Let me repeat that: If you want to close more deals, force your users to register to view property listings on your website.\u00a0 I can back this up with hard data.\u00a0 I can back this up with recent data.\u00a0 If you allow open registration on your IDX\/RETS site, you do not receive better leads than the broker\/agent with forced registration.<\/p>\n
Anyone who tells you otherwise has no idea what they are talking about.<\/strong> They either have no data, have never analyzed their data, have never tested, or have never sold or been involved in helping agents sell real estate. Let me repeat that: They have no idea what they are talking about.<\/strong><\/p>\n I have confirmed these findings with:<\/p>\n Each person listed above gets a minimum of 300 visitors per day from qualified sources – SEO, PPC, or social media ads.\u00a0 Two people listed above have significantly <\/strong>more data that proves this.<\/p>\n If you don’t get at least 100 visitors per day of potential customers to your site, then you have no real data to confirm or deny these findings.<\/p>\n Every person I know who has tested forced vs. open registration who has significant traffic has opted for forced registration, and has seen an explosion in the number of leads, no degradation in lead quality, and as a result, has closed more deals.<\/p>\n Someone please prove<\/strong> me wrong.\u00a0 With hard data.<\/p>\n If you want to close more deals, force registration.\u00a0 The only thing open registration will do for you is get you a table with the cool kids at the conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let me repeat that: If you want to close more deals, force your users to register to view property listings on your website.\u00a0 I can back this up with hard data.\u00a0 I can back this up with recent data.\u00a0 If you allow open registration on your IDX\/RETS site, you do not receive better leads than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15150,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15150\/videos-are-in-my-arsenal-lead-conversation-its-battle-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":9601,"position":0},"title":"Video’s are in my arsenal – Lead conversation – It’s battle time","author":"Robert Worthington","date":"September 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"If you were me, you wouldn't love my annual paychecks. 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