400 ARTICLES on getting more instructions for your estate Agency
Growing an estate agency is hard work. I have walked in your shoes and I know its like pulling teeth to get more stock to sell
The biggest problem is it’s getting in front of the house seller in the first place. Looking at the official stats, every agent’s stock is the lowest it has ever been. Competition is really tough, with new agents opening up all the time and offering 0% to grab market share. The Purplebricks and Yopa’s of this world are slowly growing and you are starting to get the sweepings up off the floor.
You see, when you are battling for every single listing, it’s bloody hard work to keep your fees up. You go out on the free val to the nicest housing estate in town to a gorgeous semi that will sell like hot cakes. You have found out there are four agents going round. A couple of sharp suited ‘sell their granny’ and ‘slag everyone off’ merchants corporates and the 100 year old independent who has 30% market share … and then you.
What are your chances against those?
How tempting is it to drop from 1.5% to 0.75% to get the listing? .. it makes you weep… so I thought …
Enough is enough … I thought there has to be a different way
So a few years ago I decided to find a different way to grow an agency – one that didn’t involve cutting fees or overvaluing or hard sales techniques – and most importantly, one that made the job enjoyable.
After much research, I found out through trial and error that if an agent stopped talking about themselves, their firm or their services .. and started to talk about what was happening in the local property market, in terms of house prices, rents, yields, capital growth etc, homeowners and landlords were naturally attracted to the agent.
Why? .. because the agent was talking about something the homeowner and landlord were interested in .. their local property market.
Since 2013, I have written a blog about my journey helping hundreds of letting and estate agents grow their agencies .. and now I have passed the 400 post mark ..
400 blog posts all about getting more people, more landlords, more vendors to use your estate and lettings agency.
There are training videos on the system, downloadable content, guides on writing the articles yourself, guides on how to implement the system, my thoughts etc .. all designed to help you grow your agency.
So here is the link … there are hours and hours of posts to read .. but you will learn lots .. so have a look, and maybe ‘Favourite’ the page so you can dip in and out when you have time. … so here it is ..
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