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Carrot Alternatives – What Are They And Which Should You Choose?

WebsitesOctober 2024
Woman thinking

So you want to build a real estate investor business. You’ve seen enough online to want to go after some $10,000 wholesale assignment checks.

Great!

How are you going to generate leads?

  1. SEO
  2. Paid ads
  3. Driving for dollars
  4. Cold calls and text
  5. Direct mails

Once you figure that out you are on your way. If you pick any of the strategies above you will need a real estate investor website. Why?

You will want a place online where potential leads can vet your business, make sure you are legit and want to give you their property information.

But you know this already – and are looking for the best real estate investor website builder.

I am biased and know that Carrot is the best platform to host your real estate website on. But let’s explore some Carrot alternatives

Carrot Alternatives

Before we start – let’s make sure we are approaching the alternatives with an apples-to-apples comparison.

Here is what you get with a Carrot website.

  1. A high-performing website
  2. SEO-ready content is already created on your website
  3. Internal links are set (helps with SEO)
  4. Lead capture forms are already built and placed on your website
  5. Hosting – it’s fast, secure and included
  6. Landing pages
  7. Website analytics
  8. A library of website design patterns
  9. Industry-leading support (they can answer 99% of your questions)
  10. Free guides, training and more

Carrot Alternatives – Other Major Platforms

While working at Carrot – I often saw real estate investors leaving or joining our platform for website providers like

  1. WordPress
  2. Wix
  3. Squarespace

πŸ‘† check out these comparison pages for a more in-depth breakdown.

These services CAN indeed work for real estate investor websites. They have some distinct advantages over Carrot. But I believe their disadvantages outweigh them.

Advantages of other major platforms

They are easy to use. Their user interface and AI features make it really easy to create pages, content, and other elements for your website. The problem with this is you are starting from a blank slate. If you are not a great copywriter or have never built a high-performing website you will likely spend a week or more creating pages, forms, landing pages, and everything needed to have a solid website.

Compare this to Carrot which has content built out of the box for you.

SEO Features

All of these tools have great SEO features that are on par with or better than Carrots. The issue I often see is they are premium add-ons or plugins that will change the price of your monthly bill significantly.

You indeed have to pay for premium add-ons in Carrot but they are a fraction of the price of some competitors.

Affordability

Wix, Squarespace, and WordPress are all much cheaper than Carrot. However, for WordPress specifically, you have to host it somewhere and that will cost you anywhere from $5-$40/mo to just have a website online. Then you need to understand technical concepts like CDNs, SSL, backups, etc so you can make sure your website is online 24/7.

While Wix and Squarespace include hosting in their plans – because they host so many sites on the internet their servers aren’t as fast or quality as Carrots (who can focus on fewer sites giving them more performance)

Carrot Alternative – Real Estate Investor Competitors

Over the years many competitors have cropped up to compete with Carrot. This is a good thing. Competition forces innovation and gives users options when finding the right solution for their needs.

  1. LeadPropeller
  2. GrumpyHare
  3. MinutePages

πŸ‘†check out a detailed breakdown of these competitors.

These are good options depending on your use case. Both offer websites and have a lot of the same features as Carrot.

Here is where you will notice a distinct difference…

Because Carrot has been in business 2-5x longer than most of these competitors Carrot will have

  1. Better support (more knowledge, more resources, more guides, etc).
  2. Better training – having helped real estate investors for 10+ years their training are robust and thoughtful
  3. Better tech stack – Carrot has invested millions into their servers giving more performance.

Which Should You Choose?

Obviously, I think the answer is Carrot.

But here is what I would actually recommend – take a demo of each product. Understand what you are buying before you start building a website. Play around with the user interface, test out the live support option and see if one stands out as better.

The other thing you could do is look in your local market for which websites are crushing it.

Just Google “sell my house fast [your market]” and if the top 3 results are Carrot you have a proven blueprint you can follow.

What are they doing that is making their content rank? Videos? Long-form content? High-quality designs? Fast loading, mobile optimized..

Consider joining the platform that has more real estate investors ranking #1 than anyone else.

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