Over the last several years, there have been a number of
listing platforms that have come out of the woodwork in response to the
disruption that occurs when a monopoly is formed through the strategic efforts
of public companies aimed at disrupting an industry. We saw this happen with Uber, Rocket Mortgage
and Amazon, looking to gain market share initially through trust, and then
through disintermediation of those trusted partners.
When you evaluate a platform to market your listings on and
through, three important considerations should be made. First, how does my listing information reach
end-users? Are there a variety of means
within a single dashboard to spread the word about my listings? Second, what features are included that make
my life easier? Am I going to have to
purchase add-ons to enable this to market my listings pro-actively? And finally, what is the goal of the
platform? Are there investors to satisfy
and is the plan to sell it off to another public company or is the platform
sustainable and built to serve and support the industry?
Data entry is the most despised activity among most brokers,
especially in the commercial realm, where there are 7-10 different platforms to
consider, and unlike residential where there is one local MLS platform to
populate that then gets pushed to Zillow or Realtor.com. How does your platform address data
management, and who owns the data? Since
the broker is the primary responsible party for marketing, it only makes sense
that broker upload is the only logical model, and unfortunately, all platforms
are competing for market share, and are therefore unlikely to syndicate. RealtyZapp is the only platform however, that
enables the user to upload all listings in bulk, greatly reducing the initial
workload. And thereafter, adding a
listing takes under 5 minutes, thanks to an intuitive process. With a user-interface that works on any
device, you can make changes to your listings on the fly, with your
smartphone. And since our system is
broker driven, we believe they own the data.
On the issue of online listing visibility relevant to a
prospect’s search, RealtyZapp starts with broker-directed SEO (or Search Engine
Optimization), which means that you can enter keywords and phrases that enhance
online visibility by calling out the unique qualities or attributes of a property
and a location that you feel people would search for to find your listing in
that market. We enhance this by offering
a “Quick-Connect” reciprocal marketing feature that matches listings with
brokers and prospects in much the same way a dating app works, with far better
results than your average pitch session.
We also support local commercial associations through showcasing member
listings on the organization’s website, to enhance membership and drive deal
velocity between members.
Keeping on top of your prospect follow up and activity
tracking is hard enough, but of the agents we speak with, less than 20%
actually track their expected revenue from their anticipated deals with any
kind of pipeline tracking system.
Therefore, we have embedded the world’s easiest, mobile-enabled CRM in
the industry; And it is included with our Super-Agent subscription. Open your mobile app and send links with full
listing information to a prospect as you are on the phone with them or
immediately after the call. Then,
completing just seven fields, which you can populate with your voice, the
prospect is automatically included in your next broadcast e-mail about the
listing they inquired about. If your CRM
requires repetitive training to get value from it, if you have to subscribe to
an add-on e-mail campaigner, or if your listings aren’t integrated into a
template that builds and reinforces your brand, you may be back-peddling or at
the very least, over-spending.
Another indispensable tool that brokers require is placing
their listings on their firm’s website. Many firms pay thousands per month to
facilitate this, or they attempt to keep a free word-press version updated as
they continue to update all the other listing platforms they subscribe to. We realize this can be tedious or quite expensive,
so that is why we have included this website-adaptive convenience feature as
part of our basic Power-Agent subscription.
Keep your firm’s website updated as you update RealtyZapp in a way that
again, reinforces your brand.
And lastly, creating marketing materials is essential, yet
tedious, and most brokers have not the patience or design flair to create
professional looking flyers, postcards or brochures, so they hire marketing
assistants to help with this. Our
Super-Agent subscription includes an automated flyer generator that produces professional
marketing materials from a branded template we design for you, from which you
can create other variations. This can be
used to generate multiple page flyers, horizontal or vertical, postcards of any
size, offering memorandums, and property specific websites. You can even create landing pages to be used
in lead generating E-Mail campaigns. All
very powerful tools included for less than $60/month. The bottom line is, any tools that can reduce
time spent on tedious activities so that you can focus on research, prospecting
and deal-related activities while not breaking the bank, helps your bottom line;
and for those of us who eat what they kill as they say, this is imperative.
RealtyZapp was founded on the principle that brokers should
have control over their data, their marketing budget, and their process,
enabling them to be ultra-responsive to prospects and super-efficient in
performing the required marketing tasks, while developing strategies that help differentiate
themselves from the competition. The
days of passive marketing are over if we choose to add value to an industry
under siege by tech that seeks to replace agents rather than empower them. We envisioned a pro-active, cost-effective
and sustainable platform, growing organically so as to be free from influence
that may be contrary to the interests of its constituents or the brokerage
industry as a whole. And we hope that
you join us in the fight to preserve an integral component of the real estate
industry… The Brokerage business.
Thomas Bible
Over the past 5 years, RealtyZapp has been helping brokers
become more pro-active in their marketing and increase their income by
streamlining their process while improving engagement and follow up.
Feel
free to contact RealtyZapp on how to increase deal velocity through a number of
free or dirt-cheap methods to help you market smarter. support@realtyzapp.com
For more information on increasing efficiency and deal
velocity, visit our YouTube channel:
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