With a lot of lead generation websites (BoldTrails included), you can adjust your website settings so that a phone number is required when someone registers.
To mandate leads to leave a phone number when they register on your BoldTrails website please follow these easy steps.
- In your BoldTrails system go to the "Website Manager" tab.
- On the upper right side of the screen will be an area called "Website Settings". Click the “Manage My Website’s Settings” link
- Scroll down to approximately the 13th setting, "Mandate Phone Number". Click the gray toggle button (if the button is blue, it’s already on).
- Once you click the button it will turn from gray to blue, which means the setting is now on.
Here are the simple 4 steps in a video tutorial:
Ultimately, when someone clicks on your ad, they are looking to be able to view homes. Immediately requiring an email and phone number will push some people away.
For example, would you ever go to a car dealership that required your social security number to even browse what cars they had? Probably not. The ones that do provide that information are probably more serious but how many people do you push away in the short term by doing this?
Lastly, when requiring a phone number, you leave yourself open to people providing fake information just to get past the registration.
