Lead generation is the lifeblood of every real estate agent’s success, but it tends to be a time-consuming, inefficient, and frustrating process. Enter artificial intelligence, or AI lead generation. Designed to collect, analyze, and interpret mountains of data, real estate AI has an enormous capacity to identify promising leads, understand what they want, and create… Read more »
AI for Realtors®: How Agents Can Use Artificial Intelligence to Generate Real Estate Leads
11 Wildly Effective Social Media Marketing Ideas for Insurance Agents
If you’re an independent insurance agent who struggles with attracting qualified leads and being remembered by your name rather than by the name of the carriers whose policies you sold, then social media presents a tremendous opportunity to affect both. Effective use of social media can improve both the quality of the customer experience you… 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 »
8 Lead Gen Tactics For Agents Your Competitors Aren’t Using
How can you spark that all-important conversation that leads to your next lead—and your next deal? We recently heard about a client who hands out promotional copies of her magazine to the customer behind her in the Starbucks line. This gives her the opportunity to provide value and start a dialogue with neighbors and potential… Read more »
Ep. 295: How Dave Fink Is Reinventing Direct Mail for a Digital World
 Bridging the Gap Between Direct Mail and Digital Marketing Who should listen: Any marketer who wants to be smarter about how they plan, execute, and track their direct mail campaigns. Key idea: With new technologies, direct mail is becoming increasingly sophisticated with capabilities to predict and respond more quickly to lead-generating opportunities. Action item:… Read more »
3 Easy Tips for Agents to Increase Brand Awareness with Local SEO
When you’re searching for a local business or service, where do you turn? More than likely you grab your phone or open your laptop and rely on a search engine to fire back a plethora of results within a few seconds. Let’s face it: with the internet, searching is a breeze. But have you ever… Read more »
6 Video Marketing Tips For Real Estate Agents
Guest blogger Andre Oentoro promotes videos as marketing tools that excel at immediately capturing and keeping your audience’s attention, engaging them for longer periods, and enhancing recall. The internet and advent of third-party platforms like Zillow have forever changed how people look for available properties. While people most often find their real estate agent… Read more »
Ep. 45: Interview with Ed Stulak: Taking Your Marketing and Lead-Gen into the Digital Age
Ed Stulak, aka the “The Millennial Real Estate Agent,” has used his youth to his advantage—taking the industry by storm with his innovative and relevant social media tactics. On today’s episode of Stay Paid, Luke and Josh talk with Stulak about how he has turned his creativity on social media into huge deals for his… Read more »
How to Integrate Real Estate CMAs into Your Marketing
A CMA is a powerful tool that is used by many real estate agents to ensure an equitable sale. But even more than that, agents can integrate real estate CMAs into their marketing strategies to supercharge campaigns, get more leads, and win more business. This article offers four suggestions agents can use to leverage the… Read more »
How to Use Email to Increase ROI on Your Open House
Open houses can be great for a lot of reasons. On one hand, they’re an effective way to get local leads interested in a property you’re trying to sell. On the other, they give you an amazing opportunity to connect with buyer leads—particularly if you’re hosting an open house as a favor for another agent…. Read more »
iBuyers vs. Agents: Is This a War Agents Can Win?
There’s no denying that the real estate industry has been poised for some radical changes that have now been made manifest. The rising popularity of ibuyers programs like Zillow Offers is one of those changes. ibuyers aren’t new. They’ve been around since 1989, when HomeVestors of America was founded. (HomeVestors is the parent company of… Read more »
The Dos and Don’ts of Letter Writing
Updated August 2022 How to Write a Letter to Clients With all due respect to Ray Tomlinson, the purported inventor of email, email is to letter writing as video is to the radio star. With email’s speed, ease, and accessibility there’s little wonder as to why good old-fashioned pen and paper letter writing is something… Read more »
