“Best of” Video Ideas for Real Estate Agents

Use these video ideas for real estate agents to attract leads and prove your status as the local expert in your market. If you want to increase your brand awareness, foster greater engagement, and build trust in your role as the go-to local expert, one of the easiest, most cost-effective, and fun video ideas for… Read more »



stock market

The Best Marketing Plan for Financial Advisors – What the Data Say

Updated May 5, 2021 There is no shortage of advice available to financial advisors and broker-dealers about how to market their businesses. I’ve seen advice ranging from sending birthday and holiday cards to hiring a marketing firm or consultant whose expertise is working with financial services professionals. But if you’re a new advisor who’s only… Read more »


""

A Real Estate Agent’s Guide to Building a Personal Marketing Plan

Building a personal marketing plan can be a challenge, even if it’s only because not everyone understands what a personal marketing plan is. It’s not unusual to find writers and marketers using a variety of industry terms imprecisely. You’ll even find cases where they use words and terms with different meanings interchangeably. Words such as… Read more »


""

How to Market Luxury Real Estate to High-End Clients

What makes marketing to high-net-worth individuals, very high-net-worth individuals, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs, VHNWIs, and UHNWIs) such a challenge is that these elite groups of people are both like and not like those of us who have normal jobs. Now, granted, they’re more unlike the majority of us, but the similarities are worth considering. Luxury… Read more »


""

The Best Marketing Strategies for Your Small Business

Of all the types of marketing strategies out there, the one I’m about to discuss with you is easy to understand, simple to implement, and, above all, exceptionally effective. And whether you’re a real estate agent, independent financial advisor, insurance broker, roofer, landscaper, interior designer, or any other type of small business owner, you can… Read more »


how-to-make-your-branding-business-marketing

5 Tips for Building a Personal Brand

Updated July 2023 Actively shaping and reinforcing perceptions of who you are so that you encourage people to know, like, and trust you is the work of building your personal brand. Think of any established brand—Starbucks, for example—and immediately a distinct image comes to mind. Whether it’s the recognizable white cup with the familiar green… Read more »


""

3 Essential Steps to Branding Yourself as a Real Estate Agent

In the minds of many bloggers (and perhaps in the minds of many marketers and agents as well), branding yourself as a real estate agent and branding your real estate business are the same thing, so they discuss the two ideas in the same way regardless of what their blog titles may imply. These bloggers… Read more »


woman in blue shirt looking at camera with man behind her

The Complete Guide to Creating a Brand Identity for Real Estate Agents

At one time, all you needed to find success as a real estate agent was a box of business cards, a decent headshot, and a place to hang your license. Now, however, individual agents, team leaders, and brokers are working to define themselves and their services through branding and marketing. An effective real estate branding… Read more »


Ep. 170: How to Develop and Position Your Brand

 How to Build a Brand An introduction to small business branding Branding your small business is an exceptionally important part of your business plan, but that doesn’t mean it has to be complicated. If you’re just starting out or if you’re thinking about rebranding a small business, you could hire a branding agency or… Read more »



Ep. 475: Build Your Personal Brand in Only 6 Steps

 Building a Personal Brand: 6 Steps to a Creating a Personal Brand You Control Your business has a brand. The critical question is, “Who will control it—you or your audience?” One of the most important lessons to learn in marketing is that you have a brand whether you’ve created it yourself or not. For… Read more »