How To Get More People To Use Your Lettings and Estate Agency Blog

Estate Agents - The only reason your Facebook Ads or marketing leaflet campaigns aren’t working is that your advert has to bring value. The No.1 thing that is happening in society the way people value time.. time is exploding in value to us because we all now live in a 24/7/365 world. 
People don’t want read your self-serving propaganda on your estate agency, your sales message, landlords wanted, your Rightmove pie chart, what you have sold, and why your agency is so good. 
What Estate Agency advertising (in fact all advertising) has doing since the 1980’s is it stopping you from doing what you want to do and it's selling you something which means by nature it is stealing your time which is why the second you decide that to stop selling and give out valuable content and you actually want to bring people value instead of selling them something … you win.   
Talk about the one thing every homeowner and landlord in your town is interested in  .. what is happening to the local property m…

I love to go to the Christmas market in Stamford with Senior Management (the wife)… especially the food bit. This year there were two cheese sellers .. and both made cheese and their farm. They sell an almost indistinguishable product (Red Leicester cheese), but one was selling three or four times as much cheese as the other. Their marketing techniques were comparable. Try and catch people’s eye, give them a sample of the cheese (with cocktail stick – this is Lincolnshire) to try and use that time the potential punter is munch the cheese to go into sales mode The first cheesemaker informs his potential punters his cheese is the best Red Leicester cheese in the UK. ‘I should know, I make it,’ he proudly declares. The second cheesemaker tells potential punters that his cheese are vegan, dairy and gluten free. ‘Its delicious when a thick chunk is cut and eaten with some warm bread. Great grated on pizza and when having a nice glass of vino on a Friday night afterwork .. the bold, yet mello…

Think of your three best friends ..  then I asked you to describe them in no more than five words .. I bet without a missing an heartbeat you might say fun, caring, faithful, big hearted or unstinting, yet if I asked you to tell me about your estate agency’s qualities, traits or attributes  … would it be so easy to reel off five words?  Estate and Letting Agents spend so much time and effort in becoming known without telling people what we, as agents, want to be known for. All I’m suggesting is that if we, as estate and letting agents want to have a opportunity in how our estate and letting agency is seen and noticed (ie people’s perception of our agency) in the big bad world, then we need to be purposeful about creating that perception. … because if you don’t tell your story – somebody else will.

In this busy 24-7 social media, where the average human  gets 2,000 adverts pushed at us a day world, when we manage a agents to get our advert in front of someone, albeit for a fleeting few seconds, the mistake we make as estate and letting agents is believing that we need to give potential landlords and house sellers all the information about our agency and why its so much better than every other agency.. whilst we have their ever so brief attention. That is what the teachers taught us at school. We were not reprimanded for writing down everything we knew on our answer sheets for our essays and exams. If you wanted top marks on your exams – you dumped everything on the page ..  yet this doesn’t work when we are dealing with real life people. The objective isn’t just to deliver the evidence that we are the best agent in town by giving chapter and verse .. far from it … it’s to grab the imagination of the house seller or landlord. As children, we communicated in stories, not facts and f…

Purplebricks - Why have they got the lions market share of the online Estate Agents? https://youtu.be/CQRd-4EylAU
What can High Street learn from Online Estate Agents? https://youtu.be/AJpiTUxHB6Y
What is the future of UK Online Estate Agency Model? (Adam Day)  https://youtu.be/dk7FwLH5OF8
Should Estate Agents boycott Rightmove this winter? https://youtu.be/Aby_FgdQxTo
What would you do in the next 2 yrs as a hybrid agent? https://youtu.be/BSNkSiXV8A4

Adam Day - Why did you move to EasyProperty? https://youtu.be/r5HG_HmcSE8

Simon Whale - Who do you admire in UK Estate Agency Profession?  https://youtu.be/F4c3h_JIZ0o
Simon Whale - What would change about your life? https://youtu.be/JrAUZAsBujU
Simon Whale - Are Estate Agency Awards worth it? https://youtu.be/oHSfxz8QOsE
Simon Whale - Who are the best 3 Estate Agents in the UK https://youtu.be/KI5AD7t88zU
Simon Whale - Why are Estate Agents rubbish at prospecting? https://youtu.be/1JXjm2dqJ5s
Why is 80pc of PropTech a waste of time? https://youtu.be/yr1ZzeoX10s
 PropTech for Prop Tech's Sake - Simon Whale vs Watkin https://youtu.be/eXj4q_jP8x4
Simon Whale - Why is it difficult to swap CRM systems in Estate/Letting Agency? https://youtu.be/M2ON6q0Hd_Y
Simon Whale talks PropTech and Estate Agency https://youtu.be/qC6fZXYE6BY

What are Simon Whale's plans after REAPIT?  https://youtu.be/erjIGdPE7IE

VIDEOS ABOUT THE ESTATE AGENCY INDUSTRY
Top tips for Canvassing from Iain McKenzie https://youtu.be/ZKWZnuoz0kA
Customer Care in Estate Agency https://youtu.be/WT7lyi53bWo
Estate Agents - Is there an imbalance between staff and PropTech? https://youtu.be/55CkZMSkd9c
How do Estate Agents increase Market Share? https://youtu.be/21dmMYpwadc
Estate Agents - GREAT SCRIPTS for Negs and Valuers https://youtu.be/ZUTnSFirHSc
Do Estate Agents get paid enough? https://youtu.be/0fxk_ipuZiw
Do Estate Agency Bosses train their staff enough? https://youtu.be/KIB3tBySYPU
iain McKenzie talks about Compliance in Estate Agency https://youtu.be/RW6stgW7j5k
Iain McKenzie - What one thing would you change about Estate Agency? https://youtu.be/JLielnrve8I

In this 21stCentury internet world we increasingly see choices to choose the quick digital shortcut over a handcrafted, individual personal reply. Don’t get me wrong, I love the cut and paste email message on Facebook .. but could it  bee seen as just that? When we communicate on autopilot instead of individually, thoughtfully and with humanity .. what will we become? Robotic? I have learnt there is not shortcut for caring. No alternative for connection that is meaningful and deep. If you want to get more landlords and more home owners to use your agency, you have to do it one by one, you have to do the work of being the kind of person who makes the effort to build the relationships that matter .. if want to create the future you want to see.  We are not in the property business moving people .. we are in the people business helping them move home.   … And if you believe that .. then surely, as we are all individual human beings  .. surely our communication must be on a one to one basis…

Desperate for more listings, desperate for more valuation leads, desperate for more house sellers and more landlords  … Many agents are looking for the shortcut to success – trust me – there is no shortcut. If you want to eradicate those problems I mentioned in the first sentence, there is a solution.  This is a remarkable truth in this world, and here it is – there’s a distinct remarkable form of influence, its being perceived as a someone. Being perceived as a someone, the leader, the authority, those who possess it have power. Think of all the people you look upto .. your boss, celebrities, powerful business people, Warren Buffet, Richard Branson .. the list goes on It’s a basic human trait .. look to those in authority to lead us, guide us, protect us. So, here is the meaning of authority, then you can tell me if authority runs widespread in estate agency?  Authority is defined as the power or the right to guide, give orders, lead, make decisions and enforce conformity. Sounds rather s…

Every Estate and Letting Agent wants to attract new vendors and landlords using social media, email marketing and websites these days. Difficulty is, not many agents know how to do it correctly. Lobbing up a website, getting on FB, LinkedIn, Twitter etc and going on unceasingly about yourself, your agency or your agency’s services won’t work.
Instead, you need to talk ABOUT the landlords and potential house sellers and also, you need to talk WITH them as well
Try not to play it safe either.. don’t fear a bit of left field controversy or wary talking about the hard-hitting topics. Grow a robust and sturdy personality around your morals and ethics — a distinctive and individual brand voice that your prospective landlords and potential house sellers can communicate with and relate to.
Ultimately, be an authority, an authority of your local property market, because by doing so, you will appeal to authoritative clients as well as getting the results you deserve

We all hate losing a listing to the competition … cheap fees, overvaluing, silver tongued BS merchant that over promises etc .. the same reasons I lost listings 25 years ago are the same reasons today … and let’s be honest, sometimes it is wise to walk away on overvaluing or cheap fees .. BUT .. what strategy have you got to get them back?

This is so important with the market tempering in many locations in the UK
The vast majority of listers reading this might make a diary note to call the week before the last of the sole agency (and if we are being honest) .. might ring once (if we are lucky) .. twice if its  a slow week … only to see it swap agents to another BS agent a few weeks later.
So what I am suggesting?
Ring them up .. constantly and get them to ultimately say no for a second time
Getting your ‘lost listing vendors’ to say no a second time, is critical to improving your overall level of new instructions. 
Too often Valuers / Listers say no on behalf of that lost vendor and it cost…