Tech Tips for Realtors: YouTube, Google Plus and MailChimp

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Tech Tips For Realtors

Every Monday, the “Working the Magic” technology team at eXp Realty hosts an hour-long meeting that is chock-full of the latest technology tips for real estate. This week was a good one and we wanted to share it with you!

Jeffrey Bittner walked us through several tools that are very important to today’s online real estate marketing strategy, including:

How to set up your Google Plus account
How to set up and integrate your YouTube channel with Google Plus
How to use MailChimp to create simple or custom newsletter marketing emails
Voxer, the walkie-talkie app

Top Tech Tips for Agents

If you have a website and want it to rank on the first page of Google, so important to create a Google Plus account and post to it regularly. Google may sunset Google Plus, but until they do, keep using it!
YouTube is one of the Top 5 search engines for potential buyers — many people just think of Google, Bing and Yahoo, but YouTube is one you don’t want to miss
Set up multiple lists in MailChimp so you can customize your communications to past clients vs sphere of influence vs potential clients
Alternate your MailChimp emails to past clients, using plain text for some of the emails and HTML emails (with photos, colored fonts, etc)
Test your subject line with the MailChimp A/B Split function to see which works subject line gets the most opens / clicks
Adding a YouTube video to your newsletter using the video widget
How to add the eNewsletter sign-up form to your website

WHAT I USE IN MY BUSINESS

MailChimp at least once, if not 3-4 times every week to promote new listings to local real estate agents, to send prospects a quick email, and then a bi-weekly eNewsletter to my sphere of influence. Here are a few examples:

Editor’s note: This article was created by Kerry Lucasse, Agent/Owner at eXp Realty. Information deemed reliable but is subject to change.

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Kerry Lucasse

After almost 20 years in the real estate business, Kerry Lucasse has had the pleasure of building one of Atlanta's top real estate teams, generating thousands of internet leads, and received numerous awards, including eXp ICON Agent, #1 Team in the US, Chairman's Excellence Award, and Rookie of the Year. She currently manages a local team of 20 agents and has over 6,500 agents in her organization across North America. Kerry's helped hundreds of agents grow successful real estate businesses, establish their brands, generate more leads, build multi-state teams, and diversify their income streams. Her #1 goal.... Building Better Agents!