You don’t have to be crazy to work in real estate, but it sure helps!
Instead of running into the hills and never looking back, grab a nice relaxing beverage (we won’t judge) sit back, and check out this list of all the crazy, funny, problems that Realtors share that no one else gets.
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If you’ve spent any amount of time trying to come up with great real estate branding, you’ll eventually reach one conclusion: building a brand is HARD.
Like, really hard.
Luckily, like a lot of things in real estate, branding gets easier.
In order to do it well, you need to learn from the best, and apply a few tried and true rules that branding experts swear on.
To get you started, here’s a granular look at what we think are examples of the best real estate branding in 2018.
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In the scrappy early days of the Corcoran Group, Barbara Corcoran made a big bet…
On video tapes. Yes, the ancient relics you got charged $1 for not “rewinding”.
Inspired by cutting edge technology, she dropped tens of thousands into creating “video listings” her clients could watch before looking at apartments.
It flopped. She lost a ton of money.
That got us wondering. Is Instagram the VHS tape of today? Is anybody actually getting leads from Instagram?!
With all the breathless headlines in the New York Times about Instagram influencers being paid princely sums to look cool in hard-to-sell Beverly Hills mansions, the answer wasn’t so obvious…
In order to find out, we tapped 6 top producers who are crushing it on Instagram today: Dusty J Baker, Rochelle Maize, Ines Hegedus-Garcia, Joyce Rey, Tiffany Alexy, and Boutique RE founder Raj Qsar.
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Considering that an astonishing 41% of today’s agents are on teams, it was only a matter of time before someone decided to build a real estate CRM solely for teams. Enter Follow Up Boss.
Over the past few years real estate CRM Follow Up Boss has quietly started to dominate the team market.
In fact, they’ve been so successful that an amazing 9 out of the top 50 Real Trends teams for 2018 use Follow up Boss to engage, nurture, and close leads.
[Read more…] about Follow Up Boss Review: The Best Real Estate CRM for Teams?
Even if you’re business is 100% online, having great real estate business cards can only help your personal brand.
In order to give you some inspiration, we put together this list of our 25 favorite real estate business cards and 7 mistakes to avoid when designing your own cards.
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Have you ever wondered how your personal agent website stacks against the Top 25 agents on the Real Trends 500?
Well, wonder no more.
In order to see how the masters of the real estate universe roll online, we decided to take a deep dive into their websites and kick the tires a bit.
Using a mixture of objective measurements (Domain Authority, Google Page Speed Insights) combined with subjective measurements (how much we dig how the site looks) we came up with the Close Score; our shiny new system to rank agent websites.
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Many agents have already given up. Sure they still spend thousands on online ads, but somewhere along the way, some (negative) agent convinced them that open houses “don’t work”.
Meanwhile, agents who study the best real estate open house ideas are filling up their team’s CRM with leads that are perfect for nurturing campaigns.
In order to get you thinking outside the box about lead generation, we talked to 15 top producing agents and got them to give up their best real estate open house ideas for 2018:
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A Princeton University study found that people judge others within one tenth of a second of meeting them…
How long do you think it takes them to get a first impression of your listing?
The answer of course, is not very long. That’s why curb appeal, how your listing looks from the perspective of a passerby, is crucial to successful property marketing.
In order to help agents from all walks of life get the most bang for their curb appeal buck we put together this list of the best curb appeal ideas for every budget.
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Address: 9927 Giffin Ct, Windermere, Florida
Listing Agent: Danial Natoli
Brokerage: Sotheby’s International Realty
Asking price: $28,000,000
When it comes to cultural icons they don’t get much uh, bigger, than Shaq. Or should I say Shaq Attack. Shaq Fu. The Big Shaqtus. Superman. The Big Shamrock. Or maybe Wilt Chamberneezy?
[Read more…] about Listing of the Week: The (Totally Bonkers) House Shaq Built
LionDesk is the real estate CRM version of a great screwdriver… It does one thing really well, it’s affordable, and its essential for doing your job properly. Pretty much everything you want from a great tool to close more deals with less stress.
[Read more…] about LionDesk Reviews: The New King of the Real Estate CRM Jungle?