Your ability to set up a clear marketing system will directly impact your results and enquiries in commercial real estate brokerage.  If you want to pull in the interest of buyers or tenants, then the marketing system should be specific and direct.

Don’t fall for the ‘general’ approach to property promotion.  Put your full efforts into your real estate business; talk to people and build promotional momentum in the target audiences.

As you grow your listing base and market share, you should have more exclusive listings under your control.  There is a limit as to the number of listings that you can handle at any point in time.  Property types and size of property will dictate the ‘limit’.

Know your Limits

Some property promotions can take a lot of your focus so know what you must do to attract the people to your property listings, and then seek the listing terms of engagement and marketing that you need.

Here are some ideas to help you develop your system of property promotion or marketing.  Add to the list as you see necessary:

1. Inspect the property before you do anything else. Understanding the property and its location will give you more leverage in the client conversations around marketing and marketing costs.  Take plenty of photographs in and around the property as you do the inspection; those photographs will help condition the client in the marketing conversation.
2. Develop an inspection strategy and use your photographs to illustrate the processes of inspection to be used. If the client can see that you do know the property and how to hold the inspection with buyers or tenants, then the listing and marketing conversion in a lot easier.
3. Define a target audience and talk about where they come from, how you will reach out to them, and why that target audience will listen to you. Help the client see that you can engage with the target audience with great effect and in a timely way.
4. Draft you adverts and then have another person review the layout, content, and correctness. Some brokerages today have a specialised person undertake that process for all advertising.  In drafting the adverts, remember the property features and the ‘keywords’ that are likely to attract more property enquiry.
5. The ideal release of the marketing campaign should be part of a strategy and a timed process. Use a Gantt chart to show the client how you will approach the listing, inspection, and negotiation processes.  The visual approach helps when want to enlist the thinking and decision facilities of the client or prospect.  Gantt charts do that quite well.
6. Mix your online and offline marketing effectively. It is a known fact that newspaper advertising is becoming less effective and is highly costly, so a balance of media choices should be given to the client when listing for their marketing consideration and reflection.
7. Go direct where possible when promoting a listing. The direct approach helps with finding businesses and investors looking to move and or grow their property portfolio.  Every listing is a good reason to talk to many people.  You could say that ‘exclusivity’ is part of that process.
8. Review all your activities weekly so you can see where things are happening and how small adjustments can happen to your business approach with prospects. A successful year in commercial real estate brokerage is a combination of many different strategies deployed to a plan and a system.

So, all these things will help you develop your approach to property marketing with your better-quality listings.  Take the steps forward to engage with your property market, prospects, clients, and business owners every day.

Your systems will help you achieve good results in your business.  Don’t wait for the enquiries to come to you; go out and find the enquiries.