Lead gates are essential to capturing new customers and prospects online. The information your lead capture form asks for directly impacts your lead conversion rate. Lead capture forms place value behind your website's content and marketing campaigns. Without a lead capture form, buyers and sellers can otherwise access your content for free. Digital marketers agree across all industries that the length of a lead form directly impact conversion rates.

The more information agents ask from real estate leads, the less likely leads will be to provide that information. Likewise, the more value leads place behind the gated content, the more likely they’ll be to leave their information. So, what if that required information is optional? Will real estate leads share personal information if they don't have too? Most importantly, will they share their phone number if it's not required?

Farming neighborhoods is what real estate agents have been doing for what feels like centuries. Before the internet and fax machines, farming is how most agents spent their marketing dollars. For such a foundational aspect of real estate marketing, there are some details that can be improved upon.

Many listing agents falsely believe sellers don't think about placing their home on the market until they've sold their current home. The truth is, many homeowners think about selling long before they've found their dream home. In fact, the average seller spends 21 months researching online before they find an agent. You can capture seller leads during their this initial online search phase through providing the content their looking for. Don’t have any content to share? We’ve got you covered, the Zurple Marketing Team created this 2018 Moving Checklist to help you capture seller leads in their farm.

Guest blogger Ashley is a super-connector who helps businesses find their audience online through outreach, partnerships, and networking. She frequently writes about the latest advancements in digital marketing and focuses her efforts on developing customized blogger outreach plans depending on the industry and competition.

You know what would be super valuable? Being able to receive messages from your past self, telling you information that would be useful in closing transactions and generating real estate leads? Did you know that Zurple already has that technology?