What’s great about being a real estate agent is that all your marketing doesn’t have to be just about buying or selling a home. Real estate is a people business and you do more than just the logistics of buying and selling, you help people undergo a major life change. As involved as you are in your clients’ lives it only makes sense that you celebrate the summers’ biggest holiday with them – America’s Birthday! Try these seven Fourth of July themed real estate marketing ideas to engage your client base and capture new contacts -  

Back by popular demand, Zurple will be hosting Episode II of the Tech or Bust series. As part II of this webinar mini-series, Zurple's Vice-President, Jack Markham, will be sharing how to keep your business personable, even in the digital age of real estate. Learn more about our upcoming webinar below -

You might hear from top producing agents that farming is a waste of time. Let's dive deeper into this. Is this true? Or is it an opinion of agents that know a better way?

Lead gates are essential to capturing new customers and prospects online. The information your lead capture form asks for directly impacts your lead conversion rate. Lead capture forms place value behind your website's content and marketing campaigns. Without a lead capture form, buyers and sellers can otherwise access your content for free. Digital marketers agree across all industries that the length of a lead form directly impact conversion rates.

The more information agents ask from real estate leads, the less likely leads will be to provide that information. Likewise, the more value leads place behind the gated content, the more likely they’ll be to leave their information. So, what if that required information is optional? Will real estate leads share personal information if they don't have too? Most importantly, will they share their phone number if it's not required?

Farming neighborhoods is what real estate agents have been doing for what feels like centuries. Before the internet and fax machines, farming is how most agents spent their marketing dollars. For such a foundational aspect of real estate marketing, there are some details that can be improved upon.