Agent Intelligence for 2015: Real Estate Marketing Secrets from the ProsMASTER MARKETERS SHARE THEIR KILLER TIPS FOR SUCCESS

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SECRET TIP: When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

GUY KAWASAKIChief Evangelist

Canva

@GuyKawasaki

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SECRET TIP: Own and inspire your local community offline and on. Inform, tickle, connect, and spark prospects and clients with well designed multimedia content strategies — video, email, social media — all centered around finding a home and lifestyle that’s perfect for your clients. The finishing touch: brilliant customer service.

LAURA MONROEDirector of Industry Engagement and Social Media

Inman News @LauraMonroe

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SECRET TIP: Using analytics to make data driven decisions is the new competitive edge, real results come from insight, without it you’re driving blind.

FREDERICK TOWNESCo-Founder

Placester

@w3edge

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SECRET TIP: Storytelling and a comprehensive content strategy are vital. I am seeing more brokerages starting to understand the value of telling their story and creating valuable con-tent - not just blasting out marketing messages on social media, but truly telling the story of their culture and their passion for the business.

KATIE LANCEFounder and CEO

Katie Lance Consulting

@katielance

SECRET TIP: Use visuals effectively. The human brain processes visuals 60,000 times faster than text, and millennial buyers highly resonate with photo-driven experiences. In the age of infobesity, using high-quality, contemporary and interesting visuals as part of your content strategy will help your business stand out from the digital noise and your competition.

EKATERINA WALTERSocial Media Trailblazer and Bestselling Author

www.ekaterinawalter.com

@Ekaterina

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SECRET TIP: Don’t always go for the ask. Remem-ber that rapport is built based on giving more often than you receive. It’s not all about you.

ALEXANDRA GIBSONVP of Marketing

Contactually

@gibsondm

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SECRET TIP: There is an unquestionable differ-ence between branding and marketing. As a business owner, you will need the ability to make the distinction. Ultimately, your brand is how the consumer feels about you, not what you say about yourself.

JODA MIZEFounder

Girl’s Guide to Real Estate

@JodaMize

SECRET TIP: In the increasingly bland-looking marketing landscape being offered by most real estate agents, I’d suggest you quickly identify your own ‘magnificent point of differ-ence’ and play that banjo hard! Bland and bor-ing is dead. Stand out!

PETER BREWEROwner

That Peter Brewer

@thatpeterbrewer

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SECRET TIP: Publishing high-quality content is the new equivalent of driving a Mercedes. You may not be selling million-dollar homes (yet!), but your marketing should look like you do.

ANNE JONESRealtor

Windermere Professional Partners

@tacomajones

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SECRET TIP: Your personal brand story and your niche statement are both key in designing a life and business you love. You must define your values, what fires you up, and your true purpose. Only then can you uncover ideal clients who identify with your values, share your passions, have a need your purpose fills, and will delight in the experience you create!

DEBRA TRAPPENCEO and Owner

d11 consulting, LLC @debra11

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STEPHEN SCHWEICKARTFounder and CEO

VScreen

@VScreen

SECRET TIP: It isn’t about you. The harsh reality is that most people don’t care about your dog Fido or how many kids you have. They care about themselves and what you can do for them.

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SECRET TIP: Before you spend one penny on marketing in 2015, take the time to understand your unique value proposition and target audience(s), then create some personas and identify your goals. Only then are you really prepared to know how to spend your time, energy and money.

RIVERS PEARCEDirector of Digital Strategy

BoomTown

@RiversPearce

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CAROL FARRAROwner and Broker

1850 Realty

@carolfarrar

SECRET TIP: Build community. The people who know, like and trust you are your advocates. Spend time building and strengthening those relationships authentically through informal gatherings, events or meetups at local busi-nesses.

SECRET TIP: Online marketing isn’t rocket sci-ence, half the battle is showing up every day to be authentic and do the work other people just talk about.

SETH PRICEVP of Sales and Marketing

Placester

@sethstuff

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SECRET TIP: Over 55% of real estate professionals are not working with online reviews, and 85% of consumers are there. Much like what hap-pened with websites - and is now happening with mobile - the agent reviews trend will fully tip over in the next 18 months. Get your house in order and start getting positive reviews!

JACK MILLERCEO

T3 Experts

@jackmiller

KIM COLAPRETEBroker

Team Diva Real Estate

@SeattleDivas

SECRET TIP: Success in real estate marketing is all about being unique and consistent and fully implementing your vision. Many brilliant ideas are left in spiral notebooks, Evernote brain-storms or Facebook group chats. Commit to your brand, vision and plan. The real magic happens when you know your niche and take that brilliant idea from the notebook to the streets!

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ZACH SCHABOTFounder

Go Realty

@zachschabot

SECRET TIP: Tell great stories! There is something special about every house and every client. It’s your job to figure that something special out and share it.

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SAM DEBORDManaging Broker

The Seattle Homes Group

@SEATTLEHOMEoCOM

SECRET TIP: As a small business, nimbleness is your advantage. Be unique, express local flavor and create what the goliaths can’t. Achieve an emotional connection through your personality.

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ARA MAMOURIANBroker of Record

Spring Realty

@AraMammo

SECRET TIP: If you aren’t expressing your opin-ions strongly in your content, you’re losing opportunities to create relationships. After all, it’s the content that sparks a conversation which leads to relationships - and if nurtured properly, those relationships drive transactions.

SECRET TIP: Approach real estate marketing with a very simple philosophy: Remember that you are not in the transaction business - you are in the relationship business. Begin on day one to build customers for life. Every deal you do should lead to a stream of additional deals, and that only happens when you build relation-ships. Seek out the tools that will allow you to create and nurture relationships for the long term.

BEVERLY THORNECMO

Century 21

@BevThorne

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SECRET TIP: If you have more usernames and passwords than you do leads, you’re doing it wrong. Figure out what works for lead genera-tion and do that more.

CHRIS SMITHCo-Founder

Curaytor

@CuraytorDotCom

BEN KINNEYOperating Principal

Keller Williams Realty

@benkinney

SECRET TIP: How a home shows is the most important form of marketing. Not just staging, but also how it shows online. Use new technol-ogy like drones to get aerial photographs that will get buyers excited and get sellers to list with you.

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WENDY FORSYTHEExecutive Vice President/Head of Global Operations

Carrington Real Estate Services

@brandWendy

SECRET TIP: Real estate professionals need to think in terms of platform marketing, develop core messages across various tools and medi-ums and use these platforms to tell their unique real estate stories.

SECRET TIP: Remove your personal interests and personal promotion from your marketing and focus on client needs. While being number one in your market gets you to the kitchen table, there’s no need to continue the self-promo-tion once you’re sitting at the table. From that point on, it’s about them.

IMRAN POLADIVice President

NextHome, Inc. @imranpoladi

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NICOLE NICOLAYRealtor, Ironmom

The Engel Group, JRockcliff Realtors

@nik_nik

SECRET TIP: Infuse your marketing with your pas-sion for real estate and life. Then, use that pas-sion to help others—whether it’s with their next real estate transaction or running their first 5K. The payoff will motivate and inspire you to exceed your own expectations and goals. More importantly, it will create a lasting effect in the lives of the people you help, so when it’s time for them to make a move, they’ll remember more than just your name. They’ll remember, and want to work with, your passion.

SECRET TIP: Be consistent and come from con-tribution. Be the agent that your clients know, like and trust. Be the answer to all of their problems.

LISA ARCHERCEO

Keller Williams-Live Love Charlotte

@LisaArcher

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SECRET TIP: Stop focusing on technologies and marketing that you think are going to help you. It’s not about you. Rather, think about the tech-nologies that will help the people you serve. Dive deep into what they use, how they use it, when they use it and what they are really look-ing for as an end result. It is the consumer that will change your business. Find the technology, systems and marketing they want and how they want it and deliver that!

JEFF LOBBFounder and CEO

SparkTank Media

@jefflobb

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SECRET TIP: Identify your most enthusiastic cli-ents - those who have referred you a signif-icant amount of business - and ask each of them a question: “When you refer someone to me, what is it you tell them?” Within the answers, you will find your value proposition.

SARAH JONESBroker

Bamboo Realty

@sarahssjones

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SECRET TIP: We now live in a data-driven world with an unprecedented opportunity to know our markets and our customers -- and it’s time to get busy. Deep analysis of that data is a crit-ical marketing advantage today, but will simply be table stakes tomorrow.

PAUL TYMACo-Founder

Refresh

@paultyma

SECRET TIP: Focus all of your marketing efforts on a single point, niche, idea and demographic you are trying to market to, and pound away at it forever. Be specific and focused. It’s way too easy to waste marketing dollars.

MARK CHOEYCo-Founder and Partner

Climb Real Estate Group

@mchoey

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SECRET TIP: It’s all about the story.

Online lead generation is going to continue to reign supreme.

JILLIENE HELMANFounder and CEO

Realty Mogul

@JillieneHelman

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SECRET TIP: Embrace technology, and learn how to leverage it in real estate. Understand the various technologies that can help you market yourself versus marketing a property! If you build your business correctly, you should not have to pay for leads.

AMY SMYTHE HARRISCo-Owner and Broker

Urban Provision Realtors

@amyoutloud

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SECRET TIP: The real estate agent’s world just got bigger via ‘agent expansion.’ That will be the game-changer on many levels in 2015. Educate your audience on who you are: the local real estate expert who can help this one particular client’s home get sold. The bigger you are, the more important it is to have a consistent mes-sage.

KRISTAN COLEVice President of Mega Agent Expansion

Keller Williams Realty

@WasillaHomes

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