Julianne Lesniak is an excellent client of ours. She's been selling real estate for 20+ years in Gettysburg, PA.

She read my article last week on how to build your database of likely sellers.

She asked if I would help her write a letter and mail it out since there's so little inventory in her area. She needs more listings fast.

She told me she's happy to share her story as a client. She already signed 6 listings sitting in her database with our video marketing plan. I love that. I agreed to her request. (You are welcome to email her about her results).

To be clear, we do not mail cold letters for you. This is just something I personally know how to do. I agreed to do it for a happy client.

When it comes to building your database of homeowners who are thinking about selling, nothing compares to the power of mailing personal letters.

So let's get down to it.

We used Remine to pull a list of every single family homeowner who's lived in Gettysburg for 10+ years that's not in an LLC or Trust, and then hired someone on Upwork to format the mailing list properly. 

Did you know that we have a Global Week of Rest as part of our long-term plan to prevent and battle burnout?

Our team members take a week-long company holiday to step away, rest, and recharge.

This year our Global Week of Rest will take place during the week of July 3 – July 7.   

What Does This Mean for You? 

The week of July 3 - July 7, 2023,  we’ll be operating with a reduced staff.

Phone calls will be unavailable, but we will have a small team available by email at elizabeth.hagans@getvyral.com for urgent and time-sensitive issues. 

Your Marketing Coach and their respective team will likely be unavailable during the Global Week of Rest.

Thank you for supporting our efforts to let our employees recharge and come back to work with renewed dedication to helping you reach your goals.

I spoke with a real estate agent about signing up for our services this week. He asked, “How should I build my database to get listings once I hire you?”

I’ll share my answer…

I first asked him to pick a zip code to put his focus. With limited resources, you must attack on a narrow front.

This is usually around where you live to make it convenient. It was the case for him.

We logged into Remine and saw there are 1,700 single-family homes in his zip code that have been lived in for 10+ years that are not in a trust or LLC.

I added all the Hot Sell Scores and a few old expireds, FSBOs, and financially distressed properties too. I also added everyone in his database who lived there (old home value requests).

That’s the best list. That’s the list every big-time agent works for listings. (Key secret there)

I hope you’re having a great Sunday. I’m reflecting on my week and wanted to share this with you.

I had 3 conversations with past clients calling back to rehire us last week.

They are all done chasing top-of-funnel internet buyer leads from Facebook and Google. 

I asked them to “declare bankruptcy” on their “40,000 leads” and rebuild a list of all their actual past clients, the top 150 people in their sphere, and any warm buyer and seller potentials they’ve spoken with.

You must send these extremely valuable people a monthly personal physical written USPS letter.

We do this for you at Vyral Marketing. Just pay the postage and printing cost directly – there are zero markups from us. It’s about $1 a letter.

Here’s what it should look like and how to place the order.

UPDATE 5/9/2023: Here is a replay of the webinar which the video did not record! I'm going to have to fight with the Zoom settings to find out why that's the case. Anyway, at least you can hear the audio...

Listen to the audio recording of the Zoom meeting. (90min)

Here is the reconnect email message I wrote for Rob he's finalizing now to send out.

Here is the landing page to request a free home value to eXp's luxury creative standards.

If you'd like to talk more about working together to get messages out to your database to get people to reach out to you to buy or sell a home, take a look at our website, and when you're ready, request a free strategy call.

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You’re invited to sit in on a marketing meeting I have on Monday, May 8th, at 4 pm CST to watch me generate some listings for a real estate agent.

Rob Edwards is a luxury agent in San Francisco. His market has been hit hard – transactions are down 30%. He’s not yet a client. He wants to see the results before pulling the trigger.

Challenge accepted.

I offered to write him a free seller lead generation email to send out to his database. The email will invite everyone in his Gmail, Outlook, CRM, and mobile phone database(s) to request a real home value.

Rob will follow up with each lead to see the property to factor in unique features, and then after assessing motivation, ask for the listing.

If you’re at the RATE event right now (or if you’re in RATE), I just want to share a few resources based on the speaker's topics yesterday.

This is a lot. Consider yourself warned. :)

Most of you are on Fello. Ryan and I talk a lot about driving people in your database to your home value and cash offer forms.

Here’s the email that “broke the internet” for client Andrew Duncan last week. 200 leads. This is a monthly lead-generation style email we send out on top of your two videos a month on our marketing plan.

Hit your database with it driving back to your free home value capture page. You also want those calls to action in all your video emails and database messaging in an ongoing way.

Ryan loves us because we put sellers into his system. This is the #1 thing you can send out to get sellers right now. We'll send one out for free:

https://www.getvyral.com/fello

I just returned home from San Diego for Spring Bengtzen’s event. She and her team sold 598 homes last year in Utah, and she put on an excellent event on how to do it.

I taught a 3-hour marketing-specific workshop before the event. There were about 40 agents there, all of who wanted to grow their listing inventory and recruit productive agents. We spent the first half on listings and the other half on agent recruiting. Everyone paid an extra $50 for a ticket to attend. (Don't worry, it all went to the hotel to pay for the meeting room. These events are not cheap).

Here's an email I received from a client not seeing the results they want. They hired a full-time video person.

Clients and friends,

www.LookOverSpringsShoulder.com

Spring sold 600+ homes last year in Utah. You're invited to sit in on all her 2023 marketing meetings for only $100 flat.

I’ve always wanted to bring in successful clients to coach you on our 36-touch database marketing plan.

Clients,

A warning that your client video blog may soon go down. You'll need to update your domain (which many of you own the rights to) with the latest SSL key.

Please to do the following immediately.

1. Email caitie@getvyral.com or your marketing consultant for your specific TXT file.
2. Add it to your domain DNS.

Here's how to do it on GoDaddy.

Here's how to do it with Google Domains.

Here's a video on how to do it step-by-step with Caitie and Elizabeth:

This blog post is for everyone who attended the RATE event in Nashville.

Chip Hodgkins needed more listings. So, we reactivated 39 high-quality seller leads in his existing database with their full name, property address, phone number, email, property condition, motivation, and selling timeframe. See the email that worked for Chip below.

It was great to see so many of you in Nashville for the RATE Mastermind this past month. Katy and I just moved here in July last year, and we love it. It was nice to drive to the event without having to book a flight!

This is the premier meeting of the year for me as it’s attended by all the top agents in their respective markets in one place. Many of you I’ve known for years. Billions of dollars of real estate have been sold in this room.

Here are a few photos:

Inside the meeting room