Every month, estate agents pay thousands of pounds to market themselves to vendors and buyers. Portal costs, boards and print materials cost around £2,000 per month for a typical branch even before factoring in newspaper and other forms of advertising.
Despite this, instructions are few and far between. If sellers aren’t instructing you through the portals or due to your board presence, then advertising is the only way to increase your exposure and gain new instructions.
However, with low numbers of completed transaction – according to RICS the average agent completed just 15.5 sales in the three months to June – many agents are struggling to cover their fixed costs and staff salaries, forget about an expensive advertising campaign which may or may not bring any results.
But what if you could pay £25+VAT and gain an instruction worth nearly £5,000 in fees?
Well, actually, that’s the type of thing that happens at MeetMyAgent.co.uk: just last week a member of ours received their third valuation through the site, which on completion will earn £4,875.
Do the maths, and that one instruction pays for listing on our site for 16.25 years! (Or 21 years if you buy one year packages)
Now, we didn’t tell the seller to instruct this particular agent – they earned the instruction off the back of their reviews – but we did provide a platform for them to showcase their feedback to local vendors and landlords that WE have driven to the site (with our transparent back end reporting demonstrating how the site is working in the areas you serve).
Plus, unlike the portals, there are no additional costs if you receive more than a certain number of leads becausewe believe if a seller is choosing you thenyou have earned it. In fact, we instead provide you ways in which to save money through discounts on related-services and free member training.
Participation is key, or else even the small charge of £25+VAT per month is a waste: you can’t pay for a newspaper ad without writing content for it or designing the layout and expect a return. Just the same way you can’t pay to list on a platform like ours and expect instructions without encouraging reviews... How else would they know why to instruct you!?
Our site is therefore for proactive, customer-focused agents who want to win instructions off the back of reputation and be associated with a site thatis a credible source of consumer information, having been regularly quoted in national press on property-related topics and writing a hugely popular blog that is now featured on Property Tribeswhich attracts 7-10k users per day.
We are aimed solely at sellers and landlords, and we want to connect them to great agents. If that’s you then what are you waiting for? Join us today!
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