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No matter where you are, how experienced you are, or what clients you work with, one thing is certain: Most of your future leads will hear about you online. Their first impression from your online presence is a "make or break" factor in whether they contact you.
The challenge: That first impression doesn't always come from your own website.
Increasingly, online reviews come even before your own site in shaping perceptions.
Customers are more likely to share negative experiences online than positive ones. You can't control what people choose to post, but you can put processes in place that allow you to put your best foot forward with current and future customers.
It's called reputation management, and it's essential for any real estate agent.
There are three prongs to a reputation management strategy:
Luckily, this isn't as complex as it might seem. With the right technologies and techniques, you can make reputation management an ongoing part of your strategy to shape your brand image.
Here's how:

Real estate software has not always been the most impressive around. In fact, surveys continue to show that most sales associates use their own blend of off-the-shelf technology solutions.
We all know the usual suspects like Excel, Gmail, and Slack. Some are great productivity tools and others are simply familiar, but none have features especially for real estate.
The problem: Sales associates are dealing with a more complex competitive landscape. Many are promoting listings, managing their marketing, and nurturing 10-20 leads at once.
For a clear roadmap of the most productive ways to focus their limited time, more sales associates and real estate firms are implementing Customer Relationship Management software.

At any given time, there may be thousands of people in your market who are just "thinking about" buying or selling a home. Each person may be weeks, months, or even years away from making a decision. But as they are getting closer to one, they go online.
The internet has provided a phenomenal way for anyone to learn about nearly any subject. When people have problems to solve or tough questions, they use Google to find answers.
That decision – to start gathering information out on the Web – is where a prospective customer's needs and your expertise come together. The way you put yourself on the radar is content marketing.
Content marketing is an approach to digital marketing that focuses on posting helpful, useful, informative content on your website. Most of this content will come in the form of blogs, but it can also encompass photos, videos, infographics, reports, and much more.

It's often said that everyone gets the same 24 hours in a day. The trick: Not everyone has the same tasks to perform or the same obligations to attend to.
When you think about it, people who have a large staff to take care of things actually have a very different 24 hours in their day: One that lets them stay focused on high-level tasks.
Most sales associates don't have a dozen people to help them reach their goals, but anyone can have the next best thing: AI-driven business automation.
When it comes to automating tasks in real estate, one area stands out above all the others: Marketing. After all, marketing is a very complex topic. Many sales associates launch a career not knowing anything about it, and few want to reinvent the wheel by learning it all.
Marketing is essential to growing your practice. It builds your brand and helps you get a steady stream of leads. Luckily, there are more ways than ever to automate real estate marketing.
Let's look at some easy, effective real estate automation approaches:
