Posts Tagged ‘tips’

5 Things You Should Know (6/21)

Posted on: June 22nd, 2018 by Tim Garcia

What you should know_ Week 1 (1)

 

1. Three Ways To Boost Your Real Estate Brand With Video.
What you should do:
– Take advantage of the power of video – and share as much as you can on social media!
Speaking of social media, here are some stellar stats and tips that might inspire you.

 

2. Hot real estate markets can prove challenging for home appraisals.
What you should do:
– Read the scenario (and accompanying advice) and see if you can relate (or learn something).

 

3. 10 Ways To Evaluate A Local Real Estate Market Before Buying Or Selling.
What you should do:
– “Search the data, get informed, use the internet…” and speaking of internet – is your
online presence tailored to meet the needs of both your buyers and sellers?

 

4. Don’t expect real estate agents to disappear any time soon.
What you should do:
– Let this affirm your inimitable and continued value and worth in the industry. You rock.

 

5. How Much Do Real Estate Agents Make?

What you should do:
– Ask yourself if the numbers (and other rewards) add up.

 

Have a wonderful rest of your day!

– Tim

Marketing Director
Direct | 408.213.4668
tim@propertyminder.com
1101 S. Winchester Blvd, J-225
San Jose, CA 95128

Buy Just 3 Months, Get 2 Completely Free
Free Service For Existing Customers With Our Referral Program

Weekly real estate marketing tips can be found on our featured Tip Of The Week Archives and our ActiveRain Blog.

 

SIGN UP to receive our emails!

Free, weekly, extensive insight on how to increase your listings, fully nurture your buyer and seller leads, boost your referrals, maximize client retention, stay top-of-mind, and strengthen your marketing efforts (includes direct access to cutting-edge real estate marketing technology designed in the heart of the Silicon Valley).

 

WATCH: Help Us Help You Get More Listings (+ Money).

Posted on: May 15th, 2018 by Tim Garcia

 

WATCH NOW:
~ WEBSITE MASTERY Webinar (5/14)  ~
*Press the play button in the above video and go FULL SCREEN *

 

What’s covered this session:
– Getting people’s attention and keeping it.
– Inside look at our home seller lead generator.
– Making your real estate website worthy of being visit.
– How a “stock broker” mentality will help you increase your listings.
– Complete tutorial on the benefits of Custom IDX links and MLS mastery.
– Why some sellers didn’t list with you, and how to ensure they do in the future.

Questions? Comments? Let me know. 🙂

– Tim

Marketing Director
Direct | 408.213.4668
tim@propertyminder.com
1101 S. Winchester Blvd, J-225
San Jose, CA 95128

Buy Just 3 Months, Get 2 Completely Free
Free Service For Existing Customers With Our Referral Program

 

~Webinar Excerpts~

On home seller marketing:

Seller’s Corner: keeps you right in front of your homeowners.
Everybody that you know that owns a home, owns an investment. And it’s your job to let them know what their investment is worth. That’s the premise that Seller’s Corner was built on.

Imagine you’re a stock broker, and all of these people invested in stock. And they don’t know anything. There’s no way of them tracking it. They’re just blindly sitting, money-invested. Nobody wants to live like that. It’s a scary predicament. So, people begin to educate themselves about when is the right time to sell. Same goes for your homeowners. So, reach out to them:  ‘Hey, here’s your home. You bought it 5 years ago. This house in today’s market, is roughly about this…’ or ‘This house just went on the market. It’s similar to yours. Here’s how much it was listed for…’”
~
On power of social media: 

“If any of your friends comment or like on your public post, it’s gonna expose that to everybody that they know. So, let’s say you have 200 friends. If 50 of those people “liked” your post, and commented on it, and they’re friends with 200 people – that’s 10,000. 10,000 human beings just saw that you’re a realtor. Some of them may not have a realtor and may want to see what homes look like on the market, and come to your website and look around.

Give yourself an actual fighting chance of connecting with somebody.
Even though they are searching Zillow, Realtor.com, and/or Redfin, they still need some human interaction. You’re an expert. Maybe they have some questions that aren’t being answered by their own research and it becomes cumbersome. So, make yourself present.”

~

On CRM marketing:

“Anything that you send your clients is a reason to get them to your website.
The point of marketing: getting someone to remember you past the point of initial contact.

Match your contacts with their “consumer status.”
Go beyond just ‘Buyers’ and ‘Sellers.’ Create sub-groups – ‘restaurant-lovers group,’ ‘golf-lovers group’ – reach out to people and share your experiences, coupons, suggestions, etc.”

~

More on home seller marketing:

“People who bought their home with you in the past should list with you when it’s time to sell. But for some reason they don’t. It has to do with the lack of communication during the life cycle of them owning a home. With Seller’s Corner – all you have to do is just set it up – and folks will receive automatic updates from you. You (and/or they) can control the frequency. It is worth every penny, it’s doing what you’re not capable of doing because you’re a busy person trying to make money.

It’s hard to think about 8 months from now. But imagine this homeowner who’s gonna sell 8 months from now, and you don’t really know. And now you have a tool (Seller’s Corner) that’s gonna put you in front of them for the next 8 months. It’s gonna make you more top-of-mind. It’s solid. It’s why it was created.”

 

Weekly real estate marketing tips can be found on our featured Tip Of The Week Archives and our ActiveRain Blog.

 

Listing Tips. Hottest News. Zero Spam.

Posted on: April 25th, 2018 by Tim Garcia

Below is just a little promo for those of you who like reading our content… 😉
To skip the content below and SIGN UP for our real estate marketing tips and news – click here.

 

marketingpromo

 

Quick, weekly tips to increase your listings.
Coverage of best practices to boost lead responses.
Marketing advice from the pros. Zero spam.

Sign-up for free, weekly, extensive insight on how to increase your listings, fully nurture your buyer and seller leads, boost your referrals, maximize client retention, stay top-of-mind, and strengthen your marketing efforts (includes direct access to cutting-edge real estate marketing technology designed in the heart of the Silicon Valley).

Questions? Feel free to contact us at any time!

– Tim

Marketing Director
Direct | 408.213.4668
tim@propertyminder.com
1101 S. Winchester Blvd, J-225
San Jose, CA 95128

Buy Just 3 Months, Get 2 Completely Free
Free Service For Existing Customers With Our Referral Program

 

Weekly real estate marketing tips can be found on our featured Tip Of The Week Archives and our ActiveRain Blog.

 

Your Pot Of Listings At The End Of The Month.

Posted on: February 27th, 2018 by Tim Garcia

Can you believe March is virtually already here (the 1st is this Thursday)?
There’s not a single moment (or possible listing) to lose.

The infographic below features some “green”, business-friendly suggestions to maximize your marketing efforts (and listing opportunities) in March.

We appreciate your constructive feedback!

Tim
Marketing Director
Direct | 408.213.4668
Buy Just 3 Months, Get 2 Completely Free
Free Service For Existing Customers With Our Referral Program

More marketing advice can be found on our featured Tip Of The Week Archive page.

 

F1

5 Email Newsletter Tips That Transform Your Leads From Lukewarm to Scorching Hot

Posted on: June 7th, 2017 by Tim Garcia

 

by Andy Coffaro

PropertyMinderMarketing

 

You’ve got your email list of leads. Some are folks you’ve sold to in the past while others you met standing in line for your morning Starbucks.

No matter how you attain it, a lead is a lead is a lead.

One of the best marketing strategies to stay top of mind with your leads and increase the odds of doing business with them is through email newsletters.

But are you sure you’re employing the best strategies before sending them out?

If not, here’s how.

 

Test Your Email Subject Lines

Perhaps one of the more enjoyable aspects of sending out email newsletters is figuring out what resonates with your readers. What compels them to engage with your content? What are the powerful words you can string together that causes them to take a desired action?

It all starts with your email subject lines. Think about it: If your email is never opened, all the marketing strategies in the world won’t matter.

It may take some experimenting to figure out what works. Maybe your audience enjoys humor and wit, or perhaps they want subject lines featuring data points. There’s no perfect way to write an email subject line so experiment and find out.

Here are some creative examples from the men’s digital lifestyle brand, The Thrillist. They are short, to the point, and make you wonder what’s waiting inside the email.

Pizza ice cream? How could you not open that? And notice they used all caps for “PIZZA” so the word stands out even more.

Take chances and be creative.

 

Same Time, Same Day

People are creatures of habit: wake up in the morning, brush teeth, make coffee, turn on the news, check Facebook, etc. Half the time they aren’t even conscious of what they’re doing.

When possible, send your email newsletter around the same time on the same day. You will condition your audience to expect to hear from you.

 

80/20 Rule

We talked about this before for social media, but it applies here as well: 80% of the content in your email newsletter should be just engaging, entertaining, and enlightening information.

Save the other 20% for content meant to drive sales, which could include calls to action that send readers to your website.

 

Be Fun and Casual

Speak in a friendly tone. Use contractions (e.g. “aren’t” instead of “are not”). Write in short choppy sentences. Use bullet points. Embed a video you hosted on YouTube.

Again, be creative, but most importantly of all, write to your audience the way you would chat with them casually in public. You will still come off as an authority so long as the content you present is accurate, relevant, and actionable.

 

Unsubscribe Link

Always provide an unsubscribe link at the bottom of your email newsletter.

Don’t take it personally if people unsubscribe. There are those that simply don’t want email newsletters no matter how solid they might be.

And make it a one-click action. Don’t force people to enter their name and email address to unsubscribe. That’s an easy way to leave a poor impression.

By taking advantage of these simple email newsletter tips, you should see open rates go up, unsubscribes go down, and your leads transform from lukewarm to sizzling-hot.

 

More marketing advice can be found on our featured Tip Of The Week Archive webpages.

infographictotw

List Homes: Your Summer Strategies.

Posted on: May 1st, 2017 by Tim Garcia

May Newsletter_2

Howdy,

Tim here, and I’ll just honestly cut to the chase:
I want to see you sell more homes, this summer. Are you willing to let me help you?

I came across some news today that caught my eye (in terms of it’s potential to garner more listing opportunities for you)…

The U.S. Commerce Department reports that “sales in the category of building materials and garden equipment supplies for the first four months of 2017 are up 5.9 percent from 2016… a huge increase in the amount of homeowner equity stimulates home-improvement activity [and] makes people feel richer, wealthier and more inclined to invest in their house.” * (Source: https://goo.gl/koMPMN)

Let’s capitalize on this (and more).
By reaching out to your homeowners (who are more than likely gearing up for summer home care projects) and providing all of the resources they need (via your Homebrella trusted service provider network)  – you are essentially doubling your chances that they will turn to YOU when they are ready to sell.

Being top-of-mind is the name of the game.
More strategies to really boost your inventory this year are featured in this past months Tips Of The Week, infographics, and company news (keep scrolling for more).

We got this. Are you with me?


May Tips Of The Week

pic1 pic2

pic3 pic4

pic5 pic6

 


Company News 
A message from our VP of Sales & Marketing, Tawd Frensley:
“Our New MLS Search is getting rave reviews.
It’s free for our customers. All they have to do is ask.”

– 
Read a little more about our New MLS Search by clicking here.
 Or click here to see it in-action on a live, one-on-one demo.
New Webinar Lineup! Featured topics include:
Last (but not least): numbers do not lie.
Our marketing is designed in, and inspired by, the
most competitive and hottest (seller’s) market in the USA.

infographic


increasing listings

 

Remind People You Exist In A Way That Works For Them.

Posted on: July 12th, 2016 by Tim Garcia

Question your referrals: who, what, when, where, why, and how.

Step 1 “Who”: Segment your database into 2 groups: People WHO have referred you business the past 5 years and the one’s that haven’t (yet!)

Step 2 “What”: WHAT was your last form of communication with the referring group (email, text, phone call, post card)?

Step 3 “When”: WHEN did the referral occur in relation to the last form of communication (hint: client received your email and 4 days later referred a friend to you)?

Step 4 “Where”: Look at your relationship with each referring client, WHERE did your relationship come from (family, friends, past co-workers, past clients)?

Step 5 “Why”: This one is pretty easy. Literally ask yourself “WHY did they refer business to me?” (They thought of you first in a situation they didn’t have to).

Step 6 “How”: Next ask yourself the most important question “HOW can I get more?”

 

If you can make it all the way through these 6 steps, you will be able to truly see how to create referrals (instead of waiting for them).

Rate your database, it’s really important. (1 to 5, 5 being high)
Measure the likelihood and probability of business:
What is the likelihood that this person will ever refer business to me?

If someone is currently rated at a 1 (unlikely to refer), what do you have to do to increase the probability of a referral?
A personal phone call
A heartfelt card sent in the mail
An engaging email asking them how they are
A text message, because 98% of them are opened.

So many agents operate their business in the dark.
Eyes closed, lights off trying to cultivate a relationship with no sense of direction.
Marketing is not: Your overly confident slogan or photo with your arms crossed (or even better, holding a phone to your face)
Marketing is not: Your email signature telling every human being that you appreciate referrals (we get it, you like free business)
Marketing is not: sending recipes or monthly pictures of your domestic cat petting zoo.
Marketing is: Reminding people that you exist in the way that works for them, not you.

Some people prefer texting because they hate talking on the phone.
Some people prefer a phone call because they don’t know how to use their smart phone.
Some people need a greeting card because they haven’t opened their AOL account in 7 months.

Marketing cannot be just one thing. Everyone you know thinks, acts, and reacts differently.

– Tawd Frensley, PropertyMinder VP of Sales and Marketing
tawd@propertyminder.com

More marketing advice can be found on our featured
Tip Of The Week Archive & Current Tip Of The Week webpages.

The “Real Estate High-Five”: Listings & Referrals By The Handful.

Posted on: April 6th, 2016 by Tim Garcia

Look at your hand.
You’ll see it has 6 parts to it; your index finger, your thumb, your ring finger, your pinky, your (sometimes notorious) middle finger, and, of course, your palm.

So, what’s the “Real Estate High-Five?”
5 at-your-fingertips marketing elements that ensure you have folks in the palm of your hand when it matters most: when they’re ready to buy, sell and refer. Let’s take this, digit-by-digit.

1) Index (Contacts).
The average person knows 2 agents. Stay #1 with your CRM (your personal index).
Blast mass or one-on-one emails (holidays, open house follow ups, extra listing info, etc.) tailored around individual contact details. Organize people into groups (sports fans, June birthdays, anniversaries, retirees, etc.) and touch base accordingly, to demonstrate your thoughtfulness and interest.

2) Ring (Marriage).
Get homeowners to love, honor and list with you, with Seller’s Corner. What’s included? Accurate MLS data, HD photos, details and comparables, market trends, CMA lead capture, average and median listing price – deliver the goods and secure a lifelong bond of listings and referrals.


3)
Middle (Cautionary – Not Offensive).
Be bold with dynamic and engaging marketing content (drafted for PropertyMinder customers by our skilled writers) that sends a strong message to your competition: your leads & clients don’t belong to any other agent (or broker). They’re yours. Period.


4)
Thumbs up.
Earn well-rounded approval of your “All Things Real Estate” business (including home care and home improvement resources). Homebrella makes this possible.

5) Pinky swear.
Silently pledge to your leads and clients that you’ll stay informed and up-to-date on the latest technology and best practices to better meet their needs. Hop on just 1-2 short, sweet and informative LIVE webinars per month. Schoolhouse Rock was right: knowledge is power.

 

Let’s take another look at the middle finger (#3).
Sure, you can send out automated, pre-written alerts left and right – but are you taking the time to send out non-template-based, personalized touches?

Whether it’s a few minutes via e-mail or 5 minutes over the phone, your “non-salesy” voice and branding are what keep you memorable with your contacts and, as previously stated, get a clear point across to your competition: Back Off.

Also remember that having in-hand conversation-starters and content to smoothly navigate through phone calls (or e-mail exchanges) can undoubtedly lessen your anxiety and improve the quality of your relationships. However, the trick is to not come off as “scripted” in your tone and delivery of words. Be professionally casual and honest. Ad libbing is a nice touch, too. Need someone to “rehearse” with? We’re all ears.

If you want people..
to hand you over referrals…
to hand you over their trust…
to hand you a considerable income…
and to hand you over their valuable contact info…
…you need to deliver hand-picked, quality and relevant content, 24/7.

Keep in mind that we’re always here to lend a helping hand.

Virtual high-five!

Tim
408.213.4668
tim@propertyminder.com
PropertyMinder Marketing

More marketing advice can be found on our featured
Tip Of The Week Archive & Current Tip Of The Week webpages.