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Services for Real Estate Pros with The Silent Partner Marketing

Happy New Year, rainers.

Couple of questions for you....followed by some analysis.

1) Outside of the typical Trulia, Zillow, etc. - where do you spend your advertising dollars?  Social media?  Traditional advertising?  Other?

2) Do you have a website that's specific to YOU?  Is it responsive?

Doing a little research for a "coming soon" blog on the digital age for you guys...so any input that I can use as examples will only help you all!  Links, examples, I'll take it all.  I may not respond to every comment, but my team will be looking at what you guys are all sharing and compile some strengths, weaknesses and suggestions coming soon!

LOVE YOU ALL!

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Kyle Reyes is the President and Creative Director of The Silent Partner Marketing, a boutique marketing firm focused on helping businesses grow in an age of exploding technology.
 
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Joe Jackson
Keller Williams Capital Partners Realty - Columbus, OH
Clintonville and Central Ohio Real Estate Expert

A great post to read on a cold Ohio winter day! Thanks for sharing!

Jan 08, 2015 08:49 PM
Debbie Gartner
The Flooring Girl - White Plains, NY
The Flooring Girl & Blog Stylist -Dynamo Marketers

1) while I'm not a realtor, I'll still answer. Biggest chunk prob. goes to Angie's List (which works well for us), and then marketing towards realtors/bus partners and marketing towards past customers.  Buckets 1 and 2 may not be about same size in spending and bucket 3 keeps growing (but the money is efficient there).  More time is spent in buckets 2 and 3.

2) Yes, definitely mobile responsive.  I did that a while ago, at least 1.5 yrs ago, but maybe 2.  Before that I had a WP plug in that made it better mobile (until my site was updated.

Jan 08, 2015 08:59 PM
Raymond E. Camp
Ontario, NY

Good morning Kyle,

Always looking for website traffic; which is what I have been playing with lately.

Make yourself a great day.

Jan 08, 2015 09:07 PM
Jenna Dixon
Momentum Real Estate Group LLC - Marietta, GA
55 & Over | New Constructions | Horse Farms

Boosting web traffic to my sites is going to be my focus for this year.  Exploring PPC and FB ads, we'll see how that goes.  The biggest expenditure at THIS moment is direct mail.  Does hoping for warmer weather count?

Jan 08, 2015 09:30 PM
Robert Smith
Preview Properties, PC - http://www.RealEstateMich.com - Brighton, MI
SRES, Search for Homes Brighton-Howell-SE Michigan

Interesting time for you to post this, Kyle Reyes.  I was just reviewing that very thing. I'm doing a lot with fb, twitter, trying to use my blogs to drive traffic to my web site which has an IDX feed.  I do co-marketing farm mailings with a lender partner, use Constant Contact to about 400+ web lead prospects and a higher end magazine to a select group of past/potential clients, SOI and family. No traditional advertising or PPC for years now.

Jan 08, 2015 11:01 PM
George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 FHA, CHFA, VA Mortgages - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert

Kyle hope you get the information you are looking for.  ActiveRain is a good place to start getting it.

Jan 09, 2015 08:53 AM
Joe Petrowsky
Mortgage Consultant, Right Trac Financial Group, Inc. NMLS # 2709 - Manchester, CT
Your Mortgage Consultant for Life

Good morning Kyle. The entire AR community can learn so much from you, thank you for all your contributions.

Make it a great weekend!

Jan 09, 2015 07:36 PM
Beth and Richard Witt
New York, NY
The best Retired Brokers !!!!

We use Boomtown but I am sure that with you at the helm it would be a lot more responsive...

Jan 12, 2015 05:00 AM
Tammie White, Broker
Franklin Homes Realty LLC - Franklin, TN
Franklin TN Homes for Sale

Kyle, I probably spend less money on marketing than my AR friends. I don't do any PPC--never have, never will. I dabbled in direct mail. It's a waste of money as far as I'm concerned. The bulk of my business comes from my website and AR which doesn't cost me much. I've been waiting until our new brokerage opens to jump into video. I'm already dominating the searches in my area, video will provide another spot on page one and something no one is really doing in my area.

Jan 14, 2015 09:31 AM