The Right Mortgage Marketing Material Follows a Story as Good as Star Wars
Loan officers use the wrong approach when they meet real estate agents.
They give up all their mortgage marketing material by telling their whole story on the first visit. It's the same as asking someone to marry you on the first date.
If you want real estate agents to look forward to future meetings, you can't tell them everything on the first visit. Rather, you wet their pallet with a good appetizer and then serve the meal over several courses.
It's how you structure a good introduction and it is how our Email Drip Campaign in the Quick Start System is designed. When a real estate agent opts-in, it triggers an automatic drip email campaign. Learn why most mortgage marketing material fails.
Sequels Carry Out the Storyline
Dripping a storyline is a strategy for keeping your mortgage marketing material alive in the mind of the prospect. A storyline is a series of messages corresponded over time. If it's compelling, your future messages become anticipated and stand out from the competition.
The highest grossing movie franchise of all-time, Star Wars, has done exactly that. We enjoyed the first movie and waited with anticipation to see the sequel. We rushed to the theater each time the new sequel hit the screen. Instead of trying to tell the whole story in one movie, it's been told over several.
The Email Drip Campaign consists of multiple messages connected over a storyline. Each personalized message builds on the previous message and answers a question to a problem.
A Better Approach
The Email Drip Campaign changes your fundamental approach to real estate agents. Instead of using a sales approach, which is based on taking, the campaign mirrors the relationship process, which is based on giving.
It's much easier to turn strangers into friends when you give them items of interest first. Just like a peace offering, giving first declares your intentions better than the colder approach of soliciting.
Each message in the Email Drip Campaign carries an attachment such as a report, flyer or marketing tool. Agents find this mortgage marketing material helpful and even useful. It changes their perception of you. They see someone offering assistance first unlike your competition that is only concerned about getting referrals (taking). Avoid the same costly mistakes many loan officers make.
Conversation Not Confrontation
How do real estate agents react? Agents will start paying attention to your emails if they feel the information helps their business. They will respond by email, contact you by phone and even request to meet in person and further explore possibilities of working together. Just see how it worked for one of our members
Unlike cold calling where you're trying to convince a stranger to have a conversation, the Email Drip Campaign fixes it. Each message is designed to stimulate a reaction - getting agents to respond. When it happens the campaign has achieved its primary goal. It's easier to speak with an agent because they want to talk to you not because you're harassing them with mortgage marketing material about the latest loan program.
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