Month: December 2021

December 20, 2021

5 KPIs for Measuring the PROGRESS of Real Estate Google Ad Campaigns

From many years managing Google Ads campaigns for agents here on the Costa del Sol, I’ve learned one thing: it’s a numbers game. OK, come to think of it I’ve learned another thing: lead gen is not for everyone. But this article is about the first lesson. Agents who get that it’s a numbers game are generally successful with it; agents who don’t, tend to […]

December 20, 2021

Canned by Marbella developer for sucking at lead generation

A couple of years ago, I was hired by a large, successful Spanish developer to generate leads and help convert them to sales. This is a true story. Their Marbella sales team had been handed 1000 leads over the course of a year and generated 0 sales from them. Zero. Marketing blamed sales, sales blamed marketing. Management wanted to know how to fix it. Those […]

December 13, 2021

Breaking Down the Modern Content Strategy for Real Estate Agents

  Modern content strategies are simple in theory, but difficult to do in practice for most estate agencies. At least here in Marbella, Spain. Key ingredient 1: Produce content your buyers (or collaborators) want, and Key ingredient 2: ensure they see/consume it. If you don’t have anything to say of value. Say nothing. Otherwise, it’s just noise. So if it’s this easy, why does it […]

December 1, 2021

A warning shot to Spanish developers

New, stricter regulations are coming your way, says Víctor Moreno. He says the average level of technification (technology applied to the home) here is just 5% of what it could be. In Marbella things are better than inland Andalucia, where he says there are developments reaching 50%. Developers in Spain need to start thinking about technology in the home from the perspective of the buyers, […]