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How do you hang onto new potential clients?

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Real Estate Agent with Frank Howard Allen Realtors

I'm dying to share all the information about this last weekend's fabulously huge benefit weekend for our non-profits, but tonight, this question is more important than my reporting on something I love.

I'm actually really good at customer follow-up.  I write grammatically correct and interesting emails (and yes, I do spell check them!).  I ask for the potential clients' goals and heartfelt desires.  I handle early objections and explain how Realtors work and how the commissions are really structured.  I listen.  I send hand-written and addressed thank you notes on wine-country correct Crane notes.  I google the potential clients.  If they are in CA, I check tax records to see what they really own.  I research the "property history" on each listing I send.

So...why do some interesting, active, qualified, exciting potential clients just wander off?

I'm so curious about what any of you do to hang onto people long enough to really help them.

And if you are a consumer/potential buyer/perfect customer reading this...what can we do better to retain your loyalty?

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William Johnson
Retired - La Jolla, CA
Retired
Add to my social circle of clients and that usually does it pretty well. I ask them to contact 3 clients on my list and we can all meet for  a Starbucks if there are no parties happening. Dinner or lunch works to. The clincher is that Buyers always sign a Buyer's Brokerage for 1 year anyway.
Sep 04, 2007 04:34 PM