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Tools to Target Seller Leads and Listings in a Tight Inventory Market

With inventory dipping (NAR’s latest report detailed housing inventory sinking to 1.07 million and a 1.9 month supply back in December), real estate agents and teams across the country are feeling desperate for new listings. So how can you make sure you’re attracting seller leads and landing those listings instead of the competition?

 

Lead Generation Real Estate Plan

Make that Marketing Seller Lead Focused

Most of your tried-and-true ad campaigns are probably focused on attracting homebuyers. It’s time to rethink that marketing strategy. Create content and resources that are appealing to sellers.

 

Home valuations and neighborhood market reports

A home valuation landing page entices visitors with instant reports on their home’s value and a summary of the market area. Create a gated landing page with this offer, so that seller leads register, and the lead information and property details are instantly added to your CRM. With systems like BoomTown, all their property details and contact information will be auto-populated, even if they only submit an address.

 

Helpful content to help with the "moving mentality"
Create content (blogs, downloadable guides, etc.) that helps potential sellers by answering their questions and concerns. This could include navigating the process of getting ready to sell, deciding if it's the right time to downsize, or the right time to upgrade (for example, a pool for the kids, or a dedicated home office for remote work).

 

Testimonials from past sold properties 

Highlight your past sold properties (especially if sold above asking!) and gather quotes and reviews that showcase your expert service, how taken care of your clients felt, and how simple you made the process for them.

 

Social Media Advertising to target sellers

Tools like BoomTown’s Marketing Central make seller lead social media marketing easy. Look for tools that take the guesswork and automate both the ad creation and audience targeting process, so you can easily:

  • Build advertising campaigns through channels such as Instagram and Facebook to showcase successfully sold properties. Once you land that listing, use ads to promote open houses and highlight the property.
  • Create powerful retargeting campaigns that generate content a lead would be most interested in, and bring “abandoners” back to your website
  • Leverage built-in reporting to get results in real-time and optimize your ad spend
  • Show your potential seller clients how much exposure their property could receive, and how effectively you can promote it!

 

Real Estate Lead Generation

Monitor your database for seller lead activity

Your existing database is chock-full of potential sellers. Are you taking advantage? You need the tools to sift and segment those contacts into workable lists that prioritize actions that might spur selling.

 

Every lead should be on some sort of e-Alert for their neighborhood, or drip to keep them engaged. Create target lists of homeowners based on attributes like "$100,000+ in equity", have stayed "in their home for 5+ years", a "past client from 3 years ago," etc. and provide them with relevant information.

 

NAR’s 2020 Profile of Buyers and Sellers reported 89%of sellers saying they would rehire their agent. But, only 26% actually did. This is simply because those agents failed to stay in touch. With the right system, this is completely avoidable (and automatic).

 

  • Keep in touch with past clients and your SOI with automated nurture campaigns.
  • Send quick videos with market updates, explanations as to why it’d be a good time to test the market and a “are you thinking about selling?” message.
  • Text your Vcard. Including your Vcard in texting campaigns legitimizes your message increases the likelihood of a response.
  • Segment your database into different categories to be able to provide specific and relevant information directly to each subset.

Lead Generation Plan

 

Take Care of All  Your New Leads

 

Did you ignore a lot of buyer leads in 2020? With so many inquiries coming in while you’re trying to handle active clients, it’s easy for new leads to slip through the cracks. But this is not a sustainable system. According to NAR, 50% of those buyer leads were purchasing contingent on selling their property. That’s a lot of potential listings you’re missing from your buyers.

 

If you’re not following up on every buyer lead you receive and asking if they need to sell their current property to purchase their next home, you’re losing a listing for every two leads you ignored.

 

Too crunched for lead response? This is a huge issue for so many teams. Leverage lead response and nurturing service like BoomTown’s Success Assurance Program. You get expert lead response concierges acting on your behalf to respond to every lead who takes action, 24/7, in as little as 90 seconds, and they’ll nurture them for up to a year!

 

You can land those listings if you have the tools to create amazing experience for your potential sellers (without taking more time and resources from your day). In many cases, homeowners are unaware of the possibilities to upsize, downsize, get a huge return, you-name-it, and it’s your job as an agent and trustworthy expert, to help them navigate the market, understand their options, and deliver the ideal customer experience.

 

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