We have quite a few updates for May!

FREE $100 Credit for Google Adwords

Never used Google Adwords to push targeted search traffic to your mortgage website before? If you are interested in setting up a new Adwords account, we can give you a free $100 credit voucher! Only good for new Adwords accounts. Existing clients can open a support ticket at leadpress.com/support/ for more information and non LeadPress clients can request more information here:

Prepay and Save 15% to 25% Now!

Did you know that you can save 15% to 25% on LeadPress by prepaying for 6 or 12 months? Existing clients can open a support ticket at leadpress.com/support to request this discount and if you’re considering using LeadPress, you can view LeadPress pricing options here:

Updates: No Contracts, Unlimited Bandwidth, Double Email Storage & More!

No Contracts: No More 6 Month Contracts! Enough said.

Bandwidth: The previous limit of 30 gigabytes is no more. All accounts now have unlimited bandwidth!

Email Storage: Additionally, we’ve doubled Email Storage Space: All email accounts are now allotted 2 gigabytes of space, this was previously 1 gigabyte. We’ve never had anybody run out of email storage space, ever; but figured an upgrade couldn’t hurt.

New Custom Buttons: We’ve updated most of the buttons on your site so that we can now use custom colors and wording. If you’ve made a request for this feature in the past, open up a ticket and we can help get you started on using custom buttons.

Are You a Myers Mortgage Website Client? 

No More Logging Into cPanel

Existing Clients: cPanel is where you control your email accounts. Now you can access your cPanel setttings directly in the LeadPress support portal as opposed to logging directly into cPanel at yourdomain.com/cpanel. To access cPanel settings from your support account, login at www.eadpress.com/support > click on “Services” > click on “My Services” > click on “View Details” button on right hand side > at the bottom of the page you can now administer your email accounts instead of logging in to do so at cPanel.

Did We Mention There are NO MORE CONTRACTS?

Leads360, a top lead management platform in the United States and a LeadPress partner, announced their 2nd annual top lead provider award winners recently at LeadsCon.

Since Leads360 has access to vast amounts of outcome data from thousands of lead sources and lead buyer across many verticals (they managed 22 million leads in 2011), there are many important insights they can share after analyzing this data. Many of these insights can be found in their annual lead industry report, which uses their extensive lead data to highlight past and future lead trends, providing insight into lead quality and conversion rates.

LeadPress Wins for Mortgage Conversion Rate and Qualification Rate

We’re humbled to have placed in two of three categories:

• 2nd Place for Qualification Rate: Percentage of leads that were contactable and that qualified for the Leads360 lead buyers’ products and/or services.

• 3rd Place for Conversion Rate: percentage of leads that generated revenue for Leads360 customers.

From the 2012 Leads360 Lead Industry Report:

Leads360 has over 1,100 lead source integrations in place as of today, of which almost 1,000 are with lead providers that are actively posting leads to Leads360 clients. We are confident that this largely covers the entire universe of lead providers in most major verticals. We also receive over 25 million leads per year. Therefore, it is a significant achievement to be one of the award recipients listed below. We would like to offer congratulations to all of the awardees.

If you’re a Myers Internet mortgage website customer, you may have already gotten the news that as of September 1, 2012, Myers will be shutting down their real estate and mortgage website services.

Myers Customer Migration Program

Changing websites doesn’t have to be painful or expensive, we can upgrade you to a LeadPress website quickly and painlessly with NO downtime!

Save up to 25% when you prepay at checkout.

Questions about LeadPress or our 25% discount? Call 888-622-4022

Benefits of Migrating to LeadPress Now:

Have Questions? (888) 622-4022

Myers mortgage website clients are being forced to find a new provider or possibly suffer website and email downtime. We can help make the process as fast and painless as possible.

With the recent announcement of the BlogFeed Mortgage Rate Chart Series, we’ve also put together a series of FREE downloadable mortgage charts and mortgage rate graphs that you can use on your own real estate, financial or mortgage website if you are not a LeadPress customer. You don’t get all the awesome mortgage content that our BlogFeed clients get, but you do get a sample!

These mortgage rate charts provide a historical look at the most popular mortgage programs in the context of a long term, mid term and short term chart for each mortgage program covered, which are the 30 Year Fixed, 15 Year Fixed, 5 Year ARM and 1 Year ARM programs.

Also, if you like the charts and decide to use them, it would be super nice of you if you could link back to LeadPress on the page your chart is on. :)

How To Download Charts

OR

Download Charts One at a Time:

1. Click on the mortgage chart you wish to download
2. Right click the images below and save to desktop
3. Upload to website with link back to LeadPress
4. Help increase your visitor to lead conversion with authoritative charts that help you build trust with visitors to your site!

30 Year Fixed, 15 Year Fixed, 5 Year ARM and 1 Year ARM Mortgage Rates

Mortgage Program Comparison: 1972 to Present

Mortgage Program Comparison: 2000 to Present

Mortgage Program Comparison: 2011 to 2012

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We’re excited about a new series of charts that we’re building for our LeadPress BlogFeed clients. LeadPress BlogFeed is a mortgage blog content writing service where we write 3 to 5 blog posts per week on your blog with you as the author. The service is available for LeadPress clients on Plus and higher plans as well as stand alone self hosted WordPress blogs.

About LeadPress BlogFeed:

• 3 to 5 professionally written articles per week posted to your website blog with you as the author
• Helps increase lead conversion by establishing you as an authority and building trust
• Seamless integration with your LeadPress or standalone WordPress site
• Posts published automatically, nothing for you to do
• Posts can be published as drafts if you want to customize articles and add your custom optimized keywords

New BlogFeed Mortgage Rate Charts and Technical Analysis

Many times it is hard for words to express what a chart so eloquently can. In addition to the existing market updates & analysis, finance tips and mortgage rate updates, BlogFeed subscribers will now see a new series of charts documenting mortgage rates as they are today and in a historical context.

Built In Link Bait: Increase Links, Rank Higher in Search Engines!

In addition to providing great content that can help increase visitor to lead conversions, we encourage sharing of these charts to increase organic links to our clients’ sites. How does this work? It isn’t uncommon for mortgage professionals, Realtors and others in the financial sector to end up on LeadPress clients’ sites and want to use the BlogFeed content on their own websites. With the new BlogFeed mortgage rate charts, we actively encourage these professionals to download the charts and upload them to their own sites in exchange for a link back to the originating LeadPress client site. This means that with ZERO effort, LeadPress clients can be building powerful organic backlinks to their site. Backlinks are important for ranking in search engines like Google because they are seen as a vote of confidence by the site that is linking to the LeadPress client site!

Have Questions about LeadPress BlogFeed?

Here Are Some Sample Charts from the BlogFeed Chart Series

In addition to 30 Year Fixed mortgage rate charts, the series includes 15 Year Fixed mortgage rate charts as well as 1 Year and 5 Year ARM charts.

2012 is shaping up to be a huge year for LeadPress, but to grow, we need more team members. We’re looking for bright and motivated people to help build and shape the next generation of LeadPress!

LeadPress is Hiring the Following:

Do you have some or all of the skills below? If so, we would love to hear from you.

Web Developers

• Experience building and developing WordPress themes and plugins
• Experience with AJAX and JavaScript frameworks like JQuery
• Experience with API integration
• Experience with database design, optimizations and SQL
• Experience with XML
• Knowledge of HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, and CSS

Sales / Marketing

• Ability to contact, follow up on and close leads
• Ability to generate your own leads can lead to greater revenue share

SEO / SEM Pros

• Experience in running SEO campaigns
• Experience in link building
• Experience with lead conversion, landing page optimization
• Experience in setting up and managing PPC campaigns

Graphic Designers / Logo Specialists

• Experience in creating custom graphics and logos

Content Writers

• Experience in writing awesome flagship content and blogging
• Experience writing mortgage and finance related articles
• Experience writing market summary articles

Qualities We’re Looking For

• Communicative, patient and clear under tight deadlines
• Can work with team members and contractors to complete projects
• Has a desire to innovate and love to take on challenges with an open mind
• If you see that part of the process or work that isn’t working right or up to your standards, willingness to speak up

How To Apply

Please use the button below to say hi. Please be sure to include your past work experience and a link to where we can see some of your work.

Working in the real estate and mortgage space for the past ten years, I’ve seen first hand how bad legislation and politics can negatively affect consumers and business owners alike. When a horrendous piece of legislation comes along, the general public is usually uninformed about the legislation before, during and sometimes even after it is passes until they experience negative consequences firsthand.

Case in Point: I was one of the first people to raise awareness about HVCC (Home Value Code of Conduct in 2008 and while most of the public was unaware of its existence, they soon became aware when they couldn’t get a fair appraisal of their home, which impeded refinancing or selling their home. Consumers, mortgage professionals, real estate agents and displaced appraisers learned first hand how overreaching legislation with good intent can have bad consequences.

SOPA (Stop Online Privacy Act)

SOPA is by far the most dangerous piece of legislation I’ve ever seen introduced. It not only stands to put many businesses out to pasture, but could also limit online freedom, put a “firewall” in place to censor online activity and give far reaching powers to corporate giants. It will also break some components that are essential to how the internet works, while still not preventing piracy since there are ways piracy can and will easily exist despite this legislation.

Who Will SOPA Negatively Affect?

You. Me. Google. Facebook. Youtube ….. Many startups would be crushed by SOPA and existing business like Etsy, Flickr and Vimeo may very likely have to close their doors.

Why Your Voice Counts

The corporate lobbyists for the music and television interests that favor SOPA outspend technology companies 10 to 1 in Washington. Without your voice, SOPA may very well pass.

The freedoms we have in the US are what set us apart from other nations and enable us the ability to pursue the personal and business endeavors we cherish so much. I’m passionate about protecting our these freedoms, which is why I stand against SOPA.

What is SOPA?

About: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

Six Things You Can Do to Stop SOPA

Which Legislators Favor SOPA?

We’re Giving Away Two FREE Tickets!

We’re proud to announce that LeadPress is an official sponsor of Mortgage Tech Summit, in Denver, CO on 6/9/2011. To get your chance to win TWO free tickets to Mortgage Tech Summit, all you have to do is LIKE LeadPress on Facebook. We will present a random winner with tickets after the Holiday weekend.

What is Mortgage Tech Summit All About?

• Strategic Thinking: We’re gathering the brightest minds in mortgage and real estate to stimulate your senses. You’ll learn innovative workflow strategies for your business and hear clever ideas that beg to be implemented.
• Focused Education: This one-day event will teach the skills you need to leverage the business technology in your mortgage business. Expert trainers will focus on helping you understand the challenges and opportunities for 2011 and beyond.
• Carefully Curated Vendors: Sponsors of Mortgage Tech Summit are carefully selected for their products and reputation. No weak links here. We know that there’s nothing more disappointing than to attend an event, only to exposed to “the ordinary”.
• Get Ahead: Learn to automate your loan production while keeping your “personal touch”. You’ll learn to attract referral relationships and build systems for sustainable growth. Hear how top-performing producers are managing their pipeline and growing it.
• Register Early & Save: Similar mortgage events cost $195 or more. Not us. The first Mortgage Tech Summit registrant will pay $1 to attend. That’s right. $1. And then the second registrant will pay $2. And the third will pay $3. And so on until the tickets are sold out. The sooner you register, the less you’ll pay.
• Top Notch Speakers: There is no shortage of chances to hear the same recycled mortgage speakers speak at the same recycled mortgage events. MTS is different. Passionate and proven professionals will gather in one place to talk about mortgage origination. There is no mortgage event like MTS.

Don’t have the time or energy to write blog posts covering the latest mortgage and related news on your LeadPress or WordPress powered website or blog? Let us do it for you!

We’re Excited to Announce the Launch of LeadPress BlogFeed!

LeadPress Auto Blog is a service that  posts articles containing relevant market news and updates to your existing LeadPress or WordPress powered website with you as the author 3 to 5 times a week. This quality content helps establish you and your company as an authority and helps you build trust with visitors. Building trust is one of the cornerstones of conversion and plays a vial role in conversion of website visitors into leads.

LeadPress BlogFeed comes integrated in all LeadPress Plus plans and higher or can be installed on your self-hosted WordPress website or install.

Existing Clients: Submit a support ticket to get started with Auto Blog now and we will waive the $198 upgrade fee until 5/31!

Sign Up Now (requires Plus plan or higher)

I hope everyone is crushing it and adjusting to the new landscape we live in post Dodd Frank Act enactment. We’ve been hard at work in the first part of 2011 and we’re excited to finally get to share some our new features, improvements, and updates.

We’re really excited to announce a new pricing structure, new features and new services! As part of our new pricing structure and product line, many users now have more email account and storage at lower pricing.

New Pricing Plans

Basic Plan: 5 default email accounts / 7 GB Storage / Unlimited Pages / Auto Blog Feature – No – $59 per month and $99 setup fee.

Plus Plan: 15 default email accounts / 12 GB Storage / Unlimited Pages / Auto Blog Feature Yes – $97 per month and $297 setup fee.

Pro Plan: 45 default email accounts / 47 GB Storage / Unlimited Pages / Auto Blog Feature – Yes – $197 per month and $497 setup fee.

Custom Plan: Need a custom lead generation solution built? Call us! 888-622-4022

Existing LeadPress Client Pricing Plan Transition Schedule

Members on the older 1 and 3 Email plans will be transitioned to the Basic Plan, which means your pricing will stay the same while your email accounts will increase to 5 email accounts.

Members on the 6 Email plans and pricing will stay the same but can upgrade their account at anytime.

Members on the 9 Email Plans will have pricing stay the same with an increase to 15 email accounts.

Members on the 12 Email Plan will see pricing stay go down a couple of bucks with an increase to 15 email accounts.

Members on the 15 Email plan will be upgraded to the Plus Plan, which means a reduction in price and the addition of the Auto Blog feature.

See Our New Plans and Pricing!

New! LeadPress Auto Blog

Don’t have the time or energy to write blog posts on your LeadPress site’s blog? Let us do it for you! Auto Blog posts relevant market news, updates and helpful information to your website with you as the author 3 to 5 times a week.

The Auto Blog feature is available on all Plus plans and higher.

Existing Clients: Submit a support ticket to get started with Auto Blog now and we will waive the $198 upgrade fee until 5/31!

New Clients: Sign up now! (requires Plus plan or higher)

Announcing the Launch of LeadPress Lead Generation Services: Pay-Per Click (PPC) – Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & More

LeadPress websites give you the most search engine friendly and technologically advanced mortgage website available today. Once you have a LeadPress website, the amount of traffic you drive to your site plays a large role on the success you have generating your own exclusive leads.

LeadPress can help analyze you analyze your existing marketing campaigns and customize a strategy that fits your needs to help you generate your own exclusive leads regardless of the vertical you are in (mortgage, real estate, insurance, legal, etc.). We help you generate exclusive mortgage leads, track goals and optimize conversion through combination Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Pay Per Click (PPC), Social Media Marketing (SMM) and other relevant campaigns and strategies.

Defined goals and conversion tracking mean you can put a dollar amount on your conversions and ROI. Start generating more exclusive leads now.

Contact Us About Our Lead Generation Services

New Enterprise Add On

Need the ability to upload custom plugins at will? What about get full access to theme source code for extreme customization? How about the ability to download full database dumps? The Enterprise Add On gives you this and more with a dedicated LeadPress install that gives you extreme control over your LeadPress site. Pricing is $25 per month in addition to the monthly plan you are on with a $975 setup fee.

Lifetime Licenses are Back!

We’ve had a lot of requests to bring back Lifetime Licenses and we hear you loud and clear. Lifetime licenses are not only an industry first, but for a one time fee give you the ability to host your LeadPress site on your own server and get full access to the website source code. This means you have extreme control and customization and you even get the custom WordPress plugins that make LeadPress tick.

Regularly $3500, they are on sale now for $2500.

Purchase a Lifetime License

LeadPress Updates

WordPress SEO Plugin Upgrade

We’re now offering the ability to upgrade from All in One SEO to the much more powerful WordPress SEO plugin, if you are interested in upgrading, please open a support ticket to start the upgrade process.

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New Asynchronous Google Analytics Upgrade

All users with Google Analytics accounts installed are now using the newest version of Analytics placement. Faster page load times and Webmaster tools validation are a couple of advantages this new functionality brings.

Support Tutorials

Posting our new suite of in depth support tutorials and videos has definitely taken longer than we expected. We’re still working hard and expect these to be completed in the coming weeks, but feel free to get started with our new tutorials now!

View LeadPress Support Tutorials

LeadPress Testimonials

Share your LeadPress experience / testimonial for your chance to be featured on LeadPress.com. In addition to being highlighted on LeadPress.com, this opportunity will also help you build backlinks to your site directly from LeadPress. In addition to helping brand recognition, links to your site can be great for improving your search engine rankings!

If you get a few minutes and care to write a testimonial about your thoughts on LeadPress, it would be greatly appreciated. Even better, if you have a video camera, a 30 to 60 second video would make an even deeper impact and enable you to share your LeadPress experience while bringing attention to your company in an even more profound way.

If this sounds like something that might interest you, please submit your testimonial / thoughts to trace@leadpress.com or via our Contact Form.