http://mortgageleadsdirectory.com Find the Best Mortgage Lead Providers Mon, 05 May 2008 10:48:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As many lead providers feel the crunch, juggle increasing supply and shrinking demand, and rapid reduce their operations Bills.com is moving in a different direction--upwards! Bills.com is No. 3 on the Hot 100, as selected by Entrepreneur Magazine, of the fastest growing companies in the Nation. Bills.com is posting some phenomenal ... http://mortgageleadsdirectory.com/index.php/2008/05/05/billscom-is-defying-mortgage-market-gravity/ LeadPoint has raise another $6M in venture capital to continue to propel its rapid growth trajectory, despite the experience of many of its competitors: The company claims that its marketplace platform has worked so well that it has gained market share and expanded across a number of industry verticals — even ... http://mortgageleadsdirectory.com/index.php/2008/04/28/leadpoint-continues-to-grow-and-raise-capital/ Unquestionably, the top volume generating mortgage lead providers are: Nextag, LowerMyBills, and LendingTree. Here is a current measurement of traffic to each of their primary brand websites: Interesting trends include an aggressive surge by Nextag: Precipitous drop by LendingTree: And a notable switch in leadership between LendingTree and LowerMyBills: http://mortgageleadsdirectory.com/index.php/2008/04/23/traffic-analysis-of-top-volume-lead-providers/ LeadPoint UK a top lead provider and lead marketplace in the UK, with a counterpart in the US (LeadPoint), announced today it is launching a UK payday loan lead offering from their marketplace. Nick Chapman, managing director of LeadPoint UK, says: "Payday lending is the fastest growing UK consumer finance product. ... http://mortgageleadsdirectory.com/index.php/2008/04/22/leadpointuk-launched-payday-loan-leads/ 8 out of 10 Americans are fearful of their identity being stolen according to a Bankrate.com national poll released today.  In addition, to there concerns over identity theft it seems that a growing percentage of Americans have actually experienced or know a victim of identity theft: Bankrate.com released the findings of ... http://mortgageleadsdirectory.com/index.php/2008/04/21/80-concerned-about-identity-theft-say-bankratecom-poll/ LendingTree announced today, to customers and lenders, that several former employees were suspected of sharing passwords with unauthorized lenders. This LendingTree security breach may have given these unauthorized lenders access to customer qualification forms. LendingTree addressed their customers in a letter, with this information: Recently, LendingTree learned that several former employees may ... http://mortgageleadsdirectory.com/index.php/2008/04/21/lendingtree-has-lead-data-breach/ BusinessWeek reports Zillow's latest initiative, which dips it's toe into the mortgage leads market. This program give mortgage brokers a unique marketing channel of leads driven and controlled by the customer: For mortgage companies, the anonymous leads come free of charge; they can make a bid based on information provided by ... http://mortgageleadsdirectory.com/index.php/2008/04/03/zillow-opens-online-mortgage-marketplace/ Adchemy acquires two online mortgage originations veterans from Quicken Loans: The company's two new hires, Chris Meerschaert and Jon Moises will join a mortgage team with experience from companies such as LendingTree, GetSmart, Bankrate, and Low.com. Meerschaert spent 12 years at Quicken Loans in product marketing and business development. Moises' experience ... http://mortgageleadsdirectory.com/index.php/2008/02/21/adchemy-new-mortgage-lead-products-hires-former-quicken-loans-lead-buyers/ Today Adchemy announced it has secured $19M is venture capital from Mayfield Fund, Hellman & Friedman, LLC, and existing investor August Capital. Details of the transaction: Adchemy, Inc. a next-generation online customer acquisition technology company, today announced it has secured $19 million in funding led by Mayfield Fund with additional investments from ... http://mortgageleadsdirectory.com/index.php/2008/01/04/adchemy-secured-19m-venture-capital/