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Ask HN: How do I generate leads?

2 点作者 gawker超过 12 年前
Hi,<p>Thanks to the community for inspiring me. It's my first time trying to build something commercial. I'm developing a web service for real estate agents to create a listings page with a few simple click.<p>http://signup.mintspaces.com/<p>I'm trying to generate some leads and am wondering if there are any experts who can give some pointers.<p>My basic strategy is to visit real estate forums, google search real estate agent websites and reach out to them and try to get them to sign up. My marketing skills aren't the best so I hope someone with more experience can help me out.<p>Thanks!

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dougbarrett超过 12 年前
I've worked with real estate technology, and the best way to get clients is to get to know the brokers. Create a relationship with a broker, "team", group, whatever you want to call it but that's what you need to do.<p>Find local real estate agents, and see who they are working with.<p>Just be careful though, chances are whatever service the agent is using for their website already has a listings creator.<p>I know that Zillow just created a service a few months ago, and there are some others out there as well.<p>Also, as far as the backend goes, you want it to be simple. Real Estate agents are concerned about making money, and for the most part they do not believe in the internet yet and they do not believe that the internet is a viable source for lead generation.<p>You're in a good position, because their mindset is changing especially with a wave of new real estate agents coming in.<p>In marketing it, you need to explain that your product is strong in two points, the front-end and the backend. Make sure your product at the bare minimum can export to a CSV file, but try to see what software agents are using to manage their agents, and create export features for that.<p>Make sure they get leads right away, and they are legit leads. I used akismet for our lead generator, and it worked great for the most part to weed out the spam.<p>Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I'd be more than happy to help you how I can in a general sense, I don't want to step on my previous employers toes though since they are also getting into the same market eventually (could be years though).
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nalidixic超过 12 年前
I think it's awesome your reaching out for help. I think the problem your going to run into is the same problem I've run into many times before.<p>Your basically starting in the wrong place. Rather than coming up with an idea and trying to find market fit and leads you really ought to be finding your market and learning how to help them. If you take that approach not only will you know how to reach your market but you'll also know more about how to sell and talk to them.<p>A few questions to consider<p>1) Do real estate agents buy software?<p>2) Does the pain point your working on make them more money or drastically decrease pain?<p>3) How do you plan on reaching your market?<p>I'm not saying I'm an expert on this by any means but I'm learning as I go and have come to the point where I won't bullshit myself any longer on useless ideas.<p>Feel free to email me at nalidixic@gmail.com or hit me up on twitter @nalidixic<p>Cheers!
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gawker超过 12 年前
Clickable link: <a href="http://signup.mintspaces.com/" rel="nofollow">http://signup.mintspaces.com/</a>