To succeed in marketing your real estate business, you must keep up with the latest trends. In order to stay competitive, it’s essential that your marketing effort abreast of the latest creative and technology trends, as well as projecting your brand humanistically. The 2019 trends below should help your marketing team excel, and hopefully improve your company’s bottom line.
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Key Content - The Constant Variable
As you’re already aware, marketing success in the digital age is not just about branding. To be competitive companies need to find creative ways to build trust as well as authority in the market. Developing actionable and compelling content has never been more important. And remember, being “local” is how you engage your buyer and seller community. Here are a few ideas to help get started:
Crete informative basic content on home buying and selling guides.
Write blog posts or guides that inform about individual communities within your market
Create content about local schools, transportation, and any value proposition of a community.
Create financing guides to help potential buyers through the process
Try profiling local lenders and other key businesses to foster this network.
Process Automation
The hottest trend in real estate marketing this year is automating the marketing process. Efficient marketing is about streamlining these days, and more and more agencies have begun integrating tools and practices such as:
Driving potential clients farther down the marketing funnel via email drip campaigns tailored to subscriber preferences
Integrating automated text messaging campaigns that engage and garner leads
Deploying chatbots on digital properties and platforms to engage and to foster the communicative matrix - support face of digital business
Deploying dynamic budgeting AI prediction algorithms for ad campaigns
Using tools like Bitrix24 CRM to organize and track interaction with potential or existing clients, partners, and agents.
Reciprocal Social Trust
Social media has always been about reciprocity, but so few businesses really understand the principal. By showing your community you care, by being human, and creating an atmosphere of trust, your business can gain strategic advantage. Given the hard marketing going on in the digital sphere these days, establishing a real social connection has never been more important. Here are some tips to creating authentic trust in 2019:
Use the best available photos and video to show your listings - your community will appreciate the aesthetic gift
Never over-sell, trust cannot be built on a lie or exageration
Try showing potential client the processes through Facebook and Instagram. You can show how a kitchen is renovated, or how to install a security system, etc.
Always position your company as the “gurus” of all things real estate related. Only make sure you know what you are talking about first.
Assist buyers and sellers with authoritative help, links to services, and etc.
Video is a Must
Deploying video may be the most important real estate marketing trend of 2019. In the past this form of media marketing was optional, but not anymore. Today, the most successful real estate marketing operations integrate video into every facet of their marketing campaigns. Here are some examples:
Creating Instagram stories that are abbreviated tours to market properties
Digital home tours that include 360 videos of the entire property.
Using Facebook videos and “going live” to educate your community
Holding weekly Facebook live events in order to answer questions about the industry
Create videos that reveal a lifestyle - buyers need to envision their new living experience
Mobile Masters
Mastering the use of video in your marketing scheme is vital, but taking advantage of mobile may be even more important. Consider creating a marketing strategy that starts with mobile, instead of leveraging it as an add-on. If you’re not convinced mobile is the priority, consider the fact that almost all Facebook users are on mobile now (94%). 100% of Snapchat users and basically all Instagram people operate from their smartphones and tablets. Even LinkedIn, the most conservative of social networks, is accessed on mobile by over half its users. Some key tips for creating stunning mobile campaigns include:
Ensuring all images, videos, and other graphics look stunning on mobile
Optimize your emails for mobile
Make all your Facebook headlines fit the space without being abbreviated
Create big “call” buttons so potential clients cannot miss the call to action
Create mobile friendly and responsive landing pages
Optimize all texts for mobile so your message is read and understood
Phil Butler is a former engineer, contractor, and telecommunications professional who is editor of several influential online media outlets including part owner of Pamil Visions with wife Mihaela. Phil began his digital ramblings via several of the world’s most noted tech blogs, at the advent of blogging as a form of journalistic license. Phil is currently top interviewer, and journalist at Realty Biz News.
2 comments on “Five Game Winning Real Estate Marketing Trends for 2019”
Great Blog you have shared. Real estate is the world fastest growing business nowadays and your post provides great information about it's marketing trends. Especially, I really liked the way you touched every point briefly. Keep it up.
Like any other types of business, running a real estate business also needs you to become updated with the latest marketing trends to succeed. I would like to emphasize one of the tips you've mentioned above which is to "Never over-sell, trust cannot be built on a lie or exageration." I think, we should always keep this in mind. Thank you for sharing!
Great Blog you have shared. Real estate is the world fastest growing business nowadays and your post provides great information about it's marketing trends. Especially, I really liked the way you touched every point briefly. Keep it up.
Like any other types of business, running a real estate business also needs you to become updated with the latest marketing trends to succeed. I would like to emphasize one of the tips you've mentioned above which is to "Never over-sell, trust cannot be built on a lie or exageration." I think, we should always keep this in mind. Thank you for sharing!