definition of a lemming .. .. a person who
unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction.
If you are an agent, why do follow the set path that every
other agent does to try and drum up business?
All of you go on two of the three main portals, all of you
have a website that if you changed the background colours and name of your
agency at the top, they would be identical, all of you have boards, all of you
are the same.
In the crowded marketplace, where there are 20, 30, 40, 50+ agents in
your town, fitting in is a failure, because not standing out is the same as
being invisible.
That’s the difficulty you have with having so many competitors, is that
it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method,
to find a new way.
If you are an agent, be it lettings, be it estate agency, don’t be
lemming like, don’t unthinkingly join a mass movement, especially a
headlong rush to jumping off the proverbial cliff to oblivion
The future of lettings and estate agency is about having connections to
homeowners and landlords and the knowledge of what those homeowners and
landlords want.
... and homeowners and landlords don’t
care about you, don’t care your
agency, don’t care your services, don’t care your website, don’t care the awards you have won, don’t care about the fact you are
professional, don’t care you go on this website or that website, don’t care how wonderful you are, don’t care the fact you have smashed
your targets this month, don’t care you
have let/sold 30 properties this month, don’t
care the fact you are opening another branch, don’t care you have the highest scores in ARLA, don’t care you have bought a competitor
out .. you care and your Mum cares .. but homeowners and landlords simply don’t
give a sh*t (harsh I know but you know
its true)
People only care about themselves, they only care about what interests them,
they care about what excites them, they care about what keeps them up a night,
.. but they don’t care about you or your
agency
.. but do care about what their property is worth, what is happening to
the local property market to their property (be it rental or homeownered)
Stay with me on this ... Think about it, 100% of the homeowners in your
town ...live your town (because they live in the property they are
interested about.. in fact some might say obsessed about). On the rental
side, apart from five small locations in the UK, 50% to 60% of landlords live
in the suburb / town (and immediate area / villages) where they buy their buy
to let properties....
Therefore, its all about connecting with every homeowner and landlord
in your town and knowing what interests them ...
Just become the fountain of all knowledge about your town’s property
market, become the property guru of your town, newspapers will ask you for
comment, BBC radio stations will ask you to be interviewed, and vendors and
landlords will want to do business with the best person .. you
By becoming the guru, then you will break the mould and you will become
the daddio agent in your town .. I guarantee it