If you haven’t heard, the acquisition baby of Trulia-then-Zillow, Market Leader, is for sale. But what does this really mean for real estate professionals, and especially Market Leader’s customers? I can’t claim to be unbiased in my view on the technology, but there are some clear, facts that are important for Market Leader customers and others around the industry to know.

As real estate professionals, we talk a lot about finding the fastest (and least labor-intensive) path to generate real estate leads. And when a certain lead gen strategy has been producing consistent results for your team, it’s hard to think that there’s any reason to diversify. But if you are siloing your efforts to only one source, you are placing an extremely risky bet. Where do you expect to get your best real estate prospects this year? Here is where agents, team leaders, and broker-owners are finding success with online real estate leads in 2015, as reported in a recent survey by Inman.

Without a real estate CRM, the process of tracking and segmenting communication with various leads manually can be painstaking. Because successful agents know that they need to stay productive in order to be profitable, the task of sending a series of emails often gets pushed to the back burner. However, when done effectively, drip marketing has shown to increase sales opportunities by an average of 20%. Here are a few best practices for determining who should receive what type of email, and when they should receive that message.

To succeed and grow your brokerage, you need to do several things at the same time: generate leads, recruit and train effective agents, and track agent activity with full accountability, all while utilizing the right tools to convert leads into sales. Here are four ways you can keep your agents accountable by tracking their lead generation activities from first-contact to closed-deal.