Reaching your Clients through Video

Looking to improve your real estate career? I'm here to help you make a smart decision when it comes to growing your business, improving your bottom line, and choosing a place to work in real estate sales. If you'd like to learn more about working with Damon Gettier and Associates, contact me at (540) 314-1199 or Damon@DamonGettier.com.

Reaching your Clients through Video

A lot of people ask us, "Why video?" when they find out how we market ourselves to our past, present and future clients. Well, it just so happens that the 2nd most used search engine in the world is a video site. That's right, we are talking about YouTube. Everybody has got a smart phone now and people like video. Being able to show a house through video can show the property in a much better light than pictures can. With video, you are positioning yourselfwhere the consumer is and where they are looking. Not all video is helpful, however. Consumers enjoy watching videos and TV shows about homes and home improvements, but the information they get from those shows is inaccurate and wrong.

When we do videos with our marketing partner, Vyral Marketing, we are giving out short, educational videos that add value and give information about current events to our clients. Are they going to watch these types of videos every day? No, but when they are thinking of buying or selling, they are going to find these videos. The real point of the videos is to get the message across to the consumer as they are looking, so you can position yourself as an expert in the area. 

If you have any questions about how to insert video in your marketing, please give us a call. We'd love to answer any and all questions you might have.

What does Zillow's buyout of Trulia Mean for You?

Looking to improve your real estate career? I'm here to help you make a smart decision when it comes to growing your business, improving your bottom line, and choosing a place to work in real estate sales. If you'd like to learn more about working with Damon Gettier and Associates, contact me at (540) 314-1199 or Damon@DamonGettier.com.

What does Zillow's buyout of Trulia Mean for You?

Today we want to touch on a recent topic that has been in the news. If you have been paying attention to real estate news recently, you already know that internet home search giant Zillow has recently bought out their biggest competitor, Trulia, for $3.5 billion. We know that a lot of people in the real estate world are concerned about this. They know what the internet did to the travel agency business and are afraid that the same thing will happen in real estate with this buyout. 

We tell our agents not to worry about this. Real estate is local, travel agencies are not. They were selling trips, not houses. Travel is a hobby, a luxury if you will. Real estate is something that people will always purchase and always need. Real estate agents have that distinct advantage of being local. We have feet on the ground, know the market and inventory. As long as we as professionals know our craft, our inventory, and what we are doing and can do our job in a competent manner, we don't think any of these sites are a threat. They only become a threat when we don't know our job and rely on them to do our job for us. 

If you have any questions about the buyout or anything else real estate related, please feel free to give us a call. We'd love to sit down with you to discuss your career. 

Avoid Becoming Overwhelmed this Selling Season

Looking to improve your real estate career? I'm here to help you make a smart decision when it comes to growing your business, improving your bottom line, and choosing a place to work in real estate sales. If you'd like to learn more about working with Damon Gettier and Associates, contact me at (540) 314-1199 or Damon@DamonGettier.com.

Avoid Becoming Overwhelmed this Selling Season

As real estate agents, we tend to be reactive instead of being proactive. It isn’t until we are buried in leads that we decide to purchase a lead management system. As the market begins to heat up, I encourage you to get your software platforms in place and find out what contact management system you will plan to use.

This allows you to track your leads – the last thing you want is business, which you pay for, coming in with no way to manage it! Hiring help during this influx of business is also a great move. Your first hire should be an administrative assistant – this person will help you bring in the leads, qualify them and find the good from the bad. However if you are unable to pay for additional employees, stop paying for leads. You don’t want to gain the reputation of someone who can’t handle the public’s inquiries.

If you have any questions about team dynamics or lead management, feel free to call or email me. Thanks and have a great day!

Focus on What is Most Important by Implementing Systems!

Looking to improve your real estate career? I'm here to help you make a smart decision when it comes to growing your business, improving your bottom line, and choosing a place to work in real estate sales. If you'd like to learn more about working with Damon Gettier and Associates, contact me at (540) 314-1199 or Damon@DamonGettier.com.

To ensure our agents are successful, we have systemized everything – individual agents cannot to do everything, let alone be successful and earn and income.

We have three different internet-based systems that we spend over $5,000 a month for the sole purpose of bringing in internet leads.  We also have an administrative staff that supports our agents. For instance, after we write a contract, the staff takes the contract to closing. There are also three groups of inside sales agents who call our listing prospects, buyer prospects and turn those prospects into viable leads. This allows our agents to focus on writing contracts and showing homes.


If you have any questions about the systems or techniques that we use, feel free to call or email me. Thanks and have a great day!