How Agents WIN in Todays Real Estate Market
More than ever, real estate professionals are investing heavily in their online strategies.
But, while online marketing is becoming one of the most powerful ways to grow your business, offline strategies remain important and should be a core part of your marketing plan.
By combining the two and building a plan that moves seamlessly between online and offline tactics, you’ll reach a much wider audience.
The Most Affective Marketing
Top Forms of Marketing:
- Website:
Your website and emails need to be designed for all devices and screen sizes and be responsive.
- Blogs:
This is one of the best ways to draw in clients and let them get to know you on a more personal level. The blogs do not have to be all about you but through them the reader should see your interests and personality.
- Farming:
Is a great way to become known as an expert in the community.
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- Social Media:
Such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snap Chat and YouTube serve as a great outlet to reach a large audience of people with little effort if done properly.
- Direct Response:
Is designed to evoke an immediate response and compel prospects to take some specific action, such as opting in to your email list, picking up the phone and calling for more information, placing an order or being directed to a web page.
- Newsletter:
Involves sending out informational newsletters to interested parties, some people send newsletters through the mail, but the vast majority of people today connect with customers over email.
- Send out cards:
This allows you to get your face in-front of potential customers without having to be preset. A great card will get your name out there and draw clients in.
- Email Marketing:
This form of marketing must be used correctly. If email marketing is used to send out “ads” that are boring or seem generated (not original) your audience will ignore or become uninterested in the email.
- Internet Marketing:
Today online marketing moves at the speed of light. To keep up, you need be relentlessly creative.
Other Forms of Marketing:
- PPC:
Stands for pay-per-click, a model of internet marketing in which advertisers pay a fee each time one of their ads is clicked. Essentially, it’s a way of buying visits to your site, rather than attempting to “earn” those visits organically.
- Re-Targeting
You are probably asking yourself, “What is Re-Targeting?”
This form is also known as remarketing, is a form of online advertising that can help you keep your brand in front of bounced traffic after they leave your website. For most websites, only 2% of web traffic converts on the first visit.
- IDX:
Is the system that allows realtors to show MLS property listings on their websites.
- Business Cards:
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How to be Successful in Real Estate Sales
In this In the Know: Oliver Graf Real Estate Show video you will learn how to sell over 100+ houses in a year with experts Oliver Graf and Brian Sciutto, Founder of Pure Mortgage.
A few areas they touch on:
- Host an Event:
Hosted events are always popular, drawing people from across the spectrum of your industry, giving your properties much-needed exposure, and allowing you to meet new people.
- Ask for Referrals:
It doesn’t get any simpler or more effective than this. Word-of-mouth marketing can help you drive a significant increase in inquiries without having to spend heavily on marketing materials or advertising. The key is to actually ask.
- Network:
Make a point to meet other professionals to gather people interested in real estate, finance or marketing, etc. This will give you the opportunity to network and build connections more easily.
- Door Knocking:
Here are some rules for effective door knocking.
- Dress professionally, but for your market. If you sell real estate in casual California, you don’t want to wear a full suite. But in New York City you might want to consider it.
- Bring something to leave behind with the homeowner – make sure it’s branded with your information.
- Use a script to help get you started.
- Negotiating:
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- Time Management:
1. Set expectations.
When you are working with clients, it is important to set the expectations for them. Let them know that you are going to return missed phone calls between this and that hour. You are going to email them once a day, a week or a month.
2. Delegate less meaningful tasks.
When working with other staff or team members, make sure they know what their assignments are for the day, week and month.
Also, having a visual team calendar in the office that is big enough to view quickly that you can easily change is a great idea.
3. Time-block your hours.
It is important to wake up, exercise and eat a healthy breakfast. As soon as you get to the office, look at your goals. Write down what goals you want to work on for the day. Write down the list of tasks you need to do in order to accomplish those goals.
4. Pre-write your blogs and ads.
It is important to set ads, blogs and podcasts for marketing and networking. Taking an hour or two on the weekends or in the evening to pre-write the blogs for the month is a great idea.
5. Be consistent with your pattern.
People are creatures of habit. This includes you, your clients, your staff, your team and your followers.
- Working With Buyers:
1. Show Them Your Value
Today, many buyers use online search to find the homes they want, which is why the consultation is a great time to show exactly why they still need you.
2. Make an Emotional Connection
The consultation period is a good time to get to know what the buyer is looking for on a deeper level. It is important to remember that housing preferences go well beyond the number of bedrooms in a house.
3. Set the Right Tone
When it comes to getting a buyer’s representation agreement signed, language and culture is extremely important.
4. Anticipate Objections
If you don’t have a response to those objections, you’re dead in the water.
- Working With Sellers:
1. Ask the right questions and listen carefully to the answers
Get to know your potential client by asking questions that ensure you are all on the same page regarding the current situation, what the client wants and where they want to be.
2. Position yourself as the local expert
The prospective client thinks you may be “the one” who will sell their home for the right price. Prove them right by arriving prepared with the information you need to expertly discuss all the ways and means of the home selling process.
3. Highlight your marketing plan for the client’s home
Showcase all the promotion you will do to get the most eyeballs on your potential client’s home. Let them know that you have the right marketing tools designed to get the best price for their home and make it virtually impossible for savvy buyers to not see it.
4. Showcase why you’re the right agent for the job
By the end of your presentation, the prospective client should be very clear on what you bring to the table that other agents don’t.
5. Outline a timeline and next steps
Provide them with a short list of what activities will happen next and include a timeline for each activity so they know when you will touch base with them.
- Open Houses:
How to hold a MEGA Open House
- Utilize social media, blogging and real estate websites to share information about your open house.
- Do a blitz of flyers and or postcards throughout different areas
- On the day of the event, make a sign (with balloons or something that stands out) to make sure people can find the house easily.
- Serve up great food and drinks (try to pair drinks with the season) and even better music to attract people. If it’s a sports day, turn the game on.
- Make sure people are greeted and registered at the door so that they not only know your face but you also have their contact information.
Expired leads are the #1 most profitable lead source for top producing agents.
- Offer to charge a lower fee if the seller finds the buyer.
- Present data that highlight the benefits of representation (if they exists).
- Offer a limited-service listing option.
- Learn and practice scripts.
- But don’t come off as a robot.
- Use specialized lead-generation tools
- Pitch to potential clients face-to-face.
- Focus on old expired listings.
- Commit enough time and energy to winning over FSBOs.
- Text or email if a prospect doesn’t answer the phone.
- Hone your list of targets.
How To Build and Manage A Pipeline
- Make contact with at least 5 to 10 new people every day. From contacting that small group of new people, there should be at least one or two meetings evolving.
- Following the initial meeting with the contact or prospect, stay in touch so that they remember you at the right time.
- Maintain your database personally. Given that it such an important part of your market share and growth of listings, you need to get involved with database entry and updates. Make the calls and contacts from your database each day.
- When you have established a link with a prospect, keep the ongoing contact underway. In doing this, you will be making between 30 and 40 telephone calls each day as part of a prospecting program. Some of those calls will be converted to meetings and in that way your personal profile and relevance will grow.
Final Tips For Real Estate Agents
The key to a successful career in Real Estate is your mindset, without the right mindset you are only holding yourself back.
- Take time each day to do something for yourself
- Make lists of your goals and dreams for the future
- Keep your eyes on the prize
- Expand your mind by reading more books
- Go to seminars
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