When a real estate brokerage, team, or agent is asked about what they are doing regarding their own individual marketing efforts the answers might surprise you. The majority of agents in the United States have an almost even distribution of their marketing dollars between print and digital marketing. To shed some light on how agents spend their precious marketing dollars, it is important to identify exactly what constitutes print vs digital.

Real estate is a numbers game and because of this, it is imperative for brokerages to have the data they need to determine where their brokerage is succeeding and in what areas they can improve. BrokerSumo offers back-end support and analytics at a brokerage level so that firms can see firsthand what is affecting their bottom line. Here are 3 reasons reporting analytics are imperative for brokerages.

Facebook has come a long way from its early days of college coders dreaming in a dorm room. Today, over 2 billion people use Facebook globally. More than 1 billion of those users log into Facebook daily.Want those eyes on your real estate listings? You’ll need to develop a strategy for search engine optimization (SEO), your key weapon in the fight for online visibility. These Facebook Business Page SEO fundamentals will point you in the right direction.

Throughout the years, RE/MAX Advantage Plus has remained one of Minnesota’s revered and multiple award-winning real estate firms, primarily because of their commitment to cutting edge technology and redefining the real estate process.

What can you do as a real estate professional during the slow season to make sure you stay top of mind to your leads and prospects for when things really pick up again in the Spring? Here are a few tips to ensure that your sphere of influence does not freeze this winter.

Having strong technology at the foundation of your brokerage isn’t something "nice to have". It’s a necessity. Here are some of the benefits of incorporating great technology tools into your brokerage landscape.

There are plenty of ways for real estate agents and brokers to automate their posts. But there is an important balance between automation and personalization. Simply posting your listings is not enough. Having a “robot-like” social presence is not effective in building client relationships. That’s why a 50/50 strategy between personalization and automation is so important for today’s agents and brokers. It solves the need for automation for the ever-busy agent, while also putting some of the focus on personalization.

We’ve narrowed the list down to the top 5 value propositions needed within a CRM platform to have the highest success of Agent Adoption.

In the effort to support its 149% year-over-year revenue growth and massive demand for its leading cloud software, Inside Real Estate has made some recent high-profile hires. These hires are well-known and well-respected within the real estate and tech industries, and position Inside Real Estate as a powerhouse brand with solutions for real estate brokers, teams and agents at every stage of their business.

In today’s real estate market, finding leads really isn’t the problem, it’s converting them. There are multiple ways to help you cultivate your list. But it’s what you do with those leads that really matters. Even in hot real estate markets, you’ll find plenty of potential clients who need nurturing. How are you going to nurture them all the way to the closing table?

There’s a big misconception around what artificial intelligence (AI) really is and how it can impact your real estate business. To make matters more confusing, many of today’s real estate software platforms have latched onto the term but fail to explain what’s really behind the curtain. So what is AI, exactly?

You’ve most likely heard about the recent news in the industry calling to question the safety of your personal contacts, sphere, leads or other data that belongs to your real estate business. Many tech platforms expect you to freely hand over your private sphere data in order to use their solutions. And there lies the question: How safe is your data when you hand it over?