For most real estate agents, the majority of their business comes from people they already know. It’s true for nearly every type of agent out there, whether they’re small, large, new, or experienced. This means that if you were better about marketing to these people—to your “Sphere of Influence” (SOI)—you would be selling more homes. [...]
Where do your leads come from? And could you convert more with a real estate lead management system? Your prospects come from a variety of sources: referrals, ad calls, expireds, door knocking…and from online lead generation websites. You’ve heard us say before that online leads shouldn’t be your top priority—but that doesn’t mean they have to be [...]
In an industry like real estate, where relationships are essential to success, you can’t rely on mass marketing strategies alone. Sure, that big monthly email campaign to your entire sphere of influence (SOI) is important for staying in touch…but you also need to connect with each individual on a more personal level. You need a [...]
Have you ever found yourself wishing you were more successful? I wish I had as many listings as Jan. I wish I had a huge team like John. I wish I had a nice car like Jamie… In business, wishes don’t come true. Well-executed plans do. You CAN get better if you’re deliberate about it. Develop a [...]
This is a Realvolve Engineering blog post that provides insight into the inner workings of our software. This article is about improving our app server configuration, especially for web apps running on Heroku PasS. In this article, we will share our lessons learned and discuss how we can optimally use Heroku dynos without any need [...]
I would have to rate the following call as one of my “Top 3 Phone Calls I Hate.” It’s a little longer than this in reality, but the short version sounds something like this: “Hi [Prospect], how are you?” “Great! But I already listed my house/bought a house three months ago, if that’s why [...]
Realvolve, a leading Real Estate CRM platform, has been named in Comparably’s annual list of Best CEOs for 2017. […]
This Thanksgiving weekend, I was reminded of a note I shared with the Realvolve community two years ago… SEVEN years ago, to the day, I registered the name ‘realvolve’ with the idea and intent to build simple (haha) CRM software. Looking back, it took months to come up with that name. […]
I’ve said it many times, and here I am saying it again: Relationships are key to real estate success. But relationships alone won’t get you there. There are two cornerstones to real estate success, both of equal importance: relationships…and process. Process is what turns those relationships into transactions. It’s what enables you to convert a [...]
There are millions of tech tools out there that were designed to make our lives and our work easier, more productive, more enjoyable—just somehow better. A lot of these tools, you already know—Evernote, Facebook Ads Manager, and, of course, Realvolve. But with new software and apps being developed all the time, there’s no way you [...]
