As a real estate agent, generating leads and staying top-of-mind is vital to your prosperity.
Whether you are a real estate agent with years of experience or a new agent just breaking into the market, prospecting can be challenging. Check out our keys to prospecting success in real estate.
Key #1 Evaluate Your Business Plan
Business plan. Sounds simple right? Many of us never actually take a moment to write our plans. Your plan could need some updating, maybe you got a promotion or you’re just breaking into the real estate industry.
Whatever your reason is, now is the time to create a business plan that identifies your goals and your target audience. By doing this you are giving your business a chance to generate leads and keep yourself top-of-mind.
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Key #2 Create a Hyper-Local Marketing Plan
Hyper-local marketing is a concept that we highly encourage at Cole and is something you can start doing! Now that you have evaluated your business plan. How do you focus on those prospects and generate leads?
Hyper-local marketing in real estate prospecting is all about marketing to a specific demographic or localized area. Targeting new and sold listings or open houses is an ideal way to become recognized in the neighborhood. As a start, try creating three touch points. For example, you could send out a flyer, create a targeted social media ad campaign and follow up with a phone call.
By creating these touchpoints, you are driving up your name recognition which in turn will help you be a familiar face and name when they are looking to buy or sell. When a prospect is ready to move, it’s your name they’ll remember because they’ve seen it in their mail, around the neighborhood or on social media. This should be one of your main objectives when real estate prospecting because this will help your sales funnel stay full.
Key #3 Prospect
Did you know over 60% of home sellers use the first agent that contacts them? By prospecting, you are taking that initiative and reaching out to a potential customer that could just be waiting for an agent to contact them.
Here are a few tips, so you can start prospecting today:
- In your schedule, try scheduling one to two hours a week aside which is specifically for prospecting.
- Ask questions, that allow you to get to know a potential customer but also get a feel for the neighborhood.
- Take notes during your conversations. This is vital because when you go back to follow up on a lead, you know what the last conversation was about.
Key #4 Mindset
We all know the real estate market is highly competitive. There are countless other agents trying to prospect just like you. The pace is aggressive and the reality of rejection can be tough to overcome. When your schedule is jam-packed it can be easy to forget to take a break. Burn-out happens before you know it, and it’s hard to remember why you’re doing this in the first place.
Start with taking five to ten minutes each day to focus on your mind. Find a quiet space and focus on your breathing, this can help improve your mood and lower anxiety. In turn, you can focus better on your short term goals for the day and in turn the week.
Agents across the country are growing their sales prospecting with a multi-channel strategy. With Cole Information’s technology platform, brokers and agents can access the data they need to grow their sphere influence, deliver high-quality leads, close more transactions, generate additional commission revenue and increase company profitability.
For over 70 years, Cole has been helping agents and brokers get more listings nationwide. Start generating more leads today with Cole Realty Resource!
