most Z leads are an empty bag.....  it's easier to make your own phone ring...

Laura,

I looked at your profile, and it looks to me (please correct if I am off base) like you are new agent.  I would advise you to develop yourself in the Eden Prairie area and get to know the marketplace before paying Zillow and Realtor.com.  You can do so much more for yourself using the same $$$.  A

In Texas you would need to be licensed to make those calls.

Sorry Laura Michel I've never paid for leads so I've never needed a service as you describe. If you would get out more into the Eden Prairie community more you wouldn't need it either. Get involved with the Chamber of Commerce, the Lion's, Exchange Club and other groups like that.

Use a VA . . .
if you have that many. . .

If you are going to pay the big bucks for Z then you really need to have a full time admin ready to catch those calls and get them into your calendar immediately.

Anything less and you will just be paying while another in your area is getting all the clients.

Agentology

We have a Team Member whose job it is to immediately respond to incoming leads from all sources (the lead sources are set up to route to that person) and establish a connection. The lead is then assigned to a appropriate Team member. 

No, I do not -

It may be more profitable to work on your local face to face networking.

You mean robocalls specifically for Zillow & Realtor.com? Not really. I have a friend that uses a co0mpany in CA for his election robocalls. People prefer the personal touch with Real Estate

I don't - sorry.

No, don't know. And all leads from them are empty bag, as Barbara Todaro mentioned. It does not work for me...

Wow, wouldn't have to talk to clients now would you? 

No clue... haven't seen a viable ZTR lead in years. Wouldn't spend the money on a call service for those leads.

What is your goal?

No, I don't know. 

Actually Laura,,,,,,,EVERYONE does.

Zillow actually provides this service for those who wish to dance on the side of darkness.

My recommendation is to review your business needs and include 'calls' as part of what you would like your Virtual Assistant to do. Term it as 'appointment making' and NOT cold calling. Make certain to provide the caller an outline of the conversation with inclusion of your unique value proposition.

And, as you have correctly observed, 'internet leads' need to be called in 4.71 nanoseconds.

Actually, there are several VA right here on AR who can make appointment calls for you.

It is better for you to call, text and email them right away yourself.  Depending on how much area you are covering, it is not like there will be 100 leads per day.  I think that you can handle calling them.  Best of luck to you if you choose to go this route.

Laura Michel  I paid for lead in the past, didn't work well with me.

I wouldn't spend the money on this. There are other better ways to generate leads and spend less money.

Don't waste your money. This is a personal service business.

has to be someone out there but not ane xample of personal service in comeptition with other agents.

Nearly all the Z leads call me from a link on their sites. Nearly all are not able to buy a home, but every 1 out of 20 or so may be someone wanting to sell a home. The auction is if you use a service that calls these leads, it takes teh personal interaction away and you have lost them forever if they were a real buyer or seller. 

I don't buy leads but if I did, no one but me would be making those calls. It doesn't make sense to pay twice...first for the lead then a second time to pay someone to call them for you.

You would stand a much better chance of success with leads if you do the work and call them. But the best way to build your business is focus on your marketing in your local area by networking and community involvement.

Last year I got a few freebie(eye opener) from Redfin, Realtor (both through text msg). People need someone to show SFH and mobile homes. Most is casual buyers. Not quite ready and too busy at work to breakaway from showing.  

I called  Realtor.com they told me they sent these leads to two or three agents simutaneously. You pay ~$450 per zip promise X leads(not guaranteed) per month. Minimum sign up is ~1 year, that is $5.4K per zip code a year. The marketing guy was honest to admit the conversion rate is 5%.  So you get 4 leads or 48 leads competing with two other agent a year. 5% can be 2+ transactions received same time as other agents with other agents you put $5.5K up front. You do the rest of math. Z is a lot worse. It is getting to stock investors that their lead generation system is unreliable. It is impacting Z's stock price to a major blow... I work out of 20 zip codes so I need to put down quarter a mil a year for these crummy leads with Realtor, and Z.....

Believe ODesk/OutDesk offers this service.

Good luck!

Cheers!

Like others, I would work on generating leads yourself, they will likely be much more profitable.

Ignore z,  market yourself

No.

ZIllow's conceierge service allegedly calls them for you.  There are plenty of ways to automate emails and texts to leads though.  Not sure of any call centers as most that do this at a high level (spending 10s of thousands per month, per zipcode) have full time staff that call the leads.

I do not. I prefer to make a connection with people and serve them directly. It works ... for me. 

Just check on line. There are many affordable ones in the Phillipines