real estate marketing tips: Invest in Farm Marketing
- 07/11/18 08:56 PM
Farm Marketing is where an agent targets a specific geographic area to market their services to. It can be a great investment, once you’ve fully committed to it. The first step is determining where you should be farming. We have a process that helps you determine which area would be best to market to, as well as how to market to them. If you’re ready to take your business to the Next Level, give us a call at 202-297-2393. You can check out our page discussing Farm Marketing here as well: https://bestagentbusiness.wikispaces.com/Farm+Marketing Do us a favor and “like” us on Facebook. Reply to this … (0 comments)
Turnover Rate Almost all real estate agents are confused about how often people move. If you ask an agent how often people move, they say every five to seven years, which would imply a turnover rate of 14 to 20 percent.The problem is that number includes renters who do not own a home. For most farm areas, the annual turnover rate is two to ten percent with an average of about four percent. For 1,000 homes, there may be four percent or 40 homes sold per year. To choose a farm area, it is important to analyze multiple … (2 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Adding One Person to Your Database is Worth $250-$500 Per Year
- 02/23/14 07:33 PM
Yes, I mean that. Adding one person to your database is worth $250-$500 per year. Do you believe me? See this two minute video to see how HERE. Examples: * The 10 open house leads on sheets of paper: $2,500-$5,000 per year. * The 30 business cards of people met at around town: $7,500-$15,000 per year. * The person you met in line at Starbucks and got their info: $250-500. * The 100 people of your Facebook Friends who are currently NOT in your database properly organized: $25,000-$50,000 per year. Wow. Are you a believer in Billion Dollar Agent? Then let us show you … (0 comments)
A real estate agent who works alone is responsible for doing a few hundred different types of tasks every single week. This is the worst possible arrangement for a business and a key reason why most real estate agents are constantly stressed, multi-tasking and failing to get anything done. In fact, the average full-time real estate agent who should be working 2,000 hours per year only works about 20 percent or 400 hours per year. What are they doing the other 80 percent of the time? When you start a business, you do pretty much everything to start. The … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Creating Unique Farm Marketing Campaigns
- 11/13/13 02:37 AM
I've gotten the comment often that some marketing efforts are not worthwhile anymore because they are immediately deleted or pitched in the trash if they don't stand out. Here are a few ideas on how to make your marketing efforts unique and effective without breaking the bank. If you are working a farm area of 5,000 or more, you are in the zone of being able to do a custom newspaper. A custom newspaper enables you to get vendors to help fund the newspaper with advertising and also get people from the farm area to write articles for the newspaper. … (2 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Letter to a Friendly Hyper Harry Open House Loving Agent
- 10/07/13 11:30 PM
The interesting thing about business is that often it is balance which is missing to achieve higher levels of performance. Someone may ignore open houses when they should be doing open houses, or someone who is doing open houses needs to balance their efforts to get more long-term results. Best Agent Business prides itself on creating customized Marketing Plans for every personality type. Among Hyper Harry agents who are very friendly and outgoing, they often do great with open houses in meeting people and developing rapport, but they could do so much more if they had Billion Dollar Agent Systems to … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Your Wish List for Fall of 2013
- 08/28/13 07:26 AM
What are your top three wish list items to accomplish this fall? Reply to this blog or email me RIGHT NOW and tell me. They must be items which you are 100% in control of accomplishing. For example, something that either you can spend $X and get it done, or spend X hours of your time and get it done. It cannot be something like sell 10 or 100 homes. It must be something that you have 100% control to make happen - no excuses. I will review your three wish list items and respond with my suggestion, based on my … (2 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Hoss Pratt Conference, Facebook Advertising, and Be On Time
- 08/21/13 12:30 AM
Have you heard of Hoss Pratt? See http://www.hosspratt.com/. Hoss Pratt - reCharge Live - Dallas Oct Conference I highly recommend you consider attending Hoss Pratt's first conference. He is offering a $400 ticket for two people, so $200/person for an awesome 2-day event. See www.rechargeliveevent.com to register. If you do not have a friend to come, I will help you find someone else to use the 2nd ticket. Hoss has worked with us over the years and we enjoy brainstorming. I will be attending the event as a sponsor. I admire Hoss for his incredible sales voice, positive energy, and his contributions to agents in industry … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Craigslist, Ball-Dropping, and Smart Delegation
- 08/13/13 10:13 PM
Craigslist and Listing Management - Are you posting your listings to Craigslist often to generate more buyer leads? Would you like us to post your listings to Craigslist every week? For many clients, we now post weekly or even 3x per week on rotation of a large listing inventory. This often helps to generate buyer leads at very low cost. We can also cross-post your listings to Facebook and your blog. Reply to this blog, call, or email if you want us to increase your Craigslist posting cycle for listings. Don't Drop the Ball - Do you drop the … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Creative Marketing Thoughts for Fellow Big Thinkers
- 07/25/13 11:41 PM
Blogging and Social Media- So you don't have the time to write, don't want to, or writing is just not one of your strengths, yet you know how important it is for your exposure. We can get your blogging started or expanded. We can get your social media properly started on Facebook, Twitter, ActiveRain, and LinkedIn. We currently recommend that you budget 1-2% of GCI on blogging and social media. This is usually about 1-2 posts per week. We currently do blogging and social media for many clients and would love to help you in this area too. Buyer … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: How to Love Your Job and Ideas From Our Clients
- 07/10/13 12:10 AM
Ideas From Our Clients: This is a quick list of ideas from some of our clients regarding recent work we have done and work tasks to delegate to us or wish list items they want us to GET DONE: •Buyer Older Lead Online Survey: To resolve, cleanup, and qualify some older and email only leads, we do an online survey like THIS ONE. •Seller Feedback Calling: Do you call your sellers once or twice a month as a proactive customer service approach to decrease firefighting and stress and increase client referrals? We can do that. •Blogging/Social Media: You have … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: The June Listing Boom
- 06/02/13 11:55 PM
Question of the Week - Please Reply What is the one Listing Marketing idea that you want to start/add to your Listing Plan? Ah, yes, it's June once again. The kids are out of school and it's time for families to put the house on the market. If you have the best Listing Marketing Plan in your area you will win more listing appointments and generate the most possible buyer leads. Need some ideas? Schedule a call with me, reply to this blog or email me. Listings Management - Improve your Listing Marketing Are you doing EVERYTHING possible … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Be Proactive With Client Service
- 05/30/13 01:40 AM
Question of the Week - Please Reply If you're a client, when you get your periodic touch-base calls from Client Services at Best Agent Business, what is your reaction and how does it impact your view of our company? Proactive Client Service Helps Seller and Client Relationships If you're a Best Agent Business client, you know that we have a separate Client Services group that calls you periodically to touch base, make sure things are going okay, and identify any needs to improve your happiness with Best Agent Business. Do you proactively call your Sellers for Seller Feedback to … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Managing Expireds and Your Facebook/Smartphone Contacts Properly
- 05/22/13 09:42 PM
Do you have Facebook friends or Blackberry/iPhone contacts that SHOULD be in your database as Clients/SOI or Buyer/Seller leads but are not in your database? If you are active on Facebook, you likely have many friends and perhaps some leads which should be in your database. We can pull/export your Facebook friends, and Database Management can help you code and import into your database so Clients/SOI get Client Marketing and Buyer/Seller leads worked properly. When you get a new Facebook friend, if you're a client, just forward an email to leads@bestagentbusiness.com, and tell us to add it to your database. If … (0 comments)
Why are random people in India asking my daughter Melissa if she wants a cookie? Find out HERE and HERE, then see the answer below under Steve's Musings which also shares the launching today in a few hours of Steve's Travel Adventure to Israel, India and Istanbul.
Business Profit Review - Billion Dollar Agent We are excited to launch another new service for top agents doing over $500,000 GCI with a team. Our Business Profit Review is a draft of an unusual series of questions to get you thinking and … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Mobile IDX, Billion Dollar Agent Magic and ABC for Vendor Marketing $
- 05/06/13 12:38 AM
Question of the Week - Please Reply: What color is your personality? Choose between red, yellow, green, and blue, and tell me what color are you and why? For extra credit, guess what color is an assistant and Best Agent Business. Be first in market with Mobile/Phone MLS/IDX Search - SmarterAgent Mobile apps for smartphones are the fastest growing category of computing. Vendors are appearing with useful consumer mobile real estate applications. We identified Smarter Agent four years ago, and I have had detailed calls with them in the past. See smarteragent.com. Smarter Agent provides consumer buyers with a sexy … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Why You Should Be Using SendOutCards
- 05/01/13 12:38 AM
Question of the Week - Please reply to this blog with your answer: For every 100 pieces of postal mail you receive, how many are hand-addressed? SendOutCards - Great marketing mailings using Best Agent Business Many of you are familiar with the greeting cards via SendOutCards. We are using SendOutCards more and more for our business, and many clients. Here are some ideas: single thank you cards after you meet with someone, regular quarterly seasonal cards to Clients/SOI, welcome card to Buyer leads, post listing appointment cards, Expired/FSBO campaigns, and more. To send a free sample card, click HERE and … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Seller Leads Deserve More Respect and Real Estate Webmasters
- 04/29/13 12:01 AM
Seller leads deserve more respect and attention from you. Video - Short 2 Minutes - Watch Now: FSBO Marketing using SendOutCards Seller Leads - Watch Closely As you grow from yourself to a team to a large team, Seller leads are more and more important for your profitability. Here are some problems and solutions: · Pile of Seller leads in Top Producer or other DB: We often run into someone who has 500+ leads coded as Seller in DB with no clue of status. We do not know which are Dead, Closed, or Seller ABC, or Lost due to Price or … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: Get to the Gut with Your Marketing Money
- 04/25/13 01:19 AM
In real estate today, prospective clients have instant access to the contact information of thousands of agents in one simple Internet search. The manner in which people actually choose an agent, however, has not changed. They still go with the proverbial "gut feeling". That's right; all the marketing dollars spent could turn up 'nada' unless you can 'get to the gut'. Do you know the best ways to sell a feeling? Trust? Likeability? Expertise? We do. If you're having trouble 'getting to the gut' let us help. We can analyze your Marketing Plan and tell you where it can be … (0 comments)
real estate marketing tips: What Are You Avoiding?
- 04/17/13 02:58 AM
What are you avoiding in your business right now in terms of staffing, activities, priorities, or finances? Delegate 10 Day Challenge - Are you still spending way too much time doing $20/hour assistant/admin or courier/gopher tasks? If you are still spending more than 5 hours a week doing assistant work, you are losing money every single day. Plus, you will be happier if you focus on your unique talent. Starting NOW, I challenge you to email me every day for the next 10 days with the list of all assistant work you did during the previous day. Email … (0 comments)
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Farm Marketing is where an agent targets a specific geographic area to market their services to. It can be a great investment, once you’ve fully committed to it. The first step is determining where you should be farming. We have a process that helps you determine which area would be best to market to, as well as how to market to them. If you’re ready to take your business to the Next Level, give us a call at 202-297-2393. You can check out our page discussing Farm Marketing here as well: https://bestagentbusiness.wikispaces.com/Farm+Marketing
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