For many agents, taking a break during the holiday season can be stressful …

While we can’t help with the stress of last minute gift shopping or mediate any inevitable family squabbles - we have curated the following tips for making your business run smoothly while you enjoy a well earned holiday!

1. Automate your business

Your productivity does not need to suffer just because you’re not ‘in the office’. With effective automation, you can continue to get work done from wherever you chose to be this holiday season.

One of our favourite automation features is our auto-responders & automatic listing alerts, which will save you time whilst simultaneously creating call lists and vendor reports.

ReNet’s Auto-reply emails are triggered by a range of actions. For example, when your contact makes an enquiry on one of your listings, they will receive an email thanking them for enquiring. Similarly, if a contact submits an offer or attends an inspection, auction or open home they will receive an automatic response thanking them.

These emails can be fine tuned during the setup process to include the exact information that you want to communicate and to funnel potential buyers or encourage further action.

From there, you can subscribe each contact to receive automatic property alerts. This means they’ll be automatically notified about listing updates based on their buyer preferences (which can be updated or changed at any time). All you need to do is keep track of the engagement within these emails, who’s clicking on what and creating warm call lists based on this engagement.

These automated emails and other information you’ve gathered from client notes, inspections and other tasks, allow you to automate and pull together a comprehensive vendor report (minus the heavy lifting of creating a report from scratch). Simply select the information you want to send to the owner, including graphs, stats on enquiries plus specific inspection feedback whilst ReNet makes it look great.

ReNet’s SmartForm technology is another powerful suite of tools which agents are using to further automate repetitive tasks including: sending listing contracts, formalising offers, booking appraisals, and automatically following up with open home attendees.

If you need help setting up this automation for your business, simply email our support team support@renet.com.au any time!

2. Stay in Touch

According to the marketing gurus at iRealty, keeping in touch with your contact database during December & January, can yield huge results in the early part of the new year.

Email

With ReNet, sending a bulk newsletter to your contact database is quick and easy.

The nature of the email may be as simple as wishing everyone a safe holiday season, communicating your hours of operation and emergency contact info over the break … or perhaps you may use this opportunity to highlight a feature property on your website, or even tease any upcoming listings in your pipeline for the new year.

SMS

Additionally, sending a bulk SMS from ReNet to current vendors and/or recent buyers is another great way to add a personal touch and further strengthen these key relationships.

Creating and sending out these bulk communications prior to the holiday break, will ensure that you are kept front of mind when your contacts are contemplating big life decisions like buying, selling, relocating or starting a new business - over the holidays.

3. Stay Connected

There’s nothing more annoying than taking an important business call while you’re on holiday, and realizing that the information you need is back at the office.

ReNet App

By utilizing the ReNet App, you can minimise the need to be in the office or in front of a computer at all, and ensure that you have the key information you need, in your pocket at all times.

The ReNet App allows you to view and manage your entire contact database from your phone, as well as view your reminders/tasks, access listing information and documents and bulk communicate with buyers and sellers efficiently, and much more.

- Calendar and contact integration
- Open home registration
- Private inspections Offers
- NotesSynced instantly
- Revolutionising Real Estate

With the right technology, you can rest assured that your business can continue to run smoothly, while you take the opportunity to enjoy the festive season with friends and family.