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15 Best Real Estate Agent Website Builders

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You’re here because you fall into one of two categories. 1. You need to use a real estate agent website builder but you either don’t want to botch it or you think you don’t have the time. Or… 2. You are unsatisfied with your current real estate agent website design and want to fix it or create a new one. In both cases, you’re not alone: 72% of real estate agents are unsatisfied with the number of leads that their current website generates. That’s not because their real estate agent websites can’t generate leads (at Carrot, we’ve generated over one million leads for investors and agents — all online), but, more often than not, because their website isn’t optimized for it. There’s a HUGE difference between having a website and having a website that works.  This is exactly why you’re here — to find out what works. Real Estate Agent Websites – What’s Important? 15 Best Real Estate Agent Website Builders You’re a real estate agent, not a web developer.  So where are you going to find great user-friendly software to build a high-converting website? Fortunately, you’ve got a lot of options.  And we’ve laid them all out for you below… starting with our very own software designed specifically to help real estate agents like yourself grow their businesses! Let’s dive in! 1. Carrot Description We’ve built literally tens of thousands of websites for real estate professionals at Carrot — not just any websites… websites that convert like clockwork and help grow our member’s businesses.  We’ve also got data to back it up. We recently conducted a survey that showed that leads that come through a Carrot site convert 7x better and are 2.5x more profitable than non-Carrot leads (learn why over here).  Our tech stack even outperformed WordPress, GoDaddy, Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace in a third-party test.  Cool, right?  Take a demo over here to learn more! Features Here are some of the main features that a Standard Carrot Subscription comes with: The SEO Tools add-on will help you research, plan, and executive effective SEO and SEM: The Content Tools add-on will unleash AI and Automation to save you time when scaling your content marketing. Pricing Here are the website builder’s pricing options…  Example Here’s an example of the website builder’s templates… When you’re choosing between different real estate website platforms, there are seven things you need to take into consideration. The best real estate agent website builders have: 2. Placester Description Placester is a website builder that’s specifically designed for real estate agents. It comes with built-in lead capture and CRM tools, as well as custom templates and design options to help you create a professional website quickly and easily. The Pros:  The Cons:  Features Here are some of the main features that this website builder offers… Pricing Here are the website builder’s pricing options…  Example Here’s an example of the website builder’s templates… 3. Propertybase Description Propertybase is a comprehensive CRM and website builder for real estate professionals. It offers everything from lead capture and management to IDX search integration and automatic website updates. The Pros:  The Cons:  Features Here are some of the main features that this website builder offers… Pricing Here are the website builder’s pricing options…  Example Here’s an example of the website builder’s templates… 4. IDX Broker Description IDX Broker is a website builder specifically for real estate agents. It integrates with your MLS to give you access to property listings from all over the country (or even the world). Pros:  Cons:  Features Here are some of the main features that this website builder offers… Pricing Here are the … Continued

How A Pumpkin Farmer Changed My Perspective On Life And Business

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Everything in my life from the outside in looked amazing. My friends, family, and colleagues in the industry thought I was an example of “success.”  I owned 3 separate companies, the world’s best family, amazing business partners in 2 of my businesses, and great customers, and felt I could do anything I set my mind to. The only problem was… I was overwhelmed and unhappy. In this blog post, I’m going to walk through how I fell into the “too many great opportunities” trap, how it nearly crushed my entrepreneurial and life dreams, and how the advice of a pumpkin farmer changed my perspective on business and life. Why am I opening up and writing this right now? First, I wrote this post a few years ago, and a lot has happened since then. Good stuff. We’ve grown Carrot to over 8,000 active members and multiple 7 figures in revenue… and I’ve had to use this process multiple times this past year to clear out the “distraction” and focus on the “big pumpkin.” So just know… this process I went through a few years ago is one I still use to this day… that’s how much it’s changed my life. Also… Now is the perfect time of the year to make some mindset adjustments so you can hit next year hard and make it your best year yet. Also, this one shift in my business has made the single most dramatic impact on my income, fulfillment, and impact on the world of anything I’ve ever done. This article is for you if you…  If you’re feeling any of those, you’re not alone. That Was My Life For 2 Years. Busy. Long Hours. Unfocused. Less Happy. Less Fulfilled. The frustration that I felt like I was doing all of the right things and I was “successful” in many people’s eyes… but I just never felt that I could crack through to my potential. It seemed like I’d start a bagillion projects because they all had “promise”, but I would rarely take the important things through the finish line. I’d always have a backlog of “to-do’s” and always seemed to carry the important “to-do’s” over to the next day for weeks and months on end. I’d get to the end of the day and feel totally wiped out because I was really “busy,”… but I’d look back on the day and always felt like I couldn’t pinpoint what important project I actually pushed forward in a measurable way that day. Vision… most of the time, I really couldn’t clearly articulate what I wanted in life and what impact I felt that I was made to make on the world… because I was torn by making a vision too specific that it would alienate some of the “important” projects and businesses I’d already committed my time to… but that didn’t jive with what in my heart I knew i loved to do. And worse, I felt that the more I took on and the more things I had going in my business and life, the better off I was. In that life, being “busy” was a good thing, and when people asked how I’ve been my default answer was always… “Really busy as always!” … almost like it was a badge of honor to be “busy.” I Hit A Breaking Point, And Things Had To Change. So Here’s What I Did… I couldn’t do things like this anymore. You can maybe relate. If I wanted to live the life I knew I was made to live and to make the impact in life I knew I could make, I had to … Continued

Are There Less Real Estate Investor Leads In Holiday Months Than Summer Months? (Stats Inside…)

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We’ve been getting some awesome questions from the Carrot community lately so we’re going to be answering some of them here on the blog in detailed posts to help you get an edge on your competition with your real estate investing website. The other day, one of our members from Indianapolis (one of the top turn-key rental property sellers in Indianapolis) asked… “Hey Jake, good morning, in general, are there less real estate investor leads in holiday months then in the summer months?”Francisco  (NOTE: This customer is in our Content Pro plan and saw their first leads in their market within the first 2 weeks after launching their sites and implementing a few critical steps.) We’ve monitored this trend over the years while also monitoring search levels on many of the top motivated sellers, cash buyers, private lenders, and tenant search phrases out there. Now… each type of searcher came up with slightly different seasonal search patterns…. so in this post, we’ll run through some of what we found so you can better prepare for fewer November and December lead volumes when leveraging SEO and traditional Google PPC specifically for motivated property seller leads and cash buyers. So… Are There Less Real Estate Investor Leads In Holiday Months Than Summer Months? When Are Motivated Property Sellers Searching Google? We pulled a chart of 25 of the top motivated seller SEO search phrases and found some really interesting stuff. First, let us look at the highest searched highly motivated real estate seller search phrase, “we buy houses”. Average Monthly Searches Of The Motivated Seller Search Phrase “we buy houses” That’s really interesting… but that doesn’t tell the whole story. So we took the average of the top 25 motivated seller keyword phrases to see overall… is there a seasonality for motivated sellers hopping online and searching for someone to buy their house. The graph below shows the average of the top 25 search phrases in the United States for highly motivated sellers on Google across the past 24 months. Average Monthly Searches Of The Top 25 Motivated Real Estate Seller Search Phrases We see a similar ramp up in the warm months… and the number of motivated sellers searching Google with the common highly motivated search phrases dips in the winter months. On average… the summer months are getting nearly 30% more searches from motivated sellers than November and December. Now, we did cross-check this to make sure it wasn’t a “cold winter climate” vs. “mild winter climate” thing… and overall we still saw very very similar trends. So, for now, we’ve ruled out the climate being the major contributing factor to the seasonality of the motivated seller searches. Why Do Fewer Motivated Property Sellers Search Google In November And December? There are lots of reasons that could be causing this… but here are a few of my guesses… Fewer people want to move in the winter… especially during the holidays It’s COLD! (in lots of places) so they want to hang out It’s the holidays and people don’t have the time to deal with something else or don’t want to disrupt the holidays Generally, there are fewer properties on the market in general so many house sellers feel that “selling in the spring” is what you’re supposed to do to sell a house fast (even though some data shows houses that sell in the winter sell for higher prices and sell quicker) When Are Cash Buyers Of Real Estate Searching Google? Overall a cash buyer is in a different mindset than a highly motivated seller. Usually, a person who’s looking to buy investment property … Continued