Generate Target Market Leads."

For example, some lead companies place pop up ads on massive corporate investment web sites. People looking to invest a very small amount of money see a pop up ad that says "Earn $5,000 per month from home" and opt in, out of hope and curiosity. The lead is targeted to anyone who will enter their information, and then sold to you.

Does that sound like someone looking for a business, or someone who's attention was diverted by fading momentary interest?

Lead Generation Company Lie #2. "We Generate Leads."

The truth is, there are only a handful of lead companies that generate leads, and they are generally very poor quality. The others, buy their leads from them, and re-sell them to you. They, in fact, never generated the "Lead".

Lead Generation Company Lie #3. "Our Leads Are Fresh, 24 Hours Old, Or Less!"

The lead was actually just sold to the company 24 hours ago from another lead company. It could be days, weeks, or months old. Make sure to read all of the details about how the company obtained the lead to begin with.

Lead Generation Company Lie #4. "Leads Are Not Incentivised."

Incentivised means the lead company claims that they did not offer a cash payment, or gift, to the person who become a lead. They are actually posing as a survey company that promises to pay people, for filling out surveys. First, people are asked to fill in their information, so checks can be mailed to them, for surveys taken. After filling out a survey, the lead company informs the survey taker that they will not be paid, unless they sign up for a certain number of offers on a questionnaire. A good example is this:

"Would you like to work from home?" The survey taker checks the box to be paid, and their information is sent to you as a lead. They often have no idea of what just happened, or why you contacted them.

Was the "Lead" incentivised? What do you think?

Lead Generation Company Lie #5. "Company Specific Leads"

Let's say in this example your home business sells vacations. The lead company tells you that their $10 lead is targeted to people that will be interested in vacations. What that really means is, an advertisement was put in a place of interest to people looking for a vacation package, that also sells advertising space to a lead company. The ad placed on the site claims the person can get paid to take vacations, instead of purchasing one, and the shopper opts in.

Is that really a company specific lead?

Lead Generation Company Lie #6. "There Are Millions Of People Looking For A Home Business Every Day."

The truth is, there ARE people looking home businesses every day, but, there are thousands, not millions. Most leads are just the same people falling for these gimmicks, over and over. That's the reason why most home business owners fail. They go broke sorting through costly, poor quality, "Leads".

Is that what you want? Of course not.

Lead Generation Company Lie #7. "We Will Give You 10 Free Leads To Test Our Quality"

A lead company tells you that they will give you 10 leads for trying their leads. What they don't tell you is that when you give them your information, you just became a lead.

The bottom line is, lead companies CAN generate quality leads. However, they never will, because their profit comes from selling millions of poor quality leads. If they were to generate millions of good leads, their employees would use them, quit their jobs, and join a business!

- Highly recommended -

I am developing a relationship with Real Estate Client Referrals because of the things I have learned about them by doing some actual research. Here are my points:

I have generated online leads for myself and others for many years (10+). A friend was recently contacted by RECR and asked me what I knew about them. I had to say not much but because my friend is important to me I began to do some research.

First I did what you all did - Googled "real estate client referrals". Not too bad - only 3 complaints I could find weren't duplicates. Then I spoke or emailed personally with people listed on the site as "happy" clients. All responses have been similar to the one I received from Geoff Knight:

I (used) RECR for about 3.5 years, from fall of 2006 to earlier this year (2010). I was always happy with them but was just getting too busy to properly handle the leads, which I guess is a good thing.
I do recommend them, I liked how they confirm the leads contact info before they send you the lead. - Geoff Knight, Coldwell Banker (Won't give you his email but I Googled him, and the others, and found him. He immediately replied to me.)

Back to me - I'm in my 50's and I have been owning and operating businesses for over 30 years. I have, unfortunately, failed at making every customer happy - especially in the real estate industry. In fact I'm surprised when I Google my name I don't find at least one or two really nasty blurbs from customers who were insufferable. Ever fired a customer? I have. I don't like it but there are people who simply cannot be satisfied.

What I have learned about Real Estate Client Referrals in the last 10 days is very promising and they are a company I feel very comfortable in working with even though at least one agent here in my home state of Georgia seems to have a bone (albeit an old bone) to pick with them.

Instead of taking ONLY the 3 or 4 negative comments which show up in a search why don't you take those into consideration and also contact some of the dozens of people who's names are on the site as having given good comments like I did? The more successful you are, the more business you do, the more complaints you have. Go to ConsumerAffairs.com and search on Starbucks, Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines. In fact, here:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/food/starbucks.html