Let’s engage in a rapid round of “Guess Who?” — advertising and marketing tech edition.
Google is jealous that 40% of Gen Z use me [along with TikTok] as their best search engine.
I’m the No. 1 social media platform for folks to connect with makes [like realty firms/Realtors!].
It’s been predicted that 35% of my end users will make a order on my platform in 2023.
Amazon may well will need to move over, since 47% of American consumers make purchases via my app.
What social media community am I?
In brief, because we as actual estate brokers and brokers have merchandise [homes/land/properties] and expert services [us!] to supply, Instagram is a powerful position to be. I dare say promoting ourselves on Instagram has felt like a gold hurry of clients and closings for numerous of us above the very last 10 years.
Is it also late to sign up for or get active and deliver qualified prospects for your genuine estate profits small business? Instagram is nevertheless the most downloaded application in the globe and the fourth-most well-known community. That signifies there is continue to time to get it when the acquiring is fantastic!
But here’s the factor: Staying on Instagram and finding likes is NOT the identical as growing your business on Instagram.
When I instruct this class reside, this is typically the discomfort position with which people arrive into the course: “I’m accomplishing all the factors on Instagram like possessing colour-coordinated posts and reels. I have a pleasant emblem. I am posting at what some have mentioned are the ‘best’ situations and just about anything else several social media [*note: often non-real estate] gurus convey to me. But I never have any offers from it.”
If that annoyed assertion describes you, I want you to shift away from the cutesy aesthetics of “doing it for the ’Gram,” mainly because becoming “matchy matchy” is not terrible but does not always equate to potential customers. As an alternative, concentration on what the brokers I mentor who are building $10 million-additionally from solely Instagram guide technology know are the crucial elements of every single post:
Picture [referring to having an engaging/inspiring visual such as a video/reel, photo or infographic/text].
Tale [this is tea time where you can be a storyteller].
Tags [geo — never the exact location for safety, hash, user: collab with and shout out others].
CTA [this is the call-to-action that motivates people to move from being a spectator to a participant].
For the sake of this write-up not turning into an additional doctoral dissertation [I am sure you do not have time to read a novel, ha!], let us address a couple of points from product No. 4, the contact to motion.
To commence, a call to motion basically presents folks path so they can shift from spectator to participant. I like to describe it as “Simon Says” for social media. If you have at any time performed or watched “Simon Claims,” then you may recall that no 1 was to make a shift until a phrase was supplied that involved “Simon Suggests.” In this age of speed swiping and doomscrolling, several of us will not go away our feed of unlimited posts and video clips to go to someone’s page, profile or web page, which is where by we extra simply capture leads, if we are not given a “Simon Says” phrase, aka a call to motion.
Listed here are some well known phone calls to steps, as generated from the preferred AI instrument ChatGPT (which, by the way, you can use to craft your personal CTAs). Just be conscious of the legislation, together with truthful housing:
• Double-tap if you agree.
• Tag a close friend who requires to see this!
• Click the url in our bio to learn extra!
But let us get distinct to actual estate. For instance, in your tales you can share a enjoyable reality or amazing application by way of a image or movie and then use the no cost poll aspect or Incorporate Yours stickers to request viewers if they have heard of it or not.
See my example wherever 85% of 185 responses tapped “had no clue.” That is somewhere around 157 sales opportunities in 24 several hours of posting a single story! Can you consider if you did this at the very least weekly? This gets an great way to make potential customers from all those that said they “had no clue.”
As a twofer, you also get to continue to be major of brain with some others who have responded [built in follow-up to the remaining 15%]. Boom!
I challenge you to feature at the very least one handy real estate/housing-related program a 7 days with a CTA. It could be one thing that your office environment is giving. It could be a method by a financial institution. It could be a great possibility by a community corporation in your place for homebuyers, homesellers, renters or landlords. You may well want to attribute area packages, but remember that there are also state and national applications that would be effective to your audience and will at the same time posture you in their minds as their reliable genuine estate qualified. Double growth!
Fascinated in more on How to Strike Instagram Gold? Test out the complimentary webinar of the identical identify I am doing, hosted by The Residential Serious Estate Council (previously Council of Household Professionals) on June 21, or check out the replay afterward. You’ve obtained this!
Dr. Lee Davenport is a genuine estate educator and former RE/MAX running broker and agent. She is regarded as one of the top real estate coaches in the U.S. by a number of true estate companies. Her doctoral exploration examined the guide-generation strategies of top agents.
