Commercial Real Estate Brokerage – Searching for the Best Ways to Improve Personal Brokerage Performance

In commercial real estate brokerage, things change frequently throughout the year.  The only object or fact that you can control is your response to the property market and its changes.  There is always opportunity in change, but you have to dig for it.  Local property market awareness will help your responses.

What do you do?

It doesn’t matter whether you are specializing in sales, leasing or property management, the location changes and the market sentiment will be there for you to work with and turn into commissions and or leads.  It is a valuable process to monitor your activities each day and direct them into particular strategies that you can shape and refine.

How do you rank with these?

Here are some specific ideas that can really help drive better results for agents and brokers.  See how you rank with these ‘change factors’:

1. What you say – Given that we are communicating with people every day, what you say and how you say it will be a great leverage factor in business conversions. Learn about the conversational factors in telephone prospecting, negotiating, pitching and presenting.   Notably all of those situations are quite special in our industry.  Develop the voice and the right words that support conversational confidence with people.
2. Property market awareness – Check out the local listings and the trends in enquiry, prices, and marketing strategies. Understand just what formula is creating the best enquiry and momentum towards a successful sale or lease situation.  Watch the top agents in your location so you can see the strategies and differences that are potentially giving them the edge in listing conversion.
3. Recent enquiry – Clients like to hear about recent levels of property enquiry. If you are tracking the enquiry numbers for your exclusive campaigns, you will have some valuable information that can influence the listing processes with your clients.  Also assess the numbers of people that you are talking to every day.  Lift your contact numbers on a daily basis; set some contact benchmarks that you can improve given the available time.
4. Marketing solutions – There are many ways to market a property today. How can you make your promotional processes more specific and relevant?  What can you do to leverage more enquiries from the advertising that you have both online and offline?  There are many ways to creatively and professionally improve property marketing.  Try better photographs, creative promotional copy professionally created, layouts, keywords related to your area and property type, and place the property in a matrix of online portals, social media, and database newsletters.

From these four simple factors you can see why personal performance is a big thing in commercial real estate brokerage today.

Most of the property market ‘slumps’ are a reflection on personal agent or broker performance rather than true market conditions.  Are you up to the challenge?

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