Thats an important question to ask nowadays, we were scammed by a marketing/SEO company who is now overseas and has a PO box in US only so basically untouchable.

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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.

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.  

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.

Hello, Since google search traffic is down since the launch of ChatGPT and other AI chat bots. Curious if to has anyone has heard of anyone in real estate optimizing their websites to funnel traffic from these chat bo...

We have website, SEO, Billboard, google Ads, Bus seats, covered.If you're not in Self Storage, what RE industry trends are you seeing in your consolidator or Advertising methods?