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5 of the Best Out-of-Office Messages for Real Estate Agents

By | on 22, Jun 2019 |   Marketing

Here at Realvolve, we send a lot of emails. And I always get excited during the holiday season, spring break, the beginning of summer, or yearly holidays because this is when I start to see a lot of g[...]

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7 Real Estate Agent Tips for Dealing With Unresponsive Prospects

By | on 03, Jun 2019 |   Lead Follow-Up

How many times has your kindling relationship with a potential client been going along smoothly until, suddenly, it’s not? One week of silence passes, then two. And you’re left wondering what you did [...]

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4th of July Marketing Ideas for Real Estate Agents

By | on 24, May 2019 |   Real Estate Success Marketing

BOOM! POP! BANG! CRACKLE! Before you know it, the 4th of July is just a week away. Do you have a marketing plan ready to take advantage of this summer holiday? As a real estate agent, it’s important t[...]

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How A Blog Can Help With Real Estate Lead Generation

By | on 12, Mar 2019 |   Lead Gen Marketing

Real estate lead generation can be tricky, costly, competitive, and sometimes confusing. If you want a less expensive alternative that is still highly effective and helps you stand out from the crowd,[...]

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9 Proven Networking Tips for Real Estate Agents

By | on 27, Feb 2019 |   Relationships

My second job out of college was with an incredible analytical instruments company. We offered technologies for detecting impurities in purified water. It's now a much larger and more successful compa[...]

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5 Steps To Building Your 2019 Real Estate Marketing Budget

By | on 28, Jan 2019 |   Marketing

It's that time of year again—the time when real estate agents should be figuring out how much marketing it's going to take and budget for to meet or beat their goals in the coming year. Here at Realvo[...]

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How To Create A Vision Board For Your Real Estate Business

By | on 19, Jan 2019 |   Real Estate Success Productivity

People digest information in different ways. Some prefer things strictly in writing, while others prefer a more visual demonstration—color-coded files, pie charts, and the like. If you’re more of the [...]

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5 Quick Tips For Generating Real Estate Buyer Leads

By | on 05, Jan 2019 |   Lead Gen

With 1.9 billion unique monthly users, Facebook is by far the world's most popular social network. According to Tracx, 75% of Facebook users spend 20 minutes or more on the site every day. So if you'r[...]

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10 Real Estate Lead Conversion Emails You'll Want to Send in 2019

By | on 01, Dec 2018 |   Real Estate CRM Marketing

You've probably noticed this by now (it is almost 2019, after all), but much of real estate has gone digital. It's no secret that 80% of homebuyers conduct internet research when considering homes to [...]

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10 Reasons Why Your Clients Should List During The Holidays [FREE TEMPLATE]

By | on 06, Nov 2018 |   Real Estate CRM Marketing

To many of your clients, selling a home during the holidays can be a stressful, painful, or even downright unproductive experience. They have some valid concerns: "Our phone will ring all through Than[...]

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3 Tips For Real Estate Prospect And Lead Follow-Up

By | on 27, Sep 2018 |   Real Estate Success Lead Follow-Up

The ways you can follow up with real estate leads and prospects have increased considerably in the past decade. But the fundamentals of follow-up haven't changed...not to mention that the expansion of[...]

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An Imperfect Understanding of Where Real Estate Relationships Come From

By | on 15, Sep 2018 |   Real Estate Success Marketing

One of my all-time favorite movies is Moneyball, adapted from Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. In the first pivotal scene of the movie, Peter Brand explains to Billy [...]

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Calculating Conversion Rates for Real Estate Leads

By | on 25, May 2018 |   Real Estate Success Lead Follow-Up Marketing

Last year I had a blast during my webinar discussing how to optimize the real estate funnel from top to bottom. During my webinar, I received a lot of questions about calculating conversion rates for [...]

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8 Tips for Real Estate Agents To Use When Working From Home

By | on 20, Feb 2018 |   Productivity

Working from home as a real estate agent comes with many advantages—and even more distractions. Sure, you can get the laundry done, prepare dinner, maybe even wash the car...what's left to do? Oh, yea[...]

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Real Estate Email Marketing Tips: Subject Line Length

By | on 14, Feb 2018 |   Marketing

Alright real estate agents, let’s get to the bottom of this. Subject lines can be one of the most frustrating components of your real estate email marketing. As I’ve mentioned before, we are very fort[...]

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How to Personalize Your Real Estate Marketing Communications

By | on 08, Feb 2018 |   Marketing

The power of personalization is no secret to real estate agents today. Today's home sellers and buyers have come to expect—if not demand—commmunication from agents that is anticipated, relevant, and t[...]

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Realvolve ranked among Comparably's Best CEOs of 2017

By | on 29, Nov 2017 |   Realvolve News

Realvolve, a leading Real Estate CRM platform, has been named in Comparably’s annual list of Best CEOs for 2017.

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What To Do When Your Potential Client Doesn't Show Up For a Meeting [Free Scripts]

By | on 25, Oct 2017 |   Lead Follow-Up

I observe this every day here at Realvolve. One of our salespeople will call a prospect at the scheduled time of their meeting and the line rings and rings and rings. No answer. They send a short foll[...]

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Introducing The Realvolve Top 10

By | on 20, Oct 2017 |   Marketing

Want to stay up-to-date with the latest in real estate marketing…but don’t have time to hunt down articles?

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Planning & Tracking Your Real Estate Email Marketing Campaigns [Free Tool]

By | on 10, Aug 2017 |   Real Estate Success Marketing

I'll be transparent here—we send a lot of emails at Realvolve. And every single email is purposeful and sprinkled with a bit of passion. Why? Because we are able to plan, track, and evaluate the effec[...]

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Zen Of Real Estate and Why You Should Consider Using a CRM [Podcast]

By | on 26, May 2017 |   Real Estate CRM Real Estate Success

Editor's Note: This post and podcast is an update of a post published in 2015 by Agent Caffeine (Kelly Mitchell). You can find the original post and podcast, filled with great insights about being the[...]

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Real Estate CRM: 5 Reasons Why You Need One

By | on 22, May 2017 |   Real Estate CRM

Editor's Note: This piece is an update of a post written in 2016 by Kendyl Young. You can find the original post, filled with best-practices on how a real estate CRM can improve your business, here. M[...]

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