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Smarketing is a combination of the words “sales” and “marketing”. It’s the alliance and crossover you have between your marketing team and your sales team. It’s the process of having them both work together, rather than siloed, to meet specific goals.

What springs to mind when you think of copywriting? You may imagine a creative person tapping away at the keyboard, coming up with catchy slogans and one-liners. But what happens if you’re not the creative type? Don’t worry. By the time you’re finished reading this, you’ll have a much better understanding of what great copy is and isn’t. You may even feel inspired to sit down and start cranking out a sales message or two.

5 years ago, marketers didn’t know how to use QR codes effectively, and people didn’t know what to do with them when they saw them. But now, QR codes, and their usefulness, has changed in big way. Nowadays, there are a lot of good reasons to build QR codes into your real estate marketing strategy.

SEO  is one of the best ways to build trust with your target audience; and the best part is that once it’s up and running, it can run in the background, 24 hours a day, without you needing to do much (other than continue to build it).

Sometimes, for reasons beyond your control, people just won’t be able to find exactly what they’re looking for on your website. And if that happens, in all likelihood, they’ll end up on your 404 page.

Marketing funnels have been around for decades and are a trusted source for many marketers. They’re a good way to get someone to take the action that you want them to. But they also don’t work as well as they did in the past. 

As a marketer, nothing stings more than spending a ton of time crafting a beautiful, informative, well-researched email, and sending it out to your database only to discover later that many of the people you’ve sent it to haven’t even opened it.

Agents are usually looking for a quick way to generate high-quality leads; if only it was so easy. A better way to build quality leads is by positioning yourself as an authority to your audience through educating them.

If you’ve never invested time in putting together an email newsletter in the past, now is the time to do it; and if you’ve already been doing it for awhile, now is not the time to give up. Want to get started with email marketing? Here are a few best practices you should know.

If you rely heavily on digital advertising, things are probably already getting more difficult for you, and they’ll continue to do so into 2022. And that’s because digital advertising has changed (and is changing) in a big way.

Last week, our leadership team attended Inbound, a three-day digital marketing conference held by Hubspot, one of the industry leaders in the digital and inbound marketing space. Here are our top 5 takeaways from Inbound 2021.

Depending on who you are, what you believe, and who your target audience is and what they believe, building sustainability into your real estate marketing strategy could not only bring in more leads, but also, make you feel better as a human and a marketer.

Popups aren’t dead. As with all digital marketing, it’s simply a subtly as to when and how to use them. In short, placing them well, and getting results, is a bit of an art form.

There’s an old saying that, to be successful in marketing, you have to “be everywhere”, but when it comes to real estate marketing, that’s not a very effective belief or plan to have (despite a lot of agents adopting taking this approach).

To be successful in business, you need to know what you’re doing, why you’re doing it, and what you’re working towards; otherwise, you won’t have a clear a direction around how you define success. That’s where a well-defined mission statement comes in.