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11 Real Estate Influencers Agents Should Be Following

The world of real estate can get competitive, so it’s crucial for agents to understand what their peers are doing—particularly the most successful among them. If you’re looking to dominate your local real estate market, here are 11 thought leaders you need to follow on social media right away.  Tom Ferry View this post on… Read more »


How to Improve Email Open Rates by Cleaning Your List

Clean Your List and Improve Email Open Rates

Updated November 12, 2021 Anyone who tells you email marketing is dead isn’t a professional marketer (or they won’t be for long). According to Litmus.com, the ROI for email is 36:1. Think about that for a moment. For every $1 spent, the average return is $36. Personally, we’d take that every day, all day long…. Read more »


Ep. 211 Jeff Lerner: Giving away millionaire secrets

 How to Use Retargeting Ads as a Part of Your Digital Marketing Strategy Jeff Lerner is the epitome of the entrepreneur who simply won’t quit. During his interview with Luke and Josh, he explains that he: Dropped out of high school to become a jazz musician … Got fired from his first job after… Read more »


How to Track Print Ads in Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a great tool for tracking your online marketing efforts. But what about when your ads aren’t online? Here’s a nifty trick for that. Google Analytics can be a great tool to improve your marketing efforts. It can show you where your visitors are coming from and what they do while they’re on… Read more »


7 Costly Mistakes Everyone Makes with Direct Mail Marketing Campaigns

Congratulate yourself on making the decision to start using direct mail! Direct mail is a marketing tool that, unfortunately, some business owners don’t believe in.  But you know better! Still, you do need to take some care when using direct mail. Specifically, you want to avoid these seven costly mistakes when planning your direct mail… Read more »


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Ep. 222: 4 ways to generate leads in 2021

 4 Hot Marketing Ideas for 2021 They’ve been around for years but in 2021, these four marketing ideas—three based solidly on evolving technology and one on good old-fashion human contact—will be at the top of every smart entrepreneur’s list: YouTube videos Predictive analytics Marketing automation Relationship marketing   YouTube: Video marketing has become essential… Read more »


Ep. 169: Mary Grothe – How BQ Beats Out EQ When Driving ACTION in Sales

 Bringing Business Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence Together There is some concern that the sometimes-fanatical allegiance to big data analysis, and the business intelligence it inspires, might overshadow the humanizing influence of the emotional intelligence people bring to decision making.[1] That’s a lot of big ideas shoved into one small sentence, so before we go… Read more »


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The Best Real Estate Postcards for Farming

At some point, every real estate agent asks the same question . . . Do postcards still work in real estate? Of course they do! If they didn’t, there wouldn’t be a boatload of blogs written about them answering all sorts of questions: What is a real estate postcard? What is a farming postcard? What… Read more »


Ep. 247: Step-by-Step Process for Converting Facebook Leads (with Gus Munoz Castro)

 3 Tips for Producing a Higher Conversion Rate from Facebook and Other Online Ads Who should listen: This episode is for real estate agents who want more success in converting Facebook ads to appointments. Key idea: Better-quality leads coupled with a systematic follow-up strategy, including calls that encourage leads to like and trust you,… Read more »


Ep. 201: A conversation with 30-under-30 Top Realtor, Cyrus Mohseni

 What Does It Take to Succeed? To succeed in business, it helps to succeed in life. Helping you succeed as an entrepreneur is what Stay Paid is all about. Week after week, Luke and Josh interview highly successful entrepreneurs and ask them questions about how they built their businesses and what advice they would… Read more »


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Ep. 382: 6 Insanely Effective TikTok Tips

 TikTok Tips to Enhance Your Brand Awareness and Grow Your Following Who should listen: If you found the TikTok tips from Episode 376 helpful, then you need to hear these additional six professional tips from podcast producer and social media manager, Arielle! Her expertise got us 50K followers in only three months! Key idea:… Read more »