I wanted to give you something this week that will generate immediate revenue into your business with zero out of pocket costs (less than a hundred bucks in the example I will use). You won’t need to generate any more leads and you will make more money with the clients you already have! I think sometimes we get so focused on generating more clients that we totally lose focus on the other side of the equation: how we can generate more revenue per existing client.
Here is one thing I have done in my business for over 7 years to successfully generate more revenue with my sellers….I gave them options!!
That’s right. I gave my sellers options. I designed different marketing packages for their home based on the type and quantity of marketing they wanted done. They could choose a higher end marketing package and pay more commission or they could choose the base level package and pay less. They now had options!
This is absolutely simple to implement into your business right away and I am going to show you how in this post. But first, is it something you should implement into your business? I’m not talking about from a revenue perspective. I’m talking about from a service perspective. I believe it is! I believe that buyers, of any goods or services, like to have options! We don’t want to be so overwhelmed with options that we can’t make a decision to purchase, but we also don’t want to feel like we only have one option.
Sadly, the majority of real estate agents only offer their sellers one marketing package with one fee option. Those agents are making less money and doing their clients a disservice at the same time. The consumer will gladly pay more money if they see the value! We enjoy buying a product/service that we see the value in and are excited about.
SO WHAT DOES THIS LOOK LIKE?
There are an infinite number of ways for you to structure this but here is one possible example……
Silver Level Package—6%
— Initial Professional Pricing Analysis
— On-going Professional Pricing Analysis
— Professional Negotiations
—Contract and Addendum Consulting and Support
—Contract to Close Consulting and Support
—Weekly communication/Counsel
—Feature home on M.L.S
—Listing featured on Mikesrealtygroup.com
—IDX feed to all major real estate websites…yahoo, truliz, zillow, etc….
—Custom property flyers
—CSS home showing coordination- (this is the company most agents use in Texas to coordinate showings with sellers)
Gold Level Package- 6.5%
—Initial Professional Pricing Analysis
—On-going Professional Pricing Analysis
—Professional Negotiations
—Contract and Addendum Consulting and Support
—Weekly communication/Counsel
—Feature home on M.L.S
—Listing featured on Mikesrealtygroup.com
—IDX feed to all major real estate websites…yahoo, trulia, zillow, etc….
—Custom property flyers
—CSS showing support
—FEATURED LISTING ON “HOME PAGE” OF MIKESREALTYGROUP.COM FOR 60 DAYS
- Most of you that have a website have the ability to “feature a listing” on the home page or other pages
—POWERFUL EMAIL MARKETING BLAST TO AGENTS WITHIN 25 MILES OF LISTING
- Just Google “real estate agent email blast” for companies you can use- it’s very cheap
—Market and Host one open house within first 30 days of listing hitting market!
Platinum level package- 7%
—Initial Professional Pricing Analysis
—On-going Professional Pricing Analysis
—Professional Negotiations
—Contract and Addendum Consulting and Support
—Weekly communication/Counsel
—Feature home on M.L.S
—Listing featured on Mikesrealtygroup.com
—IDX feed to all major real estate websites…yahoo, trulia, zillow, etc….
—Custom property flyers
—CSS showing support
—FEATURED LISTING ON “HOME PAGE” OF MIKESREALTYGROUP.COM FOR 120 DAYS
—POWERFUL EMAIL MARKETING BLAST TO AGENTS WITHIN 25 MILES OF LISTING
- Just Google “real estate agent email blast” for companies you can use-it’s very cheap
—Market and host one open house within first 30 days of listing hitting market!
—HOST REALTOR LUNCHEON DURING FIRST 30 DAYS
- This can be paid for by one of your preferred vendors
—1 ISSUE FEATURED PROPERTY IN LOCAL REAL ESTATE MAGAZINE
- If you don’t already have a contract with one of these magazines, just find an agent in your office who already has a contract with one of them and pay them a small fee to feature your listing in the next magazine.
Now I’m not saying the marketing packages I have shown you above are the ones you should use. I came up with those in just a few minutes and you can likely structure something even better based on services you are already providing. I am merely trying to expose you to how easy this is to do and how little money it actually costs.
Just do 3 simple things…
1- Design 3 different plans that have different levels of value for what the client is paying.
———This shouldn’t take more than an hour of brainstorming
———Don’t forget that you don’t have to just focus on marketing. You can also focus on service oriented items. For example… you could offer a “vacant listing service” where you commit to checking on the property once per week for things like vandalism, theft, security, a/c temperature settings, re-filling the flyer box,etc….
2-Design a simple flyer that shows the different marketing packages side by side.
3-Present them with ENTHUSIASM!!!!! After that……
….ITS JUST A NUMBERS GAME
- One third of the clients you present to will never upgrade their marketing package. That is just who they are-no matter what they are buying. They never pay more and always go with the cheapest option.
- One third of your clients are either highly motivated and/or they just like to have the best of everything-no matter what they are buying. These clients will almost always upgrade to one of the higher packages.
- One third of your clients will be somewhere in the middle. These clients tend to be swayed by how good your presentation was and how much value your higher packages offered. They could go either way!
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