JACKSONVILLE, Fla., January 31, 2017 – Acquiring and cultivating online leads has become fundamental to the business strategies of more than 70 percent of real estate professionals, according to a new survey by Inman News. At the same time, an equal percentage of agents are questioning the return on investment and overall value of their efforts. Whether it’s the 53 percent of respondents who rated the ROI of paid leads from the nation’s four largest third-party listings portals as “Poor”, or those who cited sub-three percent conversion rates for their own website traffic, one thing is clear: Agents expect more value.

Mark Bloomfield, Founder and CEO of real estate technology company HomeASAP, believes agents are justified in expecting more value and is unveiling new ways to deliver it. The company just announced the launch of Lead Tracker™, an end-to-end traffic and lead generation solution that until now, has not been available to agents who use real estate websites to generate online leads.

Lead Tracker™ helps agents generate higher-quality website traffic and convert a greater percentage of their visitor traffic into leads, even after the visitor has left the agent’s website.  To accomplish this, the company has pioneered new technologies that are designed to engage visitors and convert them into leads at the highest rate possible. If a visitor who did not convert into a lead leaves the agent’s website, Lead Tracker™ then goes to work to re-engage the visitor and convert them into a lead for up to two years, at no additional cost.

Lead Tracker™ is initially being offered exclusively for members of the groundbreaking Search Alliance™ lead-generation co-op network for agents and brokers, powered by HomeASAP, as a value-added member benefit.

“Lead Tracker™ reflects our unrelenting focus on quality and value, and equipping Search Alliance™ network members with everything they need to compete effectively with the major national portals through every phase of the consumer journey”, said Mark Bloomfield, Founder / CEO of HomeASAP. “Our mission is to make Search Alliance™, through our member’s connected sites, the clear and dominant choice for consumer home search, and the overall best return on investment for agents when compared to any other competitive solution, whether it be advertising on a national portal or buying and marketing a real estate website.  We’re creating a brand new space in the marketplace.”

Search Alliance™ works by linking agent IDX websites into the Search Alliance™ network to form their own national home search platform. HomeASAP provides all participants, at no charge, with an IDX home search and marketing website that delivers a consumer user-experience and access to national property data, on par with portals like Zillow.

Consumers enter the Search Alliance™ network through any member IDX site and stay in the network while searching for homes anywhere in the country. In addition to their own marketing efforts to drive consumers to their websites and capture leads at no cost, agents can leverage the power of Search Alliance’s cooperative marketing to acquire network-generated traffic using an auction-style market order system that allows members to purchase traffic at the best available price.

To use the system, members draw a boundary on a map to identify their market or “service area” from where they wish to receive traffic and leads.  To pay for traffic, members establish a marketing budget and set their maximum bid price.  All orders are then filled as quickly as possible at the best available price, based on the available traffic volume. Members can set their own monthly or periodic marketing budgets and pay as traffic and lead orders are filled from the network.

To learn more, view the Lead Tracker™ video .