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How Spacio Launched to a Major Broker in Two Days
At Moxi Works, we pride ourselves on providing the only true open platform the real estate industry has seen thus far, and having an impeccable platform integration system to go with it. We do this by providing these five key factors in our open platform, the Moxi Cloud:
1. Property data
2. Brokerage and agent data
3. Consumer data
4. Integration with the cloud environment with Microsoft and Google
5. An API allowing other companies to integrate
All of these pieces of data and platform integrations work together, effortlessly, in one place. Our open API is the reason we’ve grown to include over 30 integrated tools and services this year and had seamless platform integration for each. Among these 30 partners are companies like DocuSign, Imprev Marketing, Loop & Tie, Offrs, Move Easy, Spacio, and many more. As an open platform provider, we strive to partner with leading companies to offer our clients a suite of best-in-class tools and services. Platform integrations range from single-sign-on (SSO) to data sharing and everything in-between. Brokerages and their agents benefit from a consistent, robust technology ecosystem and a streamlined, efficient workflow.
Spacio Launches to Major Broker in Two Days with Our Platform Integration
Curious about what it’s like to work with our team or what it would look like for your company? Spacio, for instance, was able to effortlessly and quickly take advantage of our platform integration with the Moxi Cloud, and deliver swiftly to their large brokerage client. What used to take many, many days, only took a short time and didn’t require any extra software development. We asked Melissa Kwan over at Spacio what her experience has been like working with Moxi Works – check out the video below to see what she had to say.
The Moxi Cloud is able to perform smooth platform integrations by having the data available in the cloud. This is what makes it all possible. We don’t pretend to be amazing at everything. We let our brokerages choose the best tools and services out there for their brokerage and integrate them into our platform. We want the power to stay in the brokerages hands, allowing them to curate the tools and services they think are best for their own agents. Every brokerage is unique and because of it, each needs a unique solution.
Interested in partnering with Moxi Works? Reach out to us!
Why You Must Use Video in Your Listing Presentations
With the rise of social media and digital marketing, video is becoming a consistently effective form of communication online. The real estate industry is buzzing with reasons why you shouldn’t skip video marketing, so how can you seamlessly add video to your current marketing routine? We decided to explore why and how agents can add video content to their listing presentations. Leveraging multimedia can create a much more engaging listing presentation and set you apart. Here are some listing presentation tips to get you started!
Why should real estate agents be thinking about video?
• 85% of buyers & sellers want an agent who uses video marketing.
• 55% of people consume videos thoroughly – the highest of any content type.
• 43% of people want to see more video content in the future.
Agents are always looking for tips on how to make their listing presentations stand out. Differentiate the property by adding engaging video content highlighting the home’s unique selling features.
Here are four listing presentation tips for how to incorporate video:
1. Home Tour / Listing Videos
Create a listing video to add visual interest to your presentation. Focus on the property features and unique selling points of the house. If you don’t have a professional camera, no problem. Most smartphones have cameras that will produce videos with high enough quality and resolution for your presentation. You can add a voiceover, narrate the video, or edit it to play to music.
2. Neighborhood Tour
Consider that your clients aren’t just buying a house, they’re joining a community. A neighborhood tour video can put the neighborhood on display in an engaging, personal way. Talk about local businesses, local activities and events, and community amenities. Buying a house is an emotional decision, so giving clients a taste of what it will be like to live in their new neighborhood can add a lot of value to your listing presentation.
3. Testimonials (Client Interviews)
Use video to put a new spin on testimonials. Show client interviews, with clips of them talking about what it was like to work with you and what their experience was like. Hearing a testimonial straight from a past client can be incredibly valuable.
4. ‘About Me’ Introduction Video
Instead of a generic ‘about me’ overview or a list of bullet points, try out a bio video to add a personal touch. Introduce yourself and talk about what your process is like and what it’s like to work with you. It’s an opportunity to not only show off your experience, but also let your personality shine through.
These listing presentation tips for adding video are just the beginning. Video can be leveraged in buyer presentations, open house presentations, CMAs, and more. What type of video will you try out in your next presentation?
Moxi Present allows agents to include video, along with other rich media, into their presentations. Adding a little visual interest, personality and emotion helps agents win more business.
Announcing Mile 62: The Real Estate Agent’s Toolbox
We’d like to announce our new e-Magazine, built specifically for agents.
We wanted to find a way to give agents a set of monthly tools and information that helps them become more productive, more tech-savvy agents, without having to spend a lot of time to do so. Because we know they are short for time as it is. That’s why Mile 62 is made with agents in mind, period.
This e-Magazine, or real estate agent’s toolbox, will be distributed digitally on a monthly basis. Click, cruise, resume day. Your one-way ticket to being a trusted advisor!
What’s in it
Here’s what you can expect from the real estate agent’s toolbox, Mile 62:
Actionable tools and tips to increase productivity on topics such as,
- Social Media
- Advertising
- Marketing to your Sphere
- Client Gifting
- Etc.
Resources such as training videos and webinars
- Sign up for them live or watch them pre-recorded
- Watch videos in the magazine without having to click to a new tab
Industry Happenings
- Stay in the know
- Have topics always tucked away in your back pocket that you can use to showcase yourself as a trusted advisor
Expected Outcome: More knowledge, more time.
This not only helps agents be more successful with their own business, but it helps office managers stay in tune with the agent’s needs, wants, and hot discussion topics. It prepares them for the future of their brokerage and the future of the industry as a whole.
Why Mile 62?
Space is 62 miles (100 km) away. At Moxi, we truly believe the sky’s the limit and we want to help agents get there and achieve the goals they set for themselves. Every day is a good day to be a step ahead of the competition and be more knowledgeable, tech-savvy agents, that can position oneself as the go-to advisor for both clients and entire sphere. View Mile 62 while in line at Starbucks or waiting for an open house to begin! There’s no bad time to read and digest the real estate agent’s toolbox.
What would you do to reach the sky? Without further ado: Here’s the first edition of Mile 62!
Why You Should Use Open House Presentations Every. Single. Time.
Open house presentations are the new standard. Gone are the days when you could put out a plate of cookies, sit back, and reap the benefits. Markets are crazier than ever and the competition couldn’t be vaster. Stepping up your open house game will ensure success and help beat out the competition.
Here’s why you need to use open house presentations moving forward:
Better Chances of Converting
Open house presentations allow you to have a better chance of converting a buyer for your listing. How come? With automated marketing sending out your presentations to open house guests, you’re reminding them of the house they saw, and why they loved it.
Since home buying is the largest and most emotional purchase in a client’s lifetime, chances are they’re going to need constant cues and reassurance of why they should take the leap. Open house presentations remind them it’s there and allows them to fall in love with the home over and over again.
Check this page out for open house presentation samples so you can get an idea of what agents are providing to potential buyers.
Lead Generation
There’s a new way to “Open House” and it involves killer lead generation, tying into buyer conversion. Spacio is a lead catcher tool that allows agents to host paperless open houses and turns them into powerful sales opportunities. They do this with a few simple strategies.
Simple and Paperless Lead Capture: A modern and inviting sign-in form collects visitor information and leaves them with an unforgettable first impression. Spacio verifies the accuracy of visitors’ contact information so agents can focus their efforts on the highest quality leads.
Follow Up: Spacio automatically sends a follow-up email to prospects after they sign in. Through our CMA tool, Moxi Present, the follow-up email can include agent’s customized interactive presentations for the listing. Spacio also gives agents access to all the open house leads in their Moxi Engage CRM.
Get Insights on Your Most Likely Customers: Spacio gathers social insights on visitors and surfaces the most likely customers based on the agent’s Ideal Customer Profile. Lead Quality Scores are based on the agent’s preferences and a variety of factors, including how visitors answer questions on the sign-in form and public data available on leads.
Learn more about Spacio and how they’re changing the game.
Millennials
If those aren’t good enough reasons to convince you why open house presentations are a must, then how about this. Millennials, who are now the largest generation buying homes, are a different animal. In fact, millennials represented 45% of all purchase loans in 2016.
They’re not the only ones that expect more from real estate agents these days either. With articles like this coming out all the time, it’s getting more and more vital for agents to have an indisputable value proposition. Older, tech savvy generations expect more now as well, and you can make your worth obvious with your expert open house. But still, don’t forget the cookies.
Ten Segmentation Strategies for Your Client Database
A customer database is the lifeblood of a real estate agent’s business. Within their contacts are all the buyers, sellers, and prospects they’ve worked with in the past and hope to work with in the future. A timely, but vital task is keeping that database up-to-date and organized in the most efficient fashion. There’s one way to ensure database success: marketing segmentation.
With that in mind, here are ten customer segmentation strategies:
Segmentation via Demographics
You can breakdown your contacts by any combination of age, gender, income, education, ethnicity, marital status, education, household (or business), size, length of residence, type of residence or even their profession/occupation.
1. Try breaking contacts up based off type of residence. Those with condos might be looking to upgrade to a house. Those with a starter home and kids are probably looking for something a bit bigger.
2. Don’t forget the importance of age. Segmenting your client database by age can be especially important when it comes to the kind of content you’re sharing with them. This will help you adjust the messaging of your email and communications. Your younger audiences expect video and high-end content. Your older audiences might appreciate a letter in the mail if they aren’t super active online.
3. Are some of your client’s kids just about to leave the nest? Send some downsizing tips to these clients. Did anyone just have a baby? Send them some homes with a little more space.
Segmentation via Psychographics
This refers to ‘personality and emotions’ based on behavior, linked to purchase choices, attitudes, lifestyle, hobbies (recreation, entertainment, vacations, and other non-work time pursuits), personality and leadership traits. If the demographics are the “who,” the psychographics are the “why.”
4. You can ID all your “investors” into a group and send them opportunities to invest in. Although this can sometimes fall into the “work” category, some investors like to do it on the side. They also might be retired and doing it on a part-time basis.
5. Segment based off hobbies. Got a boat and a bunch of boating fans? Invite them to a meet up on the lake. Have everyone tie up together and do a barbeque on your boat. This works for just about every hobby under the sun.
6. ID based on their job title. If you have powerful thought leaders and CEOs in your database, they’d probably like to hear what other thought leaders have to say as well.
Segmentation via Geography
Drill down with zip codes, neighborhoods, or counties.
7. This can be helpful especially for neighborhoods that each have a unique feel to them. People that live in the city typically find different information helpful than those that live in the suburbs. Send each neighborhood new restaurants, just listed homes and homes that sold that are similar to theirs.
8. Most real estate data is divided by zip code or area code. Segmenting via zip code can be extremely helpful for those that are heavy into statistics are market updates.
Segmentation via Life-Stages
There are probably four stages of life you can focus on when looking at home buyers and sellers. Early adulthood (20-35), midlife (35-50), mature adulthood (50-80), and late adulthood (80+). Here are a couple ways to segment based off those:
9. Early Adulthood – Most millennials want to buy a house, but many think there’s too big of a barrier to do so. Send them info on reasons why a house is in reach.
10. Mature Adulthood (50-80) – These people are typically looking to downsize or move South. Send them info of why it’s a good time to sell.
Checkout the other life stages and get inspired for more ways to segment by the stage of life your clients are in.
*BONUS: Segment depending on how long they’ve been a client (or haven’t). If you have referrals sitting in your database, chances are they’ve heard great things about you, but don’t really know you. Segment these into a list and show them what you’re all about.
Customer Data that Powers Marketing Segmentation
You might be thinking, “these are great ideas but how on earth will I be able to know all that information about all of my clients?” Moxi Insights is a great place to start. Moxi Insights is a newly released feature of our Moxi Engage CRM and is no doubt changing the game for sphere marketing with the h
elp of public data. Moxi Insights gives quick and organized client information to agents through their CRM, from general demographics, housing info, lifestyle choices, financials, and hobbies to where clients/prospects donate and invest their money. Agents can potentially see if their clients have pets, drive certain cars, or if they’re a value shopper.
Customer data is an extremely powerful tool. Find out more about Moxi Insights and how to take advantage of this new tool to turn yourself into a marketing superstar with the click of a button.
What are you waiting for? Start segmenting your client database TODAY and start reaping the benefits TOMORROW (and every day after that)
