Can't Get Seller Leads? Our Top 9 Outreach Hacks Will Open the Floodgates

 

Are you itching to get more seller leads flooding your pipeline?

In today's market, who isn't hungry for listings?

Yet too often, the phone just sits there silent as agents spin their wheels analyzing why seller leads aren't materializing.

I get the frustration.

But I have fantastic news: with the right approach, you can take control and open the floodgates to get more motivated sellers contacting you to ink lucrative listing agreements.

Top Takeaway:

Generating seller leads in real estate can be achieved through various methods such as networking, social media marketing, and hosting open houses. 

Utilizing these strategies effectively can help you attract potential sellers and grow your business.

Curious to unlock the secret recipes?

Allow me to walk you down the buffet line of my top insider strategies engineered by top producers that will have homeowners eager to sign with you, and only you.

Take a deep breath and dive in. If you're truly hungry to grow, lean in. It's time to put down the crumb-filled phone that hasn't been ringing. Let's savor this feast together—your future clients await.

Chapter 1: How to Get Seller Leads in Real Estate

First, let's set some expectations.

To generate seller leads requires persistent effort on your part.

This is a relationship-driven business, so prepare to spend serious time networking, engaging leads, and providing oodles of value to potential clients.

Set authentic expectations for yourself. Hard work mixed with creativity, flexibility to try new things, and old fashioned patience, really do pay long-term dividends. 

Rejection happens, but eventually, with nurturing, trust develops over time to convert opportunities.

Stay persistent and be willing to employ multiple proven cold calling and warm lead strategies simultaneously. Patience and hard work do pay off when converting leads over time.

Getting seller leads is critical for real estate agents looking to grow their business. Utilizing social media marketing, networking events, and targeted advertising are effective ways to generate seller leads. 

1. Leverage Social Media

Promoting yourself across social channels allows you to reach broad audiences of engaged homeowners.

With 74% of American adults actively using social platforms, promoting your services across social channels offers major lead generation potential.

  • Whip up videos showcasing impressive homes you’ve listed and sold along with community amenities to visually attract homeowners ready to make their next move.

  • Run both broad and hyperlocal Facebook and Instagram advertisements focused like a laser on targeting likely home sellers based on geography, demographics, interests and online behaviors.

  • Become a member or sponsor for relevant Facebook community groups to connect with hyperlocal audiences right in their own backyard.

  • Share market updates, real estate tips, testimonials and home photos on Nextdoor to highlight listings while positioning yourself as the helpful neighborhood specialist.

  • Leverage Pinterest to showcase your personal brand personality and aesthetics through listings you represent to appeal to style-conscious sellers. 

  • Drive social traffic to customized landing pages with lead capture forms to gather contact information of prospective sellers.

Closely track conversions to pinpoint which social platforms and campaigns deliver the ripest, juiciest leads.

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Or, you could save some time and take your social media seller lead generation to the next level with automation.

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This produces a bumper crop of motivated seller leads.

Here's a quick taste of our farm-to-table approach reaping rewards:

Automated Follow-Up and Lead Nurturing

Ylopo utilizes cutting-edge technology like AI-powered chatbots for engaging potential sellers.

This ensures even when you’re not directly available, their system continually interacts with prospects.

This virtual assistant approach helps build rapport with homeowners by initiating conversations and maintaining communication over time.

Home Value Leads

Instead of asking prospects to initially fill out complex forms about selling, Ylopo encourages contact by texting homeowners inviting them to rate and discuss their property.

This method humanizes the engagement by getting conversations started about homeowners' most valuable asset.

Ylopo also integrates with tools like BombBomb for video emails and Homebot for providing data-rich home value insights.

This supports a long-term nurturing strategy that includes personalized communication and valuable information sharing.

Open House Strategy

Ylopo recommends leveraging open houses as a powerful tool for seller lead generation.

Provide visitors with custom seller reports, connect them on Homebot, and utilize Ylopo's Open House lead capture system to differentiate from competing agents.

Adding value helps build trust and credibility with potentials sellers.

The Ultimate Seller System

This comprehensive solution developed by Ylopo addresses common pain points agents experience generating and converting seller leads.

It grants access to prescreened, high-intent seller leads while automating effective long-term nurturing campaigns.

The USS Ylopo system delivers premium experiences to potentials sellers via tailored market data, dynamic marketing assets like video ads, and automated follow-ups while still keeping the human touch.

Seller PPC 2.0

This strategy involves targeting high-intent keywords and geo-targeting, creating ad copy that highlights the unique value proposition, and designing landing pages that reinforce the ad messaging.

Ylopo’s PPC 2.0 ensures that leads are captured effectively and funneled into the agent's CRM for follow-up, utilizing tools like Homebot for automatic home value report generation​​.

Facebook Seller Leads

Ylopo has developed innovative Facebook ad strategies that showcase recently sold properties, target homeowners looking to move or access their home equity, and effectively capture leads for remarketing.

This approach stands out by offering unique value through dynamic ads that adjust based on the viewer's zip code, providing relevant and compelling content to potential sellers​​.

Ylopo's seller lead generation strategies are designed to provide real estate agents with a comprehensive toolkit for attracting, nurturing, and converting seller leads into listings, combining cutting-edge technology with traditional marketing wisdom to cover all bases in the seller lead generation process.
 

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Beyond leveraging social media, agents should tap these other fertile sources to grow their listing pipeline:

2. Host Local Events

Hosting seminars and local events allows you to establish your real estate authority and build rapport with prospective sellers face-to-face.

  • Host first-time home seller educational workshops to walk people through the process

  • Conduct neighborhood-specific market update events to showcase your command of hyperlocal data

  • Partner with other industry professionals like contractors, developers or financial advisors to co-host events that attract targeted homeowners

  • Have lead capture mechanisms like sign-in forms, business card bowls, and follow-up emails to obtain seller contacts

3. Get Referrals from Past Clients

Referrals from satisfied past clients are one of the most effective ways to get seller leads since 67% of home sellers choose their agent based on a word-of-mouth recommendation.

  • Send periodic email drip campaigns and direct mailers to stay top of mind your sphere of influence

  • Develop referral partnerships with lenders, attorneys and other real estate professionals involved in transactions

  • Treat every client like gold by wowing them with your care, communication and service

  • Ask satisfied home buyers if they know anyone else considering selling soon

  • Run creative referral contests and incentivization programs

4. Run Targeted Local Advertising

Getting your brand, listings and offers in front of local homeowners primed to sell soon represents a direct pipeline to motivate sellers.

  • Micro-target homeowners in specific zip codes with high turnover rates through hyperlocal search and social media ads

  • Advertise on Nextdoor community pages to connect with hyperlocal audiences open to recommendations

  • Sponsor local events, podcasts, organizations and causes popular with homeowners

  • Send direct mail postcards showcasing recently sold neighborhood data to organically announce yourself as the area listing leader

5. Network with Potential Sellers

Attend networking events, seminars, open houses, and local community events to build relationships with homeowners who may look to sell.

  • Set up one-on-ones and home consultations to establish trust and gain listing appointments.

  • Identify bird dogs to refer you seller leads in the community in exchange for finder's fees.

  • Join local chambers, business associations, charities and community boards to expand your sphere of influence.

  • When meeting new contacts, focus conversations on real estate goals to gauge selling motivations.

 

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Chapter 2: Additional Seller Lead Gen Strategies

Now that we’ve covered the more traditional strategies on this list, incorporate the following unique hacks to tap new lead sources and get even more motivated sellers calling you:

6. Launch a Dedicated Seller-Focused Website

Having a custom website just for home sellers allows you to appear prominently in selling-related searches and provide tailored value to motivate contacts.

  • Optimize site content targeting keywords like “sell my home” and city/neighborhood names

  • Feature updated market reports, client testimonials, FAQs, pricing tools and subtracted listings

  • Offer a “Seller Concierge Service” lead gen form to capture contacts

  • Promote the site across your social channels, ads and external marketing

Capturing this highly targeted selling traffic provides a specialized lead nurturing system.

7. Execute Direct Mail Seller Campaigns

While online marketing delivers results, effective direct mail campaigns should be part of your recipe to motivate potential clients.

  • Mail neighborhood target letters announcing recent area sales and your ability to sell quickly for top values

  • Send Just Listed/Just Sold postcards to selected mail routes spotlighting your latest successes

  • Distribute market update newsletters with insider data to build authority and stay top of mind

8. Provide Free Seller-Focused Resources

Developing free tools, tips and content exclusively for potential sellers establishes your expertise. It also demonstrates a seller-first approach while capturing lead contact data.

9. Launch Creative Lead Generation Contests/Incentives

Contests, giveaways and creative incentives grab attention while rewarding potential clients for opting-in to your selling services.

  • Give away free professional photography packages to entice lead sign-ups

  • Offer a free home valuation assessment in exchange for contact information

  • Run a referral contest awarding gifts to clients who refer the most new sellers

  • Promote lead gen promotions across your marketing channels

A blended approach combining social media, events, referrals, advertising and lead gen promotions opens the floodgates wider to get more ready-to-sign seller leads contacting you daily.

The key is consistently providing value to potential clients, using marketing to speak directly to motivated sellers, and confidently asking for business to win more listings.

 

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Key Takeaways

Implementing an orchestrated seller lead generation strategy encompassing social media marketing, events, referrals, targeted advertising, networking, and creative lead gen promotions opens the floodgates to get more qualified listing leads contacting you.

Providing value, optimizing marketing to attract serious sellers rather than generic homebuyers, and confidently asking for business results in more closed listings.

However, it's important to note that the market never stays static.

  • Continually analyze your lead gen data and evolve approaches as homeowner motivations, local competition and broader conditions shift.

  • Keep drilling down on customizing messaging and solutions to each seller's situation. Hyper-personalized campaigns see higher engagement and conversion rates.

  • Mine the deep targeting and analytical capabilities of social platforms like Facebook and Instagram to micro-target likely sellers.

  • Capture multiple lead contact points at hosted events to further nurture promising prospects.

  • Brainstorm creative, viral referral programs that captivate imaginations beyond typical gift card offerings.

While a dedicated seller site has advantages, also ensure your core real estate website speaks to motivated homeowners through optimized content and visible calls-to-action.

With consistent execution of a balanced, data-driven and adjustable lead gen plan, you will establish a constant pipeline of listings leads raising their hands to sign with you.

Getting more high-quality sellers contacting your becomes reality by putting these best practices to work for your real estate business.

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About the Author

Aaron “Kiwi” Franklin

Head of Growth