As the market continues to struggle, interest rates remain high, and we enter the industry's "slow" season, many brokerages will choose to wait out the tough times and pull back on marketing efforts to cut costs. But the best way to overcome these obstacles is by doubling down on online marketing—not cutting the exact thing needed most. Now is the perfect time for agents to learn how to use the latest automated online marketing tools in DeltaNET®.
Delta Media Group's® VP of Sales, Franklin Stoffer, hosted a special Online Marketing Webinar, joined by Winston Widdes, a Paid Advertising Strategist with Delta. This webinar covers essential online marketing tools available in DeltaNET, including:
- My Customer for Life (MCFL)
- Social Connector
- AD Wizard
- Market Watch Reports
- Smart Drip Email Campaigns
To learn more about Delta's marketing tools and how they can help you grow your business in 2023, contact sales@deltagroup.com.

Let's start with the basics. What is an AVM? AVM stands for Automated Valuation Model, and in today's marketplace, it is one of the best tools at a brokerage's fingertip to help win new listings. For years, I have heard real estate agents push back on the idea of providing consumers with automated home value estimates being worthwhile. After all, those automated home value estimates used to be way off and lead to more uncomfortable conversations for real estate agents than positive ones.
That status quo has most certainly flipped in the last couple of years. Automated home value estimates have only continued to get more and more accurate. Certainly, they will never beat an estimate given by a licensed professional able to see the house in person. However, the industry has learned how to turn a potential home seller'...

When it comes to email marketing in real estate, looking at the numbers can help you determine what works and what doesn't.
At Delta Media Group, we service brokerages of all sizes across the United States. From independent agents to more than a dozen of the RealTrends TOP 100 brokerages in the nation. Earlier this year, I took the time to conduct a thorough analysis of the adoption rates, email statistics, and general website performance of some of our largest partners to get a gauge of what "true adoption" looks like, as well as what kind of email marketing was being done by some of the top-performing brokerages in the nation.
Let's start by looking at the adoption statistics because those will play directly into the volume of emails sent by these firms. All of the data in this report is from 1...

We talk about CRM's every single day in our business. The importance of using one, how to clean up contacts, the benefit of email marketing strategies. Having automations empowering your business with tools like our Social Media Connector for automated posts running to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter can make your entire business life easier. What I wanted to share today is how to actually utilize that type of software in ways that will deliver even more tangible results.
One of my largest responsibilities at Delta Media Group® is conducting enterprise-level outbound sales prospecting to find partners to utilize our software. Many people don't know this, but I personally use the DeltaNETTM 6 CRM software in my business every sin...

The last several years have seen massive changes in the overall landscape of both the real estate industry, as well as the real estate technology sector. It got me thinking; looking back over those same last couple of years, what led to all of these different mergers and acquisitions, and ultimately was it the right move for their business?
The general theme of the month's issue of Real Estate Marketing & Technology is "growth." That being said, some acquisitions aren't always a good thing. Let's first take a look at some different technology acquisitions and the impact that brokerages in the real estate industry felt.Â
In March 2018, an announcement was made that booj/The Enterprise Network had been acquired by RE/MAX. At the time, booj was powering some of the largest brokerages in the nation, almost exclusively independent companies who were members of The Leadi...