Things like SEO, PPC, and PPL.

Pairing that with solid SEO (search engine optimization) can help your site and listings get in front of more people who are actually searching for what you're offering.If you're ever interested in discussing web and SEO strategies to help build your presence as you scale, I'd be happy to chat.

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Let me add some new wisdom to this.Try not to see social media as "just another channel to try my luck".It is not a separate thing, especially doing SEO or paying for ads.When it comes to lead generation, it is not (just) about generating that lead.

The heyday of the Forums it was the singular most important thing of the site, and organic SEO was a more important thing with Google at the time.

Quote from @Oleg Donets: @Cesar Sagastume in my community there are tons of wholesalers and flippers use solely inbound lead gen channels like PPC, PPL, SEO and Facebook.

Start with a website, get an SEO to do. 

SEO and PPC were options, but skip tracing in bulk didn’t yet exist.

Recently, we implemented an aggressive SEO strategy to pair with our PPC and we've seen almost a 60% decrease in overall cost per lead, which has been a gamechanger.  

Things like your ADR, photo quality, current ratings, the number of reviews compared to your rating, and, of course, listing optimization (SEO).