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Quick Answer Series: What Do You Think of “Sphere of Influence” Marketing?

It’s a great supplement to your regular marketing so long as it’s free.  As a stand-alone marketing technique, it is destined to fail, and if executed perfectly will yield you maybe a deal a month.  Statistically, it can never make you a top producing agent, and here’s why. Continue Reading…

Posted 5 months, 4 weeks ago at 6:00 am.

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Quick Answer Series: What Do You Think of Farming?

It’s a bad idea.  Here’s why.  It comes down to “cost per lead”.  I’ll show you.  Let’s take a typical market where the average sale price is $206,500 and the average commission side is 2.6%.  That means that the average Gross Commission Income (GCI) is $5,369.  According to real estate “experts” an agent should budget 20% of GCI for marketing.  I’ve even heard numbers as high as 25%!  (Incidentally, the rest of the entire business world budgets less than 10% of revenue for marketing, but what do they know?) Continue Reading…

Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago at 9:27 am.

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