Members area also includes a primer on buying “pay-per-visitor” advertising online. Do I Have To Become A Member Of A Real Estate Affiliation With My Designated Area?
No, it’s not required for you to become a member of an affiliation. You can have this System in addition to your affiliation and vice versa. The affiliations are typically set up on an exclusive basis with a single member per geographic area. They generate the leads for the entire group of affiliates and pass them individually to the member who “owns” a particular area. Therefore, you may not be able to join one, if there’s already another affiliate in your area. With affiliations, you don’t have your own exclusive web site with your own name on it. Visitors come to the main affiliation web site. From there they’re are eventually routed to a specific affiliate. Imagine a Buyer comes to a site like that. Then (s)he has to drill down through maps and menus to find their home state, their county, their city to even get to a point of contact with the real company that is supposed to help them. We recently took the trouble of going to one of these affiliation web sites and playing a role of
