"this will increase your Real Estate business" is the broken record that makes Realtors tune out to sales pitches. The products that are being pushed seldom result in any activity and create a huge learning curve to use the particular product. The only thing that seems to get these people to stop calling is to tell them you have no money. Real Estate agents seem to be the target of marketing trash products that are at best a star dust type scenario. I have the contention that If your product is so good,give a free 6 months trial and if there is business generated then it is worth it. Obviously no has ever taken me up on this. I now just tell them not to call back and hang up. Real Estate agents as a collective force can only purge these products by refusing to use them. In the long run this type of distraction only hurts the consumer as we as real estate agents have our focus on these things rather than the known method of prospecting and cultivating business. Working hard in your real estate is the tried and true method of increasing your real estate sales.
Thanks for the comments. I also mention how bad the market is. Also tell them to put you on their DNC list.
Bonner
Spammers and telemarketers are in my same 'scum' category! Being a 'good old Southern girl', I CAN'T hang up on them! So, I just say, "I've already spent my marketing allowance for the quarter and have designated the balance of my marketing funds for the remainder of the year. If you can give it to me free and let me pay for the services with my first commission from your 'business generator,' then send it my way! They ALWAYS laugh and I have yet to receive a 'business generator' for free!
As for spammers, I just hit DELETE--doesn't affect my 'status' as a 'good old Southern girl'!
Debe in Charlotte, NC
My nature is also the to be kind. This just seems to be getting more pushy.
Bonner
Bill,
Don't even want go there with the aggregate real estate leads. This would make a great post for a whole issue to let real estate agents know they are hurting theirselves by paying twice for leads that we create.
Bonner
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