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Whether you're an individual agent or you manage a whole team, success in real estate often starts with time management. It may feel like there are never enough hours in the day to tackle every important task... but what if you had a helping hand from reliable real estate tech to handle the tedious yet important tasks that can easily clog up your daily schedule? Just as importantly, how would you invest all of the extra time that automation can free up in your workday?

With a little help from technology, agents can spend less time on repetitive, time-consuming tasks, and more time on providing the best possible service to clients. Here's what automation really means, and how your real estate firm can benefit from it.

Here's What Automation Really Means

Nearly every industry has tasks that are better handled by machines than humans, and real estate is no exception. The difference is that instead of robotics and fancy factory equipment, real estate relies primarily on software to automate key tasks without sacrificing on quality. Automation can be an essential element of your lead generation, marketing, and so much more.

Getting Started with Real Estate Automation

When you're ready to start benefiting from automation, the first thing you'll need is a powerful all-in-one solution like the DeltaNET. This is where you'll find many of the dependable tools that help you automate the time-consuming daily tasks that are essential to real estate success in an easy-to-use package that's designed with agents in mind. The right real estate CRM integrates automation with many other handy tools that help you manage relationships, attract new clients, master your marketing, and save tons of time in the process.

How Automation Helps You Generate and Manage Leads

Lead generation and segmentation are two areas where automation really shines. The DeltaNET helps you generate more leads with tools like lead capture forms, tracked email marketing, and AI-driven email & print newsletters. Keep all of your leads in the know with auto-generated My HomeFinder, Market Watch, and Seller Reports. Then use convenient email templates or SMS text messaging to plan the perfect follow-up.

Lead segmentation is an essential task for saving time and increasing productivity, so automated lead segmentation will be a welcome addition to any agent's repertoire. With automated lead segmentation, agents can easily see where each lead stands, where to focus their energy, and what might be necessary to turn each lead into a client. That process is made even easier with interactive lead visibility, as well as robust tracking that makes it simple to anticipate their needs.

Attracting New Clients and Promoting Properties with Automation

Automation can also help you handle many key marketing tasks, both in terms of attracting new clients and marketing properties for existing clients. Email marketing is one of the biggest areas where automation can save you time, with tools like our smart drip email campaigns that make it easy to send the right email marketing to the right people at the right time. When your outreach calls for a more personal touch, customizable eCards and Flyers provide the perfect supplement to automation.

For marketing properties, our Properties in Motion platform automatically pulls information from MLS, and automatically feeds videos to your real estate website and Facebook page. You can also use the integrated texting platform to text new listings, price changes, and open houses to clients.

How Automation Helps You Handle Success

One reality of real estate is that success creates more work. More leads to manage, more clients to serve, more properties to market, and more administrative tasks to keep the whole machine running at peak efficiency. Expecting your existing team to simply handle all of that extra work is sure to lead to burnout, unhappy team members, and likely diminished production. Hiring more people is one way to handle that extra workload, but comes with its own risks, costs, and time commitments.

Automation is one of the tools that can help your team — or you as an individual agent — continue to thrive as your brand grows. It can cut down on the need for extra hires, make life easier for your team, and simplify the process of scaling your business over time.

Are You Ready to Experience the Benefits of Automation First-Hand?

In the fast-paced world of real estate, working smart is just as important as working hard — and automation can help you do both. In the end, the biggest benefit of automation is that it leaves you with more time to focus on the tasks that matter most and that you enjoy most. With software handling tedious, time-consuming tasks in the background, you can invest all of your time on the many parts of real estate that still require the human element.

Real estate is an industry that requires innovation, adaptability, and ingenuity in order to thrive. Just look at the last few years alone. Agents went from conducting business normally to handling everything virtually in the blink of an eye, and now we're transitioning to another new era that blends both worlds. Yet many agents have found ways to post some of the best numbers of their careers, even as the wider world has changed so rapidly.

Throughout the roller coaster of recent years, one of the few constants has been that technology is the key that allows agents to adapt and thrive. As an agent, technology can both help you adapt right now and provide the template for you to thrive in the years to come.

Meeting the Needs of Modern Real Estate Clients

Over the last few years, real estate clients have become more comfortable than ever with shopping for homes from a distance. Consider tech like Properties in Motion, as well as the virtual open houses and showings which have helped buyers find a new home from the comfort of their current one. Even as in-person showings and open houses return to prominence, these online tools provide a valuable supplement to seeing a home in person while allowing buyers to shop in markets located far away from their current location.

While the focus of many online shopping tools is on the buyer, they can help you attract sellers, as well. Showing a seller all of the ways that you can market their home, both online and through traditional channels, is essential to earning their business. If you want to provide the best possible service to all of your clients, tech is a dependable way to up your game.

The Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence

Once a dream in science fiction novels and movies, artificial intelligence (AI) now has a growing impact on many aspects of our day-to-day lives. We're just scratching the surface of what AI can do, and its present-day applications are already very exciting for the real estate industry. Take marketing, for example. Within the DeltaNET, you can already use AI-driven print and email newsletters to keep your clients informed on the topics that matter most to them. You can also keep clients up to date with auto-generated Market Watch, My HomeFinder, and Seller Reports.

In the future, AI will have even more applications, from marketing your brand to analyzing data and helping your clients find the perfect home. No matter what other new tech emerges in the future, there's a good chance that AI will be leading the way in helping agents adapt to the times.

Automation to Make Your Life Easier

Time is money, and the right real estate tech can save you both. Allowing you to save time on repetitive tasks and reduce your marketing workload are two more ways that tech can help you adapt. In addition to the AI-driven tools that we've already discussed, tech can also make your life easier through automation. Wouldn't it be nice to set up automated smart drip email campaigns to supplement your AI-driven newsletters? Couldn't you save a lot of time and effort with automated lead segmentation paired with interactive lead visibility? All of these things are possible with today's real estate tech, leaving you with more time to serve clients, close deals, and focus on the parts of the job that you enjoy most.

Gaining an Edge Over the Competition

One general point to remember about technology is that not everyone in the real estate industry adopts new tools at the same speed. This can be a disadvantage if you are slower to adapt to new changes, but it can also be a major advantage if you're willing to stay ahead of the technological curve. Agents and real estate firms who make the most of new technology are able to gain an edge over the competition.

Tech like automation and AI can save money, time, and energy, leaving more time to provide the best possible service to clients. The latest lead gen tools can give you a leg up on attracting new clients and create opportunities that your competition might miss. Behind the scenes, new ways to collect, search, and parse key data can reveal insights that impact every part of your business. All of these opportunities are only possible if you embrace real estate technology.

Integrating the Tools You Need in One Convenient, Easy-to-Use Package

Of course, tech is most valuable when it's easy to use and available when you need it. The DeltaNET combines the latest real estate technology in one convenient package, all designed to be easy to use for you and your team. Why wait for tomorrow when you can benefit from the best real estate tech today?

What real estate agent could say no to more and better quality leads? Modern marketing offers more tools than ever before for generating, nurturing, and converting leads, whether you're just getting started as an agent or you've already been in the industry for decades. So if your lead gen feels like it's been lacking lately, there are concrete steps that you can take right now to turn things around and start generating more leads. Here are some of the best tools and tips to turn your marketing into a reliable, well-oiled lead gen machine.

Start with a Great Real Estate Website

Your real estate website should be the hub of your digital lead generation efforts and one of your most valuable marketing tools. It's the place where potential leads come to learn about your brand, the markets that you serve, your listings, your team, and all of the real estate services that you offer. On top of that, many of the other lead gen tips on our list either work best when paired with a great website or are geared specifically toward driving traffic back to your real estate website. All of that is to say that if your website doesn't include everything it needs for lead gen, now is the time for a redesign from a team that knows what it takes to generate real estate leads online.

Mix in a Dash of Search Engine Optimization

One of the ways that your website helps with lead gen is through search engine optimization (SEO), which helps leads find you. Most real estate prospects start their process with online searches to find real estate brands, agents, and listings that suit their needs. SEO is all about optimizing your website so that it ranks higher in search engine results, which drives more traffic to your website and ultimately helps you generate more leads.

Build a Better Blog to Share Your Knowledge and Expertise

Potential leads primarily visit your website for information, whether they're looking at listings, researching neighborhoods, or want to learn more about the process of buying/selling a home. Your blog is the perfect place to share content that demonstrates your real estate expertise, provides detailed descriptions of the markets that you serve, answers common questions, builds trust, and educates your target audience. As an added bonus, creating localized content also has major benefits for your SEO.

Upgrade Your Social Media Presence

Is your social media marketing generating as many leads as it should? Are you reaching the right audience with the right message? Growing your social media presence through marketing, targeted ads, and good, old-fashioned engagement is a great way to give your lead generation a boost. In addition to social marketing, consider carving 15 or 30 minutes out of your daily schedule to engage with your audience, share your knowledge, and start building connections with potential leads.

Attract a Larger Audience with Virtual Tours, Open Houses, and Showings

A normal open house or showing is great for people who live close enough to attend, but more than ever before real estate clients are doing much of their shopping online. Virtual open houses and showings make it easy for those online shoppers to fall in love with homes before they ever visit in person. Virtual tours, like the ones that you can create with our Properties in Motion platform, are another essential element for marketing homes online.

Add Targeted Online Ads to Your Marketing Mix

What if you want to generate more leads right now? With AdWizard Paid Advertising, you can easily create and manage online advertising campaigns that appeal directly to your target audience. Manage all of your ads and budgets through an easy-to-use interface, with customizable ad layouts that make it easy to tailor your advertising to your brand. Easily target ads on Facebook and Instagram — the two social platforms where your online audience is likely spending the most time. Paid advertising can be the perfect complement to all of your other digital lead generation efforts.

Rely on the Right Real Estate CRM

Last but certainly not least, if you don't have access to a real estate CRM or you're not thrilled with the performance of your current CRM, your lead generation can absolutely benefit from an upgrade. DeltaNET®6 is a powerful, easy-to-use real estate all-in-one solution that offers all of the tools that you need to attract, nurture, and convert leads successfully. From AI-driven marketing tools to lead capture forms, automated lead segmentation, and so much more, we're always innovating so that every agent can benefit from the dependable, intuitive tools in DeltaNET®6. Why settle for less than the best when you can have so much of what you need for lead generation in one convenient package?

Are you taking full advantage of the many opportunities that video marketing creates in real estate? Whether you're showcasing a listing, highlighting a neighborhood, or creating educational real estate content for your audience, video can convey things that simply aren't captured with other forms of online content. Listings with video generate more interest, video marketing content converts at a higher rate, social media posts with video generate more engagement, video content on your real estate website has major SEO benefits... the list goes on and on.

If you've been waiting to integrate video into your real estate marketing mix, now is the perfect time to change that. Here's how video can help you sell more properties, earn more clients, and grow your brand online.

Still need convincing that video is one of the most reliable, powerful ways to grow your brand and promote properties? Check out these stats on video marketing in real estate:

• According to the NAR, listings with video drive 403 percent more inquiries than listings without video.
  
  
• The same data from the NAR reveals that 51 percent of home buyers use YouTube as their primary method of searching for homes.
  
  
• Every month, 3.25 billion hours of video are watched on YouTube, which has more than 1.3 billion active users. TikTok isn't far behind, with more than 1 billion monthly users of its own.
  
  
• Video is great for individual agents, too. NAR data suggests that 73 percent of homeowners surveyed are more likely to work with an agent who uses video.
  
  
• Video isn't just popular in real estate. Some estimates suggest that 1/3 of all online activity is spent watching video content.

The numbers don't lie. Video draws more eyes than any other form of content online, and the numbers only seem to grow when new watch stats are released every year.

How Video Can Help You Sell Homes and Attract Clients

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is a video worth? While professional quality listing photos are a strong place to start, the simple fact is that modern real estate buyers are more attracted to video than anything else.

A listing video can showcase features of the home that aren't seen in photos, provide a more detailed overview of the entire property, and give the buyer a real sense of touring a home even though they're not there in person. It's much easier for buyers to imagine their lives in the home when they can see it in motion, feel the transition from one room to the next, and analyze all of the small yet important details that video content can capture.

Of course, anyone interested in selling a home will also be quite keen on all of the benefits that video offers as a tool for selling properties. That's one key reason why 73 percent of homeowners are more likely to work with an agent who uses video, as we mentioned above. Being able to show a seller how you'll promote their home using video is a great way to win trust and attract more clients.

Easily Integrate Video with Properties in Motion

Now, you might be wondering how exactly to take advantage of all the benefits offered by video content. Our Properties in Motion® tool makes it easy to integrate video listings, with voice-over, into your marketing mix. Our marketing pros can help you use video to drive more traffic to your listings and generate great search engine results in the process.

• Create HD-quality video with voice-over to lead buyers through every nook and cranny of a listing online, no matter where the buyer is located.
• Automatically pull information from MLS, and automatically feed videos to both your social page on Facebook and your real estate website.
• Integrated texting platform that allows you to easily text key data on things like listing alerts, open houses, and price changes.
• Easily track leads, and stay on top of all the latest data through weekly reports.
• Have something special to promote? Single property websites are also available to promote your top listings.

Promoting properties with video doesn't have to feel like a mystery. With the right tools and the right team, it's easier than ever to make your listings shine online.

It's Time to Make Real Estate Video Work for You

Video can help you take your real estate brand to the next level online, whether you're promoting listings or creating educational, lead-generating content for your website. As more and more young buyers enter the market, the popularity of video in real estate should only keep growing in the years to come. With tools like Properties in Motion®, it's easier than ever to take advantage of the popularity of video content.

As a real estate agent, building long-term client relationships is essential to growth. There are two times when having a deep relationship is especially vital.

First comes the initial decision to choose a real estate agent. By sharing helpful, informative content on your real estate website, you can build credibility as a trusted expert. This is important because it might take weeks or even months before someone actually decides to dive into the market.

If you've built a foundation with a potential client, you are more likely to be chosen in the end.

The second time strong relationships come into play is after the initial transaction. No matter whether you work with buyers or sellers, you can expect that they will take 4-7 years on average before needing your services again. But, all the while, they can be providing you with referral business.

In the first year of any agent's career, it's normal to spend most time "chasing down leads." You need to learn the ropes, decide what works for you, and define your ideal customer. Beyond this point, however, it's crucial to start generating leads in a less effort-intensive way, and referral business is a big piece.

Some of the most successful real estate agents in the United States today get the majority of their work from qualified leads through their website, combined with referral business from satisfied customers.

That starts by focusing your attention on long-term customer relationships. And the process is much easier when you have the right technology in hand.

How Your CRM Can Boost Your Long-Term Client Relationships

To cultivate deep relationships, real estate agents need to make the best use of their time. That means cutting down on repetitive tasks and focusing on what moves you forward. Now, more than ever, that's achieved by implementing customer relationship management software for real estate.

Customer relationship management, or CRM, gives you complete visibility into all your relationships, so you never lose track of the people who matter to your business. You can easily see where your leads, prospects, current customers, and past customers stand in relation to their transactions.

An AI-driven CRM becomes a "center of excellence" that connects the dots between thousands of data points to keep you informed. It will clue you in on exactly when and how to follow up to maximize the positive impact you can make on those in your network.

Plus, it means spending less of your energy on time-intensive marketing tasks — those things you know you should do but that often slip down the priority list. Your CRM is a powerful machine learning multi-tool that helps you prioritize and execute in a fraction of the time.

Let's take a closer look at how technology can enhance your relationship-building efforts:

• Faster, More Targeted Email Marketing
  Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to spark a new relationship. Subscribers preview the value you have to offer, fostering rapport and trust. But writing weekly emails can add up to hundreds of hours of work. A CRM can help you deliver attractive template-based emails in just a few clicks.
  
  
• Social Media Without the Time Sink
  Real estate agents are the most successful of all professionals at turning their social media following into concrete business value. But even they run a risk of hours of scrolling their feed with nothing to show for it. Event-driven social media updates from a CRM save time and zero in on what matters to followers.
  
  
• Complete Integration with Listings
  Listings are the gateway to action for your buyers. But without data, you can't tell which listing features are driving interest. With your CRM, you can showcase your new listings directly on your website and capture detailed engagement information, helping you improve with every new listing you publish.
  
  
• The Power of Video Made Easy
  Video marketing is the next best thing to being there, but real estate agents have traditionally faced a steep learning curve. Properties in Motion is just one DeltaNET®6 feature that can help you use compelling visual content to captivate buyers and get them to linger over your listings.
  
  
• Digital Advertising Without the Mystery
  Online advertising is often worthwhile for real estate agents. It's the key to getting immediate attention on any new listing and racking up plenty of open house registrations. But ads can be complicated, and a simple oversight may make them unprofitable. Ad Wizard offers at-a-glance ad campaigns.
  
  
• The Right Technology Enhances the Human Touch
  Honesty, clear communication, and a genuine interest in your customers are indispensable to real estate success. Customer Relationship Management doesn't replace these elements: It helps showcase them in all you do while saving more time and energy along the way.

Contact us to find out more about digital marketing for real estate agents.

We know that sometimes, technology can be a mixed bag.

Your computer's operating system is designed to get you to pay every month for programs that needed a one-time payment a few years ago. Your phone pushes ads anywhere and everywhere, even in severe weather alerts. It can feel like all these tools are constantly out to get you.

When it's time to invest in business solutions, however, you need a higher caliber of solution — designed from the ground up with your needs in mind. That's the kind of technology that works with you to reach your goals, not the goals of the software vendor or hardware maker.

The best technology is truly for you – and it works with you, not against you.

For real estate agents who want to perform at a higher level, that means CRM.

Customer Relationship Management for Real Estate Saves You Hours Every Week

A real estate CRM helps you do more in less time, no matter if you are an independent real estate agent or part of a large brokerage. A reliable, AI-driven all-in-one solution like DeltaNET 6 redefines your workflow by giving you complete visibility into all your prospects, leads, and clients.

With a CRM, you have the power to automate repetitive tasks while making informed decisions that move your strategy in the right direction. By doing more of the right things in less time, you'll avoid burnout, raise your productivity, and create opportunities for a healthy work-life balance.

Let's look at some of the ways a CRM serves you every day:

• No More Wondering When and How to Follow Up With Your Contacts
  Following up is a huge part of being a real estate agent. In fact, it can take anywhere from 8-15 follow-ups to produce results. Your CRM centralizes the data on your contacts, when you met then, and what interactions you've had. It even uses machine learning to cue you exactly when to make contact.
  
  
• Micro-Target Your Leads' Interests Down to Specific Listings
  Your CRM ties in with your website and other digital properties to help you gain knowledge of your customers and future customers. You'll see exactly which listings work best, so you do more of what moves you forward and laser target your email marketing to precise interests.
  
  
• Spend Less Time Scrolling and More Time Connecting on Social Media
  Social media has tremendous power for real estate agents, but it also brings with it the potential for a lot of wasted time. With your real estate CRM in tow, you can set up instant, event-driven social media updates that will bring interested leads back to your account without falling down the rabbit hole.
  
  
• Integrate All of the Latest Listing Features with a Single Click
  Not all real estate CRMs are created equal. DeltaNET®6 provides complete integration with the full suite of Delta Media Group products. Properties in Motion makes modern real estate marketing within reach along with virtual tours and remote showings through our concierge Local Showings service.
  
  
• Raise Your Website's Visibility with Better, More Focused Content
  Real estate agents should post helpful, informative content to their website's blog every month — it's called content marketing. DeltaNET 6 is your doorway into custom content marketing so you no longer need to do hours of in-house research or manage your own stable of writers.
  
  
• Accelerate the Process of Connecting Clients with Properties
  When leads reach out to become customers, they're betting you'll be able to help them find the right home far faster than they would be able to themselves. Manually, the process takes hours — but with Market Watch Reports, you have complete, accurate, white-labeled reports at your fingertips fast.
  
  
• Maintain the Confidence of Sellers with Full Visibility
  It's not always a seller's market – and sellers are often anxious to know exactly what you've been doing for them. Personalized Seller Reports take the mystery out, cataloging each and every activity as well as showing exactly how much interest your campaign has garnered over time.

Bring Your Real Estate Practice to Another Level Without Reinventing the Wheel

Technology is meant to simplify your life, not complicate it. Yet, the pandemic introduced innovation to real estate at a breakneck pace. Many agents and brokers wonder how to catch up as new technology-driven services, like virtual tours and showings, are becoming more crucial.

Instead of looking for a whole universe of different technology tools and trying to make them all work together, start with a CRM for real estate. When you select the right high-performance CRM, you can move with confidence knowing it's your "all-in-one" real estate center of excellence.

Contact us to learn more about capturing value from the latest real estate technology. We look forward to showing you all that it can do for you.

Are you tired of getting the same old results from the same old real estate marketing tactics? It's said that Einstein once declared, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results." We could spend all day trying to find out if Einstein really said that, but that would be... a little insane. The point is that whoever said it was 100 percent correct, and the lesson applies directly to the real estate industry.

Real Estate Marketing That Gets You Results

No matter how great your service and team are, it's hard to achieve your goals if your marketing isn't reaching the right people. If you want to attain the results that you dream of achieving, then now is the perfect time to take a fresh, honest look at marketing your real estate business differently.

• Develop a User-Friendly Website That Fits Every Screen
  Think of your website as a storefront. If your store is looking a little dated, located in a hard-to-find place, and lacking in information on what you have to offer, then you can't expect many people to come to visit. Develop a user-friendly website that makes it easy for visitors to find the information they want when they want it.
  
  Your website should be a place where they can learn about local communities, search listings, and pick up valuable real estate advice through relevant content. Since so many real estate shoppers browse on their phones whenever they get a free moment, responsive mobile design is also crucial to ensure that your website scales to fit any screen that they are using.
  
  
  
  

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More than half of marketing professionals surveyed say video is the content with the highest ROI – and if you're in real estate, marketing is one of your biggest jobs.

Here's another fact: Marketers who use video grow revenue 49% faster than those who don't. This applies to a wide range of industries, including those where a single expert or small team provides advice to clients.

For getting established in real estate, video is a clear winner.

Video marketing for real estate is an intimidating prospect for many sales associates. Most firms do not have in-house resources for making videos. Although there's a learning curve, conquering it is worthwhile: Video is one of the most powerful digital marketing tools, bar none.

If you're not using video marketing in real estate yet, here's why you should:

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