7 Proven Ways to Generate Leads and Referrals with a Custom Real Estate Magazine

Discover imaginative ways to use a custom real estate magazine to nurture relationships and generate leads and referrals. If you’re an agent who’s thinking about adding a custom real estate magazine to your marketing toolbox but aren’t quite sure of its value, then this blog is for you. Beyond mailing them to recipients and hoping… Read more »


“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 »


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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Ep. 249: 3 Ways to Stay Relevant Amid Increasing Technology (with Mike McGlothlin)

 How to Stay Relevant When Technology Threatens Your Job Who should listen: This episode is for financial advisors, real estate agents, and other small business owners wanting to know the way to long-term business success in a world of increasing DIY technologies. Key idea: Deep knowledge of your business, providing value and building trust,… 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 »



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How 5 Top Professionals Use Gratitude Marketing to Boost their Referral Marketing Strategy

Part 3 in our series: How Real Estate Agents Can Optimize Their Referral Marketing Strategies Just for a moment, let’s put aside all the chatter about segmented audiences, testing, analytics, buyer personas, and the other tools of the marketing professional’s trade. Let’s instead get back to a basic concept—showing gratitude—which is arguably the single most… Read more »


7 Must-Have Real Estate Postcards for Agents

Updated September 27, 2023 It’s likely you already know that real estate direct mail postcards (and direct mail in general) are an effective way to generate brand recognition and leads. Real estate postcards also have some unique benefits that make them an excellent choice if you are just starting to experiment with direct mail marketing:… Read more »


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Content Pillars for Social Media: A Beginner’s Guide for Busy Real Estate Agents

Social media managers can get deep into the weeds when developing their content pillars and aligning them with an overall social media marketing strategy. They consider factors such as page authority, keyword optimization, backlinks, and a bunch of other technical aspects that only the professionals truly understand. We won’t get that deep—your job is to… Read more »


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Proven, Road-Tested Ways to Get Real Estate Referrals

7 Stay Paid Podcast Guests Share Their Strategies The 4th and final part in our series: How Real Estate Agents Can Optimize Their Referral Marketing Strategies It’s not often you find a resource that will give you a truly tested and proven solution to a problem. You’ll easily find “ideas,” “suggestions,” “tips,” and the like,… Read more »



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Ep. 271: How to play and WIN the content game (with Jimmy Mackin)

The New Apple Privacy Rule: What Are Marketers Supposed to Do Now? Who should listen: Entrepreneurs looking for ways to use content marketing effectively and efficiently as a direct-to-consumer strategy. Key idea: The writing is on the wall—privacy laws will continue to hamper the effectiveness of push marketing. The best alternative is to attract… Read more »