🥳 What if the
#1
operating system for real estate teams could get even better, faster? Follow Up Boss has agreed to be acquired by Zillow Group, giving us access to resources, people and tech that will help us deliver more for our customers. Here’s what you should know:
Apple decided to include us as the only recommended CRM app and alongside some of the big guns in their recommended apps for real estate professionals 😍
Our team is going hard at making our mobile apps the best in the business!
We updated both the Android and iOS apps to include support for calls from Unknown numbers, as well as full voicemail support including playback, and the recently released voicemail transcriptions.
Great article on page 6 of the summer edition of the Georgia Realtor Magazine from
@adkinsRE
of
@ampsol
on how to build a tech stack for real estate agents and teams
One of the first videos sent through our
@bombbomb
integration couldn't be a better example of how much more human your emails become with video. Not to mention how meta it is that it's a BombBomb video talking about how easy the BombBomb integration is to use!
We just released an overhaul to our options for filtering events on the person screen timeline making it easier to remove things like marketing emails from your view so it's easier to find what you want - what do you think? 👇
These guys have battle-tested a ton of tools for agents and have shared the ones they've found to be the best of breed in everything from marketing to sales and service.
Definitely worth checking out if you're looking to improve your tools and benefit from their experience.
Our July product update is out! Lots of great improvements including the person screen sidebar improvements, updates to Android and iPhone apps, security enhancements and a whole lot more
👉
Your agents put in some serious work every year. To help you show your appreciation, we've curated a list of the 40 best gifts for the agents on your team. From culinary treats to tech and more, we’ve got something special for every agent on your list.
Summer rankings just came out from G2 Crowd and we've been named a "High Performer" in the real estate CRM category thanks to our awesome customers sharing their experience with us.
And the most exciting part is, we're just getting started 💪
Follow Up Boss is now the only real estate CRM to support group texting!
It's the group texting you're already using to close deals, now built right into your CRM. Check out the 🎥 👇
Growth Hacking is a disciplined process developed by some of the fastest growing tech companies of all time - but it can work for any business, including real estate - check out this thorough rundown on how to apply it to any kind of business here:
Check out our new 'Call Outcomes' feature. No more manually typing out repetitive outcomes like 'Left Voicemail' or the more common version 'LVM' and instead, log the call and add that note with a single click!
We just made some major improvements to the sidebar of the contacts screen - now you can rearrange the sections, collapse them to make them easier to scan and improved the overall design and usability - have you seen it? What do you think?
Standing out starts with identifying what you do differently.
When you get clear on the answer to that, you’ve landed your real estate unique selling proposition (USP) and are ready to bring it to the forefront of your messaging.
We recently added the option for customers on our 'Platform Plan' to add 'sub teams'. This is helpful when:
📍 Serve multiple markets
😻 Team of lenders that work closely with yours
✅ Multiple teams within your brokerage
Platform details here:
Follow Up Boss is now powering 11 of the top 50 teams in the country 💪
#notsohumblebrag
Big shout out to everyone who cracked Real Trend's 'The Thousand'. Whether it's yet another year making the list, or your first time, this is a huge accomplishment.
We just added conversion rate as a metric to our reporting dashboard to help make better personnel and marketing spend decisions so you can grow faster and more profitably!
Since the buzz and hype about the blockchain has temporarily died down, we decided to put together a plain-speaking, level-headed guide to what it all actually means, and how it has the potential to impact the real estate industry
If you think importing your contacts is kinda boring, this video our support rockstar Paul produced that showcases some of our recent improvements might change your mind
We released an update today that should help give you even more crystal clear audio when using the integrated calling feature, especially if you're sometimes working with an Internet connection that isn't as strong.
As a number of our customers have grown we needed up update the user management screen to add more information, and give you the ability to sort each of the columns including the last login (which our friend Barry Adelmann refers to as sorting from 'Naughty to Nice' 🤑).
The next Level Up Mastermind will be held in Scottsdale, AZ 🌵 March 28 & 29.
Two full days worth of sessions teaching you strategies to help you make FUB simpler & easier to use while also sharing strategies to help you level up your entire business.
In our recent interview with
@adkinsRE
, he cuts right to the chase on what team leaders really need in order to build a business that can be successful over the long term
Here are the highlights of April's product improvements:
📱Update for Android
🕺Improvements to People Screen
🏃Faster Exports
✅ Teams within Follow Up Boss
👥 New user management screen
📞 Improved call quality
Get the more detailed rundown here:
Direct integration to Facebook Lead Ads now available! 🚨🎉
We used to require a 3rd party tool like Zapier in order to get your Facebook leads into Follow Up Boss automatically but we've just released a direct integration to make things a whole lot easier (and cheaper 💰).
Dan Corkill
Working your CRM for more deals in 2021
14th Dec 2020 | 12 pm PST
Hear from the Co-Founder of
@FollowUpBoss
, how important a CRM and some strategies to make the most from CRM to convert more deals in 2021.
Registration:
#Uplift2020
Past clients are a gold mine, but so many people I talk to aren't doing a single thing to engage with them regularly.
Since complexity is the enemy of execution, here's the simplest approach I've ever seen to turning past clients into a referral machine:
Lyndon from our success team has worked with the best in the business to perfect their call scripts and turn more of their buyer leads into deals.
In this webinar he shared his expertise on how to convert your online buyer leads like a Boss!
Our calling feature has quickly become the secret weapon of many of the industry's top ISAs, and call lists further supercharges their efficiency. Here's how the best in the business are using this tool:
While yesterday’s challenges may look very different from today’s, any agent who’s been around a while can tell you, each market brings its own opportunities.
Here are 5 real estate trends to help you shape your 2023 strategy no matter what lies ahead.
Customers are always asking us for best practices, and strategies to continue improving their results with Follow Up Boss...so we answered the call and put everything right inside your account.
See anything that might be helpful here?
How successful do you want your ISAs to be? Debbie Tuohey & Dan Walters from
@RobertSlackLLC
say if you spend 90 days training your ISAs and there will be 10x the ROI. That's coming from a mega-team with over $1.5B in volume.
Sales is mission critical to the success of any business, so we pulled together insights from some of the greatest business leaders of all time so we can learn from their experience and approach to growing their empires
Check out everything our team released in May including text templates and native email composer for iOS, number porting, deep links and other improvements for Android and more!
Call waiting has been added to the Follow Up Boss dialer! ☎️ Now you can connect with those high value inbound calls, even if you’re already making dials or on the other line.
It takes true leadership to acknowledge, and talk publicly about the the low points building a business takes you through.
In this interview, Justin Havre (
#1
RE/MAX team in Canada) speaks candidly about the burden of leadership and team building.
Another batch of important improvement in Feb including updates for the Android app, lender texting and merge fields and a whole lot more.
Full details here 👇
Big update for iOS app today that brings website activity, email open and click activity and mentions to the app so you can more easily follow up with active leads and collaborate with your teammates from the field.
Get the full details here:
Zillow has been rolling out changes to the way they're sending Premier Agent leads so we wanted to keep you in the loop on the adjustments we're making to accommodate and help you deliver an amazing service to the connections they're making for you
Before you invest a huge amount of time trying to get buckets of leads from Facebook, make sure you've dialed in your process for getting the best (and cheapest) leads available - your sphere:
Looking for some fresh lead gen ideas? Our friends over
@leadpages
put together 'Real Estate Marketing Week' which has a bunch of ideas I had never even thought of - definitely worth a look 👇
"Texting & Email Strategies To Fill Your Pipeline for the Next 2 Years"
#conversionsummit
session with
@FriendinRealty
and Gabe Cordova. Want to know what step 1 is? Identify your business needs first.
🎉 Announcing Automations, a new way to get more deals from your real estate database.
Trigger action plans based on lead activity and stay in front of your leads without lifting a finger.
Full details 👉
There's a new two-way integration between Follow Up Boss and
@PremierAgent
and we're the first CRM to have it!🥳 If you work out of both systems, setting up a two-way sync will save you tons of time by eliminating manual data entry. Learn more here:
We made some improvements to the BombBomb integration to provide better tracking on your videos and so I wanted to bring back this post on how some of the best in the business are using video to engage their leads, clients and past clients:
Kris Lindahl has some strong opinions about what it's going to take to continue winning as the industry goes through some major shifts in the coming years.
Check out the full interview here:
We squashed 35 bugs at our 'bug hackathon' (marketing didn't get involved soon enough to change the name to 'bug squashathon')
Bugs normally aren't individually game changers, cleaning them up when you use it a LOT adds up to a big win.
Enjoy those well-deserved pints fellas!
Hey,
#php
folks! My company,
@FollowUpBoss
, is hiring a senior full-stack engineer (PHP, JS - React, MySQL, Postgres, Redis). Come join me at literally the best company I've ever worked for. 100% remote. 101% awesome.
Here's where you can check out the recording of our Masterclass on Structuring your Team for Lead Conversion with Mitch Ribak:
Great tips, ideas and specific tactics from hiring to scripts to accountability processes and everything in between.
“It used to take about 90-120 days for a new agent to write a contract, now with our training and process systems agents are successfully writing contracts within 30 days”
Debra Beagle, co-owner and managing broker of the
#1
Remax Team in the World:
We're making a lot more videos to make it easier to leverage best practices, and onboard new team members.
This one on working your Smart Lists that came from a result of a collaboration with our Success team and was definitely worth sharing!
Recent iPhone app update adds:
✅ Open and click tracking
✅ 'Email All' to help with communicating with couples, roommates, etc.
✅ Email templates
✅ Autocomplete contact search for adding other recipients
✅ Native email composer
Details here:
This week's tip is all about best practices for working with Spouses in Follow Up Boss, along with highlighting some of the recent updates we've made to to the product make this a whole lot easier.
Coming Soon: Major Upgrade to Zapier Integration
More on this to come, but in the image below you'll see just some of the new triggers you'll have in this integration:
"Follow the 'no'. If you only have a limited amount of time to talk to a lead especially if they are objecting. Then make your questions and conversations geared towards following the 'no'."
@DaleArchdekin
during
#conversionsummit
"Mastering the Art of Profitable Conversations
We're always looking to make your team 💪 and that includes your favorite lender partner! We just added:
✅lender-specific merge fields
✅ability for lenders with calling add-on to text from Follow Up Boss as well