Yestalk-181 - The 4 Best Tools for Lead Generation
27 Feb 2020 · 14 min
Kevin Ray Ward argues the best lead-generation tools aren't technology. They're you, a compelling promise, an A-team that refers business, and a proven track record. Media and websites are just conduits.
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Welcome to Kevin Ward's Yes Talk for Realtors. This is Kevin Ward, four best tools in the world in the industry for lead generation today. Hi there, it's Kevin Ward, the founder of yes Masters Real Estate Success Training and the creator of Agent Mastery Live, helping you get more yeses and more successes in your business and in your life. And I got a comment, a question that came, I think on a YouTube video. The question was, what is the best tool for lead generation? And so today, my friend, I am going to share with you the best tool for lead generation. In fact, I'm going to do better than that. I'm going to share with you the four best tools in the world in the industry for lead generation today. And I'm going to tell you they're not what you think. So right now, if you want to just put in the comments, what do you think without watching the rest of the video, what do you think is the most important tool or the best tool for lead generation? Now, the first thing that came to my mind was your mouth. Your if you can talk to people and you can inspire people to want to meet with you and to talk to you, that is the most powerful tool. And it's a great tool. Your mouth is a good tool. Okay? Oh, no, it's the phone, baby. If you the best tool for lead generation is still pick up the phone and talk to people. Well, you can argue that or not argue that, but that's not the most important tool. Our best tool for lead generation. Or maybe it's, you know, the best tool for lead generation is a script, baby. Get a script and know master how to use it. That's the best tool for lead generation. And best scripts right here at the book of yes, you can get them on the bookofyes.com but that's not the best tool for lead generation in and of itself. Or maybe some people go like, you know what? No, it's the Internet. I mean, the Internet is the best tool for lead generation. Now somebody else goes like, no, it's video, baby. If you want the best tool today for lead generation is you need to be using video. I love it. I think video is awesome. Not the most important tool, not the best tool for lead generation. Somebody else says, no, it's social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, I don't know. But they're like, no, it's social media. I love social media. It's awesome. A lot of stuff you can do with social media. It's still not the best tool for lead generation. Okay, I know what it is. You need a website, man. You get a good website. And I teach agents how to do what we call a real online seller vortex. It actually pulls them into a relationship with you. I. But it's not a website. You see, here's the reason. None of those can make you money in and of themselves. It's how you leverage those media, those mediums. Media. Mediums. Media. It'd be media. It's how you leverage those media. It's how you leverage those conduits to make you money, to actually generate leads. So the four best tools in your lead generation toolbox, my friend, these. Number one is you. And not just you, but what I call your attractive character, your attractive carrier. What Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Go Rich called a pleasing personality. Are you someone that people buy into? Are you someone that talks to people and they go like, I like that person. I feel like that person can help me. So it starts with having an attractive character. It has to do with your presence, how you show up, how well you communicate. It has to do with how much confidence you have. It's how the. What kind of first impressions you give to people. By the way you dress, by the way you look, by the way you carry yourself, by the way you talk. All of that creates the attractive character. Are you real? Are you excited about helping them? How you show up as an attractive character is far and away the number one best lead generation tool in your toolbox. It's also the best lead conversion tool in your toolbox, and that is you and how you show up. And do you show up in a way that pulls people towards you or pushes people away, do you attract people or do you repel people? And there are skills and there are strategies that you can use to develop that. Just by the way you dress, by the way you take care of yourself if you don't look great. And when I say look great, I'm not talking about how pretty you are, but I'm talking about, do you look professional? Do you. Do you take care of your body? Do you take care of yourself? So that when people show up, they go like, that person takes care of themselves. They automatically and instinctively believe that you can take care of their house because you're a person who takes care of stuff that matters, right? So number one is you, an attractive character. Number two, the second most best tool for your lead generation toolbox is an audacious promise. An audacious promise. Look, it's noisy out there, right? With over 1.2. 1.3, depending on who you ask. 1.4 million real estate agents, I don't know exact numbers in North America. There are so many agents in every market that it's like you are a doormat in a warehouse full of doormats. Unless you do something, you've got to have a message and a process that is compelling that make people go. Like that's different. You see, I, it shouldn't, it's not just a matter of being better. Like, well, I'm better and I gotta, you know, I got my marketing plans better and my company's better and I'm. And you know, like it's just, it's just not a, it's just a fancier mousetrap. If you want to capture people, if you want leads coming to you, you must have an audacious promise that makes you irresistible. That makes you irresistible. Now there's different ways you can do it. You can do it with a being the cheapest. Okay, I'll do it for cheaper than anybody else. You can be the flat fee broker, you can be a cut rate discount thing. And there's entire businesses built on that. Okay, Being the cheapest out there. And you can go to the dollar store, the Dollar Tree, the 99 cent store, Walmart, whatever. Nothing wrong with that. But you got to decide you want to work cheap, okay, so you can be the cheapest. Now there's no value in being, you know, the third cheapest, right? If, I mean, why would you be half a 50% discounter? If I'm looking for discount, I'm looking for cheap. Why would I go to you when I can go find somebody else? Do it for 500 bucks. You're still want to charge one and a half percent or whatever it is, right? But you can be the cheapest. No value in being second cheapest. Be the cheapest. Or you can offer an astonishing guarantee. I will have your home sold in 28 days for top dollar guaranteed. That would be a guaranteed sell. I'll sell your house in 60 days or I'll buy it. That would be a guarantee. An audacious promise that guarantees hopefully that guarantees results. And I train in my advanced coaching, I train agents on all these types of different guaranteed sales or a wow value proposition. So I work with a company that I partnered with called the 72 Home, the 72 hour home selling system. Okay. You can learn about it at 72webinar.com 72webinar. And it's basically says we will sell your home and in 72 hours for thousands More than with a traditional real estate agent. That, my friend, is an audacious promise. It is a wow value proposition that makes somebody go like what? You're going to sell my house in one three day weekend in 72 hours for more than another agent can. And that takes six months. You can do it in one weekend. You got to be kidding me. That sounds too good to be true. That audacious promise though is what gets their attention. Now you got to have something to back it up or you're full of crap, you're just selling bs. But when you can back it up, an audacious promise grabs people's attention. And you've got an audacious promise now attached to your attractive character. And you've got two of the best tools for your lead generation toolbox. Now the best lead gen, best tool number three for lead generation is an awesome, amazing A team. Now what is an A team? An A team is what we also call a word of mouth marketing team. Some people call it sphere of influence. Your basically your word of mouth marketing team. It's who do you know that is looking for business for you? So you can say, well I have a sphere of influence, I have a database. Well, it's not a database and it's not a sphere of influence. That's people that you have an influence with. I'm talking about the ones that you have such a strong relationship with that believe so much in you and what you do that they're the one always looking and their eyes and ears are open and looking for somebody else that you can help and going like, ah, I just ran into somebody at work, they are getting ready to move, they're getting transferred or they just, their kid just graduated and they're selling their house and I told them that I was going to give their number to you to call them. They're expecting you to call. That, my friend, is a word of mouth marketing team. That is an A team. That is somebody that is there out there and they're just, they're just aware of when they hear a real estate conversation when their neighbors move and they don't go like, I'm sure they got a realtor, they go like, you need to talk to my realtor. And they're bringing you business. The best, the most powerful marketing on the planet is what word of mouth. And when you've got people that you have a relationship with, they know what you do, they believe that you do it well. They believe you're the best, they trust you and they know that you Want their help to connect you with people that they know that are needing a great agent to help them sell and buy and invest in real estate. When that happens, my friends, deals will come to you over and over again as long as you maintain that relationship. What we call toma, top of mind awareness and help them do that. An A team, my friend, you got to build it. But once you built it, there is nothing more powerful than having somebody else bringing business to you. And they also could bridge that gap of trust because they know you, like you and trust you. So they give credit you credibility to the person that they're referring to you so you don't have to overcome skepticism. It's insanely powerful. So the third best tool for lead generation in your toolbox today is an A team. If you don't have one, you got to build an A team. You got to build. I'm telling you, every time you do a deal, you want that client. When you get a new client, you want to let them know upfront. My goal is not just to sell your house. My goal is to do such a fabulous job for you that for the rest of your life, one, I'm your agent for life and two, that everybody else that you know that you ever hear about looking at, buying or selling, you want to refer them to me because you know I'll take care of them as well and I'll make you look good by referring them to me. Is that okay? If knowing going in that I want to do that good of a job for you, what are they going to say? Of course. So I'm winning and building that a team every single day. Day. The number 4 4th tool in your lead generation toolbox is an awesome track record. Just having a track record, it's just having that track record of market presence, market control. It's the old saying, success breeds success. Now you can't start with that. Day one. I know the question. Some of you are watching this, you're like, well, what if I'm brand new? Then you don't have a track record. So you got to count on number one, an attractive character and number two, an audacious promise. Okay, I don't know anybody. Whether you can't count on number three having an A team, you got to build it. Okay? If you look at yourself and go like, I don't know, I just, I don't feel like I really connect with people. Well, then you got to do some work on you and creating an attractive character, a pleasing personality. If you don't have an audacious promise. You got to learn one. You got to get trained on one. You got to find one. Okay. This is stuff that we train on in depth and taking people to from wherever they are to adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to their income year after year after year in our events like Agent Mastery Live. You can go to agentmasterylive.com to find out about more about that and come join us and come train with me for three days and it will change your life and it will help you master. Help you master and fill your toolbox with the best, most powerful lead generation tools on the planet and how to make them work for you. If you got I'm just curious if you got other ideas of things you think are the best tools for lead generation today. I'd love for your comments, post them down below. If you got questions, post them. Give the video a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't done this yet. Most important play to win and always expect yes. Hey there, it's Kevin. I hope you enjoyed today's podcast. Are you tired of getting no after no when you're out there trying to get listings and trying to inspire sellers to say yes to you, then I'd like to invite you to download a free copy of my no BS Listing presentation. 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