Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Cold Calling – Coordinate Your Prospecting Systems

In commercial real estate brokerage, your cold calling systems should be coordinated to a plan and a process.  Over time you can then improve your actions as the plan requires.

Cold calling is a very specific process of agent actions tracked to results; monitor the things that you are doing and watch what is working for you.  When you know that your telephone calls are getting meeting conversions, then you improve them further; if meetings are hard to achieve then skill enhancement is required.

What systems do you have?

So what are the key factors to help you in coordinating and improving your prospecting model and cold call activities?  Try some of these:

1. Why should someone listen to you? – There has to be a central message to your call process. Have a basic strategy to the call that is useful to the person you are calling.  Don’t make calls based on your needs, but focus on them; talk about the other person’s property and how something you are offering will be of use.  That could be a special report, perhaps an update on recent sales or leasing’s, or even a chart of property market trends that you can send them.
2. Don’t push the other person – Too many agents push a conversation in cold calling. That generally doesn’t work. Polite professional telephone conversations get more results over time.  The important thing is that you have something of relevance to talk about.
3. Understand your ratios with call conversations and outbound prospecting – When you track your numbers you can see what outcomes you are getting, and if they are fruitful. Whilst everyone will have a different set of numbers to work at over time, those numbers should be improving; that is why you should be making regular cold calls and watching the ratios.
4. Create a pipeline of contact – When you connect with a person across the telephone in a positive way, they should then advance up the pipeline of marketing and ongoing contact. Over a period of time you then connect with ever more people in a positive and relevant way.

You can take these simple strategies and merge them into your prospecting and cold calling model.  Understand why someone should listen to you and provide relevance around that fact.  Grow your skills in cold calling so that your results improve and grow over time.  I go back to the point that you should track your ratios.