Real Estate Marketing for 2026 and the Next 5 Years While sales in the US and Canada are frustrating most Realtors, some are enjoying a good sales year. They’ve found paths to success and you can too. Your fundamental challenges are visibility, brand image/impact, engagement and persuasion. That’s why a more thorough digital marketing strategy…
Small Business Marketing Report The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) says its latest Small Business Optimism Index in July, rose 1.7 points to 100.3, slightly above the 52-year average of 98. Uncertainty remains (fell 8 points from June to 97) and is a big factor in growth and hiring intentions. Yet, respondents feel the…
🏅Content Strategy: Your Number One Marketing Asset Content strategy isn’t regarded highly enough by many business owners. Most don’t know what it is. Content strategy is how you design and use digital assets to make customers feel strongly about what you offer. Done well, it achieves many marketing objectives — producing customers with higher intent…
Which Marketing and Lead Channels Should You Be Focusing On? 2025 and the return of home sales transactions might seem a long way off, but as I wrote in another post, all signals point to a big resurgence. In fact, 2025/2026 could well be record years for transaction dollar volumes as more pricey homes get…
Tips to Modernize your Travel Business There isn’t a person alive who doesn’t rest on their laurels. It’s human nature to rely on our strengths, expertise and experience. You’ve likely developed some excellent capacities that power your agency. Unfortunately, at some point, our strengths can become our biggest weakness. Because such rallying around our strengths…
A Guide to more Affordable Powerful SaaS Marketing Software as a Service (SaaS) has opened a prolific source of online revenue that’s made most other online business models seem pale in comparison. It’s the golden child of the software industry and endless new businesses and startups are being built on this cloud-based system. However, too…
Find Content Angles to end Reader’s Suffering Readers today suffer a lot. They’re bored, confused, and dejected. Everything’s a copy of a copy. You’ve no doubt suspected, via a quick look at your engagement stats in your analytics app, that your content isn’t making the impact you need. It may not be attracting clicks, grabbing…
Real Estate SEO Consulting Million dollar agents will tell you, the money is at the top. Yet, if your website is poor and your visibility minimal on Google, it’s unlikely you’re going to reach the top. In terms of performance and perception, a weak presence can crush personal brands and sabotage careers. All your hard…
Make Money Blogging Who doesn’t like earning more money? And money doesn’t grow on trees which is why you need to create a business to produce value to sell to others for a healthy income stream. A blog is a great business! This “value” I speak of is expanded upon below. Believe it or not,…
2022 Could be a Boom Year Few home sellers will argue against the idea that selling their home in 2022 won’t be a profitable experience. With prices so high in the absence of supply, prices will rocket. And prices did rocket in 2022. And most Realtors will believe that this should be their best sales…
Winning Real Estate Marketing Strategy Organic real estate marketing and lead generation are the core or foundation of your sales success. While local advertising and word of mouth help your efforts, they’re not going to establish you as the top Realtor in your region. Admittedly, it takes confidence and the help of a good digital…
Reddit Rebellion: Hedgemony Vs the Small Investor You might have heard something of the Reddit Rebellion this week. It’s worldwide news and the biggest news event in the investment world. And while some suggest this will blow over and Wall Street will just get back to its usual privilege, it’s not likely to. Others believe…
The Number One Problem with Google The number one problem with Google happens to be their latest secret weapon against small business. And it’s the top threat to marketers as well. If you’ve been in business online a while, you’ve likely suffered a reduction of clicks to your website from Google. In fact, it’s likely…
Social Media Growth After not being taken seriously at all, for more than a decade now, social media has been growing to become the most dominant Internet platform. It hasn’t overtaken Google in terms of high quality buyer and seller leads, but it plays a key role in Internet marketing. Realtors and business entrepreneurs may…
11 Better Ways to Generate Real Estate Leads I know, you get all your leads from word of mouth and all the rest might not have panned out for you. What you may not be recognizing is that all channels power up your personal referral network and build word-of-mouth referrals from anywhere. Acquiring easy leads…
Creative, Sustained, High Value Real Estate Marketing Your choice to become a Realtor is brilliant. You’re right. It is the best profession and when you check out the Toronto real estate forecast for 2017 and beyond, you realize realty will continue to be profitable. But now you must evolve to become a digital realtor. As…
Successful Real Estate Sales To serve my realtor clients as best I can, I needed to know what successful agents do and what unsuccessful agents don’t do. What I’ve learned about agents, I can apply to my own real estate marketing service. You can never be too good. As the realtor in the video below…
Lead Generation for Realtors We’re getting close to the key home sales season 60% of your sales happen. It’s crunch time! Try these Top 8 Lead Generation tactics to grow your contacts and build a buzz about working with you. Ramp it up and one day you may be running your own brokerage. Any luxury realtor, whether selling presale…
Are Condo Buyers Different than House Buyers? Now in Spring 2017 we’ve seen house and condo prices in Toronto jump and should keep on rising The era of the condo is upon us and they may represent the best capital gain and rental income for investors and new deals for most realtors. With respect to your own…