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How to get real estate clients
Real estate clients mostly come from people who already know you, so start with your sphere: contact everyone personally, stay in touch every month and ask for referrals at closing. Then add open houses, one neighborhood you work deeply, a Google Business Profile with reviews, neighborhood pages that show up in Google and AI answers, and replies to every inquiry within minutes.
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Work your sphere of influence first
List everyone who knows you: friends, family, former colleagues, neighbors, other parents at school. Put them in a CRM and contact each one personally, by call, message or coffee, to say you're helping people buy and sell in your area. Then stay in touch every month with something useful, such as what sold nearby, rather than asking whether they're thinking of selling.
02
Pick a farm area and go deep
Choose one neighborhood of a few hundred homes where you can become the obvious agent. Learn every recent sale, school boundary and street quirk. Send regular mail or door hangers with real market updates, host open houses there for other agents' listings, and show up at local events. Showing up steadily for a year matters more than any single mailing.
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Set up your Google Business Profile and reviews
Sellers check an agent's reviews before they call. Create a Google Business Profile with your service area, a real photo and your brokerage details, then ask every past client for a review with a direct link. Reply to each one. Reviews that mention a neighborhood and an outcome, like a quick sale in a named area, help you in local search as well.
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Publish neighborhood pages that answer real questions
Write one page per area you serve: what homes cost, which streets sell fastest, schools, commute and the questions buyers ask you most. Use your own experience and recent sales. These pages can rank for '[neighborhood] homes' and '[neighborhood] realtor' searches, and they give ChatGPT and Google's AI Overview something to cite when someone asks who knows the area.
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Run ads inside the housing rules
In the US, real estate ads count as housing ads on Google and Meta, which block targeting by age, gender, family status and ZIP code, and Meta requires a radius of at least 15 miles. Use search ads on phrases like 'sell my house [city]' and 'homes for sale [neighborhood]', send each to a matching page, and offer something specific, such as a written home valuation.
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Answer every inquiry fast and keep following up
Someone asking about a listing has often asked several agents. Reply within minutes, by phone if they left a number, and send the details they asked for plus two similar homes. Most buyers aren't ready to move on day one, so keep in touch every week or two with listings that match what they said, until they buy or ask you to stop.
Follow-up and ad examples for agents
Follow-up email to a listing inquiry
Subject: [address] and two more like it
Hi [first name],
Thanks for asking about [address]. It's [key detail, e.g. three beds with a south-facing yard], listed at $[price], and showings are open [days].
Based on what you're after, these two may be worth a look too: [address, one-line reason] and [address, one-line reason].
Want me to set up a time to see any of them this week?
[Your name]
[Brokerage] | [License number]
Monthly note to your sphere
Subject: What sold in [neighborhood] this month
Hi [first name],
[Number] homes sold in [neighborhood] in [month], most of them [at or above / below] asking. The quickest was [short detail, e.g. a two-bed by the park, under contract in [number] days].
If you or anyone you know is wondering what their place would sell for, I'm happy to run the numbers, no strings attached.
[Your name]
Google search ad for sellers
Headline 1: Selling in [Neighborhood]?
Headline 2: Local Agent, [Number] Homes Sold
Headline 3: Get Your Home's Value
Description: I know [neighborhood] street by street. Get a written valuation based on recent sales near you, not an online estimate.
Target by location and search phrase only, and link the ad to your [neighborhood] page.
Why Revnu for getting real estate clients
Most real estate clients come from people who already know the agent. The rest find an agent when they search a neighborhood or ask an AI assistant who to call. Revnu doesn't cold-email homeowners or make calls. It handles the parts it's built for: neighborhood pages that get found, getting you named in AI answers, Google Ads and follow-up emails to people who've already reached out.
1Reads your website to learn the areas you cover and the clients you serve.
2Checks who ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity name when people ask for an agent in your area, then writes and publishes neighborhood pages for you to approve.
3Runs Google Ads inside a budget you set, with launches waiting for your approval, and drafts follow-up emails to people who've asked about a home, sent once you approve.
What Revnu won't do here
Cold-emailing homeowners rarely works and puts your sending reputation at risk, so Revnu doesn't do it. It also doesn't make phone calls, send texts or knock on doors. Your sphere, open houses and calls stay yours. Revnu works the places people go when they're looking for an agent.
Neighborhood pages and AI answers
People ask Google and ChatGPT things like 'best realtor in [neighborhood]' or 'is [neighborhood] good for families'. Revnu writes a page for each neighborhood you know, built on the detail you give it (streets, schools, commute, sales you've handled), and publishes it on your site so you have something to be found and cited for.
Frequently asked questions
Will Revnu email homeowners who didn't ask?
No. Revnu sends follow-up emails to people who have already contacted you or asked about a home, and only after you approve each one. It doesn't cold-email homeowners.
Does it run Facebook ads for listings?
Not yet. Revnu runs Google, LinkedIn, Reddit, X, Microsoft and TikTok ads today. Meta ads are coming next. For most agents, Google search ads on neighborhood and selling phrases are a strong place to start, because they reach people already looking.
How do new real estate agents get clients?
Start with your sphere: tell everyone you know, personally, that you now help people buy and sell. Hold open houses for busier agents in your brokerage, ask whether you can take their overflow buyer inquiries, and pick one neighborhood to learn deeply. Collect a review after every transaction, however small, so the next client has something to check.
Where do most real estate clients come from?
Mostly from people who already know the agent: past clients, friends and referrals. That's why staying in touch every month matters more than one-off marketing. Open houses, online search and paid lead sources make up much of the rest, and agents with a strong local presence also get found in search results and AI answers.
Should real estate agents send cold emails?
Not to homeowners who never asked to hear from you. It rarely works, it can damage your email reputation and anti-spam laws apply. Email works best with people who have raised their hand: past clients, your sphere, open house sign-ins and inquiries. Reaching businesses, such as relocation managers or builders, is a different matter.
Is this free?
You start with a free trial. Revnu asks for a card when you sign up and starts on what you typed straight away. After the trial, plans start at $99 a month. Cancel any time in Settings.
Does anything run before I sign up?
No. Nothing is checked or generated on this page. Revnu does the work inside your account, where it can read your website, keep what it finds and carry on from there.