Leverage Facebook Messenger for Lead Generation and Conversion

Facebook Messenger, the most popular app in the world, was downloaded 59.7 million times in the first six months of 2016 alone. Do you have the real estate selling tips you need to take advantage of its newest ad features?

Destination: FB Messenger

In previous versions, Messenger users had to seek out your business. Now you can select Messenger as a destination for website click objectives, simplifying the conversation initiating process (which allows clients to receive your messages) with a "Send Message" call-to-action to link to the app. This not only brings prospects further down the sales funnel and directly to your door, but allows for faster assessment of where they are in the sales cycle without being intrusive.

Heating up sales

The update offers businesses greater opportunity to warm up sales leads, drawing cooler leads away from "cold" general interest content and getting them in on the action. Those unlikely to have progressed can be warmed up via direct conversation, generating sales potential that would not have previously existed.

Guiding prospects into a conversation about product offerings also helps sift out uninterested leads. Messenger's in-app messaging services feature an open-rate over 60 percent – far higher than the paltry 10 percent open rate of conventional web advertising. Personalized attention ("I'd be happy to chat with you regarding XXX..." versus generic form letters) further increase chances of success.

Nothing lost in transit

The Messenger app doesn't deliver instant access to just dialogues, it also delivers to content like blog posts at the top of the funnel. Programming for messages allows for easy access to advertising campaigns and other content, just like those "learn more" buttons for landing pages used to do. The difference is, here the goal is a personal discussion – not just an increase in website traffic.

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