Don't Buy Carrot Investor Websites

[Kevin Pritchett]

I've had a Carrot Investor website for over 2.5 years.  Back when I got it, organic search was supposed to be the 'magic bullet' in real estate motivated Seller lead generation.  I didn't purchase Carrot for that, but its clear that's what it was designed, marketed and sold to address.  While Carrot does some things well: 1. provide multi page platform for custom landing pages; 2 lead capture; 3. analytics, it is WOEFULLY inadequate as a platform to parse and tag leads and send them to outside tools for follow up calling. Let me explain.  From the Lead Manager Page in Carrot you CAN clearly delineate your active, follow up and dead leads...but here's the HUGE problem...YOU CAN'T FILTER LEADS AND EXPORT ONLY A PORTION OF YOUR LEADS from the Lead Manager or from the Content-Forms pathway (a real clunky and non intuitive approach in and of itself)...you only have choice to export ALL of them..that is you can't just export active leads..a huge problem that SHOULD have been addressed years ago but hasn't . Big design problem..WHY WOULD I WANT TO CALL DEAD LEADS??? Answer I dont. So there's the first HUGE design problem. 

There's no connectivity possibility with Carrot either..meaning there's no mechanism to communicate with your leads from Carrot...again a HUGE problem that makes this product painfully inadequate compared to other available tools.

A few months ago Carrot came up with their native CRM.  It's AWFUL. Not intuitive, user interface (the way you interact and move around in the software) may be the worst I've ever seen in software...seriously bad.  This 'so called CRM is supposed to allow you to parse and export selected leads...in my case it did not.  I could not isolate the 83 or so active leads I wanted to export even in this CRM. I reported this to customer support and the rep had NO IDEA how to fix the problem...

In my case, my landing pages are converting at a crazy high percentage (due to my ad targeting and the way I designed my capture pages..not necessarily from anything Carrot is or does).  It would be crazy for me to move these pages now and disrupt my funnel and have to get all my new pages re optimized (although I had a tech ready to do just that and I still may...

So if you're looking for a lead capture website, there are MUCH better alternatives available, one of the best being Go High Level which allows you to tag leads, export tagged leads to other tools, call, text, send follow up emails all from the Go High Level platform...and the basic plan is $99...way cheaper than Carrot with tons more capability (its a beast and has a learning curve, but GHL has equally robust live customer support to help you through that initial 'cuss filled' learning phase.  

It's not even debatable...Carrot has outlived its day...don't waste your time or your money.

[Ken M.]

Quote from @Kevin Pritchett:

I've had a Carrot Investor website for over 2.5 years.  Back when I got it, organic search was supposed to be the 'magic bullet' in real estate motivated Seller lead generation.  I didn't purchase Carrot for that, but its clear that's what it was designed, marketed and sold to address.  While Carrot does some things well: 1. provide multi page platform for custom landing pages; 2 lead capture; 3. analytics, it is WOEFULLY inadequate as a platform to parse and tag leads and send them to outside tools for follow up calling. Let me explain.  From the Lead Manager Page in Carrot you CAN clearly delineate your active, follow up and dead leads...but here's the HUGE problem...YOU CAN'T FILTER LEADS AND EXPORT ONLY A PORTION OF YOUR LEADS from the Lead Manager or from the Content-Forms pathway (a real clunky and non intuitive approach in and of itself)...you only have choice to export ALL of them..that is you can't just export active leads..a huge problem that SHOULD have been addressed years ago but hasn't . Big design problem..WHY WOULD I WANT TO CALL DEAD LEADS??? Answer I dont. So there's the first HUGE design problem. 

There's no connectivity possibility with Carrot either..meaning there's no mechanism to communicate with your leads from Carrot...again a HUGE problem that makes this product painfully inadequate compared to other available tools.

A few months ago Carrot came up with their native CRM.  It's AWFUL. Not intuitive, user interface (the way you interact and move around in the software) may be the worst I've ever seen in software...seriously bad.  This 'so called CRM is supposed to allow you to parse and export selected leads...in my case it did not.  I could not isolate the 83 or so active leads I wanted to export even in this CRM. I reported this to customer support and the rep had NO IDEA how to fix the problem...

In my case, my landing pages are converting at a crazy high percentage (due to my ad targeting and the way I designed my capture pages..not necessarily from anything Carrot is or does).  It would be crazy for me to move these pages now and disrupt my funnel and have to get all my new pages re optimized (although I had a tech ready to do just that and I still may...

So if you're looking for a lead capture website, there are MUCH better alternatives available, one of the best being Go High Level which allows you to tag leads, export tagged leads to other tools, call, text, send follow up emails all from the Go High Level platform...and the basic plan is $99...way cheaper than Carrot with tons more capability (its a beast and has a learning curve, but GHL has equally robust live customer support to help you through that initial 'cuss filled' learning phase.  

It's not even debatable...Carrot has outlived its day...don't waste your time or your money.

I don't use Carrot so I don't have a rabbit in this race.

 What you may not be aware of, is that the multiples of the numbers of sites hosted by Carrot is far better than having your own single site like I have. Quantity like Carrot attracts hits. Visits to my site consist of occasional contact out of the People's Republic of China, no doubt after my mind blowing scientific or economic advances. 

It's work to get people to your site, no matter how you run it.

Mine is for the occasional accredited investor that wants the inside scoop on how to buy properties using creative financing. Nothing more. I have to give them the URL. The site is out there for the world to see, but the world doesn't want what I'm selling. ;--) (Investors do, but that's another story)

I would assume that having a Carrot Site is a starting point. The rest is work, just like any 0ther investing.