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Seven Must Do’s if you want to Capture that Lead

Reblogger Alison Whitaker MacCracken
Real Estate Agent with Sotheby's International Realty CalBRE#01920182

Always nice to spread around good advice.  I'd like to add #8. BE CREATIVE!!!

If you work in real estate, you have to love your job. If you don't, for the sake of your future clients, I recommend finding something else to do.  Meeting new people, generating leads, is part of the fun, so think outside of the box.

I recently used a rolling pin, yes, a wooden rolling pin, as part of a package I left at the doorstep of expired listings in Beverly Hills, CA.  Guess what, it worked!

With the holidays fast apporaoching, I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Have a great day Rainers.

Alison

Original content by Jeanna Martinez

 

 

Seven Must Do’s if you want to Capture that Lead

 

If you are in the real estate business then you are in the lead generating business, at least if you want to be successful you are.  Whether we like it or not we must be good at generating, following up on and most important CATCHING leads. 

 

It’s not enough to just get your name out there; you have to have a good system in place to follow up on phone calls, emails, Facebook messages, tweets, and even the ever elusive walk in lead. If you don’t have good follow up you will find lots of these potential clients leaving as fast as they came.

 

I have a few rules I try to follow when I get a lead, it may not be a perfect system but it’s been pretty good to me.  So here goes…

 

1.       If they give you a phone number CALL IT right away! (or ASAP, whichever comes first)

 

2.    If they give you an email send an email in addition to calling.  Make sure you OFFER them something in the email (additional information on properties they might be interested in, showing appointments, CMAs, etc.)

 

3.    If they inquired about a specific property send them additional information about that property as well as similar properties that are also for sale.

 

4.    Set them up on a drip campaign, just make sure it provides them with helpful information, is sent AT MOST once a month and isn’t obnoxiously sale-sy.

 

5.    When you talk to them make sure they have been pre-qualified, if they haven’t, offer to get them in touch with a lender.

 

6.     If the lead is via Facebook or Twitter respond via the same medium but make sure you include your phone number and email in the response along with an offer to speak with them in person (or at least over the phone).

 

7.     Treat every lead with respect. Period.

 

So that’s it, that’s my system.  How do you follow up with your leads?

 

Jeanna Martinez license #538288

jeannamartinez@gmail.com

210-833-2268

www.sahomesales.net

                   

 

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ALISON C. WHITAKER

 

Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES), Certified Negotiating Expert (CNE) 
PWW Real Estate Partners at Sotheby's International Realty 

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Brad MacKenzie
Brad MacKenzie - Duxbury, MA
Turning Houses into Homes on the South Shore

I never thought of leaving thought-provoking things at the doors of potential clients. How did the rolling pin fit in? What's the connection?

Mar 07, 2013 08:09 AM