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Most of my leads are from recommendations from past clients. I occasionally get a lead from my website, or through social media, and also just from talking to people.
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The pop by concept and the sphere of influence mailers seem to work best for me.
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It depends what point you are in your career? Walk-ins and Open Houses offer excellent foundations if well situated. Today it's virtually all via personal referral.
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Garry, you must understand their exists a GREAT selection bias in the responses to your question.
The pathology of a real estate business is predictiable. For listing agents who have been in business 7 years or more, referrals ARE the biggest source of leads.
For those with fewer years or are buyer agents, the response will be incredibly different.
There are over 44 ways to generate leads. referrals are one.
Which one works BEST is the one the agent works effectively.
Like other before me, 'referrals' is the goose that lays the golden egg.
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Most of my business now comes from past clients and referrals. In the beginning, I hosted open house frequently and got clients from doing that.
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Most of my leads come through my web site. Though, my best leads are from referrals.
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Over time, I have generated many leads on craigslist, trulia, my website, my newsletter and referrals.
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For me, Realtors, financial advisors, and past clients (but most of them are from Realtors and financial advisors). I work mostly a relationship based business, so networking and trying to add value brings me business.
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Personal contacts seem to be the best lead for me. 95% of my business is personal referral from someone I know or through someone I know.