You’ve got a website and it’s been online for a while; you may or may not be getting some natural traffic rolling in but where are the leads? Where are the millions of people online beating down your virtual door?
Unfortunately the days of the popular notion that if you build it they will come have long since passed. Just having a website alone is something akin to standing in your closet and shouting about how great your chocolate chip cookies are and then being disappointed when you don’t have people ringing your doorbell with money in hand. A website is a tool, like any other, it is good for specific tasks – and only if you use it properly – you wouldn’t expect to hammer many nails with a screwdriver after all.
You can’t depend on your website to do all the work, so here are some good ideas for things you can actively do to bring in more real estate leads!
Cold Calling
Gives ya shivers don’t it?! But it’s like the old axiom says: don’t be afraid to ask pretty girls for a kiss, you’ll get a lot of slaps in the face but you’ll get a few kisses too! Like any other tactic cold calling takes some strategy to be effective. Start by developing a script to work from that speaks to your potential clients needs; from there stick to a standardized calling routine to make sure it’s not a try once and quit effort.
Blog
Not just have a blog, but actually write and publish a blog regularly. By creating interesting content not only can you establish yourself as an authority in the market but you can also give your audience insight into who you are. Not to mention search engines love blogs! Fresh, keyword rich content updated on a regular basis can be a huge boon to getting more traffic on your site and more traffic equals more potential contacts. Ever struggle with stuff to post on social media? Your own blog content is PERFECT content for your fan page or other profiles – and best of all if done correctly it drives traffic to you!
Door Knocking
It can be daunting in this day and age, and much like cold calling be prepared for some difficult feedback – but you can get good response too. Getting out into the communities you work in is a great way to stand apart as so many agents are digital only these days. It really gives you a lay of the land; is a good way to get your brand in front of people you might not normally reach. Make sure you go out with some door hangers and printed materials with your photo, website, contact info prominently displayed.
Niche Marketing
Find your niche a work it. Everyone wants to be number one for “city name real estate” on Google…so aim for another target. If you can get your foot into a niche corner of the market – like 55+ buyers, or equestrian properties – it can open a whole other client base. Good ways to passively find leads from these niches is to build simple realtor lead capture websites focused on that particular theme or demographic.
Work Social Media
There could be – and have been – whole posts written on just this and the reason for that is simple: no other platform offers more bang for your marketing buck than social media. The catch? It’s a very easy way to spend a lot of time and money if you don’t know how to do it right. Now, just about any frequently updated page that caters to it’s audience is better than none at all but there are some key things to making social media work for your real estate business. Most importantly: be positive, post often, and link to websites you control any time you can.
Have questions about putting these things into practice?
Not even sure where you stand or where to start? Tour Real Estate Inc has provided the very best real estate websites for over a decade; our experts know the industry and the technology that powers it because we helped build it. We’d love the chance to talk with you about your goals and how you can reach them!
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