Marketing for Real Estate Agents is essential. Marketing is how real estate agents make a living. They market themselves and their brand to potential clients and they market properties to potential buyers.
Today we're going to focus on four key points to increase your overall marketing skills.
- Master copywriting skills to create brief, clear, appropriate messages
- Interact in online communities and you will create a lead generation machine
- Become a Brand on Social Media
- It’s your Sales Funnel – Own it
Master copywriting skills to create brief, clear, appropriate messages
Great salespeople are great communicators, often great storytellers, but we sometimes know too much. Buyers these days are more informed than ever before. We do not need to tell them everything we know.
Not saying too much can be hard when writing a blog post for example. We naturally want to show our mastery of the subject, but we often forget that our readers may know as much or more than we do.
In an online world, you have about 2 or 3 seconds to grab a reader’s attention. Get to the point quickly. Look at this blog as an example; the title says there are four things to be said, then it starts with #1.
In the online world, you will be given two seconds, if that, before people decide if what you are delivering is worth spending their precious time on. Making it easy to read, and keeping messages clear, concise and simple is a big factor.
Now do this:
Review your elevator pitch, cut it down to 1 or two sentences. It is said that if it takes you more than nine seconds to interest someone, they're not going to listen. If you can’t get your pitch down to 1 or 2 sentences, your prospect will think that you do not know your product well.
Interact in online communities, and you will create a lead generation machine
Great marketers find where their ideal customer spends their time – what consumes their attention. What this means is knowing what blogs they read, the periodicals they subscribe to, the slack channels they are on. They want to be where the customer is and advertise them too.
Look for industry-specific groups on social media or maybe even in a local paper. Find out what challenges or problems they have that you can solve. Take 20 minutes a day to contribute and you will eventually be acknowledged as an expert in the field. Here is an example. There is a group in Boston know as the Young Professionals Network of San Diego. The group has a website, Facebook page, Twitter Page; they host social gatherings and even have a place for sponsors. This is a goldmine. These are people that may not at this time be able to afford a home of their own, but they probably will at some point. Most will certainly be able to afford a home in San Diego, or a surrounding area. Wouldn’t it be great to talk there about housing? Offering help, not selling, it will pay off in the long run.
No Sales Pitch? Good Luck
If you want to establish yourself as an industry expert, a consultant and not just another sales person it takes time. It also takes an effort to be interesting and interested.
Now do this:
Join an online industry community where your ideal buyer might come from. Share an article and your opinions about the article. It should not be one that comes from your company.
Start to build a community on social media. It is going to take time, much time. It will pay off in the end.
Think of it this way the neurosurgery residency is seven years. The median income for a neurosurgeon in the United States in 2018 was $579,000. Depending on other factors they should be able to afford a 1.5 to 2-million-dollar home at some point. So, you need to determine if this worth your time and effort. (It is.)
Become a Brand on Social Media
"Why don’t my prospects ever see my ads? Why don’t I ever get invited to those fancy webinars? Why doesn’t the decision maker ever get back to me?"
Thoughts like this are far from uncommon. Everyone gets frustrated with it. Have you ever followed up four, six, eight, maybe ten times and never had anyone get back to you?
Become accountable. You are your one and only marketer. The marketing department is you. Relevant content targeted to your potential clients is the only game in town. It is not just to attract people to your website. It can help you push sales along, get you referrals, and even close some deals for you.
Remember that people, lead busy lives, you included. Make it as difficult as you can for your prospects to forget about you.
Now do this:
Think of a challenge your prospects are facing. List three bullet points that they can use to solve the challenge. Help them sell it without your product. Create a video on LinkedIn, YouTube or elsewhere. Use subtitles to increase engagement.
Keep in mind that not everyone in your sphere of influence is looking to buy or sell a home, but they are engaged with the community and actively meeting new people. Keeping your relationships alive means they are more likely to recommend your services to people they know, thus expanding your business.
There are a few ways to engage your sphere, but five of your most important tools are email, social media, direct mail, face-to-face meetings, and a good old-fashioned phone call.
It’s your Sales Funnel – Own it
AI is already starting to take over menial tasks and free us up for more meaningful pursuit. To that end, the future of sales will require us to adapt, become more creative, and demand humanity and authenticity, the things AI cannot do.
Millennials are demanding that salespeople and sales organizations have social impacts beyond just the revenue they bring in.
We know that the largest group of home buyers in the United States are millennials. We know that they are looking for agents of change. We know that there are 30 elements of value that people seek in the transaction.
As a realtor, your service will deliver fundamental elements of value that address four kinds of needs to your clients:...
Posted by Agent Elite, Inc. on Thursday, April 25, 2019
We know that in social impact, Self-Transcendence, is the highest value that people seek. So, what are you waiting for? Look at those 30 elements of value; you can provide value at every level of that pyramid. Not all the values assuredly but at least one on every level.
Now do this:
Find a way that you can have a real social impact! There must be some way.
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