Tracking real estate lead generation activities helps Realtors stay motivated and holds them accountable to their goals. Agents that keep record of their pro-active efforts to generate more business are also able to diagnose problem areas that need improvement by learning and understanding their lead conversion ratios.
Understanding Real Estate Conversion Ratios
with Brian Icenhower
MOTIVATION
Lead generation activities like prospecting can often mean day after day filled with rejection and failure. But tracking these activities enables the agent to focus on the activity and not the results. For example, an agent that makes the requisite 20 daily telephone contacts to his client database may feel a sense of accomplishment if his focus was on that activity. Yet an agent focused solely on results may experience only depression if he received no leads from the 20 contacts. A knowledgeable lead generator understands that prospecting is a numbers game and eventually the leads and appointments will come so long as the activity persists. Lead generators have control of the effort and not the outcome.
ACCOUNTABILITY
The key to understanding how numbers tracking enhances agent accountability is found in the 10-10-80 principle. Success in real estate is broken down by:
- 10% Knowledge - learning what to do
- 10% Taking Action - starting to do something
- 80% Accountability - keeping yourself doing it
Almost all agents can remember when they learned a way to get more business and maybe even started taking action. However very few agents continue to lead generate with any type of consistency after getting started. Numbers tracking holds agents accountable to the activity when the lack immediate results might otherwise discourage persistence.
DIAGNOSIS
Finally, establishing conversion ratios helps agents see exactly where their attempts are missing the mark, thereby isolating areas of activity that need more training and development. In turn, agents are able to gain confidence quickly and become much more efficient with time as their skill level improves at a rapid rate.
For complimentary copies of Brian Icenhower's lead generation tracking forms please make a request by email to icenhower@kw.com.
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Top Producer Kevin Blain Shares his Secrets to Selling 473 Homes in 2012
Generating more Listings with Leverage
Know the Score: Tracking Real Estate Lead Generation Numbers
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The Keys to Successful Geographic Real Estate Farming
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