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Marketing for real estate

Azteca Media works with real estate agents, teams and brokerages across the United States. Real estate marketing is personal-brand marketing: buyers and sellers choose an individual, not a company, so the work centres on video, neighbourhood-level content and a site that ranks for the areas you actually farm.

18 mo

Typical seller consideration window

3

Video formats: property tours, neighbourhood guides, market updates

100%

Brand and site ownership stays with you

The hard part

What actually makes this sector difficult

You are competing with portals

Zillow and Redfin dominate generic property searches. Competing head-on is unwinnable; neighbourhood expertise and personal brand are not.

The brokerage brand is not your brand

Clients hire an agent. Marketing that leads with a brokerage logo builds equity you lose the day you move.

Long, uneven decision cycles

A seller may consider listing for eighteen months. Without a nurture channel, you are invisible for seventeen of them.

Listings expire, expertise does not

Marketing built entirely around current inventory resets to zero every time a property closes.

Our approach

What we do about it

  1. Farm neighbourhoods, not the region

    Deep, genuinely useful pages on the specific communities you work — schools, commutes, price trends, what it is actually like to live there.

  2. Video as the primary medium

    Property tours, neighbourhood guides and market updates. Nothing else builds familiarity with a stranger as efficiently.

  3. Own the list

    Email and SMS capture on the site, so an eighteen-month seller hears from you across all eighteen.

  4. Personal brand at the centre

    An identity and site that belong to you and travel with you, whatever the sign in the yard says.

Services involved

The channels this usually runs on

Questions

Real Estate marketing questions

How do real estate agents compete with Zillow in search?

Not on generic searches like "homes for sale in Roseville" — portals have authority and inventory that no individual agent can match. You compete on neighbourhood-level and question-level searches where local knowledge wins: what a specific community is like, what schools serve it, what prices have done there over two years. Portals publish listings; they do not publish genuine local expertise.

Should my website be under my name or my brokerage?

Your name. Clients hire agents, not brokerages, and every piece of authority you build under a brokerage domain stays behind when you move. Own the domain, the site and the email list — they are the assets that follow you through the rest of your career.

What type of video works best for real estate?

Neighbourhood guides outperform property tours over time. A tour is valuable for exactly as long as the listing is active; a guide to a community keeps attracting buyers researching that area for years, and it positions you as the local expert rather than as the person selling one house.

How much should an agent spend on marketing?

A common benchmark is 10 percent of gross commission income, weighted toward whichever channel matches your business model. Agents relying on referrals should weight toward staying visible to their existing network; agents generating new business should weight toward paid search and content in their farm area.

Next step

Let's talk about your real estate business.

A short discovery call, then a written scope with a fixed price. No retainer pitch, no pressure — and if another approach would serve you better, we will say so.

Get a proposal (415) 569-7484

Monday – Saturday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PT · info@aztecamedia.com