How to Use Virtual Selling on Social Media to Get Clients to Chase You (Instead of You Chasing Them)

We had a great chat with Ryan Hartman, VP of Marketplace at Engagement at Inside Real Estate during a recent Coffee Chat. He showed us all the best ways to create "surround sound" marketing so that your prospects and clients see your ads everywhere they go via a concept called retargeting. Take 30 minutes and hear from one of the most experienced social media marketing experts about the right way to succeed with virtual selling.

Here are three key takeaways from Ryan's Coffee Chat:

1. Most agents only follow up with their hottest, "most ready to move" opportunities, and forget about the other 90% or so. When these people are ready to buy or sell, they end up working with another agent (usually a top producer who is taking a longer term view of things). If you're going to succeed with virtual selling, you need to nurture relationships with your local sphere regularly—and long before and after they want to buy or sell a home.

2. It's 2020, not 2012. If you're registering people on your website and then signing them for a generic email marketing campaign with recipes and non-specific articles, you are not going to be able to breakt hrough. Instead, you have to think about more effective and unique ways to differentiate yourself. Using a "multi-channel" approach to build top-of-mind status is where it's at today. They have to see you everywhere so they believe you are THE most well-connected local agent they can work with.

3. Animated, property-specific ads on Facebook and Instagram, complete with a way for the reader to ask for more information about the property, is the way to go right now. Click on the image below to see a highly effective animated social media ad.

4. An effective "multi-channel" online marketing effort includes many of the following components:

• Facebook / Instagram "Lead" Ads
• Google PPC Ads
• YouTube, Facebook and Instagram Video Retargeting
• Branded Google Display Retargeting
• Voicemail Drops
• Personalized Video Follow-Up (BombBomb)
• Automated Search Alerts

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If you would like to learn more about being a smart broker and enabling success for your agents' team, check out the following FREE resources:

• Virtual Training Summit (lots of FREE training)
• Inside Real Estate Success Strategies Facebook Group

If you want to be a great virtual seller, but would like to outsource the effort to a company proven to nurture success for its customers, click here to schedule a demo.

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