{"id":7794,"date":"2018-04-03T10:18:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtuance.com\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2018-04-03T10:18:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:18:03","slug":"5-secrets-building-successful-real-estate-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/blog\/5-secrets-building-successful-real-estate-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"5 secrets to building a successful brand in real estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_7626\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7626\" style=\"width: 654px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtuance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.virtuance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Kitchen Captured by Virtuance\" width=\"654\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2-605x404.jpg 605w, https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2-110x73.jpg 110w, https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2-936x625.jpg 936w, https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2-1151x768.jpg 1151w, https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/14-Kitchen-2-809x540.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Virtuance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"entry-subtitle\">How design, your logo and you can elevate your brand<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<article id=\"post-667000\" class=\"post-667000 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-brokerage category-sponsored tag-5-secrets-to-building-a-successful-brand-in-real-estate tag-brokerage-branding tag-compass tag-logos tag-marketing-2 tag-photography tag-real-estate-branding tag-real-estate-marketing\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"entry-author-section-wrap\">\n<div class=\"entry-author-name\"><span class=\"by\">By\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"author-name-link author vcard\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inman.com\/author\/matt-spangler\/\">MATT SPANGLER<\/a>\u00a0| Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inman.com\/2018\/04\/02\/5-secrets-building-successful-brand-real-estate\/\">Inman<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"hide-on-mobile\">Sponsored By\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.compass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Compass<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Marketing is core to what real estate agents do everyday, and something I\u2019m intensely focused on as Compass\u2019 chief creative officer.<\/p>\n<p>At Compass, I lead a nationwide team of more than 100 world-class marketing specialists, designers, producers and content experts tasked with helping our agents become the best marketers they can be.<\/p>\n<p>Real estate is a personal business. Agents build relationships with their clients as they help them make the most significant financial and emotional decision of their lives. That\u2019s why I believe that personal stories should be core to every touch point of agents\u2019 brands.<\/p>\n<p>These are the steps I\u2019ve seen the best agent marketers take to build a great brand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start with what sets you apart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Compass, we encourage agents to think about four core things that set them and their business stand out.<\/p>\n<p>We use an interactive \u201cAgent Branding Handbook\u201d to help agents uncover those personal insights. Maybe it\u2019s a property type or a neighborhood they specialize in. For other agents, it\u2019s their backgrounds in music, sports or even their personal fashion that set them apart.<\/p>\n<p>The characteristics that distinguish you should come to life across every piece of your marketing collateral. Your brand should reflect you, your life and your business.<\/p>\n<h5>Read the full article <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inman.com\/2018\/04\/02\/5-secrets-building-successful-brand-real-estate\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Photography is everything<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the most overlooked aspects of branding is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtuance.com\/blog\/why-visual-marketing-vital-for-your-brand\/\">photography<\/a>. The best agent marketers are thoughtful about integrating art direction and photography into their brand.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the content that tells a brand story in industries outside of real estate is based solely on photography and video storytelling. Those images and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtuance.com\/blog\/virtuance-real-estate-photography-fuels-your-growth\/\">their quality<\/a> create an experience for prospects no matter the medium \u2014 social posts, emails, print ads, videos and beyond.<\/p>\n<h5>Read the full article <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inman.com\/2018\/04\/02\/5-secrets-building-successful-brand-real-estate\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How design, your logo and you can elevate your brand By\u00a0MATT SPANGLER\u00a0| Source: Inman Sponsored By\u00a0Compass Marketing is core to what real estate agents do everyday, and something I\u2019m intensely focused on as Compass\u2019 chief creative officer. At Compass, I lead a nationwide team of more than 100 world-class marketing specialists, designers, producers and content [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14503,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7795,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions\/7795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.virtuance.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}