Buyers Take Time, Listings Take Skill
In today’s post we introduce an exciting new feature: Roadmap Pitstop! Pitstop is a series of short content videos pulled from our long-running Roadmap video series. These short videos are designed to motivate and inspire listing agents to maximize their income prospecting seller leads. Today we’re launching Pitstop with “Buyers Take Time, Listing Takes Skills,”…
Read MoreVulcan7 Introduces NEW Neighborhood Search Platform
For those agents who use neighborhood farming/circle prospecting as an important part of their overall business-building strategy, Vulcan7 has rolled out a NEW, enhanced version of its neighborhood prospecting platform. Vulcan7 Neighborhood Search replaces GeoSearch + Neighborhood Search within the Vulcan7 CRM system. Available as both a Standard and Premium product, Vulcan7’s Neighborhood Search, circle…
Read MoreThe Essentials for your Mid-Year Review
Regardless of whether or not you met your goals for the first half of the year, this is the perfect time to step back, reflect on your performance, and set the stage for an awesome second half of 2021. A mid-year review is also critical if you manage a team. Everybody needs to be on…
Read MoreUse These Strategies To Overcome Homeowner Objections
Encountering a homeowner objection when prospecting is good news — they are still in conversation with you! An objection is a question in the mind of the prospect that remains unanswered. The objection may be a test to slow you down, check you out, and see how strong you are. The agent who perseveres through…
Read More4 Steps to Handling an Angry Client
An important skill to master in real estate, as in life, is dealing with another person’s anger. Angry clients are a fact of life. Sometimes they’re angry for a legitimate reason. Perhaps you were late for a meeting, made a mistake on paperwork or any of myriad things that can go wrong in handling a…
Read MoreFRBO: Part of Your Low-Inventory Strategy
Mortgage rates are still at record lows and demand is high, which means inventory is shrinking. This is a problem for real estate agents. Or, is it? A recent Homelight survey found 59 percent of real estate agents saying that their biggest challenge is low inventory. This suggests that the other 41 percent do not…
Read More2021 Real Estate: What We Predicted Versus Where We Are
Looking back on the final months of 2020 going into 2021, no one knew for certain how or when our economy would recover. While some areas took devastating hits, others found new successes. And as the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel gets brighter and brighter, we’re able to compare 2021 predictions to…
Read MoreIs FRBO Part Of Your Long-Term Business Strategy?
We’ve become accustomed to discussing the potential of tapping into FSBOs-those homeowners who are trying to sell their property without the support of a real estate agent. FSBOs have long-been a lucrative revenue source for savvy agents who know how to leverage their expertise to bring value to these homeowners. Another interesting, and often-overlooked source…
Read MoreBuild Repeat Business for Years to Come with FRBOs
Have you ever considered real estate investors as a potentially huge source or revenue? Think about this: If you could get a relationship going with just 6-8 investors, imagine how it would pay big dividends over time. This will be our theme over the coming month as we focus on FRBOs: For Rent by Owner…
Read MoreUp Your Circle Prospecting Efforts with Neighborhood Search Filters
Every real estate agent has their own strategy when it comes to prospecting. Some focus heavily on expireds, where others find gold in FSBOs. A large number of dedicated prospecting agents utilize a multi-tiered strategy, blocking off time each day for calling expireds, FSBOs, plus touching base with their sphere of influence. In today’s post…
Read MoreMobile Callback: A Game-Changer for Real Estate Prospecting
A foundational principle at Vulcan7 is to continually improve upon the systems that have helped top real estate agents rise to the upper levels of our industry. Our focus is on bringing our customers the kind of functionality that can take their prospecting efforts to new heights. Today, we’ll introduce you to Mobile Callback-a new…
Read MoreThe Three Big Benefits of Neighborhood Prospecting
If you haven’t heard the news, it’s a great time to be a listing agent! Interest rates continue to stay at record lows. Homes are selling at a record pace and at record prices in many markets. Many successful Vulcan7 agents are using neighborhood/circle prospecting to find additional sellers. Why should you call neighborhood homeowners?…
Read MoreOur 7 Tips for Real Estate Success
As we’ve often said in this blog, real estate success is not magical. While “selling” might come easier to some, consistent, on-going performance is typically driven by sticking to fundamentals. Following are seven fundamentals that the team at Vulcan 7 has identified for long-term success in real estate: Tip 1: Accountability, focus, and the power…
Read MoreWhat Defines a Top Real Estate Performer?
Regular readers of this blog know that we like to focus much of the content on what’s needed from both a psychological and emotional perspective to achieve success in real estate. It’s not a business for the faint of heart, which is why we tend to reinforce the importance of keeping your head in the…
Read MoreHow to Power Through Rejection
If you are an active phone-prospector, you are likely to hear NO often, perhaps as much as 9 out of every 10 conversations you have with prospects. It’s life in real estate sales, especially for those who play at the top of their game. But the key to success in this business is to learn…
Read MoreThe Importance of Perspective
Most of us, at one time or another, have used the phrase “that sure puts things in perspective.” Most often, we say this when something unfortunate happens, to someone we know or in the world in general. Whatever the case may be, the situation prompts us to take stock of our lives. Perhaps just ten…
Read MoreCan You Make an Offer on a Pre-Foreclosure Home?
Earlier this year, Vulcan 7 added a Pre-Foreclosure leads database to its expanding menu of real estate prospecting tools. For those of you unfamiliar with the foreclosure process, there are five general phases (NOTE: Agents need to learn the specific statutes on foreclosure in their state): PHASE 1: Payment Default-arises when a borrower fails to…
Read MoreEssential FSBO Questions
High-performing agents have long-known the value of prospecting For Sale by Owner (FSBO) homeowners. According to the most recent data from the National Association of Realtors, 8 percent of homes sold in the U.S. are through FSBO. NAR also estimates that the typical FSBO home sold for $217,900, compared to $295,000 for agent-assisted home sales.…
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