Why Real Estate Agents Need Copywriting and Content - with Chris Melotti

If you’re a Real Estate professional, you know the importance of demonstrating value to your potential clients to prove that you’re the right person to sell, buy, or lease their most important (and largest) asset.

However, did you know that copywriting and content marketing can help you offer them additional value 24/7, expand your exposure and make you a leader in your local community?

Here’s how.

Your Australian Real Estate market

It’s a tough, competitive market out there in real estate for an agent.

Whether you’re selling commercial or residential property, leasing and renting homes, or even if you’re a developer, there are more and more agents joining the fray every day, and there’s only so many addresses in your geographical area.

So, how do you compete?

Your strength probably lies in the face-to-face, direct relationships, right? You know that, if you were to be called in to meet a client and you have the chance to present your service to them, you’ve got it in the bag. Well, that’s great when (AND IF) they call you in.

This worked well for a long time.

But, with the digital world well and truly here, the whole game has evolved, and to remain successful, you need to do the same.

The problem is, your audience is changing.

Have you seen that your customer is very informed today? Have you noticed that you aren’t automatically winning listings anymore? You’re probably aware that your potential vendor isn’t hiding the fact that they’ve called in five other agents before you.

That’s because they want to be well-informed when making a decision, and today, they absolutely can be.

Your customer now is looking at about 5 to 10 pieces of information before they even get close to contacting an agent. You shouldn’t be surprised – think about how YOU purchase more expensive items or hire someone. What’s the first thing you do? You Google for more information and do quite a bit or research don’t you?

Your customer is doing extensive research when they are looking to sell, buy, rent or lease. Then, you’re shocked when they know everything about the auction clearance rate, days on market, selling methods, suburb prices, your past experience and so on, all before you begin your presentation!

Your industry is also changing. The digital environment has given people access to a growing number of tools, especially in the Real Estate environment. There are selling apps like Openn Negotiation (which you should be looking into if you’re an innovative agent!), social media, website portals, online information, selling guides, statistics, drone photography, 3D floor plans, virtual reality, interactive furnishing, and so on.

Also, definitely check out Diakrit– they’ll help you with all of the new tech. Your customers love these tools and they are starting to demand them. The problem is with every entry of something new, you can feel threatened or challenged, wondering if it’s making you redundant in the eyes of your audience.

But that’s actually not the case with most, especially when it comes to using copywriting and content marketing. It’s up to you – you can choose to see all of these changes as a challenge that you need to resist, or you can embrace them and find out how you can use these evolving audience demands as a way to offer them more value and get ahead of other agents competing for the same business as you.

The danger you face, as an agent, is not the threat of new technology. It’s actually in not recognising that your customer wants these new options from you.

t’s in embracing these changes to find better ways to offer people more value before other agents do.

How to offer more value and get ahead with copy-writing and content

How do you engage potential clients while they’re in the research phase? By creating useful content that they want to read, on their terms. By publishing useful information about the market and how to prepare themselves for selling, renting, buying or leasing, they are finding you and you are delivering them the answers they are searching for.

By creating answers to their questions through useful information, you stop interrupting them and become what they are actually searching for.

So, with the right content, you go from a cold call to a warm lead without any direct contact.

How do you develop the right content to give people?

Start with thinking about your customer – they’re who you’re trying to attract and engage!

1. What questions are they asking you? Create a blog post that answers them.
2. Are they looking to sell? Write a guide about the types of selling methods.
3. Are they looking to buy? Produce a video about purchasing tips.
4. What info do they want about being a landlord? Write up an article.
5. Do they want more details about the local amenities around the suburb? Record a local podcast.

The rule is this: they are searching for this relevant information, regardless of what you do. So, be the source of the information they find and learn from, rather than another agent or website.

Why does copy-writing content help you as an agent?

Because:

1. Your customer is actively looking for it
2. It’s available at their convenience, 24/7
3. It puts your information in their path to stumble upon while they’re researching
4. If it provides them with useful information, you will suddenly be on their radar
5. It establishes you as the local expert
6. It separates you from other run-of-the-mill agents
7. They actually want to talk to you because you’ve already helped them. All of these points make you an agent of choice for your customers and get you in the door. Then you have to work on your specialty and close the sale, which is what you specialise in.

For more information or to speak to a quality copywriter to get the results you deserve, contact Chris at [email protected]. or check out https://www.melottimedia.com.au/