Can anyone tell me about this company. I just spoke with one of their reps and it seems too good to be true. I'd appreciate any USEFUL input. Thanks.

You MUST be joking. Condition #3 of their "$25,000 guarantee", which I found in about 30 seconds:

Big whoop-de-doo! Yet another vapid, worthless, guarantee from an internet lead aggregator. Please people, stop the madness. Get your asses out into your farms and become professionals already! You can't write a check to be a Realtor. You must actually WORK!!!!

*sigh*

If it seems too good to be true then IT IS!!!!

Navarac, I'm new to this forum but the first thing I learned was that you are an asshole.
I asked for input not putdown. Now go back in your troll hole.

Tanya, please try to be more original with your responses. I'm too old to be interested in platitudes.

Now, does anyone have a constructive answer to my question?

No Long term commitment with the "minimum of gold package?"

They are very vague, what is not "long term" for $599.95/month??

Perry, I too got scammed by HV for $600/month, so I will never SIGN a contract, I would however consider a month-month that I can cancel with no penalty.

It just seems like you could get Search Engine Placement for a lot cheaper than that!

I have heard the Yellow Pages drive a lot trafic, anyone??

I agree, they are very vague.
BTW I subscribed to HV and was very successful with their leads but they cancelled me because I was to vocal on their forum and sent a couple of nasty emails to their 'mentors'. I think HV is very good for experienced realtors only. I am still working my leads that I paid for and am having good success. I would resubscribe if they allowed me. Again, you have to be experienced to work the leads. Persistence and patience is the key.
I've just started to work on the search engine thingy and hope to have some success with it. Thanks.

My advice on these lead generation services is this - Don't feed your competition.

This is the way i see it, i can pay Homegain (if you must use someone, these are the guys to use) 30% of a commission into the office which would be a minimum of $600 in my market, most other markets will be 4 digits - or i can use that money for pay-per-clicks and get that traffic myself to my site and not have to compete with other agents.

How do you think these companies get people to go to their site so that they can refer out the business? They use pay-per-clicks to get people in. So, if you are doing PPC, why give money to another company just to bid up your click price?

Do yourself a favor, sign up to overture (owned by yahoo) or google and just set a budget your comfortable with and get the business that way.

Make sure you have a decent website. I recommend Point2Agent which is free (additional features cost, but start off free and see how you like it. I pay $40 a month right now and love it - lead captures, useful info etc).

Somehow I knew that.

Perry, Nav responded/attacked the "concept". You attacked him personally with your comment that he is an "ass...."

Who is the troll?
Who violated the rules of the forum?

Perry,

I was merely reiterating what you already *seem* to know about the company. You said "it seems too good to be true". I am sorry that you didn't like my response.

I didn't see any reason to give a long sermon as to why these companies are worthless. My answer "If it seems too good to be true it is" may be old & trite (to you) but is still very appropriate when used to describe real estate gimmicks.

These companies live by the age-old adage: "There's a sucker born every minute"

Perry- I have been in the sales game for many, many years. I am relatively new to real estate. I have been hammered by these companies that are "too good to be true". I have never seeon one of them that came remotely close to delivering quality leads. since I got in real estate, I have been getting emails up the wazoo from these folks. I have not considered or even read the email...right in the kill file they go.
It is MY job to go out and get my leads. I will use my dollars for marketing myself and my business.
I have learned the hard way over the years that these are just a waste of money and time...Good luck...SG

Thanks for the reminder. I'm not here to get into a pissing contest but when I post a question on this forum I would prefer to receive an answer SPECIFIC to my question. I'm new to this forum (posting) but I have lurked here for some time and have learned who's advice I find helpful and who's I usually find worthless, frivolous or unproductive. Your friend 'Nav' is in the latter group.
Also, I have been a realtor for over 16 yrs. and have been successful because I have changed with the times. Lead generation companies are new to Canada and the only one I have tried was very successful but as I have said in other posts I was terminated by that company because of my forum behaviour. The moderators did not like my outspoken nature. That company was HouseValues.
I have also read a lot of anti HV stuff on this and many other forums but for me it was a success.
My real estate prospecting is not limited to lead generation systems. I farm, have websites and all of the other productive real estate endeavours but my ROI from HV leads was very high. I am not here to boost Housevalues by the way. The company has its problems and plenty of detractors but there are some of us who knew how to work the system properly.
So, when I asked a simple question about RealEstatePromoter.com I guess I was naieve and thought I might receive genuinely helpful responses.
My opinion of your friend stands but to Tanya I apologize.
Now, back to my original question: Has anyone had ACTUAL experience with RealEstatePromoter.com. Pro or Con. Thanks.

SG, thanks for your response. I am aware, like you, that there are a lot of companies who just love to take money from realtors looking to make an easy dollar. I agree with you that the best way to succeed in our business is thru hard work and persistence. I also agree that the leads that these companies provide are pretty lame BUT my experience has been that I could work a lot of them into being successful leads. I believe lead companies are not for inexperienced realtors. They have not gained the experience and talents to work these 'crappy' leads and give up on them too early and easily.

I used RePromoter for about 9 months, leads were good in the first few months then terrible - THey must oversell the territory Stay away gets very expensive. I would not recommend them.