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This market is tough and requires real elbow grease. Time to take charge and be a real badass if you wanna succeed and thrive in this market.

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• Why you need to be an investigator in real estate.
• How you can be a badass in this market.

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So how do you track new business, you constantly don't have to chase it. Hi, I'm Mike Cuevas to real estate marketing. And this podcast is all about building a strong personal brand people have come to know, like trust and most importantly, refer. But remember, it is not their job to remember what you do for a living. It's your job to remind them. Let's get started

What's up ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of the real estate marketing dude, podcast. Oh, my goodness, folks.

You saw the title the show, I mean, you just gotta be a badass, you gotta be badass right now, that's the name of the game. Because times like these are times when you have to double down. Business isn't as easy as it was 20 months ago, 24 months ago and 90% of you have never seen a shift in the in your careers yet, because we haven't had one since 2012. And we riding on this market. And there's not a lot of people out there telling you what to do when the shift happens. So that's sort of been the theme of our show the last few months here, actually, last few episodes, what do you do in this market, and we want to try to add as much value as possible. So we get pitched be on the show every day, guys. And I get a lot of cool stories. And the one that we have today is very cool. And I thought it'd be very appropriate to have on the show, especially with market conditions, because I think some of you need a kick in the ass. And I think she's going to be able to do that for you today. So without further ado, I do want to introduce my guest. She's got quite a compelling story. And she's a badass. So properly introduced. Miss Stephanie Boyd. How are you, Stephanie? I'm great. Thanks for having me, Mike. Why don't you tell everybody? Who are you? Where are you from? And

what are you known for? Well, let's see. I am from a little town in California called Sacramento, we have a new state capitol.

And I am a

I like to joke that I'm a teenage grandma. So I started out as a single teenage mom years ago. And I was always kind of a rebel and uh, just kind of did things my own way. So I went ahead and started college at 16 got my first kick ass job as a criminal investigator, just as I was turning 21. And I just walked straight out of my college career into a very heavily male dominated career of law enforcement, criminal investigations, where my job was to go into the ghetto and interview all the murders friends and families, and or whatever other crime my client was charged with. So I was representing the defense. And

people would always ask me if I was armed as I went to these interviews, and I definitely never was, I thought about carrying a concealed weapon. But I just really always relied on my wit and charm to get me in the door to make friends with my

adversaries, I suppose you could call them.

And so that experience really trained me quite well to join the world of real estate when I decided to get my real estate license in 2000. And join my family's real estate company. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that Gort door knocking didn't scare you too much. Um, no. While it has, there have been times where it's not my favorite thing to do. But I'm sure everybody goes through that. But as far as being scared to it, or timid or nervous to knock on that door? No, because nothing is worse than,

you know, a victim behind the door of some terrible crime that I have to talk to. So if I don't have to deal with that, and I'm just dealing with the homeowner who may or may not want to sell their house or refinance or whatever the case may be. Much less stress much lower risk involved.

I mean, yeah, people hardly ever

Yeah, I mean, like, in so many people right now and look at the industry is tough right now really is I mean, talking about my mortgage broker friends, and I mean, they're getting crushed. Oh, yeah. They're and they're and, you know, everyone's just when you get down a little bit like this, on the other hand, like, you know, look at your former job. I mean, we're looking at like cool houses and stuff, and then people are getting down on themselves. You're having to deal with like, people, I witnesses murders, you know, like, that's just probably a great mindset to have to tackle this industry. Because right now it is tough.

And so you just went from being a criminal defense.

Researcher, attorney, investigator, investigator

To frickin go and write into real estate? And what kind of those skills you still use today? Because that's pretty cool. I've not met anybody who's gone into that you can almost be like your real estate detective.

Exactly. Yeah, really. And during my career as an investigator, the thing that got me interested in real estate Well, other it was my family's company, of course, but I would call my mom a lot to have her help me stock people through real estate records. So she had access to all the property, the tax records, she could find the owners, if I had, like, a guy was looking for who didn't want to talk to me, I'd find out who his landlord was, and go start putting the pressure on his landlord. And so it kind of did translate rather nicely into a real estate detective job, which is kind of what we have to do now in this market is a bit of sleuthing around. Yeah, find those distressed properties. Yep. See what kind of solutions we can help come up with, you know,

I think you hit the nail on the head right there, folks, if you're not paying attention, when these markets shift, like there's going to be distress, I forget whose I think it was on our show. More, maybe I was on someone else's show. But someone just pass along the data about the 60 to 90 day lates that are coming down the pipeline. And that was in Phoenix in particular, but they're the highest that we've seen in quite some time. And that's just sort of the writing on the wall, like the rates are still going up, the cost of living isn't going down. And it's something that you could be you should be concerned with, right. And if this economy and the stock market does what I think it's going to do, but my you know, that's my opinion, people are going to be having problems, but she's focusing on distress, I'm doing the exact same thing. I think that the distressed market is where it never fails. There's a reason why other real estate investors are just sitting at the on the sidelines, salvat tating, waiting for the shoe to drop. What's your opinion on that? Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, I think a lot of them are over extended, and they're either salivating or crapping their pants.

As they lose it, you know, because

a lot of these folks went out and bought multiple properties when rates were low, and now, you know, for whatever reason, I mean, obviously, COVID did a lot of weird things to the economy and to jobs and moved a lot of people out of their office buildings and commercial properties to go work remote, and companies folded and everything else. So you know, a lot, there's definitely investors waiting to lap up the rewards of that. And then there's also equal numbers of investors losing their shit, because they're overextended and they can't make the payments on everything, they're not getting the rent that they want, for the first time in years in my market here in Sacramento, rents are actually starting to go down over the past six months.

So, you know, it's, everyone's gonna start feeling the crunch. And the, you know, unfortunately, hopefully, everybody that could qualify for their first time home went out and got one were when rates were in the twos, and they're just going to sit there, which it looks like they're doing because there's no inventory in that market.

And with rates in the sixes and sevens on those purchase prices that are already high, you know, a lot of first time buyers are just really priced out of the market. But

definitely,

investors are waiting for prices to come down. I mean, if we see a repeat of what happened after the subprime mortgage meltdown, you know, we're gonna see, prices come down significantly, they've already started to they pretty much returned to their pre pandemic levels here, you know, they shot up during the pandemic, really.

And they're about, you know, I mean, it varies based on neighborhood and zip code and everything else, you know, but we're, we're coming down to the pre pandemic levels and as I mean, that's what the Fed is trying to do with their rate increases is basically crashed the economy, they have to bring the prices down.

Literally, he literally said we need to crash the real estate market, like out of their mouths, guys. Yeah, they're trying to raise the rates because they need it to slow down. Remember, like the real estate markets 25% of people directly or indirectly employed the United States. some way shape or form? Yeah, title rep builders,

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So how do you track new business? You constantly don't have to chase it. Hi, I'm Mike Cuevas to real estate marketing. And this podcast is all about building a strong personal brand people have come to know, like trust and most importantly, refer. But remember, it is not their job to remember what you do for a living. It's your job to remind them. Let's get started

what is up ladies and gentlemen, welcome another episode of the real estate marketing dude, podcast, folks, we are gonna get back to some basics today.

People are wondering what the hell do I do? What should I do in business isn't the same as it was 18 months ago, we don't know what the hell's going on anymore. And people are like, freaking out. Chill, dude, these are the best brand building opportunities to take share and territory than ever. But I understand it's very scary for a lot of people right now. Because reality is most of you have never seen a shift. None of you guys have seen a down market to the tune of about 85% of you. And if you've never seen a down market, you're probably shitting your pants right now and rightfully so. So what we're gonna be chatting about today is what do you do in a down market, this will be my second and a half one, I believe in my career. And we're gonna give you guys some very, very basic advice. But it is basic. And unfortunately, what we're chatting about today is you got to go back to the basics. One of the gurus I followed when I first started my career, I think, as Craig forte, who said, You must be brilliant at the basics. You got to be brilliant at the basics. And I think that's correct, but if not, whoever it is, thanks.

I still think about that. And it's absolutely true. The big teams out there right now and there's a lot of you guys are listening to this, you're getting your ass kicked right now that $20,000 of ad spend, you've been spending monthly? Well, the ROI isn't converting the same way it is because when there is a market shift, what you can't control are consumer habits. And that's exactly why today's episode is gonna be going back to the fucking basics. So without further ado, we have Mr. Jake Dixon on the show today, Jake runs the locker room, which is a coaching company, a really kick ass coach, coaching company, very bottom of the line guy and he's dealing with this in all markets across the country, because they have students everywhere. And I think what you're going to get today is a lot of insight on what you should be doing right now. So quit freaking out, grab your pen. Stop running on your treadmill and listen to what Jake says Jake, how you doing, dude? Doing great, Mike. Glad to be here, man. Let's rock and roll. Thanks for coming on the show here. Why don't you tell everyone a little bit about yourself? Jake's a dude.

I'd say why don't you Tom, how'd you get your why you guys have so many coaching students? Why should ever listen to you? Well, you guys been doing? Yeah, I'm gonna dudes. Dude. I'm a coach dude with the marketing dude, what a great combo here. So yeah, my quick background is I played college and professional baseball. Hence inspiration for come coming up with the locker room, a lot of symbolism, a lot of sports analogies, some of which I'm sure I'm gonna drop on you and your audience today. But we specialize in working with broker owners team leads, as well as the agents who we feel are underserved I lovingly refer to as the blue ocean, which are any agents launching their careers, their dual career, they're selling fewer than 24 homes per year. That's right Blue Ocean Strategy book. And that is that's our bread and butter. There's plenty of coaching options out there for the mega mega superstar agents and producing agents. And we can serve you as well. But our messaging and our specialization is really birthed the newer, lesser producing crowd that wants to level up. I remember when I first got into real estate, I was doing a keg stand. And then a week later walking down Michigan Avenue wearing a suit and I'm like what the fuck just happened. And I joined a company that was called home touch. They're out of business since but we had a kiosk and water tower mall right next to Fannie Mae chocolates. And if you've ever been to water tower mall, it's a tourist trap. And there's a lot of people now you might not be able to walk through there without getting mugged. But that's a different story.

And I sold my first four, six houses right off the floor. And it was we'd have listings, sitting there, right? And listings would just be sitting there. And then people would stop and be like, Oh, what's that worth just certain note the same concept as a window shopping when you walk past the real estate office in a place you've never been to before you always say hey, what does that house going for here? Right? So it was very easy to have these conversations and I was only 22. But instantly I knew the name of the game was having conversations because of that. Right? And that's so basic, and the gurus will tell us so you're one more note away from your next Yes, the way I look at content creation brand and all that as your own more view away from your next referral and our client because 10 to 15% of the people that see your shit, they're moving and 100% of them have referral for you guys. So my version of going back to basics is always go back to the basics if not everyone you know that knows of that you'd invite to your wedding or funeral with an unlimited budget doesn't know the fact that you're in real estate. That's what I mean. Go back to the basics. Now. How hard is it? I've never understood this real estate. I can't get business I can't get business. How hard is it just inlet the with Facebook II

email, social media just know the let the people 100 to 200 people that you would say hello to in the grocery store. How hard is it to remind them? You're in real estate? This isn't rocket science.

No, you're exactly right. And that's why we say here our motto at lockerroom is real estate's a contact sport, it's time to get your jersey 30. Some of you are going home every day without a speck of dirt to be shown for on that jersey. And so, to emphasize the point you're making there, you're absolutely right, right. We have something a concept here something crunchy, maybe called the five to 25 challenge. All we've done is repackage something that otherwise becomes numb and unsexy and made it sexy again, because I can beat you over the head, like every other person about lead generation and making your contacts. But we just repurposed it, calling it the five to 25 challenge. So math majors out there. Here's what that is. It's five contacts a day for five days a week, over, let's say, 50 weeks out of the year. Anybody can do that. I don't care if you're launching your new business, your dual career are you the busiest superstar mega producer out there, you can have five intentional conversations every day, no excuses. So that's 1250 Real Estate conversations over the course of the year. And I've been tracking this religiously now for seven years. And again, keep in mind my audience, but I see consistently a 2% conversion rate meaning for every 50 people I talk to, it will yield me one new piece of business. So what's 1250 Real Estate conversations times 2%? Right? You guessed it 2525 sales in a year puts you now in the top three to 5% of producers according to Nar put that on your fridge, you know? And yeah, what am I gonna talk about? I can't just call people to say, What am I gonna say, Jake? Well, that's a problem. Mike, you know this as well, as I do is I work with so many agents who say, Well, I've already talked to everybody I know. And I call bullshit because what you actually have done is you cherry, pick your database, show me your your phone contacts, and then show me all the friends and people you have on your social media. You mean to tell me you talk to every single person, highly unlikely what you've actually done is just cherry pick your database, because you're so busy on or worried about what am I supposed to say? So it's not a contact issue. It's a skill set issue, which is scripts and dialogues and having the confidence to go speak with people. I hear that all the time people like, especially with content creation, like Dude, I'm not gonna send that video. On Facebook. Everyone already knows I'm in real estate. I'm like, Oh, really? How many deals did you last year, because I break down the math for and here you guys can break down the math, if you're sitting at home too. And how many deals you do last year, they'll say 12 how many friends you have on Facebook 1000? Well, out of those 1000 Friends 100 250 of them fucking moved. But all 1000 of them had a referral for you that you failed to get. And you're telling me you only did 12 transactions over the course of your lifetime. 80% of the people who moved us the first person they met.

What are you talking about? The

Today we are talking about the power of visuals. We mean branding, photos, videos, anything you can see. If you don't have a strong visual presence, you don't have a brand.

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• How you can incorporate visuals in your marketing.
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So how do you track new business, you constantly don't have to chase it. Hi, I'm Mike Cuevas to real estate marketing. And this podcast is all about building a strong personal brand people have come to know, like trust and most importantly, refer. But remember, it is not their job to remember what you do for a living. It's your job to remind them. Let's get started

What's up ladies and gentlemen, welcome another episode of the real estate marketing dude, podcast what is going on guys? Today, we're gonna be chatting about

branding and the power of visual imagery.

I, if you're not creating content, you don't have a damn brand, or you ever build one, right? And we're gonna focus on why that's so important because people don't put enough time and energy into this. And a lot of you guys, the reality is that you're struggling right now. And you're wondering why the book is struggling? Well, it's because you never built a brand to begin with. And when the market shifts like this, it takes a dump on you. But everyone who has built a brand over the last four or five years, yes, business is down a little bit, but they're definitely not struggling. All right. And that's going to be the power. So what I want to do today is just focus on that. How do you build a brand online because everything you do online with imagery, whether it's video, whether it's photos, whether it's your damn logo is marketing, and how that appears to others is important, right? Nobody hires the person that has never seen because they don't remember them. And in real estate over 80% of business is going to come from the people that already know like, and trust you not a bunch of fucking strangers, so pay close attention today. Without further ado, we're gonna introduce our guest today. He's with Photo Op, Mr. Devin Higgins. Devin. What's up, dude? Hey, Mike, thanks for that got everybody psyched and pumped to listen in today. I love it yellow. Oh, that's the attention getter. If I don't do that, you guys will start falling asleep. So while you're sitting there on your damn treadmill right now pay attention.

So yeah, tell us just tell us real quick about photo op what you guys do. And I got all the different types of questions for you. Yeah, sure. So photo op, we've been around for the past 10 years, we focus on everything digital real estate marketing. So doing photo editing, video editing, Virtual Staging, single property websites, virtual tours, we even do house portraits for closing gifts for your clients. So anything kind of digital, and then a little bit of personal assets that are too as closing gifts that you need to kind of market your brand, your business, your listing, we can help take care of it for you. Yep, I had. It was probably about eight years ago, I was at Social Media Marketing World here in San Diego still live in Chicago. And I bought a book that weekend. And it was called The Power of visual imagery. And it was right when I started to really exercise maybe like 10 years ago, but when I started to really get into social media, so I really started getting to content creation. And I want to lay out what she wrote in the book that sticks with me still today. And I just want to prove this point why it's so powerful. And people oftentimes, you know, nobody remembers what you actually say. But they remember the impact that whatever you're doing made on them. They don't remember what you say they remember how the crochet is probably made you feel. But the what she writes this, she's like, Well, dude, look, everything is based on story. And I use this in one of my presentations now. And I put a slide on my presentation and it just says boy in blue B O Y, then I asked everybody Hey, what's going through your mind? So I'm asking you guys right now, boy, what's going through your mind, you got five seconds, what's boy B, O Y? What image is going through your mind? Right now my next slide is a picture of a little Asian boy in a bathtub with bubbles and a baby bottle. Now I say what's going through your mind there. And because that picture gives you a lot more context, you're able to form more images in your head and relate to it. But then when you go a step further, and you do a video, you have a word, a picture than a video, which is the most impactful. Right, right. And it's, you know, at the end of the day, it's what people see is the most impactful thing they remember, it's not what you fucking say. Yep. So that's why imagery is so important. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we see it all the time. Just even in terms of engagement with listings, right listings, who have professional real estate photography, or at least professionally edited real estate photography, actually get 50% At a minimum, more traffic to that listing, because the images matter, right? I mean, 95% of people that are looking for homes today are starting their search online, right? It's not going to be something that you as the agent necessarily find them or show them. It's going to be them coming to you saying, hey, this listing looks good. I'm gonna go check this out, because I love the photos that I saw online. Yeah, and the thing that people don't realize is like, if you like, please don't take pictures with your damn cell phones like your real estate agent. You're making three and a half percent, couple $1,000. If you can't spend a few $100 and getting the photos like you should just not have a license period. We all

I'll stop your mic Real quick though we actually and we've seen it too. And we've preached this for years, right? Don't take the damn pictures with your phone. But people still frickin do it. What we've come to the decision of is, you know, people are just gonna continue taking pictures with their phone, how do we make them better? How do we professionally edit those. So we're actually working on an AI editing app, where you as a realtor can still take the photos with your phone for again, the lower end listing, maybe you don't want to spend 200 bucks 300 bucks on a marketing package for a $200,000 listing, but at least get them professionally edited through a professional photo editing app. So that's gonna be coming out later this year beyond. But again, just a way to enhance your marketing. And yet you're not a photographer of your realtor, most likely, some people are and if you are great kudos to you. But if you're not just at least do something to enhance the images and make them look professional. Because attracts more people. What does it say about your brand? Like if I'm, if I'm looking at a property if I'm gonna, if you're selling my house, and I'm gonna look up like a house you sold and one of the things I'm gonna see on the photos you took, and I'm like, Dude, that thing looks terrible. Right? You know, it's like, but and then here's the other thing too, like you just put out an example about, oh, maybe it's only a 200,000 or listing. And a lot of agents won't go top and on the marketing, but when I was still in production, I always went top in and on the marketing, I never discriminated against price ever because I treated everyone the same. And I'm gonna give you guys a good story. $15,000 listing on the south side of Chicago 6700 block of South St. Lawrence, if you guys been there before, you probably wouldn't ever walk step out of your car $15,000 inhabited by homeless people, did I I didn't. I didn't shortchange anything. I did a video, I did full a professional photographer I hired come out down there and do the photos. I lost money marketing the listing, guys. But my brand matters. The day that listing close to seller, Dan decided to tell me he had three more properties for me to sell, because he's very impressed with how we marketed that dump of the prep list. You have to go all in on everything. It's marketing. A listing is not necessarily about that listing. Certainly it is. And it's trying to sell that one. But it's about the next one that you're gonna get. It's about your reputation. Mike, like you said, it's your brand, right? It's your business, what are people going to expect when they come to you and hire you to sell their house? That's what they expect.

This is pretty cool. So you guys do like

staging and virtual and all that? Yeah, so Virtual Staging has been a big one. I mean, obviously, the pandemic kind of boosted that, right people couldn't get into homes to physically stage or even walk around, and then see kind of what a space look like. So they wanted to envision what it looked like with their furniture in it right, or with some set of furniture in it. It also is a huge time savings and cost savings versus physically staging a house just because we can do it so quick, right? Typical Virtual Staging job turns around in about 24 hours, whereas the physical staging company is going to take multiple days to even get a contract signed to figure out a time that works for them to come in to set everything up to move things around to potentially nick the walls, right? Scratch the

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Speaker 1 0:00  

So how do you track new business? You constantly don't have to chase it. Hi, I'm Mike Cuevas the real estate marketing division, this podcast is all about building a strong personal brand people have come to know, like trust and most importantly, refer. But remember, it is not their job to remember what you do for a living. It's your job to remind them. Let's get started

Speaker 1 0:31  

What's up ladies and gentlemen, welcome another episode of the real estate marketing dude, podcast, I'm sure we're gonna chat about today's we're gonna get right in down and dirty with lead generation, specifically, digital online, social media, Google Tiktok, Facebook, lead generation, we're gonna go through basically the ins and outs of it, we have a guest today that this is what he does, I'm gonna dissect his funnel live right now with you guys and sort of show you behind the scenes of what really goes on. But here's the overall message I want you to get. I just met him 20 minutes ago, so fucking, I have no idea what he's gonna talk about. But I'm almost positive, we're gonna agree on this. Nobody converts on the first damn touch, you're not going to get her in bed, the first time you see her, you're going to need to build a relationship online build trust build authority, and over time, you might get lucky. So what I'm getting at today is that this is not a one touch thing. And there's a reason why some teams do very, very well at lead generation is because they have everything crinkled on all cylinders. And these one stop shop people, it's very hard to compete against that in the marketplace because you don't have your auto responder set. You don't have retargeting setup, you don't have this video going to this video and email, text message like there's a lot of shit going on. So we're going to break that down and the confusion of it very simplified today. But the reason why this is titled this way is because you don't get married on a first date, and you're not going to convert the first time you touch somebody, it's gonna be a series of multitude. Now if you do congratulations, we all get lucky once in a while. But it's nothing that we hang our head on or count on each and every night. We go out here and I'm saying, All right, so without further ado, we're gonna go out and introduce our guests. This guy's a fucking Colombian. You guys might not know this, but I am a Colombian 50% I always claimed my Mexican side. But I'm actually all Latino, 5050 Colombian and Mexican and actually finally met one of the other one other Colombians that I've met in a long time in the space, especially in the real estate. And so I'm excited to have you here. Without further ado, who's going to introduce our guest, Mr. Cody. Hey, what's up, dude?

Speaker 2 2:28  

Man, I really excited I love that intro. You know, I we definitely share that same ethos to, to business to lead generation and marketing. And just super excited. Yeah, with you today.

Speaker 1 2:39  

You know what people used to always tell me, Mike, you're a white Mexican. And now I know why it's because it comes from my Colombian side. And Cody is as white as I am guys. But we're both Latinos. So it's funny that

Speaker 2 2:49  

I see I'm actually not, I gotta set this record straight. I'm actually not Latino at all. I thought you're Colombia. No, I'm from I'm from I'm Canadian. We? I, yeah. I have Italian and I have Italian in me and I have a little bit of English, but I'm not Colombian. I've just spent the last almost a year now traveling through Latin America. My entire team is a Latin American, and just fell in love with Latin America.

Speaker 1 3:19  

Awesome. Well, most Colombians are very light skinned. Okay. Excuse me. Anyways, let's get into the show. Cody. Once you tell everyone a little bit about who you are your background. Before I start grilling year,

Speaker 2 3:33  

I will give you the high level SparkNotes version of what how I got here today, spent 10 years in telecom, managing sales teams and just with a passion to help people. And I transitioned out of telecom sales management, probably in 2018. Now so about five years ago, I started my agency originally an agency was called studio b2b Oh, we worked with pretty much any lead gen based business. And about a year and a half, two years ago, we kind of shifted gears and went all in on helping real estate agents and teams really build their funnel, fill their funnel, nurture their leads for life and book more in person meetings, more phone appointments, more live transfers, where our team is spread out all across North America all across the world, really. We're in Latin America, we service the US and the Canadian market, really helping them to do that. I have a business partner in the company. His name is Sharon Srivatsa. He joined me about a year and a about a year ago now. And your business partner motherfucker. There you go. Sean Serrata. Yeah, really good friend of mine, you know as a partner now and we've taken a lot of his IP and kind of repackaged it put it into our system and just on a mission to help more and more and more real estate agents do really cool thing. So I see Shawn all the time I got

Speaker 1 4:53  

around quite a bit. There's a when he until he went to real and then everything sort of changed out a little bit and that's another story in itself. However, let's keep going on the show anyways. So I want to know what the hell, how does this thing work? Okay? You guys obviously have a system in place. And let's just start a start from the beginning of what you really need to really run a digital marketing funnel, right? Let's just get down to the nitty gritty, let's get and like, what do I need to have going for? So I want to take this through, what do I need to have going on? And then we'll sort of dissect each one. So everyone could sort of follow very easily through audio here. Yeah.

Speaker 2 5:31  

If you like, for me, I have a fundamental belief that all conversion happens in conversation. And so like, it's like your, your funnel needs to create conversations, and how do you do that, like, there's so many different ways to create digital marketing funnels. I think that a lot of people that are starting out if like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna wager to guesstimate that a lot of people probably don't have a Ryan serhant, or a mike Gerard brand. So there are assurance robots of brands, so they're going to need to get really creative with an offer. I have a fundamental belief that no amount of marketing fixed should he offer, like, it's just, it's not going to happen, like, so setting yourself apart, like, there are different ways you do that. So you know, having an irresistible offer will get people to take action, where the risk of somebody moving forward and giving you their information will outweigh, like the benefit rather, will outweigh the risk of moving forward. So the first focus is like really dialing in a who you want to reach, like your messaging, be your targeting, like, you know, what are the demographics, the psychographics of the actual end consumer, and then putting an irresistible offer in front of them, that makes it a no brainer for them to essentially click that button, give you their information. And, and a lot of people struggle with that, because they're like, Okay, I'm gonna, I'm going to click the Boost Post Button on Facebook, or I'm going to, I just want to get my listing in front of as many people as possible, but it's like, the currency really comes into how many conversations can you create, like, if it's if it's text conversations I need, I need phone numbers. If it's if it's messenger, I need I need to get people to message me in Messenger to have those conversations where, you know, Tron talks about this all the time around, like, you know, all of the money is made in the DMS, especially on social. So if you really want to create longevity in your business, there's one two things that you need to happen either A, you need to get them into the into the DMS and you'd have a conversation there, or B, you need to get them into a CRM, and you need to call them or text them. So that's really kind of like the start of the funnel. Obviously, there's key elements towards doing that. But an irresistible offer and a form and a form capture is, in my opinion, the best place to start.

Speaker 1 7:35  

So let's stop right there. Folks, you guys are a fucking commodity. I mean, you guys are offering exact same thing. 99% of you can list your house, put on the MLS and open up a couple open houses, we're gonna do some photos, and I might even do a video and we're just gonna wait and pray for a buyer to come. That's not what gets you hired like you're leaving your real estate license does not. It legally gives you the right to collect money, but it's not the reason why people hire you. People hire you because of what the fuck you could do with it at the end of the day.

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What's up ladies and gentlemen, welcome another episode of the real estate marketing dude, podcast. Books were you turning on the news, what the hell's going on? What we're gonna be focusing on this week's episode is the next opportunity. If you tuned into our last show, we're talking about switching up which direction the market is headed, and we're chatting about, I believe it's gonna be a seller's, or I'm a real estate agent, I'm concentrating on seller seller seller sellers, because I believe that we're going to start to see some distressed I think that things are going to hit the fan. And I don't know how bad I don't know if I don't think it's gonna be repeated 2008. But I do know that there is going to be something that happens, how bad I don't know, but just you just have to turn on the news and see what the fuck is going on. Because it is insane. And a lot of things don't make sense. So what we're gonna be doing today is I want to bring on a mortgage broker, because I've been in the States, he's in Canada, but whatever happens in the US goes to Canada. So I wanted to bring someone on from an outside perspective, off of what they see in our US market, what they're doing. But he's not just a mortgage broker, he's also an investor, he does a lot of his investing in the state. So he's got a good eye for seeing where opportunity is. And, again, I'm bringing the freakin cowbells adapt, or you are going to get your ass kicked, you have to adapt right now there's no questions about it. Lead Generation marketing, you're gonna have to do two to 3x more than what you did in the past business is not going to be easy, you're gonna have to hustle. Welcome to the real world. 90% of the people in this business lenders and agents included have never seen a distressed market before because we haven't been in one in 10 plus years. No one knows what's gonna happen. That means the vast, vast majority of everyone in this industry has no fucking idea what to do when a shift occurs. That my friends is a big opportunity. All right, so we're gonna bring on introduce our guest, Mr. Josh Perez. He's with Synergy mortgage up in Canada. Josh, how you doing today? Once you go ahead and introduce yourself to the show. Tell everyone Hello, and a little bit about yourself.

Hey, Mike, thanks for having me. Super excited to come and chat with you. And yeah, see, you know, the whole lot of crazy things going on in real estate and in the world. It's kind of been a steady theme over the past few years. Yeah. So you know, I'm a mortgage broker, a real estate investor, since 2010, was when I bought my first investment property. I was working in banking at the time. And then, you know, doing investment planning, retirements, mutual funds, as well as credit I just found after I bought my first investment property, I just wanted to soak everything up that had to do with real estate and building wealth through real estate. It's been, you know, it's been one of the most proven paths of building wealth over over time. And so, you know, I became very passionate about what you know, could do for me and my clients. And so, you know, after a few years of getting into real estate investing, I made the transition to mortgage brokering so I'm just only working in mortgages, with real estate, you know, we're helping, you know, for most people, and not just Canada, US North America, buying a home is a huge financial milestone. It's also you know, typically the biggest purchase, you're gonna make biggest debt you're going to take on, and also real estate being a huge opportunity to build wealth. Myself, my team, like we're super passionate about helping people with that and what it can do to help people achieve and accelerate reaching their financial goals worked with a lot of partners in the space, real estate agents and helping them kind of tap into, you know, the education side on how we can just help so many more people with their financial goals and to fight inflation, the cost of things being so expensive these days, we often think about, you know, how do we save and cut here but, you know, we also I think, think equally need to think of how do we help grow this column of our finances right, and that's, you know, acquiring assets income producing assets. So, that's a big part of what we do. You know, I'm, you know, haven't stopped investing in real estate since 2010. Started with, you know, duplex triplex got into apartment buildings. You know, 2020 Canada is kind of a tough place to to be like, like Mendoza, isn't it? Yeah, it's not motherfuckers crazy

up there. Mr. Trudeau. Guy's a nutbag. And yeah, I don't know if anyone is sort of like Biden here. Nobody likes him.

Yeah, so I found myself you know, moving to places that were a little bit more free. And yeah, I found myself in Florida had some close family ties there, you know, fortunate to be able to work remote in my line of work and so kind of planted there for two months in early 2021. And said, Listen, I gotta I gotta Spend more time here, I want to bring my family and people close to me down here. So I bought a place helped my parents buy a place. And then just what you know, people in real estate, do they start to kind of look around in places?

Would you say that when you do your loans, you do it from an investor's mindset, versus a traditional residential mindset? Because most let's be honest, most most lenders, it's at least consumer friendly. They're gonna think a realtor lender, their commodity, and you just want to get a loan most lenders, right? But if you're coming from an investment mindset, that could be a value add, how do you play that in your business? Because I think that's where the markets going, I think everyone is going to be very investment conscious. People will slowly start buying on emotion, and they're going to start using the numbers again, like they did in the past. So what is your How do you approach that?

Yeah, so no, really good question. I think, you know, going deeper with the purchase of a real estate purchase is super important. Yeah, I need a loan today to close on this property to buy it right. But what are your plans for that property? Do you plan to stay in it for the rest of your life? Most people that's not necessarily plan or how it's gonna play out, right? Do you plan to add value to renovate the place? Like, is there an opportunity to create some upside and equity in the place and potentially talk about, hey, listen, if you do this to the property, boom, that's like, that's a source of capital, you can eventually tap into, and when done correctly, help kind of build wealth or put it elsewhere, if you're investing it, potentially in real estate again, so investors, you know, kind of realize this, this concept of, you know, buying properties that might be a little bit distressed, or have upside in the sense of, you know, bringing a dated property to something that's more modern and improved increasing rents. And then usually the money you spend on renovating or improving a property when done correctly equates to a number that's higher than what you spent on it. Right. And so for a lot of people who don't have unlimited sources of capital to keep, you know, putting money down to buy property, they use one property to to leverage to purchase the next one, right? So that that first purchase so for a homeowner who maybe that's not their immediate plan, you we try to go deeper with you know, what are not just your your homeownership plans or purchase plans, but like, what else do you have going on in your world right now? How can use this opportunity to help you slowly build wealth and build a roadmap to accomplish some other things financially? So we just go deeper with kind of questioning and purposes of why why this home? Why this price point? Why this neighborhood and then just try to inform them and educate them with all you know, the opportunities that can come with real estate, to help them in their family moving forward.

So how would a realtor though, what do you believe a realtor should be doing in this market? Because I think you're on I think agents need to be investor friendly. Most of them aren't. Most agents don't even have an investment property they own yet alone, working with an investor advising them how to cap rates, cash flow, and all of these other things. So how would you as a realtor adjust to this market is I don't know what's doing in Canada, but things have slowed down here a litt

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What's up, ladies and gentlemen, welcome another episode of the real estate marketing dude, podcast. Folks, what we're gonna be chatting about today is what is going to happen in this markets. And I've had a lot of interesting conversations in particular, a couple of nights ago, I was at a social, and I was talking to a title rep. And she was spitting out some numbers that were just like, astonishing, to me. And it really put some things into perspective that I knew, but I didn't really think of just yet. Like you guys, I'm also watching the market very closely. And it's such an interesting time, because it's like, you know, you have this thing with inflation, you have all these higher rates, the affordability is a major issue. But then yet, there's still a lack of inventory. And I just find it absolutely astonishing that like, you know, like, what is going on? It's just such a, it's such an odd and different circumstance that we're in here. And then I started, we get into it, we had this really good conversation, we're sitting there talking, and we're like, hey, well, at least then I think she just gave me the stat in the nation. The biggest problem you guys know, this is that people who own properties, I think she said it was like 60 or 70% of people that own a house right now locked into one of these, like super duper low interest rates, like 3%. And the biggest problem right now is going to be well, where are you going to go even if you want to sell your house, chances are whatever you replace your house with is going to end up costing you more in probably getting less for it. And that's just the reality. So we're like stuck, like in people are looking for inventory. But a big issue I believe here is how are we going to get inventory when we can't find replacement inventory for the people that need to open up the inventory. So what are we going to concentrate on in this market, and I'm seeing this last week's episode, if you guys listened to that we had Tommy on, he's a real estate investor, and he has the same issue. And he's like, Dude, I don't have any inventory. But then we're looking at this all time affordability issue and like higher interest rates, but yet the market is still there, you have banks collapsing, but yet people are still buying is just such an astonishing time. And what I'm gonna focus on this podcast today is what I'm gonna make a prediction, I'm gonna focus, I'm going to tell you guys where if I'm you, I would be concentrating my business on and I'm doing it with you. So I'm not just telling you what to do, I'm actually in the process of doing the same thing. Because the reality is, is that if this is the case, where are we going to put the focus in our business? Where should we put our marketing efforts where should put our lead efforts, and all of the above Now, for those of you listen to the show a lot, you know that I'm a huge component about staying in front your database, creating content for them and staying in front of them, right, we have a whole software called referral suite dedicated just to doing that, which you can check out at referral suite.com. But what it is, is that what it is, is that it stays in front of your database. But in these markets, if your database will always feed you. But doesn't mean you stop lead generating or stop trying to find other avenues of business, you see, your database will keep you consistent. But when you want to go out and like call it scale, or you want to go out in increase, or whatever, you know, might make sense to do some sort of lead generation. So what I'm going to focus on today is what kind of lead generation is that going to be? And my prediction is that distressed. Now, hear me out before we go into it. And if I'm you, I'm going to put my focus into the areas of business where people are going to move no matter what, I'm going to go after divorce probate. I'm gonna go after bankruptcy, loss of income. I'm going to go back and do what I did in 2007. And I'm going to go right back into the distressed market because regardless of what is going to happen with the market, people will still get distressed and most don't even know it yet. Reality is that some people are gonna get divorced and they don't know it yet. Some people are gonna get sick, they're gonna lose their jobs and don't know yet, but that market always has to transact. Now, here's the caveat. This is also what we were talking about in the same conversation. So at least here in San Diego, I don't know what it is in your market, but I've talked to a bunch of agents like oh, we're down 3% 5% reality is we're probably down 10 to 20%. Let's just say that's the number. Okay, I don't know the exact number. Let's just say we're down 10% Well, Oh, I forgot what news organization released the article. But she, she cited it when in our conversation and she was like, Well, you know, the reality is if the cost to sell your property is 8% 9% 7%, and you bought a house, then the value already went down 510 or 15%? Well, you're underwater folks, especially if you didn't put any money down. You know, there is a lot of people who got an FHA or 5%, down, even if you put down 10% on a property and the market dropped 5%, you're still underwater, because the cost of sell are going to take you there. So 90% of the real estate agents within this industry have never seen a shift in the marketplace, we've been literally just, if you've gotten in the business the last 10 years, you haven't seen this happen yet. And that's no dig at you, I'm trying to sound the alarms, and I'm going to tell you, Hey, here's where you should concentrate your focus on and it is 100% in distressed sellers, there's going to be quite a lot of them. I think that with this wall out, and what people aren't talking about are the stress that is on our banking system right now. And I think that is the biggest concern I have, I'm not any more concerned about, oh, let's go curb inflation. I'm concerned about the banking system, again, being able to withstand this storm and not collapse, right. But regardless of what happens, folks, we know, people are gonna lose their jobs, like all signs are pointing their work, if we're not gonna end of your session, we're gonna get into one. And depending on which rabbit hole you want to go down, some people are even saying that the depression if this trigger can happen, there's a lot of things going on that I would strongly encourage you to pay attention to, because it's going to affect the economy. And when the economy is affected, traditionally, that goes into less people buying houses and whatnot, more people coming up with distressed but just take those numbers into consideration. That means anyone who's bought in within the last 18 months, if they bought last year, anyone who bought last year, they're underwater. And two things happen. When that happens. People who are underwater, if they also experiences a personal life situation at the same time, that becomes a short sale, guys, that becomes a foreclosure. That's how it starts. And the last crash, the worry. And I'm not saying there's gonna crash, I don't know if it's going to crash. But I do think there's going to be a distressed market, how bad I have no idea. But in the last time, it happened so fast. And the it's all mindset, it's all consumer confidence. If I don't think the market, your house is worth that, I'm not going to pay for that. And once that thing kicks off, it kicks off, right? The market isn't based on anything, but confidence. And confidence can become in a lot of different ways. So I'm just telling you guys pay very close attention to it. Because my partner owns a data company, I could see the data. And that's the only reason why I have this insight. So what are you going to do? Well, there's a lot of things you can do. And I believe that whoever is going to go out there and get proactive in this, what I'm talking about today, I think that you're going to set yourself up for the next market, I think you're going to weather the storm. And I think you're gonna dominate long term and take this into leverage. The number one thing that happened in 2007 was the lack of adoption for people wanting to concentrate on the distressed market. So matter of fact, I got most of my business when we started our short sale company back then from other real estate agents where we were raking in the money just because real estate agents didn't know how to take on short sales, we gladly took them on pay them a referral fee and we're making hand over fist and helping a ton of people at the same time. So it was only because we were willing to take on a problem that no one else wanted to. And I had a conversation with a friend of mine down in Tampa, Mr. kick butt mortgage gu

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What's up, ladies and gentlemen, welcome another episode of the real estate marketing dude podcast. Oh, holy crap, is there some news out in the world today, bank failures SVB, the markets shifting high interest rates, what's going on? Welcome to the show, folks, if you have not been in one of these before, the reality is these are the opportunities that people in the real estate business in the industry wait for, because there's a tremendous amount of opportunity anytime there's a paradigm shift within the marketplace. And if you're a real estate agent, if you're a lender, what we're going to be chatting about today is why and how you should be putting on your damn investor hat on because the best deals in the real estate market are not had when everyone else is buying a bunch of houses, and they're paying peak values, the best deals are had when no one's buying, because that's when you buy at bottom. And we've seen this happen before about 10 years ago, give or take a little bit longer than that. And I'm not saying it's gonna be that big and bad. But I am saying that if you're an agent, you need to diversify. I see people going to sell solar right now I see people going to do so many different things. And one of the things that should always be something an agent, and most people in this business graduate towards is becoming an investor themselves. I mean, you come across these opportunities on a daily basis, why the hell are you passing those opportunities to other people versus just taking them on yourself and building wealth for your family. And be honest, you didn't get into this business to sell houses your entire lifetime you got in this business to build wealth, and be in the know, and leverage your knowledge to create whatever wealth it is you want. So what we have today is that so we're gonna be chatting about how do you become an agent investor? How do you become an How do you go from agent to investor? And how do you become an investor friendly, you want to be investor friendly, because who's gonna be buying in this next coming market, I'm gonna be primarily a lot of investors. That's why you wanna become investor friendly. And whether you're working with them, or you're taking them down yourself. It's a, there's a shortage of the amount of agents that really are investor friendly, and therefore there's a high demand for him. So we bring on a return guest. Coming back onto the show. And this is his niche. He's an investor. He's an agent, and I want to see exactly what he's doing and how he's doing it. So without further ado, let's go ahead and welcome Tom to the show. Tom. What's up, dude?

Not too much. Thanks for having me on. Definitely interesting times right now for sure.

Why don't you tell everyone who you are, where you're at what you're doing. And then I got all kinds of questions for you.

Yeah. So again, my name is Tom caffarel. I got started, like a lot of people as a real estate agent. And it really wasn't until I started investing in real estate that I got traction when I was an agent, like a lot of agents, I was on what they call the real estate rollercoaster, which is like, I'd have a really, really good month, make 10 or 15, or $20,000, think I'm going to make a million bucks that year, then not sell a house for two or three years. And I went through that for a while where it was just like, I feel really good didn't have anxiety that I was never going to have another deal again. And it wasn't until I did my first investing deal a wholesale deal, where I made $115,000 That really, my perception about what can be done in real estate has changed. Since then, I've fixed and flipped over 1200 homes, I've got a 300 unit rental property portfolio, I've got a real estate brokerage that focuses on helping agents achieve financial freedom through investing in real estate. And really my main motto for kind of what you alluded to is like sales will make you a living, you can make good money as an agent, but investing will make you wealthy. And as a broker owner, every agent that walks through the door tells me they got into it, they got into being an agent because they want freedom. Yet, most of the time, they're running around like a chicken with their head cut off. If one of their buyers wants to see a house 200 miles away from where they're sitting, they're gonna jump the next day to go there, whether they're going to make money on it or not. So it becomes one of these things where you think you're getting into real estate for freedom. But a lot of agents never achieve it because they never invest. And you alluded to, you know, selling solar, and all of these other things that people do. You don't need to do that if you have one or two or three cash flowing property. So there's a lot of unique strategies that we use in order to do that. And he talked about going from agent to investor, I like to blend the two I like to be both and maybe sometimes when somebody does so well investing, they stopped selling homes, but I like to be able to take the approach of doing both because I think they kind of like adds fuel to the fire.

So I love that but I'm sure I'm not sure how your business model is set up. But I'm guessing that you lead generate using your investor offer and then when 90% of them don't work and then you turn on your real estate agent hat.

Exactly. So and we do it for for two ways, right so we do it for quick turn hits of income fix and flip and wholesales but then we also do it to buy houses And one thing that people kind of get confused when they think about buying and holding properties is they think, Well, why would you ever need to generate a lead in order to buy and hold the property? The reality is you don't, unless you want to accelerate quickly, let me just explain that, you know, real real quick so your audience can understand this. If you go right now and you buy a multifamily or you buy a rental property on the multiple listing service today, with the market potentially falling, or let's even just say it's flat, the next time that you're going to be able to get money out of that house, this can be 3456 years later. So one of the reasons why he say they don't invest in real estate is because they don't have money. But you don't need a lot of money to invest in real estate when you're buying these properties at a discount. So let me just give you like a simple example, let's say that a property would be listed on the MLS for $500,000. Let's say you generate an off market opportunity to buy that property for 400. rather than you having to wait two or three or four years to refinance and pull an equity line, you might be able to do it in a year. So it's it accelerates the amount of properties that you're able to buy cars, once you have two or three or four assets. Now every year or two, you're able to pull equity out of each one of those for down payments on more properties. But if you're always paying retail full market value, that's going to be a really, really slow process. Not that you can't get there. But it's a difference between becoming financially free in three to five years, versus like getting there in 20 years. And of course, I'm sure all of your listeners and myself, we want this thing as fast as we can.

Yep, I think the biggest struggle, I think a lot of people have those making the mental shift of going from, because you're you get your license, and then you just get brainwashed into this highest and best, highest and best, highest and best, highest and best. And then real estate agents just believe that they have to sell the property to highest and best but you guys have to realize that guys like Tom don't exist. If not everybody wants highest and best. Some people just want to get the hell out of the house. And we don't we fail to realize that sometimes the highest and best offer for somebody is accepting a cash offer and get them out of whatever situation they're in. And that's where a lot of this stuff starts. I think agents feel that they might be taken advantage of somebody or something when they blow by a house. And then they believe that they have this fiduciary duty. But folks, you don't ever do business at scale or anything unless you're truly I believe in unless your heart surely in the right place. And you're actually helping people because an investor with a very bad name doesn't last long.

So let me tell you the story about how I did my first deal. I'm just going to relate to that I was just going to ask you about Yeah, so that deal where I made $115,000 on it. I showed up as with my agent hat on not my investor hat on. I knocked on the door. The seller opened the door, she barely would let me in. I had to, like really convince her to let me in. I'm walking around. I'm seeing that a bunch of junk everywhere. I'm not thinking anything of it. I'm thinking this is going to be a great listing for

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So how do you track new business, you constantly don't have to chase it. Hi, I'm Mike Cuevas to real estate marketing. And this podcast is all about building a strong personal brand people have come to know, like trust and most importantly, refer. But remember, it is not their job to remember what you do for a living. It's your job to remind them. Let's get started.

What's up ladies and gentlemen, welcome to their episode of the real estate marketing, dude, podcast. Books we're chatting about.

Today is a very important topic, I get this question quite a lot, but maybe not as much as our guest. And people always asked me like, kind of, what should I do with like, what do I do when I have a site? First they asked me is do I need a site? And I say, yes, absolutely. If you want to have any type of an online presence, you need something, because people will go visit your site before they ever call you because they want to see what you're all about. They want to see if they can relate to you and they're whatnot. But beyond just having a glorified online business card, which a lot of people do in this market, how do you actually have a site that converts? What do you do with it? How do you massage it? How do you work it out, like, if I want a six pack, I'm gonna do less situps. And I'm going to eat healthier, probably stop drinking beer and doing all the above? Well, if you want your site to, you know, start spitting you out business, you need to add to it as well, no differently. Like I have this podcast, you're listening to this podcast right now, because we're getting about 40 to 45,000 listens a month. Thank you to you guys. And a result of this content that goes on my website drives people back to our website. And some of you might schedule a demo with a marketing dude this week, because of this podcast. That's what content creation is. But I create content to consistently add value to our audience. And to keep people coming in this is marketing the same way that we teach you how to market your business on the show, and as a client and whatnot. So what we're gonna chat about today is that subject, what can you do? What can you do? What can you push? What what do you do with a website? Let's just sit there. You just look at it. Do you talk to it? How do you massage your website? Make it work for you? Right? So I couldn't think of a better guest. I want to introduce our guests today. My friend Mr. Jason Fraser with lead pops, Jason wants to say hello to everybody. Hey, what's up, everyone, I'm excited to be here. Thank you. Thank you, my friend for having me on. I appreciate it. watched everyone a little bit. We are your frickin marketing whiz. He's like the mark. He's like a genius at a lot of his marketing ways. And he might be too modest to tell you that. But once you tell him a little bit about your background, cuz you do a lot in the mortgage space and whatnot. But tell us a little quick. And then we'll get into this

show. And I want to ask you a bunch of questions on how you're making websites work for people that create clients. Yep, absolutely. Yeah. So my name is Jason Fraser. I go but just by Fraser and I've been in the industry since oh nine. I was born into the housing industry. My family owned a mortgage company and also had a family members who were real estate agents as well. So the housing industry is in my blood, but I didn't get into it till oh nine. Prior to that I worked for Peter Thiel, who some of you may know as the founder of PayPal. So I come I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area. So I came from Silicon Valley, technology startups venture capital world, that's kind of where I lived and then decided to join the family business in oh nine. And I've been a part of that I've held several executive roles. Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Strategy Officer,

CTO, I've run sales teams are in Consumer Direct Marketing, I've coached or I am a coach, and I have coached both on the real estate side and the mortgage side. And right now I am the EVP of growth for lead pumps.

Cool, man, so he has a lot of experience. Right now you guys are doing a big

thing and in showing people on how to deal with their sites I want to start with with this and get your first opinion. We're start at the very basics. Do we need to have a website in our business? Do a mortgage brokers or lenders or real estate agents? If you're an independent contractor or small business, do you need a website? Yes, you absolutely do. And it's it's funny look. And hopefully, if you have a lot, I mean, it sounds like you got a good amount of listeners per month. And so I probably don't have to let people know this. But if you are one of the Yeah, buts like, oh, yeah, but I'm doing this and yeah, but I'm doing this and yeah, but yeah, you need a website, right? I mean, you're you're absolutely insane. If you don't feel that you need a website right now, I'm not saying you need our one of ours that we do, because honestly, we're not a website company. But but we provide that but because it's important, but you absolutely need a website. It's it the we're going we're not backtracking from an online world, right. You need to your online property and websites, how you do it. And, and so, you know, I know we're gonna talk about a lot of different things. But this is what I want every listener to write down right now because it's going to be the foundation of everything I talked about because look, there's always

is a reason to say, hey, but I could do this, I could do that. But here, just because you're getting business does not mean that you're losing business. So I'm going to say that again, just because you're getting business does not mean you're losing business, right? And so when you don't have an offer, when you don't have a website, you're absolutely missing out on opportunities. There's no debate in that at all. Look, if websites didn't matter, you wouldn't how many times you go to website in a given day? Right? Case Closed? Let's let's, let's stop playing around with that websites are important. But wait, I, I have a page

on my broker's website.

Why isn't that suffice? Well, well, actually, there's two things for that. One is, you can have that. But what I will say and I said this, even during recruiting calls and whatnot to other loan officers, is that you're not the lenders brand. The lenders brand is you so you're the face of everyone you're talking to. If I'm talking to real estate professionals, you're the face of a kW and exp real what wherever your compass whoever brokerage and look, even though they may have a big bite, and people have heard that name before the consumers and dealing with them, their consumers dealing with you, right, and if you're a mortgage professional, guess what agents consumers, they're dealing with you and right and, and I can tell you 100% And the mortgage space, there's only one main mortgage brand, and that's rocket. But when people referring people, they don't say hey, I'm referring movement mortgage, I'm referring loan depot, they're not referring the company that referring you. And and here's the plain truth, even if you love the company, chances are you're not going to work there forever. So you never want to tie everything to your brokerage or your your lender, yes, have that directory page, use it and get an actual we have a solution to help lenders because lenders are definitely not leveraging those those pages. But you need to have your own property where you could tell your own story that can be moved with you otherwise, because guess what, what happens if forget, let's say you don't leave them What if they go out of business and look in this market, we're seeing a lot of people kind of go belly up. And then what happens then if all you've been using is something that you don't control. And if you don't control the way people can get to you, then you don't have a business?

Absolutely, you're the brand. No one's hiring the bank. That's why the worst thing you could do as an independent contractor is make your broker more money or more brand. The best thing you could do as an independent contractor is make your broker more money or more brand. You can't really go wrong either way. Exactly. But you are the brand, guys. So thank you for reinforcing that message. Alright, so yes, spokespeople are gonna go to your site to check you out first, especially if you don't know them, you know, maybe not so much in the relationship game. Oh, I trust my god, trust by God, great. But let's be honest, even the people that trust you still go to your website? You just don't know it yet. Because they're just sort of like, dude, do I really trust Mike? I mean, last time I saw him, he was pretty drunk. Am I gonna trust him with his house? Like, sometimes you need that little more professional? Not that I got wrong. But you know what I mean? Yeah. But people know you personally don't always know you don't always see you in the same light professionally. And it

Being yourself can be difficult, especially when you are worried what other people think of you, but it's important to be authentic, even when you can't help but wonder how you are perceived.

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So how do you track new business, you constantly don't have to chase it. Hi, I'm Mike Cuevas to real estate marketing. And this podcast is all about building a strong personal brand people have come to know, like trust and most importantly, refer. But remember, it is not their job to remember what you do for a living. It's your job to remind them. Let's get started. What's up, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to their episode of the real estate marketing dude, podcast, folks, what we're going to be chatting about today is not bringing on a guest, we're gonna be doing a little bit of training and coaching during this podcast. So if you are sitting down, I'm gonna have a little bit of exercises for you today. But what we're focusing on is, does what people think about you really matter? And this is something that, you know, I see quite a bit like, in for me, too, you know, if you guys listen this podcast for a while, you might not think I'm a very shy, or I really care what anyone else's opinions are of Me. But the reality is they do. And, you know, sometimes when you get out there, and you put yourself out there, you might get some hateful stuff in return, you might have some people talk crap about you, or some people say some things that are going to hurt your feelings. So how do you react to that? Because what we're chatting about today, how do you address all of the haters? If you are getting some? And how do you overcome that whole thing about? Hey, what should I, you know, I should I really put this out there, like, When are people gonna think about me? Oh, my God. So if you have any of those reservations, this is the show for you today. And what I wanted to do was just sort of focus on, you know, why it's important to create the content out there. And what I see is the number one reason why I believe that people don't put themselves out there is because it's not that there's so much they know what they want to say, but they just don't know how to say it for themselves, if that makes sense. And it's sort of like, okay, yes, I know, I want to market my business. I know, I want to tell people, I'm in real estate. But how do I do that without being a total douchebag? How do I do that without like, feeling like I'm begging for business or, or selling my services, or annoying people, because that's what I don't want to do at all. And that's normal to think that way. Guys, we're human. I mean, that's how human beings think it's a natural reaction. But what, when you really grasp what it is you stand for, and you really identify your brand. You don't think twice about posting that content, right. And this is the importance of really dialing in your brand, your brand strategy and creating content, because it is very hard. If you don't have a strategy in place with why you're creating content in the first place. Well, it's very hard to get yourself out there to begin with, and then to do it consistently, because over time, it'll eventually die. And if you are planning to build a brand, you have to create content, you have to create content in today's age, to build a brand. I mean, it's the only thing that keeps yourself out there. See, marketing isn't advertising, like when I'm doing this podcast right now, I'm not trying to. I'm trying to add value to other people's lives, like I'm trying to give you tips. And the reason why I've been doing this since the last seven, eight years is because, one, I have fun doing it, too. It allows me to express my voice. But the most important reason is allows me to serve my audience. It allows me to keep contributing in a value added way. And there's a reason why my topics and the marketing or the topics and the things I talked about are all related around marketing or lead generation, because that's the niche that my marketing is so like, for me, I just talked about marketing stuff all day, because that's what I do, like my audience might do people that buy our services, or hire us for video or need me to help them brand them or whatever they need for content, they come out to me because I've met them through creating content. And if I never created content to begin with, I would never be anywhere to begin with content is the only thing that saved my career. And it's the only thing I see that keeps people present in today's day and age as well. And one of the biggest problems that like, you know, is that someone who is not on top of mind is always passed up on. And you know, when you decide and you realize what your mission is, what your goal is, when you know what your brand is, it's very easy to create content consistently. And you're confident about it at the same time. So when we people are generally nervous about what they're going to create or what they're going to do, most times that is solved simply by literally spending time developing what that strategy is going to be and when you spend time where keen on your content, it's not so much of what you're going to be creating content on. It's how that content is going to be consumed, viewed or perceived as so for example, if I know, I want to give you guys some examples of put this in here and why it's so important to do the Brandon, and we just did a content challenge. And if you guys are interested in learning how to create content, I want you to go to www dot real estate content creator challenge.com. That's www dot real estate content creator challenge.com. This is a training I do every 30 days, it's $49. And it's a three class session where we're going to show you essentially how to create all the content in the world, through video, email, through social media, still images, video images, there's a lot of different forms of content, but it's how you create your content that people relate to. And that's why it's so important to do your brand. So if you're interested in learning, and you don't know what to do go to real estate content creator challenge.com. And sign up for the next challenge, depending on when you're listening to this episode. But, you know, let's go through an example of here. So let's just say this is the easiest one that everyone always understands. When I explain this, this is one of the points we come on. In the challenge. We go, Hey, how do you define what your brand strategy is? What's your content strategy, which is really what we're doing? So what I like to do is I like to reverse engineer that content strategy. And how I do it is I go, Alright, who do you serve? We all know we sell houses, or you do loans or something like that. But who do you serve? Who do you pretty work with like, because your brand strategy should be an average of the last 10 of your clients. So if I'm here, I'm here in San Diego, it's a big military town. And a lot of realtors and lenders here, I see a lot of them have a great niche in the military, which means they're doing a lot of VA loans, VA financing. So if I wanted to create a content strategy, let's just say I want to talk about real estate, well, I would do it in the form of a bootcamp and I would be disciplining them and making wise financial advice, because that would be very brand, I would very be very on brand for to speak to that audience, it would it would show people wanted speak exactly to who I'm already marketing to. It'll speak right through my authenticity, because I'm doing that. And it'll call out who I'm trying to reach. But I could also create a community series, but I'm probably talking about neighborhoods near base, versus like, the highest most expensive properties in all of San Diego. I could go out in the community interview businesses that are veteran owned, I could create a giveback program and give back to the Wounded Warrior Foundation with every closing I had. But each one of those examples I just gave you are all pieces of content that can be created, whether you're doing them on video, whether you're creating a case study in the long form post on social media, whatever it is, everything we do is content. And I think what people don't realize is that that's so true is that everything we do is content, they don't realize that everything there can be doing in terms of marketing is just capturing the stories that they're already living, and display knows. But everything's got to be intentional. If it's not intentional, a lot of times it just falls on deaf ears. And there's a lot of different types of content to create. But when you want to create content, that reminds people, you're in real estate, and you want to create content that leads to clients. That's the key is having it reminded people you're in real estate versus having them having to tell people you're in real estate. And there's a major major difference in that. So what does this all have to do with coming back to like, hey, like we started this podcast about like, how do you overcome your content creation fears? And how do you overcome your fear of putting yourself out there? Well, the answer to that is you have to dial in your branding strategy, because once you're confident in what you're doing, and you're excited about what you're doing, the content creation part co

Today we are talking to Holly Carroll about how being authentic is a crucial element to your brand. We've said it before and we will say it again. No one will trust you if they can tell it's not the real you.

Holly Carroll is the Muskoka Luxury Realtor and author of

“Selling Secrets You Can’t Afford To Miss." She is also the former Miss Canada.

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Transcript:

So how do you track new business, you constantly don't have to chase it. Hi, I'm Mike Cuevas to real estate marketing. And this podcast is all about building a strong personal brand people have come to know, like trust and most importantly, refer. But remember, it is not their job to remember what you do for a living. It's your job to remind them. Let's get started.

What's up ladies and gentlemen, welcome another episode of the real estate marketing Jew podcast, folks we're chatting about today, we have a social media star, like you got some star power. And I was just sort of scrolling through Instagram. And she messages me and I'm like, Hey, how are you doing Nice to meet you.

And it was like, I guess really authentic. And then I started checking you out on social and like, Damn, she's got 90,000 followers or content gets a shitload of engagement. And it looks like she's doing everything right. And I'm looking at your I'm on your Instagram page right now. And dude, perfect. Looks great.

And you're a luxury agent out of Canada. So I was like, Dude, why don't we do a show? Let's get on here. Tell us what's, how did you get here? What are you doing? And how are you all over the place? Because you're definitely not shy. And I think one of the problems that people have on social media is like, Oh my God, if I post something, someone's gonna think this of me or someone's gonna think that of me. And at the end of the day, who gives a shit. Nobody hires anyone they don't relate with. And oftentimes in sales and business and whatever the hell we're doing. We often overthink it, I think, and we try to be someone we're not. But my goal today's show, and I have a feeling she's going to do a good job at it is talking about why you should be fearlessly authentic, quote unquote, your own words. So without further ado, let's go ahead and introduce our guests. Miss Holly, Carol. Holly, how are you?

I'm wonderful. And thank you so much for having me on. I did find you. Oh, where? Yeah, how did it work? It was actually through this course that I took. And they had your contact. Oh, okay. I'm gonna message this guy. And then boom, here I am on the show. Very grateful to be on this show. If you don't ask you don't get you know what I mean? Like, same thing for all the agents out there. If you don't ask for referrals, you're not gonna get referrals. If you don't tell people you're in real estate, they're gonna keep forgetting and you're gonna be a closet agent. If you don't put yourself out there. It doesn't work because you're the brand now your broker Holly wants you to tell him where you're nothing you said that. I love that you said that because literally like 90% of the time it's just showing up and being out there. Yep, conversations you'd like to face is the brand that's why social media if you're not if you're in real estate, you're not on social like you're only losing an opportunity. I sale time is no longer optional. It's a necessity unless you don't care when other people start cheating on you with agents like Holly you know they're gonna go hire somebody else that's going to be a lot more present than somebody that they forgot about.

All right, Holly, so tell us you're in your you do luxury in Holland. I can't say this Canadian name all the Canadian Muskoka Muskoka. Okay. So Muskoka, and that's outside of what Ontario? Yeah, so it's about an hour north of Toronto. And we kind of call it the Hamptons of the North. That's sort of what it's what it's like, it's a lot different than the Hamptons. But if you think of it, it's where that type of the world so Toronto and surrounding areas want to get away and vacation. And it's kind of nice that the rest of the world doesn't really know about it, because that's part of its charm. It is home to a lot of rich and famous during the summertime. It's absolutely stunning. There's 1600 lakes. I sell waterfront property, usually boat houses, it's like a lot of people say it's a Coors Light commercial. It's like a Coors Light commercial. Just picture out your knickers like commercial. Exactly. That is my niche. And how did you get started? How long have you been in in real six year part of the agency, I see a picture of you with Mauricio because I want to get I want to get to on this podcast too. I like Marty, see, I watch all this content. But tell me your agency and that the agency is a luxury brand. Like you guys know this? If you watch anything on HGTV, like it's just a luxury brand. And you're selling luxury properties in a luxury market. So it makes sense that you're dialing in the niche. But where do you How did you get into this? Because people want to? The biggest question I get from people is like, Hey, Mike, I want to sell $2 million houses. And I'm like, There's no marketing or advertising that's ever gonna get you to sell $2 million houses. If you want to sell $2 million houses, you got to start hanging out to people who own the $2 million houses. It's very simple. You have to hang out with the people that are in your database. You don't pick your brand God did it's just the way you're born. Whether you want to embrace it or not as 100% up to you. Okay, so Holly, how did you get into luxury because it's a question that people want to know, but I could I know how it is. I mean, you're just this is your this is your tribe. It looks like here so tell me how you got into it. And when just

All right, and we'll start with that. Of course. So I'm coming up on four years. I will say that anybody listening, you can get into luxury real estate Don't. Don't, you know, forget about that. So, a big thing about being a luxury real estate agent is you got to be luxury. So like you have to become that vibrational match to attract your clients. So when you're out there buying luxury, luxury, show off your luxury things so that people are like, okay, she's obviously luxury. It's not just about luxury, real estate, it's about your whole lifestyle. I sell a light drive like a Toyota Datsun and then it's all luxury houses is what you're saying.

Can I wear sandals and shop?

I mean, I don't want to discourage anybody either. Like I don't, it doesn't mean they have to go out and buy that Rolex watch, or they have to buy the Lamborghini they can't afford. But there is a mental state you can get into that makes you feel like luxury. Like I always say drink water out of a wineglass like there's little things that you can do where you feel luxury. And then that way when you're around the luxurious clients that have a lot of money, you don't feel so out of place, you know, so embody it luxury, imagine luxury, you know, become a vibrational match to luxury.

And then, here in Muskoka, I just kept going to those luxury properties I kept, you know, putting it on social media. I kept dangling the carrot in front of everybody, and then you know what I asked. So I go after the rich and famous and I am not afraid to get in their DM and send them a video or send them a property you would love this property. You know, Mark Wahlberg wants a place here and in Muskoka, and I know the perfect property for him because he likes basketball. And the basketball court overlooks Lake Roscoe, which is one of the best lakes here in Muskoka. So I sent him a video like a response. No, no, yeah, that's hilarious. But even like, Look I'm looking at so we just got out of I do this, like, do this a content creator challenge once a month, and if you guys haven't heard about it yet, sign up for next month's. It's called The Real Estate content creator challenge. And the whole premise of it is like when you're correct, everything you do in life is content, right? But if you go to Holly's Instagram page, I'm looking at it right now. Every photo and image of her on here is is luxury. Like, It's luxurious. She's either at a pool, or she's that like, there's a there's a yacht in one. She's got images of cool, you know, freaking houses, she's got bikini shots, like she just looks luxury, right? And you have to remember that people, you're an average of the content you create from the outside. Right. So like, if you're gonna if Holly's, if she's out here, like hanging out at McDonald's and Showbiz Pizza on Pizza Hut. And I see her over, like running like four wheelers and whatnot. Like, she's not going to have a luxury brand. But perception is a lot everything in this business. And it's marketing, right? It's a marketing, like everything we do is marketing. With social. Yep. What did you do prior to real estate that and why are you so not shy?

Like you're not shy? And I think that's half the battle and like, you seem to not really care, others opinions and how do you get there?

So before I was in real estate, I was an international model for 17 y