. ___ I WANT THIS PACKAGE: $684 per month – includes 4 sites (buyer or seller with SEO indexing) without lead generation and unlimited back end agent and lender/vendor accounts. 1 BombBomb account is included plus 2 emails to your database per month, additional BombBomb accounts for team members can be purchased for $25 per person per month.

By doing that so, try to someone who the job for you who are better in SEO.

HALF of that money and invest this into SEO.

Have a website that is the highly ranked in terms of SEO for your local area for common motivated seller keywords, be able to convert those eyeballs to leads at a consistent rate based on your content and then be able to convince those leads to sell at a high rate based on your salemanship skills.If you can do those three things, you'll be golden...

How have other buy and hold investors handled the influx of leads through lead generation (albeit direct mail, lead generation website, seo) but not become wholesalers?

I have some knowledge about internet marketing and i have some freelancers that can do website and some SEO.

How do you feel about:- Website design and SEO optimization?

Are you more focused on brand recognition or SEO? 

Lot of people think that Wholesaling doesn't  need money, but they usually discount the money spent on advertising such as direct mail and online marketing like SEO. 

Moving forward you can "blog" or post about your recent flips to build SEO rank and additional credibility after you have done some deals.